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Front Page Titles (by Subject) SCENE III.—: The Camp of the Party sent to execute the Imperial Mandate. - Goethe's Works, vol. 3 (Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia in Tauris, Tarquato Tasso, etc)
SCENE III.—: The Camp of the Party sent to execute the Imperial Mandate. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Works, vol. 3 (Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia in Tauris, Tarquato Tasso, etc) [1885]Edition used:Goethe’s Works, illustrated by the best German artists, 5 vols. (Philadelphia: G. Barrie, 1885). Vol. 3.
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SCENE III.—
The Camp of the Party sent to execute the Imperial Mandate.
ImperialCaptainandOfficersdiscovered.
Captain.
We must be cautious, and spare our people as much as possible. Besides, we have strict orders to overpower and take him alive. It will be difficult to obey; for who will engage with him hand to hand?
First Officer.
’Tis true. And he will fight like a wild boar. Besides, he has never in his whole life injured any of us, so each will be glad to leave to the other the honor of risking life and limb to please the emperor.
Second Officer.
’Twere shame to us should we not take him. Had I him once by the ears, he should not easily escape.
First Officer.
Don’t seize him with your teeth, however, he might chance to run away with your jaw-bone. My good young sir, such men are not taken like a runaway thief.
Second Officer.
We shall see.
Captain.
By this time he must have had our summons. We must not delay. I mean to despatch a troop to watch his motions.
Second Officer.
Let me lead it.
Captain.
You are unacquainted with the country.
Second Officer.
I have a servant who was born and bred here.
Captain.
That will do.
[Exeunt.
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