The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by R.D. Boylan)

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I have tendered my resignation to the court. I hope it will be accepted, and you will forgive me for not having previously consulted you. It is necessary I should leave this place. I know all you will urge me to stay, and therefore I beg you will soften this news to my mother. I am unable to do anything for myself: how, then, should I be competent to assist others? It will afflict her that I should have interrupted that career which would have made me first a privy councillor, and then minister, and that I should look behind me, in place of advancing. Argue as you will, combine all the reasons which should have induced me to remain, I am going: that is sufficient. But, that you may not be ignorant of my destination, I may mention that the Prince of — is here. He is much pleased with my company; and, having heard of my intention to resign, he has invited me to his country house, to pass the spring months with him. I shall be left completely my own master; and, as we agree on all subjects but one, I shall try my fortune, and accompany him.

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The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by R.D. Boylan)

March 24.

The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by R.D. Boylan)