SCENE VII.—: Inside the Hut. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Works, vol. 3 (Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia in Tauris, Tarquato Tasso, etc) [1885]
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SCENE VII.—
Inside the Hut.
Captain, GypsiesandGoetz.
Captain.
Call our mother—tell her to bring bloodwort and bandages. (Goetzunarms himself.) Here is my holiday doublet.
Goetz.
God reward you!
[TheMotherbinds his wounds.
Captain.
I rejoice that you are come.
Goetz.
Do you know me?
Captain.
Who does not know you, Goetz? Our lives and heart’s blood are yours.
EnterSticks.
Sticks.
Horsemen are coming through the wood. They are confederates.
Captain.
Your pursuers! They shall not harm you. Away, Sticks, call the others: we know the passes better than they. We shall shoot them ere they are aware of us.
[ExeuntCaptainandMen-Gypsieswith their guns.
Goetz.
(Alone.) O Emperor! Emperor! Robbers protect thy children. (A sharp firing.) The wild foresters! Steady and true!
EnterWomen.
Women.
Flee! flee! The enemy has overpowered us.
Goetz.
Where is my horse?
Women.
Here!
Goetz.
(Girds on his sword and mounts without his armor.) For the last time shall you feel my arm. I am not so weak yet.
[Exit.—Tumult.
Women.
He gallops to join our party.
[Firing.
EnterWolf.
Wolf.
Away! Away! All is lost.—The captain is shot!—Goetz a prisoner.
[TheWomenscream and fly into the wood.