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 KRIKDRICH SCHILLER.
 
 SCHILLER'S 
 
 WILHELM TELL 
 
 INTRODUCTION AND NOTES 
 
 W. H. CARRUTH, PH.D. 
 
 Professor of the German Language and Literature in the 
 University of Kansas 
 
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 Unb eine greifjeit mac^t itn affe frei." 
 
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 TEACHER, ADVISER, FRIEND.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 WILHELM TELL has been widely accepted as the best 
 classic play for young students. It finds its place in high 
 schools or in the first year of college courses. The present 
 edition has been prepared with the desire to meet the 
 needs of such students, yet it will serve more advanced 
 students, who need not follow the Notes in detail. 
 
 The purpose of the Introduction is to furnish outside 
 material not generally accessible, for the understanding and 
 appreciation of this noble piece of literature; not to do 
 the student's or the teacher's work for him. For this rea- 
 son suggestions are made, especially in the Subjects for 
 Themes, of studies which the student may undertake for 
 himself. 
 
 The Text is that of Oesterley in Goedeke's Historisch- 
 kritische Ausgabe of Schiller's Works, the orthography 
 modernized so far as this would not alter the form and 
 sound of Schiller's language. The Editor has used freely 
 the commentaries of Diintzer, Bellermann, Meyer, Gaudig, 
 Breul, Buchheim, Deering and others. He acknowledges 
 gratefully the careful criticism of Professor W. T. Hewett, 
 of Cornell University, and the helpful suggestions and as- 
 sistance in proof-reading of Mrs. Frances Schlegel Carruth. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 
 October, 1897.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PREFACE v 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Sketch of Schiller's Life ...... vii 
 
 Composition of " \Yilhelm Tell " ..... xx 
 
 Criticisms and Comments xxvi 
 
 Style and Meter xxxv 
 
 History and Legend xxxvii 
 
 Portions of Tschudi used in " Tell " .... xlii 
 
 The Political Situation liv 
 
 Specimens of Schiller's Notes liv 
 
 Chronology ......... Ivi 
 
 List of Persons lix 
 
 TEXT 5 
 
 NOTES 173 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 227 
 
 SUBJECTS FOR THEMES AND INVESTIGATION . . . 235 
 
 IMPORTANT VARIANTS 237 
 
 INDEX 239 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Portrait of Schiller. Frontispiece. 
 
 Map. Preceding Introduction. 
 
 The Urirotstock from the Axenstein. Act I, scene I. 
 
 The Riitli. Act II, scene 2. 
 
 The Statue of Tell at Altorf. Act III, scene 3. 
 
 The Axenstrasse, with the Bristenstock above Fliielen. Act IV, sc. i. 
 
 The Tell Chapel at Kiissnacht. Act IV, scene 3. 
 
 The Reuss with the Teufelsbrucke. Act V, scene 2. 
 
 The Schiller Stone. Act V, last scene.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 SKETCH OF SCHILLER'S LIFE. 
 
 WHEN FRIEDRICH SCHILLER was born, November loth, 
 1759, a ' Marbach in Wiirttemberg, Klopstock was thirty- 
 five years old, Lessing was thirty, and Goethe ten. Wiirt- 
 temberg was at peace, but the East of Germany was mid- 
 way in the Seven Years' War. 
 
 When Schiller published his first drama, Die Rauber, in 
 1781, Herder and Wieland were the dominant living 
 authors in Germany ; the latter's Oberon had appeared ten 
 years before. It was the year of Lessing's death, and of 
 the publication of Kant's Kritik der reinen Verminft. 
 Klopstock's literary career was practically finished, and his 
 popularity eclipsed by that of the young writers of the 
 Sturm und Drang period. Goethe had published Gotz von 
 Berlichingen, Clavigo, IVerther, Stella, and some poems, 
 and was already turning away from his early vehemence 
 and irregularity to a more subdued taste. The dominant 
 foreign influence in Germany was that of English writers, 
 especially of Shakespeare, Sterne, MacPherson, Goldsmith 
 and Richardson. Hardly second to this was that of Rous- 
 seau and Diderot. 
 
 It was the year of the surrender of Cornwallis. Hesse, 
 Wurttemberg and other German states had leased their 
 subjects to fight for England in this war. The Jews still 
 resided shut in separate quarters in many German cities
 
 Vlll INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and were subjected to humiliating constraints and taxes. 
 A year later the last execution for witchcraft took place 
 in German Switzerland. 
 
 Though not born in penury, Schiller in his youth knew 
 nothing of luxury. His father, who had begun his career 
 as a barber- surgeon, became later regimental surgeon in 
 the ducal service of Wlirttemberg, and was a lieutenant of 
 infantry at the time of the poet's birth. Later he rose to 
 the rank of captain. His mother was a plain, good woman, 
 but from neither parent did Schiller receive directly any 
 inspiration or aid in his literary ambition. He was early 
 very devout, and for a time it was regarded as settled that 
 he should become a preacher ; but soon after his confirma- 
 tion, the studies for which had given rise to his first 
 dramatic attempt, a tragedy called The Christians, the 
 Duke invited Captain Schiller to send his boy to the newly 
 established academy at Ludwigsburg. The invitation was 
 not to be ignored, and so, at the Duke's persuasive sugges- 
 tion, young Schiller began to study for the law, but after 
 three years changed his choice to medicine. The disci- 
 pline of the school was strict, and along with some excellent 
 features had enough wretched ones to foster the spirit of 
 revolt against law and order inspired by the reading of Gotz 
 von Berlichingen and Sturm und Drang. Among the sub- 
 jects on which the students were required to write essays 
 for the Duke's inspection were : "Which among you is 
 the meanest ? " and " A description of yourself and of your 
 attitude toward your Prince." While writing under such 
 constraint the homage expected, Schiller wrote to a friend : 
 " O Karl, we have in our hearts a very different world from 
 the real one."
 
 INTRODUCTION. IX 
 
 In this atmosphere Schiller composed Die Rauber, a 
 play which manifests the climax of the extreme tendencies 
 of the Sturm und Drang period. 
 
 Karl Moor, disinherited through the machinations of his 
 wicked brother Franz, tries to get even with the world by 
 becoming captain of a band of robbers. After some ex- 
 perience in this line he returns to his home in time to 
 release from a dungeon his father, who has been imprisoned 
 by the wicked brother, and to rescue Amalia, who has re- 
 mained faithful to him despite all the threats and persua- 
 sions of the wicked Franz. Franz, thwarted, takes his own 
 life to escape vengeance, and Karl, held by his vow to his 
 fellow-robbers, and prevented from resuming a settled life 
 and marrying Amalia, stabs her and delivers himself to a 
 poor peasant in order that the latter may secure the reward 
 set upon his head. 
 
 It is a crude, strong piece, full of denunciations of estab- 
 lished views and institutions. It is no wonder that the 
 French Assembly conferred its diploma of citizenship upon 
 the author. A German prince said of it : " If I were God, 
 and could have foreseen that Schiller would write Die 
 Rauber, I should never have created the world." Schiller 
 himself some years later touched the most serious weak- 
 ness of the drama when he confessed that he had attempted 
 to portray human beings two years before he had ever 
 really known one. 
 
 Although Schiller had to borrow money to pay for print- 
 ing Die Rauber, in 1781, it sold reasonably well and on 
 presentation upon the stage it became widely popular. 
 After graduation, in 1780, Schiller had received an appoint- 
 ment as army surgeon. He left his post, without leave, to 
 attend the first representation of his play in Mannheim, 
 in January, 1782, and soon repeated this indiscretion.
 
 X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Complaint having meanwhile been made of the offensive 
 tone of a certain passage in Die R'duber, and the poet 
 having further incurred the Duke's displeasure by certain 
 poems, Schiller was now rebuked for leaving his post, con- 
 fined for two weeks in the guardhouse, and forbidden 
 henceforth to publish anything not pertaining to his pro- 
 fession. This was intolerable to the ambitious and sensitive 
 youth, and in September he secretly left Stuttgart in com- 
 pany with a faithful friend, Streicher. Before this a number 
 of Schiller's earlier lyrics, especially those addressed to 
 "Laura," were published in a volume entitled Anthologie 
 auf das Jahr 1782. 
 
 To Mannheim, Darmstadt, Frankfurt and certain small 
 villages Schiller wandered in the course of the next two 
 months. He had taken with him a new drama, Fiesko, 
 and altered it at the request of the manager of the Mann- 
 heim theater, only to be told finally that it would not do 
 for the stage. In despair he sold the manuscript to a 
 publisher for ten louis d'or. Fiesko was well received by 
 the public, was played with success in Hamburg, Berlin 
 and Vienna, and then, in the summer of 1783, manager 
 Dalberg concluded that Schiller was valuable enough to be 
 engaged as a regular writer for the Mannheim theater, 
 though the salary was not enough to support him and to 
 enable him to pay his debts. A much-pruned version of 
 Fiesko was played in Mannheim but was not particularly 
 successful. It fared better with the next play, Luise Millerin, 
 published under the title Kabale und Liebe, in 1784. Dur- 
 ing these months of wandering, disguise and fear of arrest, 
 Schiller had been distracted also by a passion for Charlotte 
 von Wolzogen, daughter of a lady who befriended him in
 
 INTRODUCTION. XI 
 
 his concealment. This passion was not returned, and he 
 tried to cultivate another for Margarethe Schwan, daughter 
 of his publisher. 
 
 Fiesko had been brought to Schiller's attention by a 
 remark of Rousseau, that this Genoese hero was the only 
 man of the modern world worthy of Plutarch. 
 
 Fiesko, a nobleman of the city, heads a conspiracy against 
 Andreas Doria, Duke of Genoa, but is considerably in doubt 
 as to the purity of his own motives. In fact Andreas is a 
 very tolerable tyrant, and the only excuse for the rebellion 
 is that the heir to the throne, Giannettino, promises to be 
 a very bad ruler. To throw the Dorias off their guard 
 Fiesko pays court to Julia, the sister of Giannettino, and 
 becoming infatuated with her incurs the risk of alienating 
 his faithful wife. To convince the latter that he had not 
 been unfaithful he leads Julia into a humiliating situation. 
 As the conspirators are gathering for the outbreak, Gian- 
 nettino is killed on the street. Fiesko's wife, following 
 him in male attire to watch over him, dons Giannettino's 
 cloak and being thus mistaken for him is killed by her hus- 
 band. Fiesko, in turn, is pushed from a gang-plank into 
 the water by Verrina, an uncompromising republican, who 
 suspects in him a tyrant worse than the Dorias. Fiesko 
 drowns, and Verrina, whose daughter had been seduced by 
 Giannettino, exclaims : "I go to Andreas Doria," indicat- 
 ing his opinion that a moderate monarchy was preferable 
 to a reckless, blind democracy. 
 
 As may be seen, there is no well-woven, symmetrical 
 plot, but several slightly connected episodes. The tragic 
 outcome is not the inevitable result of the situation. 
 
 Kabale und Liebe is a picture of petty intrigue and cor- 
 ruption at a German court, and that of the Duke of Wiirt- 
 temberg doubtless furnished many of the elements. 
 
 Ferdinand, son of President Walter of the ducal court, 
 loves Luise, daughter of a musician, but is destined by his
 
 Xll INTRODUCTION. 
 
 father to marry the prince's mistress. As Ferdinand refuses 
 to give up Luise, Walter has her parents arrested, and then 
 obtains from Luise, by threats of treating them harshly, a 
 compromising letter which is shown to Ferdinand. Mad- 
 dened by this, and hopeless of escape from his father's toils, 
 the young man drinks a poisoned lemonade with Luise, who 
 dies after explaining the letter. Ferdinand curses his father 
 and dies. 
 
 The home life of the Miller family, and the picture of 
 Wurm, the knavish courtier, the tool of President Walter, 
 show a decided growth in Schiller's ability to observe and 
 paint details. 
 
 In the fall of 1784 Schiller broke the engagement with 
 the Mannheim theater, feeling unable to produce by con- 
 tract. He established a journal, Die Rhenische Thalia, the 
 first number of which, containing the first act of Don 
 Karlos, did not appear till March of the following year. 
 Meantime he had formed two acquaintances which deeply 
 influenced his life. One was with Charlotte von Kalb, the 
 unloved wife of an army officer, whose talents and appreci- 
 ation brought her into a close association with the young 
 poet, who was two years her senior. The relation was very 
 intimate, and while helpful in some respects, became ulti- 
 mately a serious embarrassment to Schiller. The second 
 acquaintance was with the Duke of Weimar, before whom 
 he read a portion of his new drama, Don Karlos, and was 
 rewarded with the title of Councillor (Rath). 
 
 Though his popularity in Mannheim was great, the poet 
 was harassed by debts. He therefore accepted the offer of 
 an asylum with some enthusiastic admirers at Leipzig, who, 
 led by their appreciation of his genius, had entered into 
 correspondence with him. Chief of these was Korner,
 
 INTRODUCTION. Xlll 
 
 father of the poet Theodor Korner, who remained through 
 life one of Schiller's most helpful and valued friends. Tak- 
 ing leave of his devoted Streicher, who had been with him 
 much of the time since the escape from Stuttgart, and of 
 Frau von Kalb, Schiller reached Leipzig in April, 1785, 
 whence he followed Korner to Dresden in the fall. 
 
 The residence of nearly two years at Dresden is a transi- 
 tion period in Schiller's intellectual development. The 
 intercourse with Korner incited the poet to serious studies 
 in both history and philosophy. As outcome of the latter 
 study, Schiller published Philosophische Briefe, which shows 
 the molding influence of Kant. The study of Kant's 
 ^Esthetics led later (1793-95), under the further inspiration 
 of Professor Reinhold in Jena, to Schiller's brief treatises, 
 Uber Anmut und Wiirde, Vom Erhabenen, Briefe tiber die 
 asthetische Erziehung des Menschen, and Uber naive und 
 sentimentale Dichtung. The historical studies were neces- 
 sitated for the completion of Don Karlos, which appeared 
 partly in the Thalia, and complete in book form in August, 
 1787. This drama was the first written by Schiller in iam- 
 bic pentameter verse, and has some of the beauties of his 
 later and greater dramas dignity and sustained power. 
 Technically and theatrically it is no advance over the pre- 
 vious works. The plot is confused, the catastrophe is hardly 
 inevitable, and the reader is in doubt as to who is really the 
 hero. Schiller himself admitted that he changed his pur- 
 pose in this respect after the drama was half finished. 
 
 Don Karlos, Infant of Spain, is enamored of his youthful 
 stepmother. King Philip suspects the pair, and Countess 
 Eboli, a lady in waiting, after being rebuffed by Karlos, 
 causes compromising letters from Karlos to the queen to 
 reach the king. In his distress the king seeks a comforter
 
 XIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and adviser and finds him in the Marquis Posa, who has 
 recently returned from the Netherlands, a friend of Karlos. 
 Posa urges the king to political liberality and wins his com- 
 plete confidence. At the same time he comes to an under- 
 standing with the queen to send Karlos to the Netherlands 
 where he might usurp his father's rule and introduce Posa's 
 liberal reforms. But when the king, aided by Alva, is about 
 to close the toils about Karlos and the queen, Posa writes a 
 letter which he intends shall fall into the king's hands and 
 make it appear that it is he, not Karlos, who is intriguing 
 with the queen. The evening before the departure of Kar- 
 los for the Netherlands he is arrested by order of Posa, who 
 fears that he might in his rashness interfere with his own 
 plan, but the prince is almost immediately set free by order 
 of the king, who has read Posa's letter. As Posa is taking 
 leave of Karlos, who is still in prison, he is shot by an 
 officer of the guard. Karlos goes at midnight to take leave 
 of the queen, but is surprised in her apartments by Alva and 
 the king, and delivered to the Inquisition. 
 
 Though this drama was based more upon a novel by 
 Saint-Real than upon history, the studies for it led Schiller 
 into the history of the time and he published in 1788, after 
 going to Weimar, his incomplete Geschichte des Abfalls der 
 vereinigten Niederlande. This, in turn, afforded a plausible 
 ground for his appointment as professor of history at Jena 
 in the following year. During the Dresden period the 
 fragmentary tales, Der Geisterseher and Der Verbrecher 
 aus verlorener hre, also the poem An die Freude, were 
 written. 
 
 At Weimar Schiller again fell under the spell of Frau von 
 Kalb, but this was soon broken by Charlotte von Lengefeld, 
 to whom he was married in 1790. He was cordially re- 
 ceived by Wieland and Herder, and was soon engaged in 
 journalistic cooperation with them. With Goethe, who re-
 
 INTRODUCTION. XV 
 
 turned from Italy in 1788, he did not become intimate 
 until 1794, when cooperation on the journal Die Horen 
 brought them together and they became mutually beneficent 
 friends. In 1788 a more intimate acquaintance with Greek 
 literature began, influenced especially by Voss's translation 
 of Homer. Schiller himself translated Iphigenia in Aulis. 
 The taste for form and objective beauty thus cultivated is 
 manifested also in the poems Die Gotter Griechenlands 
 (1788), and Die Kunstler (1789). 
 
 The labors of his professorship, the works which have 
 already been mentioned in anticipation, the poet's betrothal 
 and marriage, a long illness which proved the beginning 
 of his serious sickness fourteen years later, the production 
 of Die Geschichte des dreissigjahrigen Krieges (179193), 
 these were the main features of Schiller's life until 1796. 
 
 Although Schiller had several dramatic plans in contem- 
 plation he did not commence serious work on his Wallcnstein 
 until 1796, and with this a period of supreme activity in 
 the drama began, resulting in the production, within about 
 eight years, of five, or, more fairly estimated, of six great plays, 
 second in the world's literature to Shakespeare's only, if 
 to any. All his careful study of history and philosophy had 
 been a preparation for the artistic work of these dramas. 
 He had been cultivating his taste for form and relf-restraint, 
 and reflecting and debating over aesthetic theory. Thus 
 when he came to the work on Wallenstein everything was 
 done with deliberation and conscious judgment. The theory 
 of the dramatic blame (Schuld), the liberties of the creative 
 artist with historical facts, the right relation of the real and 
 the ideal, the place and use of the chorus in the tragedy, 
 - these are some of the problems which he studied, and
 
 XVI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 his conscientious conclusions find their exemplification in 
 the dramas : Wallenstein, really one play, but consisting of 
 an introduction in one act, Wallenstein 's Lager, and the 
 play proper arbitrarily divided into sections of five acts each, 
 Die Piccolomini and Wallenstein's Tod (finished in 1799) ; 
 Maria Stuart ( 1 800) ; Die Jimgfrau von Orleans (1801) ; 
 Die Braut von Messina (1803) ; and Wilhelm 7>//(i8o4). 
 
 Wallenstein portrays the end of the career of this famous 
 general of the Thirty Years' War. Schiller pictures him as 
 made overconfident by his belief in astrology and by his 
 reliance upon the fidelity of his officers, especially of his 
 companion in arms, Octavio Piccolomini. Entrusted by the 
 emperor with almost supreme power, he enters into am- 
 biguous negotiations with the enemies of the country and, 
 by his own confession, dallies with the possibility of treason. 
 A messenger falls into the emperor's hands, and Wallenstein, 
 unable to offer plausible explanation of his negotiations, is 
 forced by circumstances to do what he maintains he had 
 never seriously intended. When he takes the field against 
 the emperor, his army falls away from him and his trusted 
 officers are the ones who execute against him the decree of 
 deposition and outlawry. 
 
 This overtragic material is relieved by the introduction 
 of the lovers, Thekla, the daughter of Wallenstein, and Max, 
 the son of Octavio, the favorite of the general, two of the 
 most ideal of Schiller's creations. Fiesko and Don Karlos, 
 though treating historical personages, are not properly his- 
 torical dramas, because they were not based on careful 
 study ; the heroes are not of world-wide fame, and the poet 
 was not controlled by a purpose to be faithful to the truth 
 of history. In Wallenstein Schiller deliberately chose the 
 historical field because he recognized, as he said, that he 
 was* better adapted to idealizing the real than to realizing 
 the ideal.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XV11 
 
 In Maria Stuart Schiller treats of the closing days of the 
 unfortunate Scottish queen. The conspiracy of Curl and 
 Nau in her behalf is fictitiously repeated, with some modifi- 
 cations, in the action of Mortimer, the nephew of Paulet, 
 Mary's keeper. He comes to her aid prompted by religious 
 zeal, and continues the plot under her fatal fascination, 
 which had ruined so many, from Rizzio to the end. The 
 chief feature, which is entirely without warrant in history, 
 is a meeting between Elizabeth and Mary, in which the 
 latter has hopes of pardon if she shows herself properly 
 humble. But she was unable to endure Elizabeth's taunts, 
 and gave way to a burst of royal indignation. Thus the 
 fault which had ruined her life and had brought her to her 
 end is ideally expressed in this happily invented scene. 
 
 In general, Mary is painted more favorably and Elizabeth 
 less favorably than history approves. Both this play and 
 Wallenstein are great favorites on the German stage. 
 
 In Die Jungfrau von Orleans Schiller departed most 
 widely from traditional accounts, and designated the play, 
 in anticipation of criticism, a " romantic tragedy." The 
 poet ascribes the marvelous feats of the Maid to her con- 
 secrated purpose, which inspired herself and her allies with 
 supreme confidence. This purpose is involved with the vow 
 never to love, and to sacrifice to the Virgin every English- 
 man who falls into her hands. When Johanna meets Lionel 
 on the battlefield and, touched by tenderness and love, 
 violates her vow so far as to spare his life, she loses her 
 self-confidence, and her invincibility leaves her. Thus far 
 Schiller may be close to the truth in his psychological analy- 
 sis of Johanna's career. But romantic liberty comes in 
 when, after sincere repentance, in captivity, she recovers 
 her marvelous power, breaks massive chains, rushes to the 
 fray and, after a second time saving the cause of the king, 
 perishes on the field of battle. 
 
 The dramatic blame or guilt here is similar to that in 
 Wallenstein, the harboring of a wrong thought, though 
 here it is much more refined, less deliberate and pronounced.
 
 XV111 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Wallensteirfs Lager is written in a sort of irregular 
 iambic tetrameter, a favorite meter in the popular dramas 
 and ballads of the late Middle Ages, and known as " Knit- 
 telverse" ; it has, besides, several songs in regular stanzas; 
 Maria Stuart in one scene departs from the iambic penta- 
 meters introduced into the German drama by Lessing in 
 Nathan der Weise, and accommodates the measure to the 
 joyful lyric mood ; the same is true in Die Jungfrau von 
 Orleans, while in two other scenes the verse assumes a 
 more ponderous step, the hexameter (so-called trimeters) 
 for a corresponding reason. 
 
 In the next play, Die Braut von Messina, Schiller, who 
 had meanwhile been discussing the Greek drama, and es- 
 pecially the use of the chorus, chose a form which would 
 give his lyric faculty full play, that of the Greek tragedy. 
 At the same time he deserted the historical field and re- 
 turned to that of free imagination. 
 
 The play presents the complications by which two hostile 
 brothers fall in love, each unknown to the other, with a 
 maiden who proves in the end to be their sister, though they 
 had not known they had a sister, and who fall, the elder by 
 the younger's jealous hand, the latter by his own, at the 
 moment when their mother was rejoicing over their recon- 
 ciliation and awaiting the restoration of her long-hidden 
 daughter and the introduction of the brides of her sons. 
 
 Some writers see in this a drama of fate, but it is easy to 
 find an all-pervading dramatic guilt, to wit, secretiveness, 
 which brings the curse upon the doomed family. 
 
