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Their Leader: Don Ruy Gomez de Silva, you shall strike
The second blow if the first fail. And now
Let us all swear to strike and die in turn,
Until Charles falls.
The Conspirators: We swear!
Charles (coming out of the tomb): You are dead men.
[The great vault is lighted up by torches, and a band of soldiers who have been hiding behind the pillars surround the Conspirators.
Charles (to a soldier): Bring in the lady. (To Hernani)
What is your true name?
Hernani: I will reveal it now that I must die.
Don Juan of Aragon, Duke of Segorbe,
Duke of Cardona, Marquis of Monroy,
Count Albatera, and Viscount of Gor,
And lord of scores of towns and villages
Whose names I have forgotten. You, no doubt,
Remember all of them, Charles of Castile,
For they belong to you now.
[The soldier returns with Doña Sol. She throws herself at the emperor's feet.
Doña Soclass="underline" Pardon him!
Charles: Rise, Duchess of Segorbe and Cardona.
Marquise of Monroy—and your other names, Don Juan?
Hernani: Who is speaking thus—the king?
Charles: No. It is the emperor. He is a man
Different from the king (turning to the astonished Conspirators); and he will win
Your loyalty, my friends, and your good aid,
If God in His great mercy will but guide
His erring feet along the pathway trod
By Charlemagne. Don Juan of Aragon,
Forgive me, and receive now from my hands
A wife full worthy of you, Doña Sol.
[The two lovers kneel at his feet. Taking from his neck the Golden Fleece, he puts it on Hernani.
The Spectators: Long live the emperor.
Don Ruy Gomez: I have the horn.
Act IV
Scene—A terrace by the palace of Aragon. It is midnight, and the guests are departing from the marriage feast of Hernani and Doña Sol.
Doña Soclass="underline" At last, my husband, we are left alone.
How glad I am the feast and noise is done—
Are over.
Hernani: I, too, am weary of the loud, wild joy.
Happiness is a deep and quiet thing,
As deep and grave and quiet as true love.
Doña Soclass="underline" Yes, happiness and love are like a strain
Of calm and lovely music. Hernani,
Listen! (The sound of a mountain horn floats on the air.)
It is some mountaineer that plays
Upon your silver horn. [Hernani staggers back.
Hernani: The tiger comes!
The old, grey tiger! Look! In the shadows there!
Doña Soclass="underline" What is it frightens you?
[The horn sounds again.
Hernani: He wants my blood! I cannot!
[Don Ruy Gomez enters, playing on the horn like a madman.
Don Ruy Gomez: So you have not kept your word.
"My life belongs to you. At any time
You wish to take it, sound upon this horn
And I will kill myself." You are forsworn!
Hernani: I have no weapon on me.
Don Ruy Gomez (offering a dagger and a phial):
Which of these
Do you prefer?
Hernani: The poison.
Doña Soclass="underline" Are you mad?
Hernani: He saved my life at Aragon. I gave
My word of honour I would kill myself
When he desired.
[He raises the phial to his lips, but his wife wrests it from him.
Doña Sol (to her guardian): Why do you desire
To kill my husband?
Don Ruy Gomez: I have sworn no man
Shall marry you but me. I keep my oath!
[With a wild gesture Doña Sol drinks half of the poison, and hands Hernani the rest.
Doña Soclass="underline" You are two cruel men. Drink, Hernani,
And let us go to sleep!
Hernani (emptying the phial): Kiss me, my sweet.
It is our bridal night.
Doña Sol (falling beside him on the ground): Fold me, my love,
Close in your arms. [They die.
Don Ruy Gomez: Oh, I am a lost soul!
[He kills himself.
FOOTNOTES:
[I] Victor Hugo (see Vol. V, p. 122) occupies an anomalous position among the great dramatists of the world. He is really a poet with a splendid lyrical inspiration; but he combines this in his plays with an acquired but effective talent for stage-craft. "Hernani" is the most famous play in the European literature of the nineteenth century. This is partly due to the fact that it was the first great romantic drama given on the French stage. When it was produced, on February 25, 1830, there was a fierce battle in the theatre between the followers of the new movement and the adherents of the classic school of French playwriting. Little of the play itself was heard on the first night. The voices of the players were drowned in a storm of denunciations from the classicists, and counter-cheers from the romanticists. The admirers of Victor Hugo won. "Hernani" is certainly the most romantic of romantic dramas. The plot is striking, and full of swift and astonishing changes, but the characters are not always true to life. Nevertheless, "Hernani" is a fine, interesting, poetic melodrama, with a rather weak last act. The gloomy scene with which it closes lacks the inevitability of true tragedy. Had the play ended happily it would undoubtedly have retained its popularity.
Marion de Lorme[J]
Persons in the Drama
Marion de Lorme
Didier
Louis XIII.
The Marquis de Saverny
The Marquis de Nangis
The Comte de Gasse
Brichanteau
L'Angely, the King's Jester
Rochebaron
Laffemas
Town Crier
Headsman
Two Workmen
Soldiers, Officials, and a crowd of people
Act I
Scene—A street in Blois in 1638. Some officers are sitting in the twilight outside a tavern, chatting, smoking, and drinking. They rise up to welcome the Comte de Gasse.
Brichanteau: You come to Blois to join the regiment?
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