Werner Stauffacher Monologue from Wilhelm Tell

From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

male · dramatic · 57 sec

Your son-in-law conveyed him o'er the lake, And he lies hidden in my house at Steinen. He brought the tidings with him of a thing That has been done at Sarnen, worse than all, A thing to make the very heart run blood! (FURST:. Say on. What is it?) There dwells in Melchthal, then, Just as you enter by the road from Kerns, An upright man, named Henry of the Halden, A man of weight and influence in the Diet. (FURST: Who knows him not? But what of him? Proceed.) The Landenberg, to punish some offence Committed by the old man's son, it seems, Had given command to take the youth's best pair Of oxen from his plough; on which the lad Struck down the messenger and took to flight.

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