Walter Furst Monologue from Wilhelm Tell

From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

male · defiant · 46 sec

Give to the cloister, what the cloister claims. (STAUFF: The Empire only is my feudal lord.) What needs must be, we'll do, but nothing more. We'll drive these tyrants and their minions hence, And raze their towering strongholds to the ground, Yet shed, if possible, no drop of blood, Let the Emperor see that we were driven to cast The sacred duties of respect away; And when he finds we keep within our bounds, His wrath, belike, may yield to policy; For truly is that nation to be fear'd, That, arms in hand, is temperate in its wrath.

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