Tristan und Isolde;Tristan and Isolda - Opera in Three Acts by Richard Wagner
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if Tristan can betray?
Where now are faith and friendship fair, when from the fount of faith, my Tristan, they are gone? The buckler Tristan once did don, where is that shield of virtue now? when from my friends it flies, and Tristan's honor dies? (TRISTAN _slowly lowers his eyes to the ground. His features express increasing grief while MARK continues_.) Why hast thou noble service done, and honor, fame and potent might amassed for Mark, thy king? Must honor, fame, power and might, must all thy noble service done be paid with Mark's dishonor? Seemed the reward too slight and scant that what thou hast won him-- realms and riches-- thou art the heir unto, all? |
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