 After Die Braut von Messina Schiller translated for the 
 Weimar theater two French plays, Der Parasit, and Der 
 Neffe als Onkel, and then, after a consideration of other 
 plans, began the studies for Wilhelm Tell, in which he re-
 
 INTRODUCTION. XIX 
 
 turned to the field of history, or at least of legend. The 
 details regarding the composition of this work will be found 
 in the next section. 7>//was completed in February, 1804, 
 and the poet was already preparing for the next achievement 
 when his health, for years precarious, gave way. Many 
 months were lost to composition, and precious strength was 
 spent on the text of a spectacular piece, Die Huldigung der 
 Kiinste, and then the poet began his last play, Demetrius, 
 which was destined to remain a fragment. Only one act 
 was completed. Schiller died May pth, 1805. Demetrius 
 was designed to represent the career of a changeling claim- 
 ant to the Russian throne, and judging from the one act 
 would have been at least equal to the poet's best. 
 
 The last fifteen years of Schiller's life were blessed, in ad- 
 dition to his happy domestic life, with many fine and help- 
 ful friendships, among these friends being Wilhelm von 
 Humboldt, Fichte, Herder, his faithful Korner, and Goethe. 
 Goethe, by whom Schiller felt himself at first repelled, was 
 brought into intimate relations with Schiller in 1794 by 
 cooperation on Die fforen, and, being counterparts in tem- 
 perament and methods, each profited much by the other's 
 criticism and advice. Goethe encouraged Schiller through 
 many of the discouraging struggles with Wallenstein ; Schil- 
 ler persuaded Goethe to resume work on Faust. In 1797 
 they took up together the study and composition of ballads, 
 and in this and the three following years Schiller produced 
 some of his most popular poems : Der Taucher, Der 
 Handschuh, Der Ring des Polykrates, Der Ritter Toggen- 
 burg, Die Kraniche des Ibykus, Der Gang nach dem 
 Eisenhammer, Der Kampf mit dem Drachen and Das Lied 
 von der Glocke.
 
 XX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Schiller is less many-sided than Goethe, but more intense. 
 Goethe was more open to all impressions of sensuous 
 beauty, more objective, more lyric ; Schiller subordinated 
 the sensuous to the ethical, " his conscience is his Muse." 
 There is no need to institute comparisons of greatness ; 
 each of the two poets has his sphere in which he is supreme. 
 But while the majority of critics call Goethe the greater of 
 the two, Schiller is undoubtedly the favorite of the German 
 people. And this is fortunate for Germany and creditable 
 to her people. 
 
 THE COMPOSITION OF " WILHELM TELL." 
 
 The suggestion of making literary use of the story of 
 Wilhelm Tell came to Schiller from Goethe. Goethe had 
 visited the Forest Cantons three times, in 1775, in 1779, 
 and in 1797. On the last occasion he wrote to Schiller 
 that he was convinced that the story of Tell could be treated 
 as an epic ; that he had carefully studied the scene and it 
 now depended on luck whether anything came of it. In 
 the Tag-und Jahreshefte Goethe states that he had planned 
 an epic in hexameters, but that he grew tired of the subject, 
 as he always did if he studied too long over form and meter. 
 He had often discussed the subject with Schiller, he tells us, 
 and had described the locality to him, and when it no longer 
 attracted him, some time after 1800, he "gladly and for- 
 mally" turned it over to Schiller. It should be stated that 
 Goethe's memory is not to be depended upon for details, 
 and especially dates. 
 
 During the year 1801 Schiller read Mtiller's History of 
 Switzerland, and as early as in the spring of that year a re-
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXI 
 
 port somehow got abroad that he was engaged on a Wilhelm 
 Tell. Later in the year the rumor became general, though 
 there is no other evidence that Schiller was then actually 
 considering the subject. But on March i6th, 1802, in a 
 letter to Cotta, the publisher, he asked for a detail map of 
 Lake Lucerne, saying that he had so often heard this false 
 rumor that he had finally taken up the subject, and had 
 been studying Tschudi's Chronicon Helveticum, and had 
 thereupon seriously purposed to write a play " Wilhelm 
 Tell," which he believed would bring them credit. But he 
 begged Cotta to tell no one, since he lost interest in a 
 subject if he heard too much said about it. After some 
 further reading, the matter was dropped for the work on 
 Die Braut von Messina. 
 
 After Die Braut von Messina, Schiller planned to go 
 to work on Warbeck, a long-cherished subject, and then at 
 Tell. In September, 1802, he wrote to Korner, that while 
 Tell appeared anything but a tractable subject for dramatic 
 treatment, since the action was so scattered in time and 
 place, and, saving the hat and apple-shooting episode, so 
 ill-adapted to poetic presentation, nevertheless he had al- 
 ready given it so many poetic touches that it was beginning 
 to leave the phase of history and enter that of poetry. He 
 found it " a desperate task, for it consists of representing 
 with the character of utmost consistency and truth a whole 
 locally circumscribed people, a whole remote period and, 
 most difficult of all, an entirely local, indeed almost indi- 
 vidual and unique phenomenon." He thought of putting 
 Tell into a form similar to that of Die Brant von Messina, 
 that of the Greek tragedy. After finishing the latter, 
 Schiller was forced to occupy himself with other matters,
 
 XX11 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 so that it was in May, 1803, before he could again con- 
 cern himself seriously with Tell. Then he returned to 
 the study of Tschudi, who gave him " a new light through 
 his straightforward, Herodotian, almost Homeric tone." 
 He promised the great actor Iffland, in Berlin, that he 
 might have the play before the winter was over, and as- 
 sured him that it would be " a piece for the people, cap- 
 tivating heart and head." Early in August he wrote to 
 Cotta requesting more descriptive works on Switzerland, 
 for the poet himself had never seen that country. On 
 the 1 8th of this month he wrote to Wilhelm von Hum- 
 boldt that the subject was '' a tough one " though he hoped 
 to master it. On the 25th, according to the laconic entry 
 in his diary, he "went at Tell." But several weeks later 
 he wrote to Korner, again referring to the difficulty of the 
 subject, and asking for more books to help him with local 
 color, but adding : " If the gods help me in carrying out 
 what I have in mind, it will prove a mighty thing and 
 shake the stages of Germany." Schiller was anything but 
 conceited about his products, and such confidence as this 
 was unusual. Later in the month and far into October he 
 was still seeking and studying works to furnish a setting 
 for his drama. A large number of sheets are preserved 
 (see p. liv), on which are Schiller's careful notes to this 
 end from the various authors he read, the points he used 
 in many cases methodically checked off. He felt nerved 
 by the fact that the new play was intended to be given to 
 greet the return to Weimar of the crown prince and his 
 young wife. A presentation of Julius C&sar at Weimar on 
 the ist of October proved invaluable to the poet, "lifting 
 his boat" and putting him into the most productive mood.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XX111 
 
 The first week in November he writes that he is well under 
 way, and tolerably satisfied with what he has done. On 
 the 5th of December he writes to Iflfland, who is urging 
 him to early completion, that he expects to have it finished 
 early in March. He is resolved to visit Switzerland before 
 he lets the piece go to press, in order to adjust certain 
 details to fit Swiss national prejudices. To Iffland's request 
 to receive the play an act at a time, Schiller responds : 
 " It is not composed an act at a time, but the matter re- 
 quires that I carry certain trains of action that belong to- 
 gether through all five acts, and only then take up the 
 others. For instance, Tell stands pretty much by himself 
 in the piece ; his cause is a private cause and remains so 
 until, at the close, it is combined with the public cause." 
 He promises the first three acts in the course of January, 
 and sends a scheme of the stage-settings. From this it 
 appears that the first scene of the second act was to fol- 
 low the second scene of the first act, the setting up of the 
 pole with the hat, now in Act I, scene 3, was to form the 
 first scene of the second act, and be followed by a scene 
 in a room, perhaps the interview between Rudenz and 
 Bertha, now contained in the second scene of the third act, 
 scenes one and two of the fourth act were interchanged, 
 and were to be followed by a wild mountain scene giving 
 perhaps the incident now narrated by Tell in the first 
 scene of the fourth act, while the act was to close with 
 a scene representing the scaling of the Rossberg by 
 Melchthal. 
 
 Some progress was made during December, though Schiller 
 was distracted by the presence of Madame de Stael, who 
 spent several months in Weimar, and by the death of
 
 XXIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Herder. In spite of the " most vivacious, most disputatious 
 and most talkative French philosopher" (Madame de 
 Stae'l), the first act was completed on the i2th of January, 
 1804, and was sent to Goethe, who exclaimed in reply: 
 " This is no first act, but a whole play, and a fine one. At 
 first sight it seems to me to be all right, and that is the 
 chief point in certain pieces which are to produce definite 
 effects." Goethe made two suggestions in minor details. 
 Two days later, Schiller sent him the Riitli scene, which 
 Goethe found worthy of all praise. In sending the first act 
 to Iffland, on the 23rd, Schiller promises the whole piece 
 by the end of February. Johannes von Miiller, the Swiss 
 historian, came to Weimar on the 22nd, and while his visits 
 must have consumed some time, intercourse with him must 
 have yielded Schiller profit and inspiration. On the 5th of 
 February the third and fourth acts were done. Iffland 
 wrote, after reading the first act and the Riitli scene : " I 
 have read, devoured and bent my knee, and my heart, my 
 tears, my bounding blood pay rapturous tribute to your 
 mind and heart ! O more, very soon more ! What a work ! 
 what wealth, power, perfection and omnipotence ! God 
 preserve you, Amen ! " In sending the fourth and part of 
 the fifth acts, on the i3th, Schiller explained those changes 
 in the arrangement of scenes which give us the play as it 
 is at present. 
 
 All invitations and interferences were now avoided, and 
 in feverish exaltation the poet hastened to the close. On 
 the iSthof February he wrote in his journal," 7>// finished." 
 Goethe wrote after reading the close, " The piece has turned 
 out splendidly and given me an agreeable evening." On 
 the iyth of March the first representation occurred at
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXV 
 
 Weimar, and though it lasted five hours, it met with im- 
 mense success, greater, as Schiller said, than any of his 
 other plays. He wrote to Korner that he thought he was 
 gradually acquiring a mastery of the requirements of the 
 stage. 
 
 It will interest the student to read a criticism on the 
 first performance which will show that homage was not 
 universal, and that a keen-witted woman saw immediately 
 the defects which have again and again been pointed out by 
 critics. It is the account of Henriette von Knebel, gov- 
 erness of the Princess Caroline of Weimar. " The story 
 of Tell is interesting enough in itself, I think, and the 
 scenery was calculated to transport us to Switzerland. If 
 you ask regarding the dialogues, I must answer, ' Too long, 
 too long ! ' Tell's story proper does not begin until the 
 third act. The Princess thinks that the piece is not a 
 whole, but consists of several pieces, and she is right. The 
 long (scene of the) conference of the confederates in which 
 not one-third of the words are necessary, and then, in the 
 midst of Tell's story, a tedious Swiss prophet (Attinghausen) 
 whom one would rather have die behind the scenes, since 
 he has to die, we know not just why. And then, in addi- 
 tion, the love affair of a degenerate young Swiss who is 
 brought back by his mistress with many sounding words to 
 reason and his fatherland. Then Duke Albrecht (Johann) 
 is introduced, who murdered the Emperor. And finally, 
 to crown all, Tell, whose strong character is pretty well con- 
 ceived, as he only acts and speaks little, has to deliver a 
 long monologue, in which, as in all, only Schiller speaks, 
 and not the man himself." 
 
 Although designed for the Berlin theater, there was hesita-
 
 XXVI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 tion over the political tone of certain passages, and the 
 preparation of scenery and music added to the delay, so 
 that Tell was not represented there until the 4th of July, 
 when it met with the same enthusiastic reception as at 
 Weimar, and was repeated three times in eight days. 
 Schiller received 331 thalers for the right of representa- 
 tion in Berlin, the highest fee that the theater had ever 
 paid for a drama. From Breslau, Hamburg, Mannheim and 
 Vienna, also, Schiller received considerable sums, and the 
 play was given at these theaters in March or April. It was 
 published in October, in an edition of 7,000 copies, and a 
 second edition of 3,000 was issued the same year. Besides 
 various verbal improvements the first printed edition added 
 to the stage version (which is preserved in several manu- 
 scripts) the parts of Pfeifer von Luzern, Act I, scene 2, and 
 Kunz von Gersau, Act IV, scene i . 
 
 It is a curious fact that Goethe again took up his plan 
 for an epic of Tell in the year following Schiller's death, 
 but he dropped it without any actual achievement. 
 
 Despite all technical faults, Wilhelm Tell has remained 
 one of the most popular pieces on the German stage, and 
 has had an incalculable effect in the cultivation of national 
 feeling. Its popularity has always been greatest in periods 
 of national consciousness, as in 1813-15, 1848, and 1870. 
 
 CRITICISMS AND COMMENTS. 
 
 The people, the audience, was usually more favorable to 
 Schiller's plays than the critics. The opinion of Henriette 
 von Knebel touched technical defects which were often 
 emphasized by critics to the ignoring of the undisputed 
 great beauties of the play.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXV11 
 
 Der freimiithige, a journal conducted by Merkel and 
 Kotzebue, condemned in its issue of March 29, 1804, the 
 Riitli scene, of which Goethe 'thought so highly, as a mani- 
 festation of Schiller's passion for the chorus. Such a 
 criticism, it would seem, could spring only from a mind 
 prepared by Die Braut von Messina to see the features 
 of that play in all that Schiller produced. It condemns 
 also the fifth act as the work of a courtier, "a bugbear, 
 introduced without any necessity." On the whole it found 
 Tell not one of Schiller's better productions. 
 
 Die Zettung fur die elegante Welt spoke of Tell in a 
 rather perfunctory way as "eine edle Geistesfrucht," but 
 the Berliner Nachrichten of July 7, 1805, inspired per- 
 haps by Iffland, is almost as enthusiastic as was the great 
 actor in the praise already quoted. It tells us that after 
 the performance at Weimar the general opinion of the play 
 was cold, even that of Schiller's most pronounced admirers. 
 Schiller had, however, soared in Tell to a height which 
 puzzled his critics. In its own view Schiller had never 
 shown himself a greater dramatic poet than in this work. 
 The fifth act, indeed, it found superfluous, though this too 
 possessed great beauties. The dialogue was not so soar- 
 ingly lyric as was usual in Schiller's dramas. 
 
 Der Freimiithige, through the voice of its chief editor, 
 thought better of the play, after knowing it better, and on 
 July 10 characterized it as "the most perfect work of 
 art among Schiller's creations ; everything in its place, no 
 gaps and nothing superfluous ; free from the long rhetorical 
 meditations which have so strangely disfigured Schiller's 
 pieces from Don Karlos on. A world of real, high- 
 hearted, noble human beings. The action is not Tell's
 
 XXV111 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 story, but the liberation of Switzerland. The fifth act is 
 a supplement and a defect." 
 
 The Berliner Zeitung of the same date was less en- 
 thusiastic : " Wilhelm Tell, like other of Schiller's dramas, is 
 not a complete whole ; the parts merely stand side by side, 
 instead of being derived one from another. The fifth act 
 is superfluous. Bertha and Rudenz are out of place in a 
 company of country people. Rosselmann is not only super- 
 fluous, but in violation of the true spirit of the action. 
 Only two of all the scenes are powerful : the meeting of 
 Stauffacher, Fiirst and Melchthal, and the shooting of the 
 apple. The former deserves unqualified homage, save the 
 almost repulsive rant about the value of the eyes. There 
 is no unity in Tell's character. The poet deserves much 
 criticism for Rudenz. Bertha's is a senseless part." 
 
 Despite such criticisms Tell was played in Berlin every 
 other day in September. 
 
 Die Zeitung fiir die elegante Welt after reading the play 
 in print, October 13, found it "far below the other prod- 
 ucts of this great man. It is no whole, but only a mass 
 of beautiful parts. Tell's monologue is a sermon which 
 seems ridiculous. The fifth act is a superfluous addition 
 to give the work a moral." 
 
 The Gottingsche Gelehrte Anzeigen in curious contrast 
 to some of the preceding points finds Tell's son sketched 
 in a masterful way. " The play should be called ' The Libera- 
 tion of Switzerland,' and not ' Wilhelm Tell.' " And yet, 
 the chief action is Gessler's inhuman act toward Tell and 
 Tell's punishment of it. " There are but few pithy sayings 
 in TelL There is nowhere any overloading. Only the 
 passage of Melchthal on light will perhaps seem too poetical
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXIX 
 
 and far-fetched. Tell's monologue in the fourth act de- 
 serves favorable mention. The absence of prominent 
 feminine parts is to be regretted. It is a play especially 
 calculated for the stage." 
 
 Perhaps the most curious of contemporary criticisms is 
 that of a Swiss writer in Isis for March, 1805. He tells 
 us that this highly lauded work is regarded in Switzerland 
 not without approval, but without enthusiasm, and on the 
 whole as rather mediocre. The criticisms in detail touch 
 alleged offenses against local geography and customs, as in 
 locating the Riitli (cp. the extract from Tschudi, p. xlvii, 
 and note to 1. 727) ; having horsemen gallop down to the 
 shore at Treib (Act I, scene i) ; annihilating the distance 
 from Steinen to Uri (between scenes 2 and 3, Act I) ; 
 describing wide, desolate ice-fields (1. 999) in the Surenne 
 Mountains; seeing ice-capped mountains eastward from 
 Altorf (SD before scene 3, Act III); having the sirocco 
 blow cold (1. 40), etc. In view of such defects, it would 
 seem, the Isis critic concludes that Tell cannot count on 
 permanent success. Some of the points here made have 
 been disputed by other writers equally familiar with the 
 locality, but of course such errors, if admitted, are not at all 
 vital. 
 
 A. W. Schlegel considered Tell Schiller's best work 
 " imbued with the poetry of history, the treatment true 
 to nature and genuine and, considering the poet's un- 
 familiarity with the country, astonishingly correct in local 
 color." 
 
 Tell gives an illustration of the inadequacy of a priori 
 critical canons to fully limit and condition a work of 
 creative art. Yet something of this " bankruptcy of criti-
 
 XXX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 cism " may be only apparent, due to an attempt to apply 
 to this play the rules of a dramatic form to which it does 
 not belong. It should be noted that Tell is to all intents 
 and purposes an historical drama, as Schiller had probably 
 no doubts of the essential truth of the traditional account. 
 It is accordingly subject to the natural limitations of an 
 historical subject. Criticisms of the chief points of action 
 and of the traditional character of the persons may, indeed, 
 lie against the choice of the subject, but not as against the 
 poet's creative conscience. 
 
 Again, Tell is not a tragedy, either of the classical or 
 of the modern type ; it is the only one of Schiller's plays 
 that ends happily for the hero. Consequently the subject 
 of dramatic fault, or " Schuld," falls out entirely in its con- 
 sideration. It is also a question whether the traditional 
 stages of dramatic development : exposition, development, 
 climax, check, catastrophe, are to be regarded as require- 
 ments for a drama without a tragic plot, like Tell. 
 
 Shakespeare in practice, and Lessing in theory had 
 broken with the classic requirement of unity in time and 
 place, but Lessing believed the unity of action to be a 
 requirement inherent in the nature of the drama. It may 
 be that this too belongs only to the tragedy with a plot. 
 Bulthaupt saves the old requirement by finding in Tell a 
 " unity of spirit," though of dramatic unity there is none. 
 He says, also, that wherever, as in the Attinghausen scene, 
 the progress of the dramatic action is interrupted, there 
 poetry and rhetoric sustain the interest. Freytag has 
 pointed out the defects in the dramatic structure of the 
 play, but he admits in the individual scenes a charm which 
 compels admiration. The Rutli scene he calls " a model
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXXI 
 
 which young dramatists need not imitate, but the lofty 
 beauty of which they should study with care." Similarly 
 Borne speaks of the defects of the play as " the virtues of 
 the poet." The student may profitably consider these the- 
 oretical demands made upon Tell in the light of the modern 
 realistic drama of Ibsen, Sudermann or Herne. 
 
 Much offense has been taken at Tell's act in slaying 
 Gessler, especially in the fact of the deed being done from 
 ambush. Goethe in Wahrheit und Dichtung speaks of it, 
 with perhaps a touch of sarcasm, as " an assassination which 
 is regarded by the whole world as commendably heroic and 
 patriotic." Borne, who was in general an admirer of Schiller, 
 thought it out of keeping with the character of a hero to 
 hide behind a bush and commit murder. With the same 
 feeling Prince Bismarck in his youth could not endure Tell. 
 On an abstract statement of the bare proposition everyone 
 must agree with Borne. Yet it is a curious fact that the 
 action of Tell does not present itself in this light on first 
 reading or first seeing the play. Why this is so, and what 
 defense can be made for Tell, the student may work out 
 for himself. On behalf of Schiller it is to be remembered 
 that this act is one of the permanent features of the tra- 
 dition. 
 
 Scarcely a feature of Tell has failed to receive some 
 criticism. This may be explained by the remark of Borne 
 about the virtues of the poet. For instance, the poetically 
 beautiful speeches of Attinghausen, Act II, scene i, and 
 Act IV, scene 2, of Melchthal, Act I, scene 4, and of Tell, 
 Act IV, scene 3, are among those condemned as inartistic. 
 Attinghausen's whole part, like that of Rudenz, is declared 
 to be an intrusion and a drag upon the action. Melchthal's
 
 XXX11 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 apostrophe is said to be too rhetorical, and out of keeping 
 with his humble origin and walk in life. Tell's monologue is 
 criticised on the same ground, and, further, as especially 
 inconsistent with his character as a man of deeds rather 
 than of words. In all of these, a constitutional weakness 
 of Schiller for rhetorical and didactic declamation is dis- 
 covered. It must be conceded that no peasants were ever 
 heard to speak as do those in Tell, but neither is it likely 
 that Prince Hamlet talked to himself in pentameters. Many 
 of these criticisms lose sight of the essential unreality of the 
 stage, and of the conventional agreement to ignore this 
 unreality. A monologue is only the speaker's thoughts 
 uttered aloud for the benefit of the audience. Of like 
 nature is the criticism of such lines as 21013, and of 
 293-94, which are spoken to inform the audience rather 
 than the person addressed. 
 
 The criticisms in which there is most general agreement 
 are the dispensableness of the Parricide episode, the weak- 
 ness of Rudenz and Bertha, and the loose connection of 
 the different threads of the action. Bellermann calls Tell 
 the loosest of all Schiller's compositions and says that the 
 gloomy figure of Duke Johann is an intrusion and a violation 
 of the purpose of the play. Rudenz, he says, is weak, and 
 the scenes in which he appears are the weakest of the play. 
 
 Bulthaupt agrees that Rudenz is an egoist, and Bertha 
 without flesh and blood, but he approves the Parricide 
 scene, except Tell's description of the way to Rome, which 
 is "too patriarchal." He also approves Tell's monologue, 
 saving a few phrases, and Attinghausen, whom Henriette 
 von Knebel found a " tedious Swiss prophet," Bulthaupt 
 calls " the most worthy prophet of the fairest and holiest
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXX111 
 
 revelations on freedom and fatherland which ever a poet 
 proclaimed from the mouth of his creatures." 
 
 If much space has been given to unfavorable criticisms it 
 is to show the failure of criticism to control popular taste, 
 and because the student may be depended on, as may every 
 reader, to see for himself the beauties of the drama. A few 
 general points may be made in this line, and the student 
 should develop them in detail. 
 
