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Minna Von Barnhelm
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Scene I. Minna’s Room. Minna (Dressed Handsomely and Richly, but in Good Taste), Franziska
(They have just risen from a table, which a servant is clearing.)
FRAN. You cannot possibly have eaten enough, my lady.
MIN. Don’t you think so, Franziska? Perhaps I had no appetite when I sat down.
FRAN. We had agreed not to mention him during dinner. We should have resolved likewise, not to think of him.
MIN. Indeed, I have thought of nothing but him.
FRAN. So I perceived. I began to speak of a hundred different things, and you made wrong answers to each. (Another servant brings coffee.) Here comes a beverage more suited to fancies—sweet, melancholy coffee.
MIN. Fancies! I have none. I am only thinking of the lesson I will give him. Did you understand my plan, Franziska?
FRAN. Oh! yes; but it would be better if he spared us the putting it in execution.
MIN. You will see that I know him thoroughly. He who refuses me now with all my wealth, will contend for me against the whole world, as soon as he hears that I am unfortunate and friendless.
FRAN. (seriously). That must tickle the most refined self-love.
MIN. You moralist! First you convict me of vanity—now of self-love. Let me do as I please, Franziska. You, too, shall do as you please with your Sergeant.
FRAN. With my Sergeant?
MIN. Yes. If you deny it altogether, then it is true. I have not seen him yet; but from all you have said respecting him, I foretell your husband for you.
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Chicago:
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, "Scene I. Minna’s Room. Minna (Dressed Handsomely and Richly, but in Good Taste), Franziska," Minna Von Barnhelm, ed. CM01B10.Txt - 149 Kb, CM01B10.Zip - 56 Kb and trans. Wisdom, J. H., Murray, Marr in Minna Von Barnhelm (New York: The Modern Library Publishers, 1918), Original Sources, accessed July 5, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CNVE16Q495APAGA.
MLA:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. "Scene I. Minna’s Room. Minna (Dressed Handsomely and Richly, but in Good Taste), Franziska." Minna Von Barnhelm, edited by CM01B10.Txt - 149 Kb, CM01B10.Zip - 56 Kb, and translated by Wisdom, J. H., Murray, Marr, in Minna Von Barnhelm, New York, The Modern Library Publishers, 1918, Original Sources. 5 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CNVE16Q495APAGA.
Harvard:
Lessing, GE, 'Scene I. Minna’s Room. Minna (Dressed Handsomely and Richly, but in Good Taste), Franziska' in Minna Von Barnhelm, ed. and trans. . cited in 1918, Minna Von Barnhelm, The Modern Library Publishers, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 5 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CNVE16Q495APAGA.
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