Weislingen:

Marie (kneeling): Merciful God, have pity on him!

Marie

CONTENTS

Scene VI.—A small garden outside the prison, Goetz, Elizabeth, Lerse, and prison-keeper.

Scene VI.

Goetz

Elizabeth

Lerse

Goetz: Almighty God! How lovely is it beneath Thy heaven! Farewell, my children! My roots are cut away, my strength totters to the grave. Let me see George once more, and sun myself in his look. You turn away and weep? He is dead! Then die, Goetz! How did he die? Alas! they took him among the incendiaries,     [Pg 18] and he has been executed?

Goetz:

[Pg 18]

Elizabeth: No, he was slain at Miltenberg, fighting like a lion.

Elizabeth:

Goetz: God be praised! Now release my soul! My poor wife! I leave you in a wicked world. Lerse, forsake her not! Blessings upon Marie and her husband. Selbitz is dead, and the good emperor, and my George. Give me some water! Heavenly air! Freedom!

Goetz:

[He dies.

Elizabeth: Freedom is only above—with thee; the world is a prison.

Elizabeth:

Lerse: Noble man! Woe to this age that rejected thee! Woe to the future that shall misjudge thee!

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