Последний отзыв
Книгу прочитать не могу, везде ЛитРес свой нос сунул, как и где скачать полную версию бесплатно!?!?
По всем вопросам обращайтесь на: info@litportal.ru
(©) 2003-2024.
✖
Don Carlos
Автор
Год написания книги
2017
Настройки чтения
Размер шрифта
Высота строк
Поля
[The CARDINAL INQUISITOR, an old man of ninety, and blind, enters, supported on a staff, and led by two Dominicans. The GRANDEES fall on their knees as he passes, and touch the hem of his garment. He gives them his blessing, and they depart.
SCENE X
The KING and the GRAND INQUISITOR. A long silence.
GRAND INQUISITOR
Say, do I stand before the king?
KING
You do.
GRAND INQUISITOR
I never thought it would be so again!
KING
I now renew the scenes of early youth,
When Philip sought his sage instructor's counsel.
GRAND INQUISITOR
Your glorious sire, my pupil, Charles the Fifth,
Nor sought or needed counsel at my hands.
KING
So much happier he! I, cardinal,
Am guilty of a murder, and no rest —
GRAND INQUISITOR
What was the reason for this murder?
KING
'Twas
A fraud unparalleled —
GRAND INQUISITOR
I know it all.
KING
What do you know? Through whom, and since what time?
GRAND INQUISITOR
For years – what you have only learned since sunset.
KING (with astonishment)
You know this man then!
GRAND INQUISITOR
All his life is noted
From its commencement to its sudden close,
In Santa Casa's holy registers.
KING
Yet he enjoyed his liberty!
GRAND INQUISITOR
The chain
With which he struggled, but which held him bound,
Though long, was firm, nor easy to be severed.
KING
He has already been beyond the kingdom.
GRAND INQUISITOR
Where'er he travelled I was at his side.
KING (walks backwards and forwards in displeasure)
You knew the hands, then, I had fallen into;
And yet delayed to warn me!
GRAND INQUISITOR
This rebuke
I pay you back. Why did you not consult us
Before you sought the arms of such a man?
You knew him: one sole glance unmasked him to you.
Why did you rob the office of its victim?
Are we thus trifled with! When majesty
Can stoop to such concealment, and in secret,
Behind our backs, league with our enemies,
What must our fate be then? If one be spared
What plea can justify the fate of thousands?
SCENE X
The KING and the GRAND INQUISITOR. A long silence.
GRAND INQUISITOR
Say, do I stand before the king?
KING
You do.
GRAND INQUISITOR
I never thought it would be so again!
KING
I now renew the scenes of early youth,
When Philip sought his sage instructor's counsel.
GRAND INQUISITOR
Your glorious sire, my pupil, Charles the Fifth,
Nor sought or needed counsel at my hands.
KING
So much happier he! I, cardinal,
Am guilty of a murder, and no rest —
GRAND INQUISITOR
What was the reason for this murder?
KING
'Twas
A fraud unparalleled —
GRAND INQUISITOR
I know it all.
KING
What do you know? Through whom, and since what time?
GRAND INQUISITOR
For years – what you have only learned since sunset.
KING (with astonishment)
You know this man then!
GRAND INQUISITOR
All his life is noted
From its commencement to its sudden close,
In Santa Casa's holy registers.
KING
Yet he enjoyed his liberty!
GRAND INQUISITOR
The chain
With which he struggled, but which held him bound,
Though long, was firm, nor easy to be severed.
KING
He has already been beyond the kingdom.
GRAND INQUISITOR
Where'er he travelled I was at his side.
KING (walks backwards and forwards in displeasure)
You knew the hands, then, I had fallen into;
And yet delayed to warn me!
GRAND INQUISITOR
This rebuke
I pay you back. Why did you not consult us
Before you sought the arms of such a man?
You knew him: one sole glance unmasked him to you.
Why did you rob the office of its victim?
Are we thus trifled with! When majesty
Can stoop to such concealment, and in secret,
Behind our backs, league with our enemies,
What must our fate be then? If one be spared
What plea can justify the fate of thousands?
Другие электронные книги автора Фридрих Шиллер
Другие аудиокниги автора Фридрих Шиллер
Последний отзыв
Книгу прочитать не могу, везде ЛитРес свой нос сунул, как и где скачать полную версию бесплатно!?!?