"Be silent, Count, your insolence I will not suffer now.
One cannot trick a royal maid like any simple slave."
"My lord, before your righteous rage in penitence I bow,
That I may pay the debt alone is all I humbly crave."
"That I should kill an innocent, who's never done a wrong,
Such deadly treason would o'erwhelm my soul with shame
and sin.
The life of earth in punishment to justice would belong,
And in the life beyond the grave no pardon could I win."
"The Countess is a burden here, and therefore must she die;