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• Argument
• Characters
• Don Carlo (italian Language)
• Atto Primo.
• Scena I.
• Scena II.
• Scena III.
• Scena IV.
• Atto Secondo.
• Parte Prima.
• Scena I.
• Scena II.
• Scena III.
• Parte Seconda.
• Scena I.
• Scena II.
• Scene IV.
• Scena V.
• Scena VI.
• Atto Terzo.
• Parte Prima.
• Scena I.
• Parte Seconda.
• Scena I.
• Atto Quarto.
• Parte Prima.
• Scena I.
• Scena II.
• Scena III.
• Scena IV.
• Parte Seconda.
• Scena I.
• Parte Terza.
• Scena I.
• Scena II.
• Don Carlos (english Language)
• Act First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act Second.
• Part First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Part Second
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act Third.
• Part First.
• Scene I.
• Part Second.
• Scene I.
• Fourth Act.
• Part First
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Part Second.
• Scene I.
• Part Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.

SCENE I.

(TheKing’slibrary in Madrid. TheKingis absorbed in deep thought, and is leaning on a table full of papers, with two torches burning low. Dawn creeps through the window panes.)

Philip (as if dreaming).

She never loved me!

No, that heart so close to mine,

It has no love for me!

I can see her yet

Sadly looking down upon my snow white hair

The day she came here from France.

No, she has no love for me!

(Regaining consciousness.)

Where am I? Those torches are burning low!

The dawn is brightening my veranda . . .

It is daybreak.

Slowly my days are passing by!

Oh God! my languished eyes crave for sleep.

I shall sleep only in my royal mantle,

When my doom day has come,

I shall sleep under a black vault,

There in the graves of Escurial.

If the royal sceptre could give me

The power to read each heart,

As God alone can only see!

If the Prince sleeps, watchful is the traitor;

The King loses his sceptre, the consort, the honor!

(Goes back to deep thought.)