Adelheid: Let the fiery Werdenhagen, his sister's stepson, go with him.

Adelheid:

Weislingen: He is thoughtless and foolhardy, and will not improve matters.

Weislingen:

Adelheid: We have to think of our relatives. For love of me, you must do it! And I want some exemptions for the convent of St. Emmeraru; you can work the chancellor. Then the cup-bearer's post is vacant at the Hessian Court, and the high stewardship of the Palatinate. I want them for our friends Braimau and Mirsing.

Adelheid:

Weislingen: How shall I remember it all?

Weislingen:

Adelheid: I shall train a starling to repeat the names to you, and to add, "Please, please." (Exit Weislingen. To Franz, whom she stops as he crosses to follow his master): Franz, could you get me a starling, or would you yourself be my starling? You would learn more rapidly.

Adelheid:

Weislingen

Franz

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Franz: If you would teach me. Try. Take me with you.

Franz:

Adelheid: No, you must serve me here. Have you a good memory?

Adelheid:

Franz: For your words. I remember every syllable you spoke to me that first day at Bamberg.

Franz:

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