 The play depicts a number of heroic deeds, done in a 
 beautiful country by the representatives of an heroic people ; 
 it is filled with beautiful descriptions and noble sentiments 
 nobly expressed. On the stage it is found that most of 
 the scenes are exceedingly fascinating and effective. How- 
 ever much better the play might have been with a cen- 
 tralized action, these beauties are sufficient to quite hide 
 the lack of unity, and the total effect, with the majority 
 of people, is a high aesthetic and ethical gratification. 
 
 There are really three almost distinct threads of action, 
 the Riitli or popular action, the Tell action, and the Atting- 
 hausen-Rudenz- Bertha action. The student will find it in- 
 teresting to group apart the scenes which carry these threads, 
 and note the points of contact and the devices by which 
 they are connected. There are four avengers among the 
 characters : Baumgarten, Tell, Melchthal, and the Parricide. 
 Here, again, the poet's art is manifested in the ways in 
 which these are compared and contrasted, the causes for 
 their revenge and the differences in their methods of 
 procedure. 
 
 Schiller frankly admitted his own limitations in being 
 essentially an idealist. It is common, with Scherer, to re- 
 gard his youthful dramas as more realistic than those of his
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 later period. It is doubtful, however, whether this realism 
 is more than superficial, whether it is not largely the effect 
 of the prose in which those earlier plays are composed. 
 However this may be, there is more of genuine realism 
 touches of universal life in Tell than in most of Schiller's 
 work. He admired the greater objectivity of Goethe and 
 sought to acquire this attitude. He was particularly pleased 
 with the subject of Wallenstein because he found that he 
 could look at it coolly. In his essay on Naive and Senti- 
 mental Poetry, the main thought is that the Greeks and other 
 earlier nations thought and wrote naturally and uncon- 
 sciously, while the moderns are, as a rule, self-conscious 
 and artificial; they only try to be natural. Goethe, he 
 thought, was one of the few naive poets in the modern 
 world ; he, himself, was sentimental, though it was his aim 
 to be natural. No theme could have been found better to 
 encourage objectivity than this story of a simple, freedom- 
 loving people in the pure air of their mountains. Bult- 
 haupt expresses the well-warranted opinion that " there 
 has seldom been a more successful union of idealism and 
 realism, of subjectivity and objectivity," than in Tell 
 realism in motivation, idealism in situation and execution. 
 Among the most striking instances of realism in Tell may 
 be noted the conversation, Act I, scene i, regarding the ap- 
 proaching storm, the fidelity of the parliamentary procedure 
 in the Rtitli scene, notably lines 1150-54, 1314 and 1397, 
 and Hedwig's fault-finding in Act III, scene i. 
 
 Schiller was master of the rhetorical device of contrast, 
 and this is one of the great elements of power in Tell. A 
 peculiarity of this method when skillfully employed is that 
 it is not noticed. Instances of it may be seen in the in-
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXXV 
 
 troduction of the storm and the tragic episode of Baumgar- 
 ten upon the supremely peaceful scene of Act I, scene i ; 
 in Melchthal's lines, 590-94, and in Tell's lines, 2568-76 ; 
 in the presence of the wedding-party and wedding-music at 
 the death of Gessler ; in the comparison of Tell's deed and 
 the Parricide's. In the scene of Rudenz's declaration of 
 his love for Bertha, which was originally planned to occur 
 in a parlor (see p. xxiii), we may find a case in which the 
 contrast was deliberately chosen. 
 
 But, after all, the chief charm of Tell probably lies in the 
 universal interest of the theme and the nobility of the 
 thoughts expressed. It is noteworthy that Schiller's dramas 
 without exception introduce the relation of ruler and sub- 
 ject, and discuss more or less prominently the themes of 
 tyranny and liberty. The attempt has been made to dis- 
 cover in them a gradual and uniform development of views 
 on the subject of government. This goes too far, though, 
 of course, the later views are in general more conservative 
 than the earlier. Yet Tell manifests more sympathy for 
 democracy than Fiesko, in which (see p. xi) the disap- 
 pointed republican Verrina recoils from a revolution prompted 
 by self-seeking to an enlightened despotism. In Tell, it 
 should be observed, the movement is not a revolution, but 
 an insistence upon constitutional rights within the empire. 
 
 STYLE AND METER. 
 
 Schiller began his Wallenstein in prose, but soon became 
 convinced that he must use a language that was suited to the 
 heroic theme. He found, after beginning to write in iam- 
 bics, that all went better. The same meter was used in all
 
 XXXVI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 his subsequent dramas, with short deviations in most, and 
 extended deviations in Die Braut von Messina. The re- 
 spects in which the heroic verse in Wilhelm Tell differs 
 from that in the other dramas are chiefly greater simplicity, 
 greater sententiousness and the presence of archaisms and 
 local dialect words and expressions. Schiller himself gave 
 credit for his style to familiarity with the Lutheran Bible, 
 and some touches of this are recognizable in Tell. Much 
 more marked is the influence of Tschudi, whose Herodotian, 
 almost Homeric, style charmed Schiller and threw light upon 
 his task. The influence of Shakespeare, whose Macbeth 
 Schiller had translated, and whose Julius Ccesar he saw 
 (see p. xxii) just after beginning work on Tell, is noticeable 
 in certain passages, while that of Homer shows itself in the 
 formation of curiously compounded pictorial adjectives. 
 The student who is familiar with the style of these different 
 writers will easily recognize their characteristics as he meets 
 them. To those who are not thus familiar it is of little 
 profit to point them out. 
 
 Contrary to the opinion of the Gotting sche Gelehrte An- 
 zeigen (see p. xxviii), there is an extraordinary proportion 
 of pithy sayings in Tell, found especially in the passages 
 in stichomythic dialogue (see note to 1. 136). 
 
 Aside from the three lyric diversions, the meter of Tell 
 is rather more uniform than in Schiller's other dramas 
 (see p. xviii). Still there are a number of lines of six feet, 
 and some of four and less. As in the other plays, rhyme 
 is introduced quite freely, especially at the end of scenes, 
 as in Shakespeare. Rhyming came very easy to Schiller, 
 and it is possible that in some cases the rhymes crept in 
 almost unconsciously.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXXV11 
 
 Irregularities in the meter are frequent enough to prevent 
 monotony. The irregular alternation of masculine and 
 feminine endings, the presence of opening anapests and, 
 occasionally, of two unaccented syllables between the ac- 
 cents, are elements which constitute this variety. The 
 carrying over of the thought into a following line without 
 interruption (enjambemenf) is very common and helps to 
 break the sing-song of the meter when the piece is played. 
 There are even a few instances in which compound words 
 are divided between two lines. 
 
 On the other hand, to secure a smoother meter letters are 
 freely elided (e and i) and, again, the vowels are restored 
 in endings from which usage has long since dropped them, 
 as ,,ger;et" for ,,gefyt." The archaic omission of adjective 
 endings in certain cases (see note to 1. 10) is a feature at 
 the same time of the style and of the meter. 
 
 The Editor feels that he would be doing the student and 
 his instructor a poor service in enumerating the instances 
 of all these irregularities, but chooses rather to leave this as 
 exercise work for those who may have taste, or wish to cul- 
 tivate taste, in this direction. 
 
 HISTORY AND LEGEND. 
 
 For the appreciation and critical judgment of Wilhelm 
 Tell as a poetic creation, it is immaterial whether the ac- 
 count which Schiller followed is true or not. Goethe said 
 of the criticism that proposed to show Lucretia and Mutius 
 Scsevola to be creatures of fiction : " What use have we for 
 so pitiful a truth? As the Romans were great enough to 
 invent such things, we ought at least to be great enough to
 
 XXXV111 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 believe in them." The remark is applicable to Tell. Yet 
 because the belief in the reality of Tell was once so general, 
 and the interest in the question is still so great, a summary 
 of the matter is here given. 
 
 The story of Wilhelm Tell, as it is familiar to the world, 
 and essentially as it is given in Schiller's drama, was re- 
 garded as history from 1476, the date of the composition 
 of the chronicle of the parish of Obwalden (part of Unter- 
 walden), known as Das weisse Buck, down to 1760, the 
 date of publication of the book of Uriel Freudenberger, 
 Guillaume Tell, fable danoise. Within this period doubts 
 of its correctness would have been received much as to-day 
 we should regard doubts of the exploits and execution of 
 Major Andr or Nathaniel Hale. 
 
 I mention 1476 as the earlier limit of this period within 
 which the story was generally accepted, because the chron- 
 icle named is the earliest authentic record which reports 
 the life and deeds of Tell. The chief of these deeds, the 
 shooting of the prefect Gessler, is commonly ascribed to 
 the year 1307, one hundred and seventy years before. 
 How far back of the year 1476 the story may have been 
 current, or how, if an imported legend, it crept into this 
 Unterwalden chronicle, are matters which the assailants of 
 an historical Tell have not determined. Rochholz, indeed, 
 believes that the alleged cruelties of Gessler were invented 
 in consequence of a feud between the Swiss cantons and 
 the heirs of Hermann Gessler of Bruneck, waged during the 
 last half of the i5th century, and confused with the blind- 
 ing of a subject of the city of Zurich, who was in Gessler's 
 service, by the Duke of Austria, in 1412. If Tell is his- 
 torical, of course the earlier date of 1476 should be moved
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXXIX 
 
 backward, so as to become identical with the date of the 
 deeds themselves. 
 
 It must not be supposed that in the three hundred years 
 preceding 1760 there were absolutely no doubts on the 
 subject. Guilliman, in 1607, expressed a little skepticism, 
 and was severely censured therefor. Iselin, in 1725, called 
 attention to the fact that there is an apple-shooting episode 
 in Danish legends. Voltaire, in his Sur les Mceurs, hinted 
 that the Swiss had borrowed a fable to adorn the history of 
 the origin of their independence. But these doubts were 
 isolated, and soon died away. Also the warm discussion 
 that arose over Freudenberger's book seemed to rest in 
 favor of the defenders of Tell, especially after the distin- 
 guished historian, Johannes von Miiller, in 1787, gave his 
 adherence to the historical verity of the hero. Finally, 
 Schiller's drama seemed to consecrate the episode and to 
 make further doubts doubly heretical. Yet investigations 
 were resumed after some years, and the researches of 
 Ideler, Kopp, Ha'user, Huber, Vischer, Rilliet, and Roch- 
 holz, added to the points already made by Freudenberger, 
 have just reversed the former situation, so that there re- 
 mains now but a faint shadow of possibility of the existence 
 of Wilhelm Tell as an historical character. 
 
 A resume of the arguments in the case may leave the 
 student to judge of their weight for himself. 
 
 A documentary proof, to which some credence was given 
 in the eighteenth century, was the reported certificate of 
 one hundred and fourteen persons who were present in 
 1388 at the founding of the Tell chapel on Lake Lucerne, 
 over the Tellplatte, and who had personally known Wilhelm 
 Tell. But the evidence for this certificate rests on a state-
 
 xl INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ment of a person in 1758 that he had seen a true copy of 
 a certificate of the Ammann Zum Brunnen, made in 1460, 
 to the effect that he had seen a true copy of the original 
 certificate in question. Hanging by this slender thread, 
 this certificate falls to the ground when the question is 
 asked : Why should these good people have taken the trouble 
 to make such a certificate at a time when presumably there 
 was no doubt of the existence of Tell ? A similar certificate 
 produced in 1758 is proven by a clumsy discrepancy in the 
 dates to be a forgery. 
 
 All attempts to show the name of Tell in parish or other 
 records of the Forest Cantons within more than a hundred 
 years of 1307 have failed, although forgeries have been at- 
 tempted in this. But from the date of the White Book on, 
 evidence is plentiful. Other chronicles mention the hero. 
 A popular song reciting his exploits dates from 1477, with 
 a strong probability of an older original. About 1511 there 
 was a popular play dealing with the uprising against the 
 governors and the deeds of Tell. During the last half of 
 the 1 6th century all of the three Tell chapels, at Biirglen, 
 at the Tellplatte, and in the Hohle Gasse, were restored, 
 this being regarded as good evidence that they were built a 
 century or more earlier. There is then in behalf of the 
 legend of Tell a tradition beginning, as has been shown, 
 about one hundred and fifty years after the events in ques- 
 tion, and continuing for three hundred years. 
 
 Against this stand the strong, though largely negative 
 arguments of the iconoclasts : The admitted absence of all 
 reference in contemporary chronicles to such events and 
 persons as these is inexplicable ; the absence of all record 
 of the Tell family in the place and period involved is in-
 
 INTRODUCTION. xli 
 
 consistent with the probability of his existence ; there was 
 a confederacy formed among the Forest Cantons in 1247, 
 and renewed in 1291, but there is no record of one in 1307 ; 
 the annals of Austria furnish no record of a governor 
 Gessler, during this period, much less of the assassination 
 of any Austrian bailiff in the Forest Cantons ; the existence 
 of the Danish legend of an archer, Toko, compelled by a 
 tyrant, Harald Blatand,* to shoot an apple from his boy's 
 
 * The chronicler, Saxo Grammaticus, d. 1 203, whose account furnished 
 the chief basis for the attack of Freudenberger upon the credibility of 
 the legend, gives the story of the Danish prototype of Tell as follows : 
 
 A warrior, Toko, had been some time in the service of the Danish 
 king, Harald Bluetooth, and by his deeds surpassed all his comrades 
 and made many envious. Once at a banquet he boasted that he was 
 so skillful that he could fetch down the smallest apple when placed 
 upon a stick at a distance. Those present repeated this to the king, 
 who was so cruel as to take advantage of the man's rash speech and 
 endanger the life of his little son. He ordered Toko's child to be 
 placed as a mark and that the boaster should pierce an apple on his 
 son's head at the first shot or pay for his rash speech with his life. 
 Now Toko took the child, placed him with his face to the goal and 
 bade him await the whizzing arrow immovable and without turning his 
 head, for the least motion might spoil the best shot. He then took 
 three arrows out of his quiver, put the first on his crossbow and hit 
 the apple. Had he missed and hit the boy, the father would have 
 been held responsible for the murder, and been sent after the boy into 
 eternity. Asked by the king why he had taken the two other arrows, 
 from his quiver, when his safety all depended on one shot, Toko 
 replied: "To avenge the straying of the first upon you with the point 
 of the other two, for innocence shall not be punished and your tyranny 
 go unpunished." After this Toko was obliged to perform the marvel- 
 ous feat of sliding down a steep mountain on snowshoes into the sea. 
 He was, however, saved by a boat, but Harald concluded from the frag- 
 ments of the snowshoes, which were rescued from the sea, that Toko 
 was dead. Meantime Harald had gone so far in cruelty toward his
 
 xlii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 head, and afterward killing the tyrant, and of similar 
 legends in other Germanic countries, makes it probable 
 that this episode is not historical, but a borrowed legend ; 
 the Tell chapels were originally not Tell chapels at all, but 
 were connected with the deeds of the mythical hero after 
 his story became popular. 
 
 In refutation of these arguments the loyal Swiss urges : 
 Local chronicles in German Switzerland were very few in 
 the fourteenth century, and it would not be so remarkable 
 if they overlooked Tell ; it is no wonder that the Austrian 
 annals are silent about so discreditable an episode ; that 
 the apple-shooting might occur more than once in different 
 countries ; and that even if this is a myth, the possibility 
 of a hero who defended his family against a tyrannical 
 governor and slew him is not thereby excluded ; and, finally, 
 that the general and enduring national belief in the hero 
 and his deeds is more valid than any amount of negative 
 evidence. 
 
 PORTIONS OF TSCHUDI USED IN "TELL." 
 
 In 1305 the Three Cantons made a protest to the king against 
 the injustice of their governors. "He referrred them to his 
 councillors, who replied to them : that they had incurred the 
 displeasure of the king by their attitude, inasmuch as they were 
 not willing to do as the cantons of Lucerne, Glarus and other 
 places ; if later they would do this they would doubtless receive 
 
 subjects as to yoke men and oxen to the plow together. Sweno, the 
 king's son, headed a rebellion, and Toko was among his retainers. 
 During the negotiations for a truce, Harald was walking in the forest, 
 and as he was behind a clump of bushes he was surprised by Toko, 
 who was still thirsting for revenge, and mortally wounded by an arrow. 
 Harald died soon after at Julin.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xliii 
 
 every favor from the king and his sons ; for the present they had 
 better go home, since the king was overwhelmed with business, 
 and they themselves would present the matter at a more con- 
 venient time." (11. 1324-1335.) 
 
 From the beginning of 1306 comes the story of Baumgarten. 
 " The king's bailiff in charge of the fortress Rossberg was riding 
 one day to the monastery of Engelberg ; returning the follow- 
 ing day, he saw working in a meadow (Matten) the wife of a 
 blameless peasant, Konrad von Baumgarten, who dwelt (sass) 
 at Alzellen, for Alzellen lies ' unter dem Wald ' on the high- 
 way from Stanz to* Engelberg, on a height (Biihel) not far be- 
 yond Wolfenschiessen. The woman was very beautiful; her 
 beauty inflamed the bailiff to evil desires. * * * He demanded 
 that she should prepare him a bath, for he claimed to be sweaty 
 and weary from travel. The woman began to suspect mischief, 
 and, longing from the bottom of her heart that her husband 
 might soon return, she reluctantly prepared the bath. * * * She 
 was terrified and distressed, for she saw that the bailiff intended 
 to use violence, and * * * slipped quietly out of the back door 
 to escape. At this moment her husband coming from the forest 
 met her, and to him she told, weeping, what the tyrant had 
 tried to do to her, and that he was even now in the bath. The 
 goodman said : ' God be thanked, my dear wife, that he has 
 guarded you and that you have saved your honor ! 1 will bless 
 the bath for him.' * * * Therewith he entered the house quickly 
 and with his ax struck the bailiff on the head so that he died at 
 the first blow. And he fled directly to Uri, where he remained 
 concealed, although not much pursuit was made because the of- 
 ficial had been attempting such a shameful deed." (11. 90-97.) 
 
 The episode of Melchthal comes from the annals of the year 
 1307. " There was an honest peasant in Unterwalden above the 
 Kernwald (i. e. in Ob dem Wald) who was called Heinrich von 
 Melchthal (11. 562-64) and dwelt in this valley, a wise, sensi- 
 ble, honorable, well-to-do man and well thought of among the
 
 xliv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 peasants, who always took care that the privileges of the land 
 were not impaired, and that there should be no separation from 
 the Roman Empire. On this account Beringer von Landen- 
 berg, the governor over all Unterwalden, was hostile and angry 
 toward him. This Melchthal had fine oxen. On a slight pre- 
 text, because his son Arnold had committed some offense and 
 had thus subjected himself to a fine, the governor sent his ser- 
 vant to take his finest pair of oxen, and in case old Heinrich 
 von Melchthal should say anything against this, to tell him that 
 it was the governor's idea that the peasants should pull the 
 plow themselves, and thereupon to take the oxen and bring 
 them to him. Now when he was unyoking them, the peasant's 
 son Arnold, a young fellow, grew angry, and with a stick struck 
 the servant on the hand so heavily that one of his fingers was 
 broken. (11. 466-482.) Straightway he fled from the canton 
 to Uri, where he remained concealed a long time at the house 
 of a kinsman. The servant suffered considerably from the blow 
 and complained to the governor. In anger the governor sent a 
 message to the father of the youth, in Melchthal, with an order 
 to take the latter prisoner. But as he was not found, having 
 left the country, the father so reported to the governor. The 
 latter summoned the old man with harsh words, and com- 
 manded him to produce his son Arnold directly. The goodman 
 himself did not know where his son was, and he saw besides 
 that his life would be in peril if he were present. He answered 
 that he honestly did not know whither he had gone ; for he had 
 run away from home immediately and had given no hint of 
 where he was going. Thereupon the governor had both eyes 
 of this honorable and aged man put out ; for the servant had 
 reported in his anger that he had declared that the governor 
 was taking his property unjustly. When the son Arnold heard 
 how it had fared with his good father he reported his woes to 
 intimate friends in Uri, hoping thereby to be able to avenge 
 the wrong done his father." (11. 565-577.)
 
 INTRODUCTION. xlv 
 
 "At the same time Gessler, governor of Uri and Schvvyz, op- 
 pressed the peasants in those cantons no less than Landenberg 
 those of Untenvalden. He determined to build a stronghold in 
 Uri so that he and other governors after him might live there 
 the more safely, in case there should be rebellion, and that the 
 canton might the more easily be kept in fear and obedience. 
 Therefore he had brought to the hill (Blihel) of Solaturn near 
 Altorf, the chief place, stone, lime, sand and timber, and began 
 to get the structure under way, and when they asked him what 
 the name of the stronghold would be, he said : 'Its name shall 
 be Zwing Uri unter den Steg. 1 * * * (Act I, sc. 3.) 
 
 "And on St. James' Day he had a pole set up in Altorf in the 
 square by the linden, where everybody had to go past, and on it 
 put a hat and gave orders that every inhabitant of the canton, 
 under penalty of confiscation of his property and personal pun- 
 ishment, should show honor and respect (Ehre und Reverenz) 
 by bowing and removing his hat (Paret abziehen) as if the king, 
 or the governor in his stead, were personally present. He always 
 kept a watch and guardian beside it in the daytime to observe 
 and report those who did not obey the order. He thought to 
 gain great renown by oppressing severely this active, brave and 
 respected people which had hitherto been highly esteemed by 
 emperors, kings, princes and lords, and had never permitted it- 
 self to be forced by anyone. (Act I, sc. 3, and Act III, sc. i.) 
 
 " In these days it came about that the governor, Gessler, pro- 
 ceeding from Uri to his castle at Kussnacht, was riding through 
 the canton of Schwyz, of which also he was governor. Now 
 there dwelt at Steinen, in Schwyz, a wise and honorable man 
 of noble family (Wapens Genossen Geschlecht) , Werner von 
 Stauffach, son of the deceased Rudolf von StaufTach, once Land- 
 ammann in Schwyz. This Werner had built a fine, new house 
 at Steinen, on this side of the bridge. Now when the governor 
 came to this house, and Stauffacher, who was standing before 
 the house, received and welcomed him in a friendly manner as
 
 xlvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 his lord, the governor asked him whose house this was. He 
 knew this well ; for he had once made a threat to a third person 
 that he would take the house from him. Stauffacher noticed 
 well that he was not asking with good intention ; for he knew 
 that he was ill-disposed toward him because he had always op- 
 posed submitting to the princes of Austria, and desired to stand 
 by the Roman Empire and the old charters ; on this account 
 Stauffacher had a great following and was in high regard among 
 the country people. Therefore he answered the governor : ' Sir, 
 the house is my Lord the Emperor r s and yours, and my fief. 1 
 The governor said : ' I am Regent in the land in the stead of 
 my Lord the King. I do not wish that peasants build houses 
 without my consent, and do not wish that you live along thus 
 freely as if you were yourselves masters. I will seek to stop your 
 doing it (es euch zu wehren).' With this he rode on. This 
 speech troubled Stauffacher greatly and he took it to heart. Now 
 he was a reasonable and sensible man and had a wise and prudent 
 wife, who noticed that he was troubled, and that something lay 
 heavy on his soul which he was not revealing to her. Now she 
 would have liked to know what troubled him (im gebrest) and 
 she spoke of it so often that he told her what the governor had 
 said to him and that he expected nothing less than that the 
 governor would some time take from him, house, shelter and 
 possessions. When she heard this, she said : My dear hus- 
 band (Ehewirth), you know that many a good countryman in 
 this canton complains of the governor's tyranny (sich ob des 
 Landvogts Wutherei beklagt) . And I doubt not that the tyrant's 
 yoke oppresses many honest countrymen in Uri, and in Unter- 
 walden also, as we hear daily of their complaints. Therefore it 
 would be good and useful that some of you who can trust one 
 another should secretly take counsel and consider how you may 
 escape from the arrogant power, and that you should promise to 
 stand by one another and protect one another in your rights. 
 Thus God will doubtless not desert you but help you to check
 
 INTRODUCTION. xlvii 
 
 the injustice, if you call upon him heartily.' Then she asked 
 him whether in the cantons of Uri and Unterwalden he had 
 especial acquaintance with anyone to whom he could confide 
 and tell his distress, and with whom he could talk of these 
 things. He answered: 'Yes, I know there prominent leaders 
 (vornehme Herrenleute) who are especially in my confidence 
 (mir geheim) and to whom I can confide. 1 " (Act I, sc. 2.) 
 
