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They had been waiting all this time for him to begin the fighting, for though they were very anxious to attack the soldiers, they did not like to do so by themselves. They wanted a leader. So when they saw Tell hit Friesshardt, they tucked up their sleeves, grasped their sticks and cudgels more tightly, and began to run across the meadow towards him. Neither of the soldiers noticed this.
FRIESSHARDT and LEUTHOLD remain. All's over now! He is resolved to bring Destruction on myself and all my house. Oh, why did you provoke the tyrant's rage? TELL. Let him be calm who feels the pangs I felt. STAUFFACHER. Alas! alas! Our every hope is gone. With you we all are fettered and enchained. Our last remaining comfort goes with you! I'm sorry for you, Tell, but must obey. TELL. Farewell!
The two soldiers were wearing armour, of course, so that it was difficult to hurt them; but the crowd, who wore no armour, found that they could get hurt very easily. Conrad Hunn, for instance, was attacking Friesshardt, when the soldier happened to drop his pike. It fell on Conrad's toe, and Conrad limped away, feeling that fighting was no fun unless you had thick boots on.
The viceroy comes! GESSLER and RUDOLPH DER HARRAS appear upon the heights on horseback. How got ye through the stream When all the bridges have been carried down? FRIESSHARDT. We've battled with the billows; and, my friend, An Alpine torrent's nothing after that. STUSSI. How! Were you out, then, in that dreadful storm? FRIESSHARDT. Ay, that we were! I shall not soon forget it. STUSSI. Stay, speak
FRIESSHARDT. He is an enemy of the king a traitor! A traitor, I! ROSSELMANN. Friend, thou art wrong. 'Tis Tell, An honest man, and worthy citizen. Grandfather, help! they want to seize my father! FRIESSHARDT. Away to prison! Stay! I offer bail. For God's sake, Tell, what is the matter here? LEUTHOLD. He has contemned the viceroy's sovereign power, Refusing flatly to acknowledge it.
But they were saying their prayers, not doing obeisance to the hat. That's what they were doing. Artful that's what they are!" And Friesshardt kicked the foot of the pole viciously with his iron boot. There! Listen to that!" A voice made itself heard from behind a rock not far off. "Where did you get that hat?" said the voice. "There!" grumbled Leuthold; "they're always at it.
"Why, only this morning, I sez to myself, 'Friesshardt, I sez, 'you just wait till twelve o'clock, I sez, ''cos that's when they leave the council-house, and then they'll have to cross the meadow. And then we'll see what we shall see, I sez. Like that, I sez. Bitter-like, yer know.
SACRISTAN. We are the strongest. Don't endure it, friends. Our countrymen will back us to a man. FRIESSHARDT. Who dares resist the governor's commands? We'll help you. What's the matter? Down with them! TELL. Go, go, good people, I can help myself. Think you, had I a mind to use my strength, These pikes of theirs should daunt me? Only try Try, if you dare, to force him from amongst us.
LEUTHHOLD. Only the vilest rabble show themselves, And wave their tattered caps in mockery at us. All honest citizens would sooner make A tedious circuit over half the town Than bend their backs before our master's cap. FRIESSHARDT. They were obliged to pass this way at noon, As they were coming from the council house. I counted then upon a famous catch, For no one thought of bowing to the cap.
FRIESSHARDT. I cannot. I must to the castle, And tell them that the governor's at hand. STUSSI. If honest men, now, had been in the ship, It had gone down with every soul on board: Some folks are proof 'gainst fire and water both. Where has the huntsman gone with whom I spoke? Enter GESSLER and RUDOLPH DER HARRAS on horseback.
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