Mary Stuart

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Фридрих Шиллер

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2017

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MORTIMER

It is then true!

O'KELLY

True, true – oh! save yourself.

MORTIMER (exultingly)

The queen is murdered —
And Mary shall ascend the English throne!

O'KELLY

Is murdered! Who said that?

MORTIMER

Yourself.

O'KELLY

She lives,
And I, and you, and all of us are lost.

MORTIMER

She lives!

O'KELLY

The blow was badly aimed, her cloak
Received it. Shrewsbury disarmed the murderer.

MORTIMER

She lives!

O'KELLY

She lives to whelm us all in ruin;
Come, they surround the park already; come.

MORTIMER

Who did this frantic deed?

O'KELLY

It was the monk
From Toulon, whom you saw immersed in thought,
As in the chapel the pope's bull was read,
Which poured anathemas upon the queen.
He wished to take the nearest, shortest way,
To free, with one bold stroke, the church of God,
And gain the crown of martyrdom: he trusted
His purpose only to the priest, and struck
The fatal blow upon the road to London.

MORTIMER (after a long silence)

Alas! a fierce, destructive fate pursues thee,
Unhappy one! Yes – now thy death is fixed;
Thy very angel has prepared thy fall!

O'KELLY

Say, whither will you take your flight? I go
To hide me in the forests of the north.

MORTIMER

Fly thither, and may God attend your flight;
I will remain, and still attempt to save
My love; if not, my bed shall be upon her grave.

[Exeunt at different sides.

ACT IV

SCENE I. – Antechamber

COUNT AUBESPINE, the EARLS Of KENT and LEICESTER.

AUBESPINE

How fares her majesty? My lords, you see me
Still stunned, and quite beside myself for terror!
How happened it? How was it possible
That in the midst of this most loyal people —

LEICESTER

The deed was not attempted by the people.
The assassin was a subject of your king,
A Frenchman.

AUBESPINE