 Stauffacher took the advice of his wife, went to Uri and met 
 there Fiirst and Melchthal, with whom he planned the League of 
 the Forest Cantons. They agreed to initiate confederates each 
 in his own canton and to meet on the Riitli, below Selisberg, 
 and beside the Mythenstein (vor dem Mythenstein), which 
 stretches into the lake. (Act I, sc. 4.) In another place the 
 expression is " neben dem Mythenstein." 
 
 Of Duke Johann the historian tells how, while riding across the 
 fields with his uncle, the emperor, he " demanded that he give 
 him his paternal and maternal estates, or at least a part of them, 
 to rule, but received the answer : ' Cousin, why are you so 
 eager to rule? You are yet too young for that.' Thereupon 
 the emperor rode to a bush and broke off a branch, made a 
 wreath from it and placed it on his nephew's head, saying : 
 ' This should give you more pleasure than ruling land and 
 people.' This remark cut the young duke to the heart, and he 
 was offended that the emperor let his sons rule, even over his 
 own estates. Weeping he complained of this to his advisers, 
 and asked them to vow to avenge this insult on the king. This 
 King Albrecht was a hard and treacherous man, and many 
 thought he intended to withhold from the young duke his es- 
 tates altogether and give them to his own children of whom he 
 had many, and make him a bishop or an archbishop." (11. 
 1336-1348.) 
 
 After telling briefly of the meeting of the confederates on the 
 Riitli, and the decision to destroy the castles and expel the 
 bailiffs on New Year's Day, Tschudi takes up the account of
 
 xlviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Tell. "On Sunday, the i8th of November^ a good honest 
 man of Uri, named Wilhelm Tell, who was also secretly in the 
 league, went past the hat several times without paying it due 
 respect as the governor had commanded. Notice of this was 
 given to the governor. The next day, Monday, he sends for 
 Tell and asks him haughtily why he refuses obedience to his 
 commands, by not showing respect to the hat, in contempt of 
 the king and himself. Tell answered : ' Dear sir, it was done 
 without design and not from contempt. Pardon me ! If I were 
 quick witted I should not bear the name of Tell (simpleton) . I 
 beg your mercy ; it shall not happen again. 1 Now Tell was a 
 good crossbowman, and a better scarcely could be found ; more- 
 over he had fair children whom he loved. These the governor 
 sent for and said : ' Tell, which of the children is dearest to 
 you?' Tell answered: 'Sir, they are all alike dear.' Then 
 the governor said: 'Well, then, Tell! You are a good and 
 famous archer, as I hear ; now you will have to prove your skill 
 before me and shoot an apple from the head of one of your 
 children. Therefore take good care to hit the apple, for if you 
 do not hit it at the first shot it will cost you your life.' Tell 
 was horrified and begged the governor for God's sake to excuse 
 him from the shot ; for it was unnatural to shoot at his dear 
 child ; he would rather die. The governor said : ' You must 
 do it, or you and the child die.' Tell saw now that he would 
 have to do it, and prayed ardently to God that he would protect 
 him and his dear child. He took his crossbow, drew it and 
 put on the arrow, but stuck another one in behind his jacket. 
 The governor himself laid the apple on the head of the child 
 who was not more than six years old. So Tell shot the apple 
 from the crown of his head without harming him. Now when 
 the shot was done, the governor marveled at it as a master 
 shot and praised Tell for his skill. Then he asked him what it 
 meant that he had put a second arrow into his jerkin. Tell 
 was dismayed, and thought that the question boded no good,
 
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 yet he would gladly have settled the affair without trouble, and 
 said that this was a hunter's custom. The governor saw that 
 Tell was evading him and said : Tell, now tell me frankly 
 (frolich) and do not be afraid ; you shall be sure of your life ; 
 for I will not accept the answer you have given ; it must have 
 meant something else. 1 Then spoke Wilhelm Tell: 'Well, 
 sir, since you have assured me of my life I will tell you the 
 truth thoroughly (griindlich), that my final purpose was this, 
 that if I had hit my child I should have shot you with the 
 second arrow, and doubtless I should not have missed you. 1 
 When the governor heard this he said : ' Very well, Tell, I 
 have assured you of your life (dich dins Lebens gesichert) and 
 that I will keep. But because I have learned your evil purpose 
 toward me, I will have you taken to a place and locked up 
 there so that you shall never again see sun or moon, that I may 
 be safe from you.' Herewith he bade his servants take him 
 prisoner and bring him bound directly to Fluelen. (Act III, sc. 
 3.) And he went with them and took along TelTs weapons, 
 his quiver, arrows and crossbow, intending to keep them for 
 himself. Thereupon the governor took ship along with his ser- 
 vants and with Tell bound, purposing to sail to Brunnen and 
 then bring Tell over land through Schwyz to his castle at 
 Kiissnacht and there cause him to end his life in a gloomy 
 tower ; Tell's bow and quiver lay in the stern of the ship near 
 the rudder. Now, when they had gone forth upon the lake and had 
 sailed as far as the Axen, God ordained it that a cruel, violent 
 storm arose so that they all prepared to perish miserably. Now 
 Tell was a strong man and well acquainted with the water. So 
 one of the servants said to the governor : Sir, you see your 
 and our distress, and the mortal peril we are in, and that the 
 shipmasters are terrified and not well posted (bericht) in sail- 
 ing ; but here is Tell, a strong man who can steer well. We 
 ought now to use him in our need. 1 The governor was fright- 
 ened by the danger of drowning and said to Tell : ' If you will
 
 1 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 undertake (getruwtist) to save us out of this danger, I would 
 free you from your bonds. 1 Tell gave answer: 'Yes, sir, I 
 will undertake to help us out of this (hiedannen). 1 So he was 
 released, took his place at the rudder and steered skillfully 
 (recllich, probably with this older meaning in Tschudi) along, 
 but kept looking at the bow which lay near him, and for an 
 opportunity to spring off. And when he came to a ledge, which 
 has since kept the name of Tellsplatte, and a chapel is built 
 beside it, it seemed to him that he could there leap from the 
 boat and escape. So he shouted to the rowers to row vigorously 
 (hantlich zugind, a verb which Schiller took for zugingen, in- 
 stead of the preterit of ziehen) till they should be past this 
 ledge, when they would have escaped the worst. And as he 
 came beside this ledge, being a powerful man, he crowded the 
 stern with force against the ledge, seized his weapons, sprang out 
 upon the ledge, thrust the vessel back with violence, and left it 
 to rock and drift upon the waves. (Act IV, sc. i .) But Tell 
 ran up the mountain toward the north, for as yet no snow had 
 fallen, past Morschach, through -the canton of Schwyz to the 
 highest point on the highway between Arth and Kussnacht 
 where is a sunken road (hohle Gasse) with bushes overshadow- 
 ing it. There he concealed himself; for he knew that the 
 governor would ride by there to his castle at KUssnacht. The 
 governor and his servants with great difficulty got as far on the 
 lake as Brunnen. They then rode through the land of Schwyz, 
 and as they came near the above-mentioned sunken road he 
 (Tell) heard all manner of devices of the governor against him ; 
 but he had his crossbow strung, and with an arrow shot the 
 governor through so that he fell from his horse and died on the 
 spot. Thereupon Tell hastened back, as night was approaching. 
 (Act IV, sc. 3 ) He notified Stauffacher, in passing, of the 
 whole affair, how it had occurred, and then went forward by 
 night to Brunnen, where he was hastily brought in a boat to 
 Uri by one who was secretly in the conspiracy ; it was still
 
 INTRODUCTION. H 
 
 night when he arrived, as at that time the nights are longest. 
 He kept himself hidden, but informed Walther Fiirst and other 
 confederates that he had shot the governor. And this was 
 secretly reported to the confederates in Unterwalden. At the 
 place above the Hohle Gasse where Wilhelm Tell shot the 
 governor a chapel was afterwards built, which still stands. The 
 authorities at that time took no steps in the matter because the 
 king was just then in Lower Austria, and waited until he could 
 appoint a new governor." 
 
 Portions of the account of the taking of the castle and of the 
 assassination of the emperor here follow. 
 
 " In the fortress of Rossberg, which stood on a high moun- 
 tain below the Kernwald, was a maid, the sweetheart of a man 
 of Stanz, who was also in the league. He agreed to visit her 
 on New Year's eve, and she was to draw him up by a rope to a 
 window which he pointed out. The man climbed thus into the 
 castle, and then one after another of the confederates drew him- 
 self up till all were in the castle. (Cp. 11. 1413-17.) * * Now the 
 governor, Landenberg, who dwelt in the castle of Sarnen above 
 the wood, had forcibly accustomed the people to bring him pres- 
 ents at New Year's. So fifty of those that were in the league 
 had agreed that thirty of their number should hide themselves 
 before dawn, well armed, in the alders below the mill ; the 
 others were to procure staves and fit spearheads to them : every 
 one was to carry such sharp irons beneath his blouse, and so 
 bring the New Year's presents into the castle, for no arms were 
 allowed there. But when they were all in, one on the hill in 
 front was to blow a horn, whereupon the twenty would quickly 
 put the spearheads on their staves and try to keep the gate open 
 by force, while those in the alders were to hasten to the aid of 
 the others as soon as they heard the horn blown. (Cp. 11. 1400 
 1412.) This was done, and the castle was razed to the ground ; 
 Rossberg was destroyed in like manner. When the governor 
 with his attendants in the church heard this, they attempted to
 
 Hi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 flee over the mountains ; but as the snow prevented this, they 
 fled along the mountains by the way of Alpnach to Lucerne. 
 They were seen, indeed, but allowed to go unharmed as had 
 been agreed. (Cp. 1. 2902.) 
 
 "At the same time those of Uri also freed their land and de- 
 stroyed the half-finished fortress which the tyrant Gessler in- 
 tended to name Zwing Uri unter die Stegen, and all swore to- 
 gether, nobles and commons, to help and protect one another. 
 (Act. V, sc. i .) All this took place on New Year's Day, 1308, 
 a Monday, as had been previously agreed. The following Sun- 
 day each land sent honorable messengers to the others and they 
 swore the league for ten years to help and protect one another, 
 with all the points which in the beginning Walther FUrst of Uri, 
 Werner Stauffacher of Schwyz and Arnold von Melchthal had 
 sworn." 
 
 After telling the curious tale of the knight and the hornets 
 (see text, lines 2668-74) Tschudi proceeds to the account of 
 Duke Johann. "So on the before-mentioned May evening he 
 appealed again to the king : Would he not turn over to him his 
 paternal and maternal inheritance of land and people, which 
 belonged to him, as he wished to rule henceforth for himself. 
 The king answered him : ' The time will probably come,' and 
 gave him no further satisfaction. This speech and arrogant 
 answer pained Duke Johann, and he reported it weeping to his 
 advisers. The next morning, May Day, the king rode out from 
 Baden to visit his consort, Queen Elsbeth, whom he had left at 
 Rheinfelden. When he came to the ferry at Windisch, Duke 
 Johann of Austria and the four mentioned : Wart, Eschenbach, 
 Palm and Tegerfelden, purposely kept together, and managed 
 so that they were the first to cross over the waters of the Reuss ; 
 the rest of the retinue came slowly after. And as the king was 
 riding among the grain-fields between Windisch and Brugg, 
 speaking with Walther von Casteln and suspecting no ill, he was 
 assailed by his cousin Duke Johann and his accomplices. Duke
 
 INTRODUCTION. 1HI 
 
 Johann stabbed the king in the throat, exclaiming : ' You dog, 
 I shall now pay you for the insult you gave me, and see whether 
 I may get my inheritance. 1 Walther von Eschenbach split the 
 king's head, and Rudolf von Palm ran him through. So the 
 king lost his life because of his great avarice and niggardliness, 
 slain by his own, in and upon his own, in the county of Habs- 
 burg, on his own inheritance, the territory of his family and his 
 name. And by chance as the deed was done a poor girl was at 
 hand ; she took the king in her arms as he fell from his horse, 
 and he passed away in her lap. (Cp. 11. 2954-87.) And when 
 Duke Johann and his accomplices had finished the deed they all 
 fled away, each whither he might ; Duke Johann rode by hidden 
 .paths through the territory of Zug and by night reached the 
 monastery of Einsiedeln, t where no one knew him, and remained 
 there several days. (Cp. 11. 3006-10.) When King Albrecht 
 was slain there was everywhere great uneasiness ; the whole 
 country was in fear they anticipated great disturbances, and yet 
 the country had more repose than had been expected, almost 
 more than before. (Cp. 1. 2990.) As soon as the news of the 
 king's death was spread in the land, the cities and fortresses in 
 all the cantons were fortified, the gates kept well locked at night 
 and guarded by soldiers. The gates of Zurich had been open 
 for thirty years, so that they had been locked neither by day 
 nor night, though they had had enemies during this time ; but 
 now they had them locked so that no one of those who were 
 guilty of the murder might take refuge in their city. (Cp. 11. 
 2991-95.) The representatives of the Forest Cantons, in re- 
 sponse to the queen's appeal for aid in punishing the murderers, 
 promised to take no advantage of this opportunity to avenge 
 their own wrongs, but as for helping to avenge the king's death, 
 from whom they never received any benefit, and pursuing the 
 murderers who had done them no harm, they deemed it unbe- 
 coming to them. Duke Johann and the perpetrators of the 
 deed actually applied to the Forest Cantons for aid and protec-
 
 Hv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 tion, but it was refused them, as the people did not wish to 
 become involved in the affair. 1 ' (Cp. 11. 3040-76.) 
 
 THE POLITICAL SITUATION. 
 
 The political situation in the Forest Cantons, as assumed at 
 the beginning of the play, is this : The Cantons are immediate 
 dependencies of the Empire, and are so treated by the emperor 
 (king). But the house of Habsburg, hereditary dukes of 
 Austria, whose representative is also at present emperor by 
 election, claims the Cantons as feudal dependencies. The em- 
 peror is harrying the Cantons by sending cruel governors to 
 represent him, hoping thus to drive them to seek the protection 
 of some powerful hereditary family and make themselves thus 
 mediate vassals of the empire. As representative of the Austrian 
 house of Habsburg, he expects to offer this protection against 
 himself as emperor, and thus to secure the Cantons as perma- 
 nent dependencies of his own family, which will always be 
 rulers of Austria, but may at any time be supplanted in the 
 office of emperor. The same conditions make it the policy of 
 the cantons to cling tenaciously to the Empire. 
 
 SPECIMENS OF SCHILLER'S NOTES FOR "TELL." 
 
 From Mtiller. 
 
 Die Heerde fa'hrt zu Berg (1. 17). Meister Hirt (1. 1774). 
 Hohes Joch der Berge, mit ewigem Eis, goldroth von der Sonne 
 
 beschienen, wenn schwarze Nacht die Thaler bedeckt. 
 
 NB. Mit dieser Erscheinung kann sich der Akt wo man im 
 
 Rutli ist, endigen (11. 1439-43). 
 Der Volksstamm kommt aus Norden, wo eine Theuerung ihn 
 
 auszuwandern zwang (11. 11676"). NB. Kann im Rutli 
 
 erzahlt werden. 
 Obmann, Schiedsrichter (1. 701).
 
 INTRODUCTION. Iv 
 
 From Fasi. 
 
 Die mittleren Theile der Berge haben kurze Krauter, diess die 
 kraftigsten. Ende Junis fahren die Sennen auf diese hoheren 
 Alpen. Dort die Sennhiitten. Um S. Bartholoma ziehen 
 sie ab (11. 13-24). 
 
 Anblick von oben wenn man liber den Wolken steht. Die 
 Gegend scheint wie ein grosser See vor einem zu liegen. 
 Inseln ragen daraus hervor : Sfnen sich die Wolken irgend- 
 \vo, so kann man ins Menschen bewohnte Thai auf Hauser 
 und Kirchen hinabsehen (11. 31-36). 
 
 Bergquellen (1. 1016). 
 
 Lammergeier (1. 1000). 
 
 Tells Blatten oder Tells Sprung. Das Felsenstiick ha'ngt an 
 der Seite des grossen Axenbergs eine starke Stunde unter 
 FlUelen. Vor der Flatten sind einige Felsenschiefer, wo die 
 SchifFe la'nden kb'nnen. Die ganze Ebene der Blatte halt 18 
 quadrat Schuh. Hinter der Blatten steigt der Axenberg 
 hoch in die Wolken (11. 2227-70). 
 
 From Scheuchzer. 
 
 Vorboten des Regens. Schwalben fliegen niedrig, Wasservogel 
 tauchen unter, Schafe fressen begierig Grass, Hunde schar- 
 ren die Erde auf, Fischespringen aus dem Wasser heraus. 
 der graue Thalvogt kommt wenn der oder der Berg eine 
 Kappe auf hat, so wirf die Sense bin und nimm den Rechen. 
 Der Firn bru'llt, die Gemsen lassen sich in die Tiefe herab 
 (H-37-45)- 
 These specimens are from the Introduction to the edition of 
 
 ' Wilhelm Tell " in Vol. 14 of the Historisch-kritische Ausgabe 
 
 edited by Gbdeke.
 
 Ivi 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 CHRONOLOGY. 
 
 DATES OF AUTHENTIC SWISS HISTORY. 
 
 Alamannic invasion .... 264 
 
 Alamannic dominion . . . 406 
 
 Burgundian conquest of West 
 Switzerland 443 
 
 Franks conquer Alamannic 
 
 Switzerland 496 
 
 Franks conquer Burgundian 
 Switzerland 534 
 
 Uri dependency of the mon- 
 astery of Zurich, before . 853 
 
 Uri combined with Ziirich into 
 an Imperial Prefecture, un- 
 der the Lords of Zahringen 1098 
 
 Schwyz a community of free- 
 men under the protection 
 of the Counts of Habsburg, 
 before 1 100 
 
 Unterwalden, under the mon- 
 astery of Engelberg . . . 1 1 20 
 
 Freiburg founded . . . .1177 
 
 Bern founded 1191 
 
 Unterwalden, under Counts 
 of Habsburg 1200 
 
 Schwyz in contention with the 
 monastery of Einsiedeln, 
 1114, 1144, and .... 1217 
 
 Bern, Zurich, Solothurn, and 
 other cities become ' reichs- 
 frei,' soon after . . . .1218 
 
 Uri made an immediate de- 
 pendency of the empire 
 (reichsunmittelbar) . . .1231 
 
 Schwyz made ' reichsfrei ' by 
 Friedrich II, not recognized 
 however by the Habsburgs . 1240 
 
 Schwyz rebels against the 
 Habsburgs, and is subdued, 
 losing its independence, 1245-50 
 
 Unterwalden (Obwalden) re- 
 bels 1245-50 
 
 Rudolph, d. 1291, refuses to 
 recognize the charters of the 
 Forest Cantons . . . .1291 
 
 Uri takes part in forming the 
 League 1291 
 
 Unterwalden helps form (or 
 renew) League . . . .1291 
 
 Schwyz joins Uri' and Unter- 
 walden in League . . .1291 
 
 Albrecht I, d. . . . May i, 1308 
 
 Heinrich VII confirms charters 
 of the Forest Cantons . . 1309 
 
 Battle of Morgarten, defeat of 
 Leopold and of the Habs- 
 burg claims to the Forest 
 Cantons . . . Nov. 15, 1315 
 
 Renewal of the League of the 
 Forest Cantons, at Brunnen, 1315 
 
 Luzern joins the League . . 1332 
 
 Zurich joins the League . .1351 
 
 Glarus and Zug join the 
 League 1352 
 
 Bern joins the League . . . 1353 
 
 Battle of Sempach .... 1386
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Ivii 
 
 Battle of Nafels 1388 
 
 Independence of Switzerland 
 recognized by Austria . . 1394 
 
 Switzerland an independent 
 country '499 
 
 Switzerland, recognized as such 
 in the Treaty of Westphalia, 1648 
 
 DATES ACCORDING TO LEGENDARY HISTORY 
 (TSCHUDI). 
 
 Earlier dates not essentially different from accepted dates, save as to the migra- 
 tion from Sweden. 
 
 Forest Cantons ' reichsfrei,' 
 governed by bailiffs not re- 
 siding in the cantons . .1301 
 
 Embassies to Albrecht to pro- 
 test against the tyranny of 
 the bailiffs 1304 
 
 Gessler and Landenberg ap- 
 pointed Governors . . . 1304 
 
 Embassies to complain of 
 these 1305 
 
 Wolfenschiessen's offense . . 1306 
 
 Herzog Johann's vain request 
 for his estates 1306 
 
 Blinding of Heinrich von der 
 
 Halden, early in .... 1307 
 
 Gessler builds the fortress in 
 Altorf 1307 
 
 Gessler sets up hat, July 25th. 
 
 Gessler threatens Stauffacher, 
 soon after. 
 
 Compact of the Three Leaders, 
 early in the autumn . . . 1307 
 
 Meeting on the Riitli, Novem- 
 ber 7th-8th. 
 
 Tell's contempt of the hat, 
 November iSth. 
 
 The apple-shooting, Novem- 
 ber I gth. 
 
 Gessler's death, November 
 igth. 
 
 Capture of Rossberg, Sarnen, 
 Lowerz, Zwing Uri, Jan- 
 uary ist, 1308 
 
 The adventure of the knight 
 with the hornets, April 28th. 
 
 Herzog Johann's last appeal, 
 April 301 h. 
 
 Murder of Albrecht I, May 1st. 
 
 Tell takes part at Morgarten . 1315 
 
 Tell drowned in the Schachen, 1354
 
 Iviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 TIME AND DATES ACCORDING TO THE PLAY. 
 
 Act I, Scene I, afternoon, October 28th. 
 Scene 2, same afternoon. 
 
 Scene 3, probably the same afternoon, though if the distance 
 from Steinen to Altorf is considered, it may be the following 
 day. 
 
 Scene 4, same day as preceding. 
 Act II, Scene i, morning, no lapse of time indicated. 
 
 Scene 2, some days must intervene after Act I, Scene 4, to 
 allow for MelchthaPs trip ; it is the traditional 8th of No- 
 vember. 
 
 Act III, Scene i, probably afternoon, the traditional i8th of November; 
 some time must have elapsed since Hedwig has had time to 
 hear rumors of the Riitli meeting. 
 Scene 2, the same day, time of day not indicated. 
 Scene 3, same day, probably afternoon. 
 Act IV, Scene I, same day as Act III, Scene 3. 
 
 Scene 2, no indication of time, but presumably the same day 
 
 as Scene i. 
 
 Scene 3, same day as Scene I, though if the distance is con- 
 sidered the events might have occurred on the following day. 
 Act V, Scene i, the next or the second day after Act IV, Scene 3; the 
 distances, the deeds accomplished, and the spread of the 
 news, would take in reason two days; if the murder of the 
 emperor were taken into account, it would be May 1st, 1308, 
 or a few days later. 
 
