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Don Carlos

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2017
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[To the grandees.

I run over
The nobles of my court and miss the foremost.
Where is my son, Don Carlos?

[No one answers.

He begins
To give me cause of fear. He shuns my presence
Since he came back from school at Alcala.
His blood is hot. Why is his look so cold?
His bearing all so stately and reserved?
Be watchful, duke, I charge you.

ALVA

So I am:
Long as a heart against this corslet beats,
So long may Philip slumber undisturbed;
And as God's cherub guards the gates of heaven
So doth Duke Alva guard your royal throne.

LERMA

Dare I, in all humility, presume
To oppose the judgment of earth's wisest king?
Too deeply I revere his gracious sire
To judge the son so harshly. I fear much
From his hot blood, but nothing from his heart.

KING

Lerma, your speech is fair to soothe the father,
But Alva here will be the monarch's shield —
No more of this.

[Turning to his suite.

Now speed we to Madrid,
Our royal duties summon us. The plague
Of heresy is rife among my people;
Rebellion stalks within my Netherlands —
The times are imminent. We must arrest
These erring spirits by some dread example.
The solemn oath which every Christian king
Hath sworn to keep I will redeem to-morrow.
'Twill be a day of doom unparalleled.
Our court is bidden to the festival.

[He leads off the QUEEN, the rest follow.

SCENE VII

DON CARLOS (with letters in his hand), and MARQUIS POSA enter from opposite sides.

CARLOS

I am resolved – Flanders shall yet be saved:
So runs her suit, and that's enough for me!

MARQUIS

There's not another moment to be lost:
'Tis said Duke Alva in the cabinet
Is named already as the governor.

CARLOS

Betimes to-morrow will I see the king
And ask this office for myself. It is
The first request I ever made to him,
And he can scarce refuse. My presence here
Has long been irksome to him. He will grasp
This fair pretence my absence to secure.
And shall I confess to thee, Roderigo?
My hopes go further. Face to face with him,
'Tis possible the pleading of a son
May reinstate him in his father's favor.
He ne'er hath heard the voice of nature speak;
Then let me try for once, my Roderigo,
What power she hath when breathing from my lips.

MARQUIS

Now do I hear my Carlos' voice once more;
Now are you all yourself again!

SCENE VIII

The preceding. COUNT LERMA.

COUNT

Your grace,
His majesty has left Aranjuez;
And I am bidden —

CARLOS

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