Egmont
Translated by Anna Swanwick
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The opening
SCENE I.
Soldiers and Citizens (with cross-bows)
Jetter (steps forward, and bends his cross-bow). Soest, Buyck, Ruysum
Soest. Come, shoot away, and have done with it! You won’t beat me! Three black rings, you never made such a shot in all your life. And so I’m master for this year.
Jetter. Master and king to boot; who envies you? You’ll have to pay double reckoning; ’tis only fair you should pay for your dexterity.
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About this edition
- The words
- Anna Swanwick's English translation, copied word for word.
- Copied from
- Left out
- The source library's header, footer and license, in 3 places
- A preface, foreword or afterword
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- The dash joining a scene number to its setting; the setting follows on its own line