 Scene 2, same day, no time of day indicated. 
 Scene 3, same day, no time of day indicated.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 lix 
 
 LIST OF PERSONS. 
 
 Appearances are given by act and scene; references by lines. 
 
 Agnes, der Ungarn Konigin, daugh- 
 ter of the emperor Albrecht, 
 Ref., 1. 2997ff. 
 
 Albrecht (I), king (emperor) of 
 Germany. Ref., 1. 2943ff. (Other 
 references are to the office merely 
 and are not enumerated.) 
 
 Armgard, poor peasant woman, ap- 
 pears, IV, 3. 
 
 Arnold von Sevva, citizen of Unter- 
 walden, appears, II, 2. 
 
 Attinghausen, Werner, Freiherr 
 von, a native noble of Uri, ap- 
 pears, II, i; IV, 2. Ref., 11. 
 52, 337. 542, 2114. 
 
 Ausrufer, herald, appears, I, 3. 
 
 Barmherzigen Briider, Die, appear, 
 IV, 3 . 
 
 Baumgarten, Konrad, citizen of Al- 
 zellen in Unterwalden, appears, I, 
 i; I, 2; II, 2; IV, 2; V, I. 
 Ref., 11. 549ff, 717 (der Alzel- 
 ler), 1525 (der Unterwaldner). 
 
 Bertha von Bruneck, Austrian noble- 
 woman, in Gessler's suite, ap- 
 pears, I, 3; III, 2; III, 3; V, 3. 
 Ref., 11. 936, 2525, 288off. 
 
 Burkhardt am Biihel, citizen of Un- 
 terwalden, appears, II, 2. 
 
 Diethelm, Gessler's squire, Ref., 1. 
 2879. 
 
 Elsbeth, peasant woman, appears, 
 
 HI, 3- 
 
 Elsbeth, Konigin, wife of emperor 
 Albrecht, Ref., 1. 3033(1. 
 
 Eschenbach, Herr von, an accom- 
 plice of Johannes Parricida, Ref., 
 1. 2960. 
 
 Friesshardt, a soldier of Gessler, 
 guardian of the hat, appears, III, 
 
 3; iv, 3- 
 
 Fronvogt, appears, I, 3. 
 
 Fiirst, Walther, citizen of Uri, father- 
 in-law of Tell, appears, I, 4; II, 
 2; III, 3; IV, 2; V, i; V, 3. 
 Ref., 1. 3 34 ff. 
 
 Gessler, Hermann, Landvogt in 
 Uri and Schwyz, appears, III, 3; 
 IV, 3. Ref., 11. 22off, 355, 396, 
 1428, 1540, i555ff, 1610, 2173, 
 
 2224ff, 256off. 
 
 Hans auf der Mauer, citizen of 
 Schwyz, appears, II, 2. 
 
 Hans, Herzog, see Johannes Parri- 
 cida. 
 
 Hedwig, wife of Tell, appears, III, 
 i; IV, 2; V, 2. 
 
 Heinrich von der Halden, citizen of 
 Unterwalden, father of Arnold 
 vom Melchthal. Ref., 11. 462ff, 
 56 iff, 744, 988. 
 
 Hildegard, peasant woman, appears 
 HI, 3. 
 
 Iberg, father of Gertrud Stauffacher, 
 Ref., 11. 24off, 517. 
 
 Jenni, Fischerknabe, son of Ruodi, 
 appears, I, i; IV, I. 
 
 Johannes Parricida, duke of Suabia, 
 nephew of emperor Albrecht, ap- 
 pears, V, 2. Ref., 11. 1337 (Herzog 
 Hans), 295 iff. 
 
 Jorg im Hofe, citizen of Schwyz, ap- 
 pears, II, 2. 
 
 Jost von Weiler, citizen of Schwyz, 
 appears, II, 2. 
 
 Kaiser (Konig) Der, see Albrecht 
 I. 
 
 Klaus von der Flue, citizen of Unter- 
 walden, appears, II, 2. 
 
 Klostermeier von Morlischachen, 
 Ref., 1. 2651. 
 
 Konrad Hunn, citizen of Schwyz, 
 appears, II, 2. 
 
 Kunz von Gersau, appears, IV, i.
 
 be 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Kuoni der Hirte, citizen of Uri, ap- 
 pears, I, i; II, I ; 11,2; V, I. 
 
 Landenberg, Berengar von, Land- 
 vogt in Unterwalden. Ref., 11. 
 170, 282, 486ff, 1963, 2902. 
 
 Leopold, Herzog von Oesterreich, 
 Ref., 11. 2967, 3200. 
 
 Leuthold, soldier of Gessler, guard- 
 ian of the hat, appears, 111, 3. 
 
 Luxemburg, Graf von (Emperor 
 Heinrich VII), Ref., 1. 3023. 
 
 Mechthild, peasant woman, appears, 
 
 HI, 3- 
 
 Meier von Sarnen, citizen of Unter- 
 walden, appears, II, 2. 
 
 Melchthal Arnold vom, citizen of 
 Unterwalden, appears, 1, 4; 11,2; 
 
 III, 3; IV, 2; V, i. Ref., 1. 5656". 
 Muller, Johannes von, Ref., 1. 2- 
 
 948. 
 
 Palm, Herr von, accomplice of 
 Johannes Parricida, Ref., 1. 2- 
 961. 
 
 Petermann der Sigrist, citizen of 
 Uri, appears, II, 2; III, 3; V, i. 
 Ref., 1. 1749. 
 
 Pfeifer von Luzern, appears, I, 2. 
 
 Reding, Itel, citizen of Schwyz, ap- 
 pears, II, 2. 
 
 Rosselmann der Pfarrer, of Uri, ap- 
 pears, II, 2; III, 3; V, i. Ref., 
 
 I. 1746. 
 
 Rudenz, Ulrich von, a Swiss noble, 
 nephew of Attinghausen, appears, 
 
 II, I; 111,2; III, 3; IV, 2; V, 
 3. Ref., 11. 2 37 3ff, 2873. 
 
 Rudolph, emperor, Ref., 11. 3049, 
 3192, 3263. 
 
 Rudolph der Harras, Gessler's mas- 
 ter of the horse, appears, III, 3; 
 
 IV, 3. Ref., 1. 2224. 
 
 Ruodi der Fischer, citizen of Uri, 
 appears, I, I; II, 2; IV, I; V, I. 
 
 Seppi, attendant of Kuoni, appears, 
 
 I, i. 
 
 Sillinen, Herr von, a native noble 
 of Uri, Ref., 1. 685. 
 
 Stauffacher, Gertrud, wife of Wer- 
 ner, appears, I, 2. Ref., 1. 5i6ff. 
 
 Stauffacher, Werner, citizen of Stei- 
 nen in Schwyz, appears, I, 2; I, 
 3; 1,4; II, 2; III, 3; IV, 2; V, 
 i; V, 3. Ref., 11. 351, 982. 
 
 Steinmetz, mason, appears, I, 3; V, 
 i. 
 
 Stier von Uri, der, appears, V, I. 
 
 Stiissi der Flurschiitz, appears, IV, 
 
 3- 
 Tegerfeld, Herr von, accomplice of 
 
 Johannes Parricida, Ref., 1. 1339; 
 
 2961. 
 Tell, Wilhelm, citizen of Burglen 
 
 in Uri, appears, I, i ; I, 2; I, 3; 
 
 III, I; III, 3; IV, i; IV,3; V, 2; 
 
 V, 3. Ref., 11. 555, 1434, 2100, 
 
 23i6ff, 3082. 
 Ulrich, see Rudenz. 
 Ulrich, der Schmid, citizen of 
 
 Schwyz, appears, II, 2. 
 Walther, Tell's son, appears, III, I ; 
 
 111,3; IV, 2; V, 2; V, 3. 
 Wandrer, traveler, appears, IV, 3. 
 Wart, Herr von der, accomplice of 
 
 Johannes Parricida, Ref., 11. 1339, 
 
 2961. 
 Werni der Alpenjager, citizen of 
 
 Uri, appears, I, i; II, 2; V, I. 
 Wilhelm, Tell's son, appears, III, I ; 
 
 V, 2; V, 3 . 
 Winkelried, Struth von, citizen of 
 
 Unterwalden, appears, II, 2. 
 Wolfenschiessen der, Burgvogt at 
 
 Rossberg in Unterwalden, Ref., 
 
 II. 77, 546, 945.
 
 Scfycuifpiel 
 
 Schiller 
 
 Heujafyrsgefcfyenf auf 1805 
 
 {Tubingen 
 
 in bcr 3. (S. otta'fd?en Bud^I^anblung 
 1804
 
 Perfoncn. 
 
 Hermann c filer, 9Jeicfj3oogt in Sdjtotjji unb Uri. 
 
 SBerncr, gfretym oon 2(ttiitgi)aufen, 2}annerb,err. 
 
 U I r i <i) Don 91 u b e it 3 , f ein DJeffe. 
 
 28 e r n e r @tauffad)er, 
 
 fl o n r a b $ it n n , 
 
 3 t e I 31 e b i it n , 
 
 S a n 3 a u f b e r Sli a u e r , ^ anbleute au3 
 
 3 6 r g i m o f e , 
 
 lUricf) ber ct) in i b , 
 
 3oft Don 28eirer, 
 
 2Baltb.er ffttrft, 
 
 28 ill) elm 2 el I, 
 
 SR off elm a nit, ber ^Sfarrer, 
 
 ^S e term a nit, ber tgrift, } an Uri. 
 
 flu on i, ber Ciirte, 
 
 SSSerni, ber 3<<fl c i% 
 
 SRuob i, ber 
 
 91 r n o I b com 
 
 fl o n r a b S a u m g a r t e it , 
 
 'IK e i c r D o it a r n e n , 
 
 S t r u 1 1) D o n 28 i n I e I r i e b , au3 Unterroalben. 
 
 fllau0 DOII ber^lite, 
 
 SBurtljarbt am Bft| el, 
 
 91 r n o I b Don e ID a , 
 
 4 45f eifer oon Silvern. 
 
 flun; oon erfau. 
 
 3 enni, ^ifcfierfnabe. 
 
 eput, trtciifnabe. 
 
 ertritb, tauffac^er atttn. 
 
 Sebiuig, Zellg atttn, ^-iirft Softer. 
 
 9Jertl)tt oon S3runetf, eine reic^e grbin. 
 
 91 r m g a r b , ^i 
 
 '' I 
 
 flnaben. 
 Sblbner. 
 
 ^jilbegarb, 
 
 SBalt^er, ) 
 
 28 i 1 1) e I in , J 
 
 griefs I>arbt, 
 
 Seut^olb, 
 
 9tubolf ber $ arras, efjlerS taUmeifter. 
 
 3oJ)anne ^nrrtciba, Jyeqog oon c^ioaben. 
 
 tiif f t, ber gliirfdiiifc. 
 
 3) e r tier oon II r i. 
 
 in 9Jeid)3bote. 
 
 gronoogt. 
 
 TOeifter teinme^, efellen unb .<ganblang er. 
 
 !&ff entitle 9lusruf er. 
 
 Sarm^erjige SBriiber. 
 
 fflcfelerifdjeuiibSanbenbergifc^eDtetter. 
 
 SJiele Sanbleute, banner unb 28 e i 6 e r au ben 28albftfttten. 
 
 3
 
 rfter 2luf3ii<j. 
 
 (rftc S$ene. 
 getfenufer be8 SSievroalbftcittenieeS, cfjrotjj gegeitiiber. 
 
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 f n ab e foljvt fid) in cinem $al)it. liber ben See Ijinmeg jieljt man bie flriinen 
 fatten, Xorfer unb j)6fe toon <Si)m\n int tjellen onnen)d)ein ttcflen. 3ur 
 Cinfcn be Qu]d)auei3 seigen fid) bie Spifccn be-3 .^afen, mit Swollen umgeben ; 
 3ur 9?ed)ten im fcrnen ^intergrunb fiet)t man bie 6igcbirge. 9fod) clje bcr 
 SJorfjang aujgcfjt, prt man ben Jluf)reif)en unb ba I)armoni(d)e etaut ber 
 ^erbenglocfcn, raeld)e^ fid) aud) bet eroffneler Sjene nod) eine 3it'anfl fortfefet. 
 
 fingt im So f)n, 
 SDfetobte be-3 Suf)reiOen, 
 
 Idc^elt ber ee, er labet jum Sabe, 
 ^nabe fcfjltef ctn am griinen eftabe, 
 SDa ijort er ein ^lingen, 
 2Bte gloten fo fu^ 
 2Bie <Stimmen ber Sngel 
 
 Unb tote er ertoad^et in feltger Suft, 
 2)a f^itlen bie 2Baffer if)m urn bie 33ru[t, 
 
 Unb e ruft au ben Siefen: 
 
 Sieb ^nabe, bift mein; 
 
 3<^ lodfe ben Scfyltifer, 
 
 %<fy jie^)' i^n ^erein. 
 
 nuf bem SBerge, 
 n be 
 
 %fy fatten, lebt 
 ^3^r fonnigen SSeiben! 
 15 er enne tnu^ fd;eiben, 
 
 ommer i(t fyn.
 
 6 SGBilljelm XeU. 
 
 2Bir fafyren 511 23erg, loir fommen toieber, 
 2Benn bcr $uducf ritft, lucnn ertoadjen bie 2ieber, 
 3Benn mit 33 lumen bie Grbe fid) fleibet neu, 
 20 3Benn bie 33rimnlein fltefjen tin Iteblidjen 9Jiai. 
 
 ^5^r fatten, lebt too^l! 
 
 ^f;r fonnigen SBeiben! 
 
 er enne mu^ fd^eiben, 
 
 3)er ommer i(t l>in. 
 
 erfdjeint gegenitber ouf ber $60e bc gelfen, 
 jluette Variation, 
 
 25 (3 bonnern bie o^en, e jittert ber teg, 
 . ^ic^t grauet bem d^it^en auf fd;tDtnblirf)tem 
 (Sr fd;reitet berhjegen 
 3luf gelbern toon i, 
 2)a ))ranget fein 
 30 2)a griinet fein 
 
 Unb unter ben ^iifjen ein neblidjte^ 
 rfennt er bie tdbte ber 9JZenfd^en nid;t mel>r; 
 2>urc^ ben 9ii^ nur ber 2Bolfen 
 rblicft er bie 2Belt, 
 35 Xief unter ben 2Baffern 
 
 2)a griinenbe ^elb. 
 
 3)ie 8anb(cf)aft oerdnbert fi^; man Ijbrt etu bumpfeS firncfien con ben Sergen; 
 cfiatten toon SSSolfen (anfen iiber bie egenb. 
 
 Muobi, bcr Qfijdjer, lommt au ber utte. SBerni, bet 3agcr, fteigt 
 
 Corn Qfelfen- U u o n t , bcr irt, lommt mit bem 9JJdfnapf auf bcr Sdjulter ; 
 
 eppi, fein ^anbbubc, fotgt iljm. 
 
 HMM 
 
 l?urtig, ^enni. gicfy' bie 9Zaue ein. 
 graue Xfyaltoogt fommt, bum^f briillt ber gtrn;
 
 (Srfter Stufjug. Srfle @$ene. 
 
 >er 9Jtytl:>enftetn jiefyt feine aube an, 
 40 Unb fait fyer bld'ft e au bem 2BetterIodf) ; 
 
 2)er (Sturm, id) mein', toirb ba fein, el)' toir'S benfen. 
 
 ftuoni 
 
 ' fommt $Regen, 5af>rmann. ^eine cfiafe freffen 
 s IRit Segterbe ra, unb 2Bdd;ter fcfiarrt bie (Srbe. 
 
 993crni 
 
 ie ^tfd^e f^rtngen, unb ba 28afferf)ii{)n 
 45 ^aurf)t unter. Gin emitter ift im s Jtnjug. 
 
 SllOItt, sum SBu6en, 
 
 2ug', <5e$>t, ob ba SSie^ fid^ nicfyt berlaufen. 
 
 5te braune 2ifel fenn' tc^> am elaut. 
 
 @o feb^lt un letne me^r, bie ge^t am toeitften. 
 
 iHuobt 
 3^r b^abt ein fcfjon elaute, TOeifter irt. 
 
 9Bcrni 
 50 Unb frf>mucfe3 Siel); i[t' euer eigne, Sanb^mann? 
 
 SBin nit fo reid>; ' ift meine gnab'gen errn, 
 2)e 2ltttng^aufer, unb mir jugejdfylt. 
 
 ;){uobi 
 2Bie fc^on ber $ui> ba Sanb ju alfe fteb,t. 
 
 i loeifj fie aud), baf$ fie ben ^eifyen fiibvt, 
 55 Unb, ntifym' id^ ibj'^, fie fyorte auf ju freffen.
 
 8 SBiHjefot led. 
 
 INuobt 
 %fa feib nid>t flug; ein untoermmft'geS $iel; - 
 
 2Bcrni 
 
 3ft 6alb gefagt. 2)a ier fyat audi SScmunft; 
 3)a linffen ipir, bie Joir bte emfen jagen. 
 2)ie ftellen flug, it>o jic jur 28etbe ge^n, 
 60 'ne 9?or^ut au^ bie f^il^t ba D^>r unb luarnet 
 Wit feller ^feife, toenn ber ^ager naf^t. 
 
 JRllobt, sum trten, 
 
 Streibt i^r je^t f>eim? 
 
 ftiwtti 
 
 25ie 21^ tft a&gelueibet. 
 SScrnt 
 liicffel'ge ^etmfe^r, @enn'! 
 
 25ie iviinfif)' id^) eud) ; 
 eurer ^at>rt fef>rt ficfy'd nid;t immer tuieber. 
 
 Ohtobt 
 
 65 2)ort lommt etn SJIann in boiler aft gelaufen. 
 
 fenn' i^n, ' tft ber Saumgart Don Slljellen. 
 
 SBaumgarten, atcm(o Jjereinfturjenb, 
 
 Um otte twitten, ^dbrmann, euren 
 
 9iuobt 
 
 , nun, h>a giebt'g fo eilig? 
 IsBaumgnrtcn 
 
 rettet mid; Dom Xobe. Sefet mid; iiber!
 
 (Srfter 2luf$iig. Grftc $ene. 
 
 fiuoiti 
 
 70 2anbmann, toa fyabt ifyr? 
 
 SBerni 
 
 2Ber berfolgt eud> benn? 
 
 SBttUmflfirtCJt, sum gijrfier, 
 
 tit, eilt, fie finb mir bic^t fd^on an ben ^evfen. 
 2anbbogt ^eiter fommen l^inter mir. 
 bin ein -JJlann be Stob, iwenn fie mid; greifen. 
 
 2Barum berfolgen eud; bie 9ieifigen? 
 
 23aiimgnrten 
 75 @rft rettet mid^, unb bann ftel)' id^ euc() 9tebe. 
 
 993eriti 
 3^r feib mit Slut beflecft; ia ^at'g gegeben? 
 
 ^aitmgarten 
 
 Surgbogt, ber auf 9lo^berg fa^ - 
 ri 
 eudE) ber berfolgen? 
 
 fc^abet nid;t me^r; id; F>ab' ifjn erfcfylagen. 
 
 3(Hc f fasten juriirf, 
 
 80 ott fei eud^ gnabig ! 2Ba b,abt i^r geti>an ? 
 
 2Ba jeber freie 9)lann an meinem ^Bla^, - 
 9Jiein gute^ aured()t fiab' 169 augeitbt 
 2(m @d)dnber meiner @f>r' unb meine 
 
 ft 7 ber 33urgbogt an ber G^r' gefd;dbigt?
 
 10 SBHIjffoi Tell. 
 
 iBnuntflnrtcn 
 
 85 3)afj er fein bb'3 eliiften nicfyt boflbradjt, 
 at ott unb meine gute 2Ir,t berbiitet. 
 
 fyabt ib,m mit ber 2lrt ben $opf jer^atten? 
 
 D lafjt un aHe ^oren; ii>r fyabt 
 
 33i er ben $ab,n bom lifer Iogebunben. 
 
 ^Bnumgartcn 
 
 90 ^cb, ^atte olj gefdttt im 2BaIb; ba lommt 
 tn 2Beib gelaufen in ber 2tngft beS STobe^: 
 Surgbogt Iteg' in meinem au; er ^ab' 
 anbefob.len, ib,m ein Sab 511 riiften. 
 
 b,ab' er Ungebiifyrlicfye^ Don ifyi 
 95 33erlangt; fie fei entfywngen, mid) ju furfien."-' 
 3)a lief irf; frifd; ^tnju, fo tote id; ioar, 
 Unb mit ber 2tjt b,ab' id; i^m 'g 33ab gefegnet. 
 
 28erni 
 ^b,r t^atet too^I; fein -JRenfd; !ann end) brutn fd;elten. 
 
 2Biiterid}! 3)er {>at nun feinen 2obn. 
 
 g lang berbient nm SSolf bon Unteribalben. 
 
 iyaumijartcu 
 
 X^at iuarb rudjtbar; mir iutrb nadigefe^t. 
 toir fbred>en, ott! berrinnt bie 
 
 6 fiingt an 511 bonneru. 
 
 ifd), ^dbrmann, fd;aff' ben 33iebermann (;imtber.
 
 iLt 
 
 Grfter 9lufjug. (Srfte @jene. 11 
 
 JRuobi 
 
 efyt nidbt. Gin fd)u>erc Ungenntter ift 
 105 ^m Stnjug. 3$r tniifjt luarten. 
 
 SBatttttgnrtett 
 
 eil'ger ott! 
 
 3$ !ann nici^t h)arten. ^eber 2luff<fwb totet. 
 
 Aiiioitt, ium Atfcfter, 
 
 retf an mit ott! X>em -ftacfyften mu^ man ^elfen. 
 @ fann un alien Ietc6e ja begegnen. 
 
 Sroujen unb Xonnern. 
 
 JHitobi 
 
 2)er ^^n ift Io; if>r fefyt, irie ^oc^) ber ee gefyt; 
 no %& fann nicftt fteuern gegen turm unb 2BeHen. 
 
 Sauittflarten, umfafet fetne Sfniee, 
 
 (3o fyelf' eurf) ott, tote i^r eucfy mein erbarmet. 
 
 6 gebt umg Seben. @ei barm^erjig, gafyrmann. 
 ftmri 
 
 '^ ift ein autoater unb {;at SBeib unb $inber. 
 
 SBieber^ofte 
 
 9Ba! l^cfy f>ab' auc^ ein 2eben ju berlieren, 
 115 ab' SBeib unb $inb baf>eim, toie er. 
 2Bie' branbet, h)ie e toogt unb SSirbel 
 Unb atte SSaffer aufriibrt in ber Stiefe. 
 %fy iootlte gern ben 33iebermann erretten; 
 Qod) eg ift rein unmoglirf), if)r fef)t felbft. 
 
 iBtlUtttCldftCH, iiocf) nuf ben Bnteeit, 
 
 120 o mu^ irf) iatten in be ^einbe anb, 
 na^e 9{ettungufer tin efid^te.
 
 12 2BiU)efm Sell. 
 
 2)ort tiegt% id> fann'S erretdien mit ben Huge 
 iniiberbringen fann ber (Stimme <Sd;atl ; 
 35a ift ber ^a^n, ber micB Btnuberjxuat 
 125 Unb mujj f)ter liegen, ^ilfloS, unb Derjagen. 
 
