No More Learning

You are host
and guest. Be guided by a woman's voice.

GOETZ: You remind me of my duty.

WEISLINGEN: Who could resist so heavenly a hint?

MARIE: Draw near each other, be reconciled! (_The men shake hands_. )
The union of brave men is the most ardent wish of all good women.


ACT II

SCENE I. --_A room at Jaxthausen_. Marie _and_ Weislingen.

MARIE: You say you love me. I willingly believe it, and hope to be
happy with you and to make you happy.

WEISLINGEN: Blessed be your brother and the day he rode out to
capture me! [_Enter_ Goetz.

GOETZ: Your page is back.
Whatever his news, Adelbert, you are
free! All I ask is your word that you will not aid and abet my
enemies.

WEISLINGEN: I take your hand. And may I at the same time take
the hand of this noblest of all women?

GOETZ: May I say "yes" for you, Marie? You need not blush--your
eyes have answered clearly. Well, then, Weislingen, take her hand,
and I say Amen, friend and brother! I must call my wife. Elizabeth!
(_Enter_ ELIZABETH. ) Join your hand in theirs and say "God bless
you! " They are a pair. Adelbert is going back to Bamberg to detach
himself openly from the bishop, and then to his estates to settle
his affairs. And now we'll leave him undisturbed to hear his boy's
report.
[_Exit with_ Marie _and_ Elizabeth.

WEISLINGEN: Such bliss for one so unworthy!