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Sir Edward Mortimer Monologue from Mary Stuart: A Tragedy

From Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

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Hear what has been resolved:--I led my friends Into a private chapel, where a priest Heard our confession, and, for every sin We had committed, gave us absolution; He gave us absolution too, beforehand, For every crime we might commit in future; He gave us too the final sacrament, And we are ready for the final journey. (MARY: Oh, what an awful, dreadful preparation!) We scale, this very night, the castle's walls; The keys are in my power; the guards we murder! Then from thy chamber bear thee forcibly. Each living soul must die beneath our hands, That none remain who might disclose the deed. (MARY: And Drury, Paulet, my two keepers, they Would sooner spill their dearest drop of blood.) They fall the very first beneath my steel.

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30s · determination · death · betrayal · power · revenge

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