The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing / Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

MARINELLI.

Countess, you would talk your life into danger----

ORSINA.

Were I to mention this to others? So much the better! So much the better! To-morrow I will repeat it aloud in the market-place--and, if any one contradict me--if any one contradict me, he was the murderer's accomplice. Farewell. (As she is going, she meets Odoardo entering hastily.)

Scene VI.

Odoardo, Orsina, Marinelli.

ODOARDO.

Pardon me, gracious lady----

ORSINA.

I can grant no pardon here, for I can take no offence. You must apply to this gentleman (pointing to Marinelli).