 .Vutoiit 
 
 @eF)t, h)er ba fomtnt. 
 
 @g ift ber Xeff au Sitrglen. 
 
 3: c([ mit ber Wrmbruft. 
 
 2Ber i[t ber SRann, ber fyter urn ilfe flef^t? 
 
 ftimri 
 
 '3 ift ein Stljetter 9Kann; er fyat fetn' 6^r' 
 58erteibigt unb ben 2Solfenfd;ief5 erfrfilagen, 
 130 $)e ^5nig 33urgbogt, ber auf Sflo^berg fa^ ; 
 2)e Sanbbogt^ Steiter finb if)m auf benjjjferfen 
 6r fle^t ben <3d;iffer um bte Uberfa^rt; 
 25er fiirdjt't fid) Dor bem turm unb h)ttt nid^t fa^ren. 
 
 KMM 
 
 9)a ift ber SCeH, er fiif;rt ba 9tuber aud^, 
 135 >er fott mir' geugen, ob bie ^afyrt ju h)agen. 
 
 xca 
 
 / SSo'^ not t^ttt, ^a^rmann, Id^t fid) affe Utagen. 
 
 ^efttge 3!oniterjcf)(age ; ber See raiifc^t ouf. 
 
 /y^' 
 \' 
 
 fott mic(> in ben .^ottenracfyen ftiirjen? 
 tfycite feiner, ber bet innen ift. 
 
 XcU 
 
 (jDer brabe 5Jlann benft an fic^> felbft jule 
 140 SSertrau' auf ott unb rctte ben 93ebrangten.
 
 Grfter 5Huf$ug. Gvfte <S$ene. 13 
 
 JRitobi 
 
 3Som ficfyern ^?ort Id'fjt fid)' gemcicfylicf) raten. 
 )a ift ber $afw unb bort ber See. 33erfurf>t'. 
 
 Sell 
 
 See !ann ficfy, ber Sanbbogt nicf)t erbarmen. 
 
 .irfcn unb Sog 
 
 9tett'i^n! JHett' t^n! SRett' 
 JRttobi 
 145 Unb ttmr'3 ntein Sruber unb mein 
 
 @^ fann nicfyt fetn; '^ ift ^eitt 8imon unb 
 2)a raft ber <5ee unb n)ttt fetn Dpfer f>aben. 
 
 ZeU 
 
 3Wtt eitler 9iebe toirb bier nic^tg gefcf)afft; 
 1)ie tunbe bringt, bem 5)iann nuiji ilfe toerben. 
 150 prid^, gafyrmann, Jniflft bu faf>ren? 
 
 ftein, nicbt icb! 
 
 n otte ^amen, benn, gieb ^er ben $abn; 
 $ tuitl'^ mtt meiner fcf>h)ac^en ^raft berfurfien. 
 
 a, tuacfrer 
 
 Ocnri 
 
 3)a gletdrt bem SSeibgefeffen. 
 
 SBoumflarten 
 SJiein Better feib i^r unb mein Gngel, Xett. 
 
 ZtU 
 
 155 SBof^I au be^ 3Sogt en)alt errett' icb eucfy; 
 tunnel 9ioten muf? ein anbrer belfen.
 
 14 SBttyelm Sell. 
 
 beffer ift'S, tfyr fatlt in otte $anb, 
 2113 in ber 9Henfd;cn. 3u bem Bitten : Sanb^mann, troftet ifyr 
 5Rein 2Beib, toenn mir lt)a 9ftenfdUid;e< begegnet; 
 160 !^d; f)ab' getban, h?a id) nidit laffen fonntc. 
 
 Gr ipriugt in ben Stofjn. 
 ,fJU01tt r jum 3tfcf)er, 
 
 %fo feib ein 5Jleifter teuermann! 2Ba fid; 
 
 :ett getraut, ba fonntet if)r nid^ttwagen? 
 JHuobi ^S**^ 
 
 be^re banner tbun'g/bem 2:eff nid)t nad>; 
 @g giebt nid)t jtuei, lute ber ift, tm ebirge. 
 
 933cfnt, tft nuf ben ^elZ gefttegen, 
 
 165 @r fto^t fdjon ab. ott fyelf' bir, braver @d)h)immer! 
 toie ba^ @d;ifflein auf ben 2BeHen fd)tranft! 
 
 .Unoni, am Ufer, 
 
 ge^t briiber n?eg, id; fe^'g nid;t meljr, - 
 ! ba i[t e3 toieber. ^rdftiglid; 
 2lrbeitet fid; ber 2Badre burd; bie Sranbung. 
 
 Sewt 
 
 170 2)el 2anbt>ogt Sfleiter fommen angef^rengt. 
 
 Suont 
 ott, fie finb'<! a iwar ilf in ber 9?ot. 
 
 (Jin ^ritpp Canbcnbergiirfjer 5Rciter. 
 
 Grftcr JUcttcr 
 Berber gebt ^erau, ben ifyr berborgen. 
 
 fam cr; umfonft berf>eF)lt it>r if;n. 
 
 i?uoni nub JKuobt 
 2Ben meint i^r, Sieiter?
 
 (Srjter 2lufjug. .Sweite jene. 15 
 
 SHcitcr, entbecft ben 
 
 a, toaS fefy' id)? Xeufel! 
 SBerm, oben, 
 
 , ben if)r fudbt? 9leit ju; 
 t^r frifd; beilegt, ^olt t^r il;n nocf) ein. 
 
 Skrtminf d?t ! @r ift enttoifcfyt. 
 
 , fitfter, jum Bitten unb Stfrfjer, 
 
 AW(fi' S^ r fyfl&t i^ m fortge^olfen. 
 
 ^i fottt un|Tbii^en. ^allt in if>re erbe. 
 2)ic iitte rei^et ein, brennt unb frfjlagt nieber. etien fort. 
 
 Scppt, ftiirjt nat^, 
 
 180 D meine gammer! 
 
 r- '<?" 
 
 uom f foigt, A 
 
 2Bet> mir! 9Jtetne erbe! 
 
 SBcrni 
 
 ^)ie 2Biitricf)e! \ 
 
 iHltobi. rtnat bie anbe, 
 
 I x 
 
 ererfjtigfeit bel ^immels! j/ 1 
 
 2Bann n>irb ber better lommen biefem Sanbe? 
 
 nieoer. 
 
 / 
 
 u teinen in @rf)twQj ; ettte Stnbe Dor be @tauffacf)ev aiife an 
 ber ?anbftra^e, ntidjft ber Sriirfe. 
 
 SOerner Stauffac^er, ^Pfetfer Don Sujecn fommen tm ejpradj. 
 
 qjfcifcr 
 ^a, ja, err tauffadjer, h)te ic^ eucf> fagte, 
 
 )5rt nict>t ju D[trei4) r ioenn ifyr'3 !onnt benneiben.
 
 16 Silljelm Sell. 
 
 185 pallet feft am 9leid; unb loader, toie bister ; 
 ott fcfyinne eucfy bet eurer alien ^rei^eit. 
 
 Xrttcft il)m Jjerjtirij bie .>nnb unb roiU geiion. 
 
 Stnuffadjer 
 
 SMeibt bod;, bil meine UBirtin fommt. %\)i feib 
 2Jiein aft ju djtotyj, id; in 2ujern ber cure. 
 
 2)anf. SJlufj fyeute erfau nod) erretc^en. 
 190 2Ba i^r aucf) c^toerel mogt ju leiben i>aben 
 3Son eurer 33ogte eij unb ilbermut, 
 Xragt'g in ebulb. @ !ann fid; anbern, fd;neE x 
 in anbrer $atfer fann an 9teid; gclangen. 
 <S e i b ifjr erft Cfterreid;^ feib if>r' auf immer. 
 
 Gir oeljt ab. tauffat^er fe^t fid) {ummerbod auf etue Sanf unter ber Cinbe. 
 
 So finbct il>n ertrub, ieine Srrau, bie fid) nebcn if)n ftetlt unb it)it eine 
 
 Seitlang fdjmetflcnb betradjtet. 
 
 OJcrtrub 
 
 195 <So ernft, mein ^reunb? ^d; fenne bid; nidf)t me^r. 
 
 @d;on Diele 2age fefy' id;^ fd;iueigenb an, 
 
 2Bie finftrer 2;riibfinn beine Stirne furdjt. 
 
 Sluf beinem ^erjen britdEt ein ftitt cbreften; 
 
 SSertrait' el mir; id; bin bein treucl 9Beib, 
 200 Unb meine alfte forbr' id; beinel ratn. 
 
 tauffat^er reie^t i()r bie $anb unb irfilneigt. 
 
 28a fann bein erj beflemmen, fag' e mir. 
 efegnet ift bein $leifj, bein Uidsftanb blii^t 
 3SoH finb bie <Sd;cunen unb ber Slinber <Sd; 
 2)er glatten ^Jferbe iuo^lgena^rte 3 UC M, * 
 205 ^jft Don ben 33ergen gli'tdEIid; fyeimgebrad;t *r 
 3ur SBinterung in ben bequemen Stallen. 
 2)a fte^t bein au, reid; luie ein Gbelftfc; 
 3Son fd;onem tamm^olj ift el neu gejimmert,
 
 Srfter Mufjug. ^Wette @S ene - 17 
 
 Unb nad; bem 3fid;tmaf$ orbentlid; gefiigt ; 
 3>on bielen $enftern glanjt e toofmlid;, fyeU ; 
 Wit bunten 3Babpenfd;ilbern ift '3 bemalt, 
 Unb toeifen Spriidjen, bie ber 2Sanber3mann 
 $ertt>eilenb lieft unb ifyren @inn betounbert. 
 
 Stauffot^er /\j^ // 
 
 [te^t bag au gejimmert unb gefiigt, 
 215 SDod), ,(?d;! eg toanlt ber runb, auf ben itnr bauten. 
 
 tein SBerner, fage, toie berftefyft bu ba? 
 
 3tauffod)cr 
 
 3Sor biefer Sinbe fafj id; jiingft, toie b,eut, 
 a fd;on 3SoUbr^id;te freubig iiberbenfenb ; 
 2)a fam bafyer toon ^iijjnadjt, feiner 23urg, 
 220 2)er 3]ogt mit feinen Steifigen geritten. 
 33or biefem $>aufe ^telt er tounbernb an, 
 2)od; id; erfyub mid; fd;nett, unb unterioiirfig, 
 
 id;' gebii^rt, trat id; bem $errn entgegen, 
 ,n be ^aifer rid;terlid;e 5)Iad;t 
 225 SSorftettt im Sanbe. SBeffen ift bie 
 ^ragt' er boSmemenb, benn er tou^t' 
 3)od; f d;nell befonnen id; entgegn' ifym fo : 
 ^.SDieg au, >err SSogt, ift meine Serrn 
 
 AS*"*^ . ' . n r rr* r n, 
 
 ft Unb eure, unb mem xsefyen. 2)a berfe^t er : 
 230 ,,^d; bin Regent im Sanb an ^aifer tatt, y\ 
 
 Unb \v\\i nid;t, bajj ber Sauer aufeV baue J- , 
 
 2(uf feine eigne anb, unb alfo frei ^^^ 
 
 inleb', al ob er crr lutir' in bem 2anbe; 
 ^d; Joerb' mid; unterfte^n, eud; ba ju tce^ren. 
 235 2>ie6 fagenb, ritt er tru^iglid; Don batmen,
 
 18 SBtUjelm XeO. 
 
 aber blieb mit fummertiotter eele, 
 2$ort bebenfenb, bad ber 33ofe fyrad). 
 
 crtrub 
 
 9Jiein lieber err unb Gfyeiwrt, magft bu 
 
 in reblid) 9Bort Don beinent S 13eib bernefymen? 
 240 $)e ebeln ^jbcrg Xorf)ter i'u(;m' icl^ mid;, 
 
 SDe melerfafyrnen 3Jianu. 2Btr @d;iyeftern fajjcn, 
 
 3)ie 2Botte fpinnenb, in ben langen 
 
 2Benn bei bem iBater fid) be SSoIfeg 
 
 SBerfammelten, bte ^ergamente lafen 
 245 2)er alien ilaifer, unb bc anbe 
 
 S3ebad;ten in ucrniinftigent etyrtid). 
 
 Slufmerfenb ^ort' ic^ ba mand; fluge SBort, 
 
 Sffia ber Skrfttinb'ge ben!t, ber ute iuiinf(f)t, ^~ 
 
 Unb ftitt im erjen f>ab' ic^ mir'l beiaf)rt; 
 250 <5o ^ore benn unb acfyt' auf tneine 9tebe; 
 
 3)enn, h>a3 bidf) ^re^te, fief), ba tou^f id) Iangft.. r i/^ 
 
 2)ir groflt ber Sanbbogt, mod)te gern bir fd^aben^f*^ 
 
 2)enn bu bift ifym ein inberni, ba^ fid^) 
 
 $)er <3d^n)%er nid;t bem neuen $iirftenfyau 
 255 3Sitt untertoerfen, fonbern treu unb feft 
 
 33eim 9teid; bet)arren, iuie bie ioiirbigen 
 
 3lltt)orbern e gef>alten unb getf>an. 
 
 3ft'^ nicfyt fo, SBerner? Sag' e, toenn id) litge. 
 Stauffndjcr 
 
 @o ift'3, ba ift beg e^lerg rott auf micf). 
 
 crtrub 
 
 260 @r ift bir neibifd^, tueil bu glitdlid; luo^nft, 
 @in freier 9Jtann auf beinem cignen (^rb 1 , 
 SDenn er ^at fein^. 3Som iiatfer felbft unb
 
 Grfter ?tufjito. Btveite ^jene. 19 
 
 ragft bu biel mu ju 2e(;n; bu barfft e< jeigen, 
 (So gut ber 9leid;sfurft feine Sa'nber jeigt; 
 265 2)enn itber bir erfennft bit feinen >errn, 
 2113 nur ben od;ften in ber Gfyriftenfyeit. 
 @r ift ein jiingrer @of)n nur feineg aufe, 
 5iirf)t nennt er fein, al^ feinen Sfftttermantel 
 2)rum f^^terh^ 6 ^ 33iebermanne liicf 
 270 5Rit fd;eeten2(ugcn gift'ger SRijjgunft an. 
 25 ir ^at er la'ngft ben llntergang gefrfilcore'n ; 
 ftefyft bu untoer[ef>rt. 2Bittft bu ertoarten, 
 er bie bofe 2uft an bir gebii^t? 
 Huge 2Rann baut bor.^7 
 
 Stauffntfjer 
 
 2Ba3 ift ju t^un? 
 
 tritt nafjer, 
 
 275 (So fyore meinen ^{at. SDu toeifjt, toie fyter 
 $u Sd;n)t; fid; atte 9teb(td;en befclagen 
 Db biefe3 Sanboogts ei unb 2Buterei. 
 (So 5h)eifle ni^t, ba fie bort briiben aud;, 
 ^n Untertoalben unb im timer Sanb 
 
 miib' finb unb be3 ^arten ^od; 
 it)te ber ejjler i)ier, fo fd;afft e fred; 
 2anbcnberger braiben iiberm See. 
 @ fommt fein ^tfd;erfaf;n ju un ^eriiber, 
 
 2)er nid;t ein neue Unjjetl unb etoalts v- 
 
 /v -t'' 
 
 33eginnen Don ben ^ogten un^ berfitnbety^, & 
 
 3) rum tfyat' e gut, baMeurer etlidje^- ^r 
 
 ie' rebltd; meinen, frftt ju 9late gingen, 
 
 SSie man be rud fid; mb'd;t' erlebigen ; 
 
 So ad;t' id; \voljl, ott totiiV end; nid;t berlaffen
 
 20 SBtUjdm Sell. 
 
 290 Unb ber gerecfyten Sadje gnabig fein. 
 aft bu in Uri feincn aftfreunb, frid), 
 2)em bu bein >erg magft reblid; offenjmren? 
 
 Stauffacfjer 
 
 2)er iDcjdern SKanner fenn' id; toiele bort, 
 Unb angefcben grofje >errenlcute, 
 
 295 2)ic mir gebeim finb unb gar iuot)l bertraut. er fteot auf. 
 iuelc^en Sturm gefajjr.lid;er Giebanfcn 
 bit mir in ber ftitten 33ruft ! SJiein $nnerfte 
 ile^rft bu an^ id)t beg ^agel mtr entgcgen ; 
 Unb iDa \ mir ju benfen ftilt Derbot, 
 300 2)u ftoricfyft'3 mit leister 3 un 3 e . jcdfltd; aue. 
 
 aft bu aud; iuol;t bc^^^aTou mir rdtft? 
 2)ie im'Ibe 3u)tetrad)t unb ben illang ber SBaffen 
 Shtfft bu in biefee friebgeloofynte 2; (ml. 
 
 ein fd^iDad;e S 15o(f ber , 
 ju ge^en mit bent errn ber 
 gute Sd^ein nur ift's, iuorauf fie hearten, 
 Urn lo-ljulaffen auf bies arme 2anb 
 2)ie iuitbeiv Sorjjen ihrer $riege3madit, 
 
 fcii)'*' 
 
 2)arin uT flatten mit beg iegcrg 9(ed;ten, 
 310 Unb unterm @d)cin gered;ter 3 uc ^tigung 
 2)ie alten ^reifyeitgbriefe jit 
 
 3f)r feib aud; banner, ioiffet cure Stjt 
 3u fi't^ren, unb bem 9Jiutigen ^)ilft ott. 
 
 Stnit ffadjcr 
 
 D 2Bcib ! ein furcfytbar loittenb 3d;redni ift 
 315 SDer 5lrieg; bie erbe fd)lagt cr unb ben irten.
 
 Grfter 'Mufjiifl. ,3 rce i te @Jne. 21 
 
 ertrub 
 
 rtragcn mufj man, toa^ ber immcl fenbet; 
 Unbittigei ertragt fein eble 
 
 Stauffadjcr 
 
 2)ies ait erfreut bid), ba imr'neu erbauten; 
 2)er rieg, ber unge^eure, brennt e nieber. 
 
 320 2Bii^t' ic^) metn erj an jettltc^ ut gefeffelt, \ 
 33ranb todrf id^ fyinein mit eigner anb. 
 
 Stiiuffadjer 
 
 glaub[t an 5)ienfcf)Hc^fett. fcfjont ber 
 ntd^t ba3 jarte ^tnbletn in ber 9Btege. 
 
 crtrub 
 
 j_JDie Unfc^ulb f>at tin >tmmet einen ^-reunb. J 
 325 3tei> Dortodrtg, SSerner, unb ntcf)t I;inter bid^. 
 
 Stauffnd)cr 
 
 2Bir SJtcinner lonnen ta^fer fec^tenb fterben, 
 SBeldj) Scfvicffal aber lirb bag eure fein? 
 
 (iJcrtrub 
 
 2)ic Iet}te 2Ba^l [te^t aud^> bem Scfynxicfyften offen; 
 in (Sprung toon biefer Sritdfe mad^t micft frei. 
 
 Staitffari)Cr, ftitr^t in i^re 2Cvme, 
 
 330 3Ber folc^ ein erj an feinen 33ufen briirft, 
 
 2)er fann fiir erb unb of mit ^reuben ferf)ten,J 
 
 D 
 
 llnb feine $ijnig eermad^t fiird)tet 
 9?arf) Uri faf>r' \<fy ftel;nben ^yujjeS gleidf) ; 
 35ort lebt ein aftfreitnb mir, err 2SaIt^er^ g-ttrft, 
 335 2)er iiber biefe 3 e 't en benft, ime id^. 
 3tuc(> finb' id) bort ben cbeln 33annerbevrn 
 33on 2(tting[;aity ; obgleid; toon fyofyem otamm,
 
 22 SBityelm 
 
 2iebt er ba $olf iinb efyrt bie alien (Sitten. 
 9Jtit ifynen beibeu pflcg' id? Sfatl, hne mar 
 
 340 SDer 2anbe3feinbe mutig fief) ertoe^rt. ^ 
 Seb' toofyl! unb, iuetl id; fern bin, fitfyre bu 
 Wit flugem Sinn bas Stegiment be3 aufe: 
 2)em ^ilger, ber jum otte^aufe icallt, 
 2)em frommen 9Jlonrf>, ber fur fein Softer famine It, 
 
 345 ieb reid^lief) unb entlafj if^n ioo^Igeflegt. 
 
 tauffad>er >au terbiicgt fic^ nid^t ; ju au^erft 
 Sim offnen ^eeriucg ftefyt'3, ein iotrtlic^ 2)arf) fys 
 
 affe 9Banbrer, bie beg jBcflejS fa^ren. 
 
 ftc nacf) bem ^tntcrgrunb abgetjcn, tritt 28 ill) elm 3;ell mit 
 Sauiitflartcit tiorn auf bie Sjene. 
 
 -s.Xdl, 511 SJaumgarteit, ^j^ *f Jf 
 
 ^j^>r ^abt je^rVjueuier toeiter nid^it bonnoten. jf 
 350 3 U jenem aufe gej^et_ein; bort \vofy\t 
 2)er <Stauffad;er, ein SBater ber 33ebrdngten. 
 
 fiel;, ba ift er felber. ^olgt mir, fommt. 
 
 nuf i^it ju ; bie jene beriuanbelt fi(^. 
 
 Dritte 
 
 Offtntlidjer ^(afe bet 
 
 9luf einer ^lnf)ol)C im ^interflruiibe fteljt man cine ft'tfle bauen, roc(rf)e [d)on fo 
 wcit gcbJj)cn, bafe fid) bie ftorm bc-j anjcu barfteUt. 3)ie !)intere Seite ift 
 fertig, an ber Uorbcrn ipirb eben gcbaut ; baS eriiftc ftefyt nod), an roeldjcm 
 bie SOerfleute auf unb uieber fteigen ; auf bem {)bd)fteu Tad) Ijcingt ber 
 Sdjiefcrbcrfer. ?l((e ift in Seroegung unb 9lrbeit. 
 
 9ft c ifter S teinme fc, (^efeUenunb ^>anblanger. 
 
 r, mit bent 2tal>e, treibt btc 9(rbeiter, 
 
 9Ztd)t long gefeiert ! Jrifd) ! 2)ie 5)tauerfteine 
 ben 9)t6vtel gugefaf>ren!
 
 Grfter 2luf$ug. Sritte $ene. 23 
 
 355 28enn ber err Sanbtoocjt fommt, bafj er ba 2Berf 
 eloacfyfen fiefyt. 3)a fdblenbert toie bie rfwecfen. 
 
 3u jioei Ciaitblmigern, toeldje tragen, 
 
 et^t ba gelaben? leicfy ba 3)o^clte ! 
 2Bte bie agbtebe i^re ^Sfltc^t befte{)Ien! 
 
 erftcr OJcfeU 
 
 2)a^ i(t bod^ Ijart, bafj toir bie 6teine felbft 
 360 3u unferm Xtoing unb $erfer fallen fa^ren. 
 
 murret ifyr? 2)a ift ein fcfylecfyteS 
 3u nirf>tg anjkllig, al ba 33ieb ju melfen 
 Unb faul fyerum ju fd^tenbern auf ben 53ergen. 
 
 ?((tcr 9Jionn, vufjt au, 
 ^d^ lann nic^t mefyr. 
 
 ^ronUOflt, jcfiiittelt i^n, 
 
 3-rifc^, Sitter, an bie Strbeit! 
 
 Srftcr cfcH 
 
 365 abt if>r benn gar fein Gingetoeib ', ba^ it>r 
 
 , ber faum fid^ felber fdblet>i?en fann, 
 $ronbienft tretbt? 
 
