Matthias, Count Thurnes.Matthias, Count Thurnes’, Address to the Feudal Nobles of Bohemia.Thereremains now no room for repentance, and no plea for forgiveness. The die is thrown. We must embrace freedom or the scaffold: men of principle, if conquerors, men of conscience, and independent; but if overcome, poor, perfidious beings, perjured and rebellious traitors.
Matthias, Count Thurnes.Matthias, Count Thurnes’, Address to the Feudal Nobles of Bohemia.Thereremains now no room for repentance, and no plea for forgiveness. The die is thrown. We must embrace freedom or the scaffold: men of principle, if conquerors, men of conscience, and independent; but if overcome, poor, perfidious beings, perjured and rebellious traitors.
Matthias, Count Thurnes’, Address to the Feudal Nobles of Bohemia.
Thereremains now no room for repentance, and no plea for forgiveness. The die is thrown. We must embrace freedom or the scaffold: men of principle, if conquerors, men of conscience, and independent; but if overcome, poor, perfidious beings, perjured and rebellious traitors.