No More Learning

ADELHEID: Now, listen, Franz. I shall tell you the names which I
want you to repeat to your master, always adding, "Please, please. "

FRANZ (_seizing her hand passionately_): Please, please!

ADELHEID (_stepping back_): Hands are not wanted. You must lose
such bad manners. But you must not be so upset at a little rebuke.
One punishes the children one loves.

FRANZ: You love me, then?

ADELHEID: I might love you as a child, but you are getting too tall
and violent. [_Exeunt. _


SCENE II. --_Hall at Jaxthausen_. SICKINGEN _and_ GOETZ.

GOETZ: So you want to marry a jilted woman?

SICKINGEN: To be deceived by him is an honour for you both.
I want
a mistress for my castles and gardens. In the field, at court, I want
to stand alone.

[_Enter_ SELBITZ.

SELBITZ: Bad news! The emperor has put you under the ban, and has
sent troops to seize you.

GOETZ: Sickingen, you hear. Take back your offer, and leave me!

SICKINGEN: I shall not turn from you in trouble. No better wooing
than in time of war and danger.

GOETZ: On one condition. You must publicly detach yourself from me.
The emperor loves and esteems you, and your intercession may save me
in the hour of need.

SICKINGEN: But I can secretly send you twenty horsemen.

GOETZ: That offer I accept. [_Exeunt. _


SCENE III.