Egmont (Paperback)

Excerpt: ...earth I acknowledge no judge over my actions, except the grand master of the Order, with the assembled chapter of knights. Clara. Oh, thou mightest let the whole world sit in judgment over thee. The velvet is too splendid and the braiding and the embroidery One knows not where to begin. Egmont. There, look thy fill. Clara. And the Golden Fleece You told me its history, and said it is the symbol of everything great and precious, of everything that can be merited and won by diligence and toil. It is very precious