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Updated: May 26, 2025
GESSLER. Woman, hence! Give way, I say, or I will ride thee down. ARMGART. Well, do so; there! Here on the ground I lie, I and my children. Let the wretched orphans Be trodden by thy horse into the dust! It will not be the worst that thou hast done. HARRAS. Are you mad, woman? Many a day thou hast Trampled the emperor's lands beneath thy feet. Oh, I am but a woman!
But it was with difficulty they could keep off the attacks of the Indians. These people continued to harras them so much that they quitted the mainland and retreated to a small island in the harbour, where they completed their design.
HARRAS. All curses light on you! Gently, sir knight! Your power is at an end. 'Twere best forbear. Our country's foe is fallen. We will brook No further violence. We are free men. ALL. The country's free! HARRAS. And is it come to this? Fear and obedience at an end so soon? You see, my friends, the bloody piece of work They've acted here.
STUSSI. What is the matter? Tell me what has happened? ARMGART. The governor is shot, killed by an arrow! Who has been shot? The music continues. HARRAS. He's bleeding fast to death. Away, for help pursue the murderer! Unhappy man, is't thus that thou must die? Thou wouldst not heed the warnings that I gave thee! STUSSI. By heaven, his cheek is pale! His life ebbs fast.
"I told you so," he kept saying; "I knew father wouldn't hurt me. Father's the best shot in all Switzerland." "That was indeed a shot!" exclaimed Ulric the smith; "it will ring through the ages. While the mountains stand will the tale of Tell the bowman be told." Rudolph der Harras took the apple from Walter and showed it to Gessler, who had been sitting transfixed on his horse.
GESSLER. Too mild a ruler am I to this people, Their tongues are all too bold; nor have they yet Been tamed to due submission, as they shall be. I must take order for the remedy; I will subdue this stubborn mood of theirs, And crush the soul of liberty within them. I'll publish a new law throughout the land; I will Oh God, have mercy on my soul! HARRAS. My lord! my lord! Oh God! What's this?
A mistake would mean shipwreck. "My lord," said the helmsman, "I have neither strength nor skill to guide the helm. I do not know which way to turn." "What are we to do?" asked Rudolph der Harras, who was standing near. The helmsman hesitated. Then he spoke, eyeing the Governor uneasily. "Tell could steer us through," he said, "if your lordship would but give him the helm." Gessler started.
"Down on your knees, boy," whispered Rudolph der Harras to Walter "down on your knees, and beg his Excellency for your life." "I won't!" said Walter stoutly. "Come," said Gessler, "clear a path there clear a path! Hurry yourselves. I won't have this loitering. Look you, Tell: attend to me for a moment.
Nobody liked to be the first to speak to him. "Well," said Rudolph der Harras, breaking an awkward silence, "I suppose it's all over now? May as well be moving, eh?" He bit a large piece out of the apple, which he still held. Walter uttered a piercing scream as he saw the mouthful disappear.
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
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