Goetz:

[Enter Stumpf, Kohl, Sievers, and armed peasants.

Stumpf

Kohl

Sievers

Stumpf: We come to ask you, brave Goetz, to be our captain.

Stumpf:

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Goetz: What! Me? To break my oath? Stumpf, I thought you were a friend! Even if I were free, and you wanted to carry on as you did at Weinsberg, raving and burning, and murdering, I'd rather be killed than be your captain!

Goetz:

Stumpf: If we had a leader of authority, such things would not happen. The princes and all Germany would thank you.

Stumpf:

Sievers: You must be our captain, or you will have to defend your own skin. We give you two hours to consider it.

Sievers:

Goetz: Why consider? I can decide now as well as later. Will you desist from your misdeeds, and act like decent folk who know what they want? Then I shall help you with your claims, and be your captain for four weeks. Now, come!

Goetz:

[Exeunt.

CONTENTS

Scene II.—Landscape, with village and castle in distance. Goetz and George.

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