Vansen Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male · defiant · 53 sec

Will you risk your ribs for his sake? (Soest: Eh!) Eh! Oh! Ah! Run through the alphabet in your wonderment. So it is, and so it will remain. Heaven help him! (Jetter: Confound your impudence. Can such a noble, upright man have anything to fear?) In this world the rogue has everywhere the advantage. At the bar, he makes a fool of the judge; on the bench, he takes pleasure in convicting the accused. I have had to copy out a protocol, where the commissary was handsomely rewarded by the court, both with praise and money, because through his cross-examination, an honest devil, against whom they had a grudge, was made out to be a rogue.

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