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But to see him despised and despicable, The man whom one might love. RUDENZ. Oh, Bertha! You Show me the pinnacle of heavenly bliss, Then, in a moment, hurl me to despair! BERTHA. No, no! the noble is not all extinct Within you. It but slumbers, I will rouse it. It must have cost you many a fiery struggle To crush the virtues of your race within you.
Rejoice, my friend; Now, at this very moment, while we speak, There's not a tyrant left in Switzerland! FURST. How did you get the forts into your power? MELCHTHAL. Rudenz it was who with a gallant arm, And manly daring, took the keep at Sarnen. The Rossberg I had stormed the night before. But hear what chanced.
GESSLER. Peace, till your counsel's asked for! RUDENZ. I will speak! Ay, and I dare! I reverence my king; But acts like these must make his name abhorred. He sanctions not this cruelty. I dare Avouch the fact. And you outstep your powers In handling thus an unoffending people. GESSLER. Ha! thou growest bold methinks! RUDENZ. I have been dumb To all the oppressions I was doomed to see.
WALTER. No, mother dear, I'm going with my father. HEDWIG. How, Walter! Will you leave your mother then? WALTER. I'll bring you pretty things from grandpapa. WILHELM. Mother, I'll stay with you! Yes, yes! thou art My own dear child. Thou'rt all that's left to me. A retired part of the Forest. Brooks dashing in spray over the rocks. Enter BERTHA in a hunting dress. Immediately afterwards RUDENZ.
But you, whom nature and your knightly vow, Have given them as their natural protector, Yet who desert them and abet their foes, In forging shackles for your native land, You you it is, that deeply grieve and wound me. I must constrain my heart, or I shall hate you. RUDENZ. Is not my country's welfare all my wish? What seek I for her but to purchase peace 'Neath Austria's potent sceptre?
Belted and plumed, and all thy bravery on! Thou art for Altdorf for the castle, boy? RUDENZ. Yes, uncle. Longer may I not delay Why in such haste? Say, are thy youthful hours Doled in such niggard measure that thou must Be chary of then to thy aged uncle? RUDENZ. I see, my presence is not needed here, I am but as a stranger in this house. Alas, thou art indeed!
Then may these rocks that girdle us extend Their giants walls impenetrably round, And this sequestered happy vale alone Look up to heaven, and be my paradise! BERTHA. Now art thou all my fancy dreamed of thee. My trust has not been given to thee in vain. RUDENZ. Away, ye idle phantoms of my folly! In mine own home I'll find my happiness.
How can I hope to win you to possess you, If I take arms against the emperor? Will not your potent kinsman interpose, To dictate the disposal of your hand? BERTHA. All my estates lie in the Forest Cantons; And I am free, when Switzerland is free. RUDENZ. Oh! what a prospect, Bertha, hast thou shown me!
Both Bertha and Rudenz are rather tamely and conventionally drawn, to meet the need of a pair of romantic lovers; they evidently cost their creator no very strenuous communings with the Genius of Art. Their private affair of the heart has nothing to do with the Tell episode and is but loosely related to the popular uprising.
Nothing have I to offer but a heart That overflows with truth and love for thee. And dare you speak to me of love of truth? You, that are faithless to your nearest ties! You, that are Austria's slave bartered and sold To her an alien, and your country's tyrant! RUDENZ. How! This reproach from thee! Whom do I seek On Austria's side, my own beloved, but thee?
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