 Stcinmc^ intb cfcKcn 
 
 ' ift ^immelfdreienb. 
 
 orgt i^r fiir eu^>; id^ tfyu' h)a meine^ 2tmt. 
 
 ^wetter GJefell 
 
 ^ronbogt, tuie tuirb bie $efte benn fidf) nennen, 
 370 )ie tuir ba baun? 
 
 3h)ing llri foU fie f>ei^en, 
 ;Denn unter btefe ^oc^ luirb man eiidf) beugen.
 
 24 mMHjflni Xeil. 
 
 WcfcHcn 
 
 Urt! 
 
 ftun, toa giebt'S babei ju lacfyen? 
 
 ^wetter (ycfcll 
 it biejem duslein toofft ifyr Uri jJutngen? 
 
 6-rftcr OJcfcU 
 
 fefyn, Vote biel man folder SJtaulftmrfSfyaufen 
 375 SJittfi iiber 'nanber fet3cn, bil etn 33erg 
 2)rau iwrb, tote ber geringfte nur in Uri. 
 
 3ront>ogt gefjt uac^ bent >intergmnb. 
 
 9}?ctftcr Steinmclj 
 
 3)en jammer h)erf td^ in ben tiefften (See, 
 mtr gebient bei biefem ^lud^gebdube. 
 nnb Stauffacfjer fommen. 
 
 D, ^att' ic^i nie gelebt, um bal ju fdf^auen ! 
 
 380 ier i[t nirf)t gut fein. Sa^t un toeiter gefyn. 
 
 2tnuffarf)cr 
 33in icf) ju Uri, in ber ^reifyeit Sanb? 
 
 9)Zeiftcr Stctnme^ > 
 
 D err, ltenn iF)r bie better erft gefeljn *[ ' 
 Unter ben ^iirmen! ^ a / ^^ ^i e belDO^nt, 
 2)er ittirb ben ^a^n nirf)t fiirber frd^en boren. 
 
 Stnuffarfjer 
 385 D ott! 
 
 Steinmeb 
 
 eb.t biefe ^fanfcn, biefe trebe^feiler; 
 2)ie fte^n, tuie fitr bie Giingfeit gebaut.
 
 Grfler Hufjug. Xritte jene. 25 
 
 Xett v 
 
 anbe bauten, fonnen anbe fturjen.J 
 
 Kacfj ben Sergen ieigenb, v 
 
 ber ftretyett tyat unS ott gegrunbet. ) 
 
 !W t,ovt eine Xrommet ; e* fommen Seute, bie einen *ut auf einet Stauge ttngen ; 
 " ein 9tu8tuf et folt ifjuen ; SSeifcer unb Stnbet bringen tumuttuor^ nad 
 grfter OkfcU _.- 
 
 9Ba h)itt bie trommel? ebet ac^t! 7^ - 
 
 9Ba fur 
 jott ber ut? 
 
 ^ fe^et biefen ut, banner toon Uri. 
 2tufric^ten toirb man tyn auf ^ober aule, 
 bitten in Stltorf, an bem fyocfyften Drt; 
 395 Unb biefe ift be Sanbbogt? SBitt' unb 9JMnuna. : 
 ut foil gleidje ^re, toie t^m felbft, gei&bn. 
 fott i(?n mit gebognem Knie unb mit 
 i^kJn aupt berel^ren. 2)aran toiff 
 Konig bie e^oriamm crfcnncn. 
 4 oo 3Ser[aOen ift mit feinem Seib unb Gut 
 Sent ^onige, toer ba ebot toerad)tet. 
 
 ^ S8o la($t Inut auf; bie Ztommel luivb geviiOrt; fie ge^en ttoritber. 
 
 Grfter 
 
 ncuc Uner^orte ^at ber SSogt 
 au^efonnen! ir 'nen <out bere^ren? 
 agt, tyat man jc bernommgn toon bergleidjen?
 
 26 SBityelm Sell. 
 
 SHciftcr Stciumclj 
 405 2Bir unfre $mee beugen einem 
 
 reibt er fein Spiel mit ernftfyaft nnirb'gen 2euten? 
 y Grftcr cfcH 
 
 'f' 2Bar' nod) bie faiferlicfye ron' ! o ift's 
 2)er ut Don Dfterreicb; id; faf) ibn ^angen 
 Uber bem ^hron, 'mo man bie 2efyen giebt. 
 
 a)Jciftcr Stciumelj 
 
 410 2)er ut toon Dfterreid) ! Gkbt adit, e ift 
 Gin ^att^rid, un an Dftreicft ju berraten. 
 
 QJcfeHcit 
 @{>renmann n)irb fic^ bcr Sdimad) bequemcn 
 
 SOJctfter Stciumcij 
 t, Iaj$t un mtt ben anbern Slbrebl ne^men. 
 
 ie flefjeu nac^ ber 2iefe. 
 Xcll, junt Staiiffncfier, 
 
 luiffet nun 33cfd)eib. 2ebt loofyl, err 2Berner. 
 
 415 2Bo iwollt if)r f)in? D eitt nid&t fo Don bannen. 
 
 XeU 
 au entbet?rt be 3?ater. 2ebet luo^I ! 
 
 Stnitffttdjcr 
 tir ift ba ^erj fo toott, mit eu4i ju reben. 
 
 Sett 
 
 (_ 2)a fcf)h)ere erj luirb nicbt burd^ 9Bovte leid^t.) 
 
 Stnuffndjer 
 fonntcn SKortc un 511 I;aten fiit)ren. 
 
 420 >ie einj'ge X^at i[t je^t ebulb unb @d)tt)eigen.
 
 grfter Stufjug. )rttte <S$ene. 27 
 
 Stnuffarfjer 
 
 man ertragen, teas unleiblid; ift? 
 
 tell 
 
 SDie fd;netten errfd;er finb'3, bie fitrj regieren v 
 2Benn fid; ber ^o^n erfyebt au feinen'Sdjliinben, 
 man bie ^euer au, bie <Sd;iffe fud;en 
 ben afen, unb ber mad;t'ge eift 
 
 r- .- v^v V v obne dbaben fburlog iiber bie 6rbe. 
 
 -V*x ' r 
 
 r \ m i e ^? r * e fr g ftiff &^i fid; bal)eim ; 
 
 $rieblid;en getoalbjrt man gern ben $rieben. 
 Stouffodjer 
 
 ie flange ftidit nidbt ungereijt. 
 430 (Sie tuerben enblidf) bod; Don felbft ermiiben, 
 SBenn fie bie Sanbe ruf^tg bleiben fefn. 
 
 tauffadjcr 
 iel, h)enn tuir jufammenftiinben. 
 
 33eim Sdhifbrudj fyilft ber einjelne fid; Ieid;ter. 
 
 Stauffarfier 
 o !alt nerla^t if)r bie gemeine <3ad;e ? 
 
 XtU 
 435 Sin jeber ja'l^lt nur fid;er auf fid; felbft.y 
 
 Stauffarficr 
 ^ SSerbunben iuerben aud; bie dift>ad;en maditig. 
 
 tea 
 
 i : 35er 6tatfe ift am mad;tigften allein. ) 
 
 Stnitffndjcr 
 
 <So fann ba 2>aterlanb auf eud; nid;t ja^len, 
 ingt>oK jur ^otlvebj greift?
 
 28 
 
 Xcll, fliet't ilint bie .fvutb, 
 
 440 >er efl fyolt ein berlontee gamut bom ^bgrimb, 
 Unb foftte feinen ftreunbeiv/ficfr entjteben?^^' r 
 3)0$, lr>a ifyr tfwt, lafjt mid; au eurem 3^ at; 
 ^c^ fann mrf)t (ange wiifen ober iua'f)Ien; 
 Sebitrft if>r mejnep^u beftimmtcr Xf)at, 
 
 445 2)ann ruft ben Xett, e foil an mtr nid;t fchlen. 
 
 ju Uerjc^iebenen Seiten. Gin vfotlic^er JlufCnuf entftcfit urn ba3 Oeriifte. 
 
 3)Zetftcr 3tciumeft f cut fjm, 
 2Ba giebt'S? 
 
 Grftcr GkfcH, fommt or, rufenb, 
 
 2)er cfyieferbecfer ift bom ad; geftiirjt. 
 Sertfja mtt efotgc. 
 ^ett^B, ftiirjt Ijevetit, 
 
 ^t er jcrf c^mcttert ? Slcnnct ; rettet ; f>elft, 
 JBenn ilfe mogltd; ; rettet, fyter ift 
 
 SBirft iljv Wejcfjmetbe unter bn 9?o(f. 
 
 450 gjiit eurem olbe! -- MeS ift eurf> feil 
 
 Um olb. 2Benn if>r ben SSater toon ben inbern 
 ertffen unb ben ^ann Don feinem SBeibe 
 Unb 3amj2r i^abt gebrad^t iiber bie SBelt, 
 Denft if)r'g mtt olbe ju berajitten. e^t! 
 
 455 2Btr iuaren frof>e ^JJfenfc^en, e(;' tfyr famt ; 
 9JJtt eurf; ift bie Skrjtoeiflung etngejogen. 
 
 ju bent gronbogt, her juriicffommt. 
 
 2ebt er? 
 
 groiiBogt fliefct ein 3 e ' ( ^ en ^e-3 Wegentetl?. 
 
 D ungliUffcI'gcS cfylojj, mtt ^H 
 (Srbaut, unb ^ludje iuerben bid; bciuobnen !
 
 erftev 2luf.$iifl. SStcrte $ene. 29 
 
 EHertc S$ene. 
 
 3Baltf)er giirftS SSoljmmg. 
 
 SBaUljer Srurfl unb Slrnolb bom 5Ref<fjtf)al trden 3itgfeid) 
 ein on bcrfrfjiebenen Sciten. 
 
 err SBaltyer prft, - 
 
 2Bo^er 9f0rft 
 
 9Benn man un iiberrajd^te ! 
 460 33Ieibt r ito it>r feib ; iDtr finb um^utgt lion 
 
 33rtngt i^r mir nic^t bon Unterioalben ? nidbt<S 
 2Son metnem 3Sater? 9iid)t ertrag' tc^'^ Idnger 
 3(I ein efangner mit^ig ^)ier ju liegen. 
 2Ba fjab' id^ benn fo (StraflicfyeS getban, 
 465 Um mid) gleidj einem 5Rorber 511 berbergen? 
 >em freemen SBuben, ber bie Dcfyfen 
 2)a trefflid;[te efbann, bor meinen 2(ugen 
 SBeg h)ottte treiben auf 
 d ben 
 
 470 ^t feib gu rafc^). 2)er 33ube Jrar be 
 Son eurer Dbrigfeit h)ar er gefenbet. 
 ^r h)art in traf gefatten; muptet eud^, 
 SBie fc^toer fie toar, ber Su^e fc^toeigenb fitgen. , 
 
 dr 2Kelt^tl)aJ 
 
 rtragen fofft' id^ bie IejdBt[erf ge 3^ebe 
 475 ,$e Unberfc^dmten : ,,^enn ber Sauer 33rot 
 IIt' effen, mb'g' er felbft am ^Sfluge jiefm!" 
 bie eelerfd^nitt mir', aid bet 33ub bie Deafen,
 
 30 Siltwlm loll. 
 
 *r 
 
 3 fibenen it ere, t>on bent fringe fvannte. 
 Tumvf briilltcn ftc, ale- battaj, ne Oiefubl 
 er Ungebiibr, unb ftiefjen mit ben ^orncrn ; 
 Ta ubernabm micb bcr ^crccbtc 3 prn / 
 Unb, mctncr fclbit_nid>t j^err, icblu^ icfr ben 
 
 
 
 D faum bcjirincjcn trtr ba* cic\nc 
 
 fpH bic rafcbc ^su^cnb ficb be;abmcn ! 
 
 485 3Kicb jammcrt mtr" bcr ^atcr. ' (Jr bcbarf 
 SP febr bcr ^^flege, unb fcm 3pbn ift fern. 
 Xcr 3>pgt ift ibm gebafftg, ircil cr ftct-5 ..^ 
 
 /viir -"Hecbt unb /vrcibcit rcblicb bat gcftritten. , X^ 
 Xrum irerben ftc ben alien S 3)iann bebriingen, "^ 
 
 490 Unb niemanb ift, ber ibn i>pr llnglim^f 
 
 mit mir, tra? Imff, tcb muB biniiber. 
 
 ^-urft 
 
 Grtpartet nur unb fafet eutb in Giebulb, 
 35t "Diacbricbt uns boruberfpmmt t)pm 
 5* ^ rc Hojjfcn, gebt. 9>ictteicbt cin 
 495 2?om anbt?ogt. ebt binein. %fyr feib in Uri 
 ftcber bcr be Sanbenbcrgers 2rnn, 
 bie ihrannen rei(ben ftcb bic uinbe. 
 
 3ic lebren une, h?al ltir tbun fottten. 
 
 Jyfirft 
 
 ebt. 
 3* ruf eucfy luieber, tyenn's bier ftcber ift. 
 
 SRelAthal gctit Iiineiit. 
 
 sc 'Jjer Ungliicffelige ! icb barf ibm nicbt
 
 grfter TSufjug. SHierte ejene. 31 
 
 (Skfteben, teas ntir 33Mes ffinmnt. 32-er ffopft? 
 3o oft bie Jbure raufd;t, ertoart' id; Ungliuf. 
 2*errat unb Strcjtoofen Iaufd;t in allctt den; 
 Sis in bas ^nnerfte ^ei >aitfer bringen 
 505 Xie 23oten ber etooll; balb tbat' es 
 
 3Str fatten Settle^ unb Stiegel an ben Xfciiren. 
 
 (h offnet uni) tritt erfiaunl jurud, baSSerner Slaiiffa*et 
 Ijereintrttt. 
 
 Sas fcb' id;? ^r, ^err Werner! 3lun, bet rtt! 
 Gin n?erter, tetirer @aft ; fein Secret SKcrnn 
 .^ft iiber biefe 2d>toeHe nod; gegangen. 
 510 3cit bod; nnflfemmen unter mcinem Xad;. 
 
 2Sas fitbrt eud; ber? 2Ba5 fud;t iin: Her in Uri? 
 
 ClttUTTOtfacr, ifjm Me ^>anb reid)enb. 
 
 Xie alien $attn unb bie alle Sdttoeij. 
 
 bring! tb,r mit eud;. Sieb, mir toirb fo toobl! 
 23-arm geb ; t ba ^r s mir auf bei eurent 3tnblid. 
 
 515 3et eud;, ^err Serner^^SSie rerlie^et i^r 
 ?^rau errrub, eure angenepnie SLUrtin, 
 Xee treifen ^bergs bocbberftdnb'ge Xocbter? 
 2?on aEen SBanbrern au bem beulfd;en anb, 
 Xie iibcr 2Reinrab 3 e ^ nac ^ 23elfd;lanb fab/ren, 
 
 520 SRiibmt jeber euer gaftltd; >aus. Xod;, fagt, 
 Rommt it)r foeben frifd; t>on ^liiclen ber? 
 Unb fyabt eud; nirgenbs fonfi nod; umgefebn, 
 Gb^' ibr ben 5"f> gefe^i auf biefe 3djn>eIIc ? 
 
 rtonfratber, ient ^. 
 
 2BobI dn eritaunli6 neues Serf bab 1 id; 
 525 Sereiten fet>en, bas mid; nicbt erfreute.
 
 32 SBtlljelm Sell. 
 
 prft 
 D $reunb, ba fyabt ifyr's gleicfy mit einem Slide! 
 
 otauffadjcr 
 rfr (Sin folcfyeS ift in Uri nie getuefen; 
 
 <5eit s lRenfd)enbenfen toar Icin SDoingfyof fyier, 
 Unb ejt toar feine 2Bo^nung, al ba rab. 
 
 530 in rab ber 5 re ^^ ift'3; ii>r nennt'l mit 
 
 erne mitfs'ge 9?iiajer fiifyrt mid) fyer; 
 briiden fdjtoere (Sorgen. 2)rangfal fyab' 
 3u >au berlaffen, Srangfal finb' id) fn'er. 
 i ganj unleiblid; ift', toa loir erbulben, 
 bice|_^ranfle^tft fein 3'^ W f^n. 
 
 ^rei tear ber c^toeijcr toon uralterS b,er; y^. 
 
 9Bir finb'S geiwofmt, ba^ man un|f*giit begegnet. 
 Gin folcb,e tear im Sanbe nie erlebt, 
 540 olang ein irte trieb auf biefen 33ergen. 
 
 s .Baltl)er ^itrft 
 
 ^a, e ift ofyne Seif^iel, h)ie fie'l treiben. 
 2(ud) unfer ebler err bon Stttingfyaufen, 
 2)er nod) bie alten 3 e 'ten ^t gefe^n, 
 3Keint felber, e fei nid)t mef>r ju ertragen. 
 
 Stnuffnrt)cr 
 
 545 Stud) briiben unterm 2BaIb ge|jt @d;lt>ere 
 
 Unb bhttig Jotrb'^ gebii^t. 3)er SBoIfenfd^ie^en, 
 $)e 5laifer 3Sogt, ber auf bent JKofcberg ^auftc, 
 ,eliiften trug er nad) nerbotncr ^rud)t:
 
 Grftev Shtfjug. 35ierte @$ene. 33 
 
 23aumgarten3 2Seib, ber tyaustyalt 311 Stljetten, "t* 
 550 9BoUt' er 311 frectyer Ungebiifyr mifjbrauctyen, o* 4 ^ 
 Unb mit ber 2(r.t tyat ifyn ber 9)iann erfd^Iagen. 
 
 ( D bie Gkricfyte otteS finb gerectytl) 
 Saumgarten, fagt ifyr? ein befd^eibjjer 9)iann; 
 Gr ift gerettet booty unb tootyl gejbora,en? 
 
 ^V^ 8touffa^cr 
 
 555 (Slier Gibam tyat ityn iibern <2ee gcfliictytet; 
 53ei mir 311 teinen tyalt' icty ityn berborgen. 
 s )Zooty Oreulictyer^ tyat mir berfelbe -JRann 
 Scrid^tet, h)a 311 arnen ift gefctyetyn; 
 2)a erj mii^ jebem Siebermanne bluten. 
 
 t, aufinerffam, 
 
 560 (Sagt an, twa^ ift's? 
 
 Stauffadjcr 
 
 ^m 9Jle Ictytty a I, ba ft>o man 
 intritt bei $ern, tvotynt ein gerectyter ^ann, 
 <5ie nennen ityn ben ^einricty bon ber alb en, 
 
 Ilnb feine Stimm' gilt ioa in ber. emeinbe. 
 
 C*A..^rv4l<- 
 2Boltl)cr gurft 
 
 2Ber fennt ityn nictyt? 2Ba ift '3 mit ib,m? SSottenbet. 
 
 3touffad)cr 
 565 2)er 2anbenberger bu|te feinen (Sofyn 
 
 !Iejnen_J|cl^r4 > toiffen ; Uefi bie Dctyfen, 
 
 bem ^Bfluge f^annen; 
 3)a fctylug ber ^nab' ben $nerf)t unb tourbe flii(f>tig. 
 
 v fi>olt^cr 3' r ftf l Pf^fter Spannung, 
 
 2)er 3Sater aber, fagt, iuie ftetyt'^ um ben?
 
 34 
 
 touffadjer 
 
 570 2)en $ater lajjt ber Sanbcnberger fobern: 
 3ur telle fcfyaffen fott er ifym ben <5o!)n; 
 Unb ba ber alte Sftann mit SSafyrfyett fcfytoort, 
 
 toon bem ^Wd^ling ^ine $unbe, 
 2)a la^t ber SSogt bie ^olterfned;te lommen - 
 SBaltyer prft, 
 
 fpringt nuf uitb lull! tljn auf tie nnbere Seitc fii^ven, 
 
 575 D ftitt! nt(^t me^r! 
 
 Stnitffnrf)Cr, ntit ftcigenbcm Xon, 
 
 ,,^\t mtr ber <So^>n entgangen, 
 <So I;ab' ic^> birf>;" lafst i(;n ju Soben toerfen, 
 2)en fpi^'gen ta^l if^rn in bie 2lugen 6of;ren. 
 
 SSJnltljcr ftiirft 
 
 Sarm^erj'ger immel ! 
 
 9)iel(^t^ol, ftitrjt ^erau, 
 
 ^511 bie Stugen, fagt ifyr? 
 
 tllffarf)Cr f crftauut ju SSnltfjer ^iirft, 
 
 2Ber ift ber Bungling? 
 
 f fnfet i^it mit frampffjafter ^eftigfcit, 
 
 ^n bie 2lugen? 9tebet. 
 
 580 D ber SBcjammerneftmrbige ! 
 
 2Ber ift '8? 
 
 a 58}nltf)ei' JJiirft ifjtu ein yeicfjen giebt, 
 
 n ift '8? 2iagere^ter ott! 
 
 Unb id) 
 feme fein ! $n feine beibcn Stugen ?
 
 (grfter Slufjng. ^terte @jene. 35 
 
 eud;. Grtragt e3, tote ein -Btann. 
 
 e^ 9Reld|tyaf .^ 
 
 llm metnejjSdnilb, urn meineJ5retoel Bitten! 
 585 SBlinb alfo! SBirflid; blinb unb ganj geblenbet? 
 
 @touffod)cr 
 
 3d; fagt'S. 2)er dueff be @e^'n ift au^gefloffen ; 
 2)a 2td;t ber onne fdmut er niemal toieber. 
 
 SSaltljer 
 <Sd;ont jeineS ^merjen^. 
 
 mentals tmeber! 
 
 Gr briirft bie ,mnb for bie 2(ugen unb fdjicetgt einige SJfomente ; bann loenbet er firfj 
 Don bem eiiten ju bem nnbern unb fpricfjt nut fonfter, Donfiranen erfticfter timnte, 
 
 D, eine eble >immelgabe ift 
 590 2)a3 Sid;t be 2(uge. (Sltte SBejcn leben 
 3Som 2id;te, jebeS gliidlid;e efd;o^f;^ 
 2)ie ^flange felbft fe^rt freubig fid; gum 2id;te, 
 Unb er muji fitjen, fii^lenb in ber ^aa^t, 
 ^m etrig ^inftern; i^n erquidt nid;t me^r 
 595 2)er fatten ttmrme run, ber Slumen 
 2)ie roten $irnen fann er nid;t mefyr fd;auen. 
 terben ift nid;t, bod; leben unb nid;t f e I; e n 
 2)aS ift ein Unglwf. 2Barum fefyt i^r 
 o jammernb an? %<$ ^ab' jh)ei frifd;e 3lu^en 
 600 Unb fann bem blinben SSater femes geben, 
 
 einen dnmmer toon bem 5Dteer be 2id;t, 
 glanjtoott, blenbcnb mtr in Sluge bringt. 
 
