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Front Page Titles (by Subject) SCENE V. - Goethe's Works, vol. 3 (Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia in Tauris, Tarquato Tasso, etc)
SCENE V. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Works, vol. 3 (Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia in Tauris, Tarquato Tasso, etc) [1885]Edition used:Goethe’s Works, illustrated by the best German artists, 5 vols. (Philadelphia: G. Barrie, 1885). Vol. 3.
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SCENE V.
EnterSophie.The preceding.
Sophie.
My brother? Oh, my God, what is the matter?
Beaumarchais.
Draw nearer, my love, and see! I hoped to have strewn her bridal bed with roses; see the roses with which I adorn her on her way to heaven!
Sophie.
We are lost!
Clavigo.
Save yourself, rash one! save yourself, ere the dawn of day. May God, who sent you for an avenger, conduct you! Sophie, forgive me. Brothers, friends, forgive me.
Beaumarchais.
How the sight of his gushing blood extinguishes all the glowing vengeance within me! how with his departing life vanishes all my rage! (Going up to him.) Die! I forgive thee.
Clavigo.
Your hand! and yours, Sophie! and yours!
[Buencohesitates.
Sophie.
Give it him, Buenco.
Clavigo.
I thank you; you are as good as ever; I thank you. And thou, O spirit of my beloved, if thou still hoverest around this place, look down, see these heavenly favors, bestow thy blessing, and do thou too forgive me. I come! I come! Save yourself, my brother. Tell me, did she forgive me? How did she die?
Sophie.
Her last word was thy unhappy name. She departed without taking leave of us.
Clavigo.
I will follow her and bear your farewells to her.
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