Mary Stuart by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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We must avoid all violence; it is
Too dangerous an enterprise. MORTIMER. Delay Is also dangerous. LEICESTER. I tell you, Sir, 'Tis not to be attempted---- MORTIMER. My lord, Too hazardous for you, who would possess her; But we, who only wish to rescue her, We are more bold. LEICESTER. Young man, you are too hasty In such a thorny, dangerous attempt. MORTIMER. And you too scrupulous in honor's cause. LEICESTER. I see the trammels that are spread around us. MORTIMER. And I feel courage to break through them all. |
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