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SCENE XX.: The Armory. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Works, vol. 3 (Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia in Tauris, Tarquato Tasso, etc) [1885]

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Goethe’s Works, illustrated by the best German artists, 5 vols. (Philadelphia: G. Barrie, 1885). Vol. 3.

Part of: Goethe’s Works, 5 vols.

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SCENE XX.

The Armory.

TwoTrooperschoosing guns.

First Trooper.

I’ll have this one.

Second Trooper.

And I this—but yonder’s a better.

First Trooper.

Never mind—make haste.

[Tumult and firing without.

Second Trooper.

Hark!

First Trooper.

(Springs to the window.) Good heavens, they are murdering our master! He is unhorsed! George is down!

Second Trooper.

How shall we get off? Over the wall by the walnut tree, and into the field.

[Exit.

First Trooper.

Lerse keeps his ground; I will to him. If they die, I will not survive them.

[Exit.

ACT IV.