No More Learning

(_Flames are seen rising from the distant village_. ) See there! A new
crime!

GOETZ: That is Miltenberg. Quick, George! Prevent the burning of the
castle. I'll have nothing further to do with the scoundrels.

GEORGE: I shall save Miltenberg, or you will not see me again.
[_Exit. _

GOETZ: Everybody blames me for the mischief, and nobody gives me
credit for having prevented so much evil. Would I were thousands of
miles away!

[_Enter_ SIEVERS, LINK, METZLER, _peasants_.

LINK: Rouse yourself, captain; the enemy is near and in great force!

GOETZ: Who burnt Miltenberg?

METZLER: If you want to make a fuss, we'll soon teach you!
GOETZ: You threaten? Scoundrel! [_He knocks him down with a blow of
his fist_.

KOHL: You are mad! The enemy is coming, and you quarrel.

[_Tumult, battle, and rout of the peasants. Then the
stage gradually fills with gypsies_. GOETZ _returns
wounded, is recognised by the gypsies, who bandage
him, help him on to his horse, and ask him to lead
them. Soldiers enter and level their halberds at_
GOETZ.


SCENE III. --ADELHEID'S _room. Night_. ADELHEID. FRANZ.

FRANZ: Oh, let me stay yet a little while--here, where I live.
Without is death!