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What would ye? Wherefore do ye stop my path? FRIESSHARDT. You've broke the mandate, and must go with us. LEUTHOLD. You have not done obeisance to the cap. TELL. Friend, let me go. FRIESSHARDT. Away, away to prison! WALTER. Father to prison! This way, you men! Good people, help! They're dragging him to prison! SACRISTAN. What's here amiss? ROSSELMANN. Why do you seize this man?
"Feel the bump. If I hadn't happened to have a particularly hard head I don't know what might not have happened;" and he raised his fist and hit Friesshardt; but as Friesshardt was wearing a thick iron helmet the blow did not hurt him very much. But it had the effect of bringing the crowd to Tell's assistance.
"You in the second-hand lobster-tin," shouted one he meant Friesshardt, whose suit of armour, though no longer new, hardly deserved this description "who's your hatter?" "Can't yer see," shouted a friend, when Friesshardt made no reply, "the pore thing ain't alive? 'E's stuffed!" Roars of laughter greeted this sally. Friesshardt, in spite of the fact that he enjoyed a joke, turned pink.
But when the crowd joined in he felt that it was not fair to help so many men attack one, however badly that one might have behaved. He now saw that the time had come to put an end to the disturbance. He drew an arrow from his quiver, placed it in his crossbow, and pointed it at the hat. Friesshardt, seeing what he intended to do, uttered a shout of horror and rushed to stop him.
"Now then, now then, now then!" he said, in his quick, abrupt way. "What's this? what's this? what's this?" Friesshardt and Leuthold got up, saluted, and limped slowly towards him. They halted beside his horse, and stood to attention. The tears trickled down their cheeks. "Come, come, come!" said Gessler; "tell me all about it." And he patted Friesshardt on the head. Friesshardt bellowed.
"Please, your lordship's noble Excellencyship," said Friesshardt, "it was me, Friesshardt." "You should say, 'It was I," said Gessler. "Proceed." "Which I am a loyal servant of your Excellency's, and in your Excellency's army, and seeing as how I was told to stand by this 'ere pole and guard that there hat, I stood by this 'ere pole, and guarded that there hat all day, I did, your Excellency.
Walter went with him, with his chin in the air. A howl of dismay went up from the crowd as they saw Friesshardt raise his pike and bring it down with all his force on Tell's head. The sound of the blow went echoing through the meadow and up the hills and down the valleys. "Ow!" cried Tell. "Now," thought the crowd, "things must begin to get exciting."
It is a burning shame, a trooper should Stand sentinel before an empty cap, And every honest fellow must despise us, To do obeisance to a cap, too! Faith, I never heard an order so absurd! FRIESSHARDT. Why not, an't please thee, to an empty cap. Thou'st ducked, I'm sure, to many an empty sconce. LEUTHOLD. And thou art an officious sneaking knave, That's fond of bringing honest folks to trouble.
TELL. The neighbor there dare not his neighbor trust. WALTER. I should want breathing room in such a land, I'd rather dwell beneath the avalanches. TELL. 'Tis better, child, to have these glacier peaks Behind one's back than evil-minded men! WALTER. See, father, see the cap on yonder pole! TELL. What is the cap to us? Come, let's be gone. FRIESSHARDT. Stand, I command you, in the emperor's name.
"My orders is," said Friesshardt, "to stand in this 'ere meadow and to see as how all them what passes through it does obeisance to that there hat. Them's Governor's orders, them is. So now." "My good fellow," said Tell, "let me pass. I shall get cross, I know I shall." Shouts of encouragement from the crowd, who were waiting patiently for the trouble to begin. "Go it, Tell!" they cried.
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