 Stauffnrf)cr 
 
 2la)! id; mufj euren jammer nod; bergro^ern, 
 tatt ifjn 511 l;eiten. . Gr bebarf nod; me^r,
 
 36 SBiHjelm efl. 
 
 605 SDenn afle fyat ber fianbfcogt ifyny geraubt ; 
 9tid;t fyat er ifym gelaffen al3'ben <5tab, 
 Urn narft unb blinb toon Sfyiir ju l)ur ju toanbern. 
 
 al ben Stab bem augcnlofen 
 geraubt unb and:) ba3 Sid^t ber onne, 
 io^cl 3trm[ten allgemcine^ ut! ^etjt rebe 
 - jffiir feiner tnefyr Don Sleiben, toon ^erbergen. 
 fitr ein feiger (Slenber bin icf), 
 id; auf m e i n e icfyerfyeit gebad^t 
 Unb nicf>t auf bcine; bein geliebtes au))t 
 615 2(U ^Sfanb gelaffen in beg 2&utrid) anben. 
 ^eig^erj'ge ^orfid^t, fab, re fyin! 3(uf nid)t^ 
 3(l blutige ^crgeltung ioill id; benfen. 
 >inu'ber toil! idf), feiner foil mid; fyalten, 
 e^ 3Sater 2(uge toon bem 2anbbogt fobern. 
 620 2lu atten feinen 9teifigen Ijerau 
 
 SSttt ic^) if;n finben. ?Ji^t liegt mir am 
 SBenn id; ben fyeifjen, ungeb^euren c^merj 
 2>n feinem 2ebenbtute fiib^Ie. Gr mttt ge^en. 
 
 Wnltljcr ^iirft 
 
 Steibt. 
 
 2Ba3 fonnt tb,r gegen ii;n? @r ft^t ju <5arnen 
 625 2(uf feiner l;ob^en ^errenburg unb fpottet*^ 
 in feiner ficb^ern 5 e !* te - 
 9Re(d)tHaI 
 
 h)p_bjiJ er broben auf bem GiSpalaft 
 6d)redE f)orn, ober fyofyer, iuo bie ^ungfrau 
 <5eit (U)igfeit t>erfd>leiert fi^t, id; macfje 
 630 3Jiir s -Bab.n ju if>m; mit
 
 (Srfter 3tufjug. SPierte @gene. 37 
 
 efinnt tme id;, jerbred;' id; feine $efte. 
 
 Unb tuenn inir ntemanb folgt, unb uxnn ifyr atte, 
 
 $iir cure >ittten bang unb cure erben, 
 
 Gud; bem 2t;rannenjod;e beugt, bie irten 
 
 635 -EMtt id; jufammenutfen tin ebirg, 
 Sort, unterm freien ^tinmelebadie, Juo 
 er inn nod; frifd; ift unb ba3 cr gefunb, 
 \ 2)a ungef)euer raJ5lid;e erja^len.^Jx^- 
 
 < / 
 
 ' StOltffod)Cr f ju SBatter Sttrft, 
 
 @ ift auf feinem ipfel. SBotten h)ir 
 640 
 
 Sl't nod; ju fiir^ten, toenn ber tern be 2(uge 
 ^n feiner 6^Ie nid;t me^r ftd;er ift? 
 inb toir benn h)e^rlo? 2Boju lernten fair 
 2)ie Strmbruft f^annen unb bie fd;tt>ere 9Bud;t 
 645 2)er treitajt fd;lt)ingen ? f ^ebem 2Sefen toarb 
 Gin ^iotgetoeitr in ber SSerjtoeiflungSangft.) 
 @ fteat fid; ber erfd;opfte irfd; unb jeigt 
 ^er 5Reute fein gefiird;tete etoei^) ; 
 2)ie emf e reifjt ben i^ager in ben Slbgrunb ; 
 650 er ^3f(ugftier felbft, ber fanfte augeno^ 
 9Jtenfd;en, ber bie ungef)eure 5lraft 
 alfe bulbfam unter ^od; gebogen, 
 
 auf, gereijt, tue^t fein getoaltig orn 
 Unb fdjleubert feinen ^einb ben 2BoIfen ju. 
 
 655 9Benn bie brei 2anbe bad;ten ioie fair brei, 
 o molten )ir mel(cid;t ettua^ bermb'gen.
 
 38 SBityfot Sell. 
 
 3t(tuffad)cr 
 
 2Benn Uri ruft, toenn Untcritwlben fyilft, 
 djtotyjer toirb bie alien SBiinbe efyren. 
 
 roj? ift in Untertoalben meine $reunbfd;aft 
 660 Unb jeber toagt mit $reubcn Seib uub 33lut, 
 2Benn er am anbern einen ffliiden b,at 
 Unb @d>irm. -- D fromme Setter biefeg Sanbeg! 
 ;d; ftefye, nur ein Bungling, ^n>ifd;en eud;, 
 2>en Sielerfafyrnen ; meine (^xttuime mufj 
 665 53efd;eiben fd;treigen in ber anbgemeinbe. 
 5iid;t, iceil id; jung bin unb nid;t m'el erlebte, 
 3Serad;tet meinen 9^at unb meine 9?ebe ; 
 liiftern jugenblid)e 33lut, mid; treibt 
 f>od;ften ^ammerg fd;merIid;e eiualt, 
 670 2Sag aud; ben Stein be 5 e ^" en mu & erbarmen. 
 ^^r felbft feib 3Sater x .Jptiupter eine aufeg, 
 Unb toiinfd;t eud; einen tugenb^aften <Sob,n, 
 2)er eure aupte beil'ge Soden ebre, 
 
 -~~ 
 
 Unb eud; ben tern bes 2luge fromm beiuad;e ; 
 675 D, toeil il>r felbft an eitrem Seib unb ut 
 ^od; nid;t erlitten, eure Slugen fid; 
 9fiod; frifd; unb fyett in i^ren ^reifen regen, 
 <So fet eud; barum unfre 9?ot nid;t fremb. 
 2(ud; uber eud; fycingt bag ^rannenfd;iert ; 
 680 ^fyr b,abt bag Sanb toon Dftreid; abgeioenbet; 
 anbereg twar meineg 33aterg Unred;t? 
 feib in gleid;cr 9Jiitfd;ulb unb 3Serbammnig. 
 
 53efd;lie^et 1 1; r ; id; bin bereit, ju f olgen.
 
 (Srfter Slufjug. Sterte <S$ene. 39 
 
 k&" 
 
 2Bir tooffen fyoren, h>a3 bie ebeln errn j 
 685 Bou Stttinen, toon Slttingfyaufen raten. 
 
 9?ame, ben!' id), toirb un $reunbe tuerben.J 
 
 ' 
 
 2Bo ift ein 9?ame in bem 2Balbge6irg' 
 ^rJoitrbiger, al eurer unb ber cure? 
 2(n folcf^er 9?amen ec^te 9Bd^rung glanbt 
 
 690 2)a 3SoIf, fie fyaben guten ^lang im 2anbe. 
 ^fyr t>abt ein reid^e @vb' toon SSdtertugenb 
 Unb tjabt e felber reirf) tocrme^rt. 28a 
 --2)e @belmann? Sa^t'^ un attein tooffenben. 
 2Bdren U)ir bo<f> attein im 2anb ! $cfy tneine, 
 
 695 2Bir h)ollten un>3 fcf)on felbft 511 f Airmen tmjfen. 
 
 2)tc 6beln brangt ni(ft gleid)e s }iot mit un; 
 2>er trom, ber in ben s Jliebentngen tpiitet, 
 33i je^t ^at er bie ^ofyn norf> nicf)t erreicf)t. 
 5)orf) if>re ilfe toirb un nidfyt ent[teb,n, 
 700 9Senn fie ba Sanb in 9Saffen erft erblicfen. 
 
 SSaltljcr prft 
 
 
 
 i 9Bdre ein Dbmann jiuifd^en un unb Dftreid^, 
 <So mod^te Stecfyt entfdfjeiben unb efe^; 
 2)odf> ber un unterbriidft, ift unfer $aifer 
 Unb \j od^fter 9tic^ter ; f o mufs (Sott un fyelfen 
 705 2)urc^ unfern 2lrm. Srforfcfyet i^r bie banner 
 3Son rfnotyj, icb x h)iff in Uri ^reunbe luerben. 
 2Sen aber fenben tmr nadf) Unteriualben ? 
 
 fenbet b,in. iSem lag' e na^er an?
 
 40 2Biiefot XeU. 
 
 ftiirft 
 
 >d) geb'3 nidit ju; ifyr feib mein OJaft, id; mufc 
 710 $iir eure (Sidjerfyeit geiuafyren. 
 
 Safjt mid;; 
 
 25ie Sd;lid;e fenn' id; unb bie ^clfenftetge; 
 2(ud; ^reunbe finb' id; gnug, bie mid; bem $einb 
 unb etn Dbbad; gern geiDd^ren. 
 
 tauffudjcr 
 
 mil ott fytniibergelm. 2)ort briiben 
 715 ^ft fein 2krrtiter. @o berabfd;eut ift 
 
 ;Die ^rannci, ba^ fie fein SBerfjeug finbet. ' 
 SluA ber ^Uetter fott un nib bem 2i$alb 
 
 Jt^ ^^ "^v --^"^ 
 
 \JbrBenoffei>\ iwerben unb bas Sanbi erregen. 
 
 9Bie bringen inir un fid;re ^unbe ju, 
 720 a^ Unr ben 2(rgiuo^n ber ^rannen taufd;en? 
 
 @touffad)cr 
 
 2Bir fonnten un 311 33runnen ober Xreib 
 SSerfammeln, too bie ftaufmatm$f<$tffe lanben. 
 
 (So offen biirfen iuir ba 2Berl nidit treiben. 
 ort mcine 9Keinung. 2inf am (See, toenn man 
 725 9Jad> Srunnen fa'fyrt, bem 5R^tf>en[tein grab' iiber, 
 Siegt eine 9)iatte ^eimlid; im G5ebiU; 
 2)a 3liitli f>eifjt [ie bet bem $olf ber 
 Kkil bort bie 5R>albung au^gereutet toarb. 
 ort tft'S, too unfre Sanbmarf unb bie eure, 
 
 730 3 u f ammcn g r ^ n 3 en / lm ^ m furjer 5 al ^ rt / iu tauffacf)er,
 
 Srftev ^ufjitg. 3?ierte @jene. 41 
 
 Srtigt eudj) ber leicfyte afm toon cfytotyj fyeruber. 
 
 3(uf oben ^faben fiwnen tmr bafyin 
 
 33ei -ftad^ett Uwnbern unb un ftitt beraten. 
 
 Xiafyin mag jeber jef>n bcrtraute banner 
 735 ^iitbringen, bie ^erjetntg ftnb mit un; 
 
 <2o fonnen twtr gemetnfam" ba emeine 
 
 Sefyrecfyen unb mit ott e frtfrf) befc^Iie^en. 
 Stnufforfjer 
 
 (So fei'^. $e^t retd;t mir cure btebre 9kcf)te; 
 
 Sietcfit ibr bie cure fyer, unb fo, h)ie tnir 
 740 2) v e i banner je^o unter un3 bie ^d 
 
 ^ufammenftecbten, reblicb, ofyne ^alfc^, 
 
 @o ttollen loir brei Stinber aurf) ju 
 
 Unb rutj jufammen ftet>n auf Xob unb Seben. 
 
 SBfllt^cr 5-itrft unb 9Keld)tf)af 
 STuf ^Tob unb 2eben! 
 
 Ste ^alteit bie ^anbe ttocfj etnt<3e ^JJaufen fang jniammengeflod|ten unb fdjtoeigen. 
 
 Silinber, alter $ater! 
 
 745 2)u f annft ben Stag ber greifyeit nic^t me^r f d^ a u e n ; 
 )u fotlft \fy\ f) 5 r e n. 2Benn toon 2(1^ ju 2llp 
 S)ie ^euerjeirfien flammenb firf> er^eben, 
 $)ie feften (Sc^Ioffer ber St^rannen fatten, 
 ^n beine iitte fott ber djtuwjer fatten, 
 
 750 3 U beinem Df>r bie ^reubenfunbe tragen, 
 Unb fyeff in beiner ^Zac^t foff e bir tagen. 
 
 @te gefien aueiuaitber.
 
 u> e 1 1 e r 21 u f 3 u g. 
 
 <rfte 
 
 (Sin gotifrfjer Saa(, mil SBofpenicfjttbern unb .Jpclmcn toerjtert. 3>cr f^rcU 
 fyerr, eiti @vet toon tunfunbad)tstg Safyren, toon Ijoljer ebler Statur, an 
 dnem Stabe, tuorauf eta emjcnljotn, unb tit ein 5pe(3tiiam gcftctbet. 
 $ u o n i unb nod) fed)$nerf)te ftel)en urn tfjn Ijcr mil Medjen unb enfen. 
 Ulrirf) toonSJubcnj tritt ein in 9Utterf(ctbung. 
 
 Oiubcn;, 
 
 iucn;, 
 
 ter bin id;, Dfyeim. 2Ba ift euer SBitte? 
 9tttiitfll)aHfc 
 
 rlaubt, ba^ i<^> nacfy altem 
 
 'JJen 5 r "^runf erft mit meinen ^ned^ten teile. 
 
 (Sr trinft nuS etnem 23ec^ev, bet bann in bev SRetfje ljerumgef)t. 
 
 755 @onft Juar id) felber mit in gelb unb 28alb, 
 5Rit meinem 2(uge i^ren $leifj regterenb, 
 2Bie fie tnein banner fitf)rte in ber @d)Iad)t; *?* 
 ^e^t fann id) nid)t mefyr, aU ben d)affner mad)en x 
 Unb fommt bie trarme onne nid)t ju mir, 
 
 760 ^d) fann fie nid)t me^r fudien auf ben ^Bergen. 
 Unb fo, in enger ftet unb engevm ^rei, 
 33eh)eg' id) mid) bem engeften unb le^ten, 
 SSo atte geben ftittfte^t, langfam gu. 
 ?!Jiein <Sd)atte bin id) nur, balb nur rnein DZame. 
 
 ^U0nt f ju SRubenj mit bent Scd.ier, 
 
 765 3d) brings eud) y ^unfer; 
 
 2)a Dhtbenj jaubert, ben beefier 511 nefimen, 
 
 3Trinfet frifd). 6S 
 etnem 33ed)er unb au e i n e m erjen. 
 
 4-J
 
 3n>eitei- SUtfjiig. Grfte jeiie. 43 
 
 fyt, $inber, unb ttenn' geierabenb ift, 
 2)ann reben fair aucfy toon be3 Sanbg Gkfd;aften. 
 
 $necf)te gefjen ab. 
 %ttingf)aufen unb Dtubenj. 
 
 ^d; fefye bidi gegiirtet unb geriiftet; 
 770 u Juidft nad; Slltorf in bie errenburg? 
 
 a, D^eim, unb id; barf nidit (anger fqumen. 
 
 u' fo eitig? 2Bie ! ^ft beiner 3 u 9 en ^ i n.^ 
 Die 3eit fo farg gemeffen, ba^ bu fie 
 3ln beinem alien Dfyeim mu^t erf^aren ? ' 
 
 IK ub en^ 
 
 775 34> f e ^ e / ^ a l i^ r ineiner nid)t bebiirft; 
 ^d; bin ein $rembling nur in biefem aufe. 
 
 l, fiat i^n lange mit ben 9(ugett gemuftert, 
 
 $a leiber bift bu'g. Seiber ift bie eimat 
 3ur ^rembe bir geh)orben. Uli! llli! 
 ^d; fenne bid; nid)t me^r. ^n <3eibe ^rangft bu, 
 780 ^)ie ^fauenfeber trdgft bu ftolj jur Sdmu, 
 
 Unb fdilcigft ben ^ur^urmantel urn bie <Sd;uItern ; 
 S)en Sanbmann blidft bu mit 2>eradjtung an, 
 Unb fd)dmft bid; feiner traulid;en Segrii^ung. > 
 
 !)iiibeit3 
 
 3)ie fyr', bie if) m ^gebii^rt, geb' id; ifym gem; 
 785 ^)a ^Redjt, ba er fid; nimmt, bertveigr' id; it>m. 
 
 '-M
 
 44 SMlljelni XeO. 
 
 ganje Sanb Uegt unterm fcfytoeren 3orn 
 $onig3; jebel 33iebermannel erj 
 $ft fummertooH 06 ber ttyrannifdjen etoalt, 
 SDte iuir erbulben; bid) affetn riifyrt nicfyt 
 790 25er aftgemeine @d;merj ; bid; fiefyet man, 
 .^^- Stbtrunntg toon ben SDeinen, auf bev 3 cite 
 
 $e 2anbefeinbe ftef;en, unfrer 9?ot 
 w> $o^nfj!<^ettb, nac^ ber leic^ten $reube jagen, 
 
 Unb bujilen urn bie ^iirj'tengunft, inbeg 
 795 ^ein Saterlanb toon fcf>irerer eifjel blutet. 
 
 2anb ift fdbtoer bebrangt. 2Barum, ntein Df^eim? 
 . 2Ber ift'g, ber e^ gefturjt in biefe s )Jot? 
 @^ foftete ein einjig Ieid;te 2Bort, 
 Urn augenblic! be granges log ju fein 
 800 Unb einen gna'b'gen ^aifer ju geluinncn. 
 2Bef> ifynen, bie bem 3SoIf bie 2(ugen I;alten, 
 2)a^ e bem toafyren SBeften toiber[trebt. 
 Urn eignen 3SorteiI ivillen ^inbern fie, 
 2)a^ bie ^Jalbftattc nicf)t ju Dftreid; fd;n)oren, 
 805 2Bie ring^um atte Sanbe bocfy getf)an. 
 3Bo(?l tbut el ifynen, auf ber .^errenbanf 
 3u fitjen mit bem belmann ; ben 51 a i f e r 
 JBitt man jum errn, um fcinen errn jn Baben. 
 9(ttiitfll)aufctt 
 unb au<3 beinem 9Jlunbc? 
 
 810 !^br babt mic^ ' aufgefobert ; lafct mid; enben. 
 3BeIc^e ^erfon.ift% Db.eim, bie i^r felbft 
 >ier ftoielt? abt ib,r nicBt fyofyern Stolj, all ijier
 
 3n>eUer 2luf;ng. (Srfte @$ene. 45 
 
 Sanbatnmoitn ober SBannerfyerr, ju fein, 
 Unb neben biefen irten 511 regieren? 
 815 3Bie ! 3ft '3 nicfyt eine riU;mlid;ere SBafyl, 
 3u fyulbigen bem fimigUdu'n ^errn, 
 Sid; an fcin gliinjenb Sager anjnfdiliefjen, 
 2113 eurer eignen ^ncrf)te ^Sair ju fein, 
 llnb ju ertcfyt ju ft^en nut beiu 33auer? 
 
 820 21^, UH ! UU ! 3d; erfenne fie, 
 
 SDie ttmme ber SSerfiil^ruiig ; fie ergriff 
 
 offne^ D^r r fie fyat bein erj Uergiftet. 
 
 id; berberg' e nidftt ; in ttefev eele 
 
 tnirf) ber 6))ott ber ^rembltnge, bie 
 825 2)en Saurenabel fd^ejten. 9iid;t ertrag' id;'^, 
 3nbe bie eble 3 U 9/^ ting umfyer 
 id) Ghre fammclt untcr >abburg jyaf>nen, 
 2tuf meinem @rb' fyier miifeig ftiff ju Hegen^ 
 Unb bei gemeinem 2;ageierl ben Sen,; 
 830 $)e 2eben ju berlieren. StnberStoo - 
 ; feme 3BeIt beg 
 
 33eicegt fid; glartjenb jcnfeit^ biefer 33ergej) 
 
 roften in ber >afle elm unb (Sd;ilb. 
 SDer $rieg3trommete mutige^ eton, 
 835 2)er erolbs>ruf, ber jum ^urntere labet, 
 Gr bringt in biefe ^aler nid;t fierein ; 
 s }?id;t al ben SUifyretfyn unb ber erbegloden 
 GinformtgeS eldut' bernel^m' id; f>ier. 
 
 3Serbtenbeter ! bom eitcln (Mlanj bcrfii^rt, 
 840 5Beradite bein eburtIanb ! .<3d;ame bid; 
 
 '
 
 46 9Btll)e(iii Sell. 
 
 uralt frommcn Sttte beiner 3?dter! 
 fyetfjen Sfyrdnen nnrft bit bicb bereinft 
 
 eim_jebnen nad; ben bdterlicfien 33ergen, / - 
 
 Unb biefeg erbenreif)en -JJtelobie, 
 845 Die bu in ftoljem llberbrujj toerfrfmtdfyft, 
 
 tyflit <Sd:>mer^en3febnfucbt iuirb fie bid) erc3retfen, 
 
 SSenn fie bir anlltngt auf ber fremben rbe. 
 ( D, tna^tig ift ber rieb be 3SaterIanb. ^ 
 
 2)ie frembe, falf4>e SBelt ift mcflTfiir bid). 
 850 2)ort an bem ftoljen ^aiferbof bleibft bu \ 
 
 2)ir etmg fremb mit beinem treuen erjen. 
 
 Die 2BeIt, fie fobert anbre Stugenben, 
 
 2U3 bit in biefen ^^d'lern bir ertoorben. 
 
 et' ^in, berfaufe beine freie eele, 
 855 9iimm Sanb gu Se^en, iwerb' ein ^iirftenfnecfyt, 
 
 2)a bit ein (3elbftf)err fein lannft unb ein ^itrft 
 
 Sluf beinem eignen @rb' unb freien 33oben. 
 
 Strf), Uli ! Uli ! Sleibe bei ben einen. 
 
 eb,' nicf)t nad^ 2lltorf. &, berlaf^ fie jiicfet.^ 
 860 g)te J^eiPge @ad^e beineg SSatcrlajibg. 
 
 ^c^ bin ber efce metn.cS <3tamm; mein 
 
 Gnbet mit mir. 25a Ejdngen elm unb <Scj)ilb; 
 ^)ie iverben fie mir in ba rab mitgeben. /j|T 
 Unb mu^ id^ benten bet bem le^tent .^audi, 
 
 865 SDaji bu mein brec^tenb 2luge nur erlwarteft, 
 Um (jinjugeb^n toor biefen neuen 2eb,enl)of 
 Unb meine ebeln liter, bie \<fy frei 
 2?on ott em^fing, toon Dftreid) ju em^fangen? 
 
 JHubcnj 
 3Sergebeng Unberftrebcn Jutr bem ^onig ; 
 
 870 Die s li>elt geb, art i^m ; JuoIIen Unr allein
 
 3tt>eiter ^lufjitg. 
 
 ^ 
 
 UnS eigenftnnig ftctfen unb toerftodfen, wt.'Y 
 
 >ie Sdnberfette \ijrn u unterbredfjen,^***" 
 ie er getoaltig rings urn un gejogen? J^ 
 e i n finb bie 2)idrfte, bie erid;te, f e i n 
 875 2)te ^aufmannsftra^en, unb baj^Saumrofj felbft, 
 auf bem ottfyarb gie^e^mul il;m gotten, 
 feinen Sdnbern Joie mit einem 9?e^ 
 @inb tttr umgarnet ring unb etngefcfyloffen. 
 2Birb un ba 9teid) befdjiiljen? ^ann e felbft 
 880 id; fdn'ttjen gegen Dftreid; n)adf)fenbe etoalt ? 
 ilft ott un nidjt, !ein ^aifer fann u 
 l3a ift ju geben auf ber $aifer 2Bort, 
 3Senn fie in elb= unb ^riege^not bie tdbte, , 
 ie untern (2d;irm be 2(bler fid) geftiid;tet, 
 885 3krpfcinben biirfen unb bem 3teid; berciujjern? 
 
 D^eim ; 3So^It^at ift' unb hxife 3Sorfid;t, 
 biefen fd&iDeren geiten ber\^arteiung, UX^ 
 
 an ein mdd;tig aubt. 
 ^ie ^ifer!rone ge^t toon (Stamm ju <5tamm ; 
 890 $) ie ^t fitr treue 2)ienfte fein ebdd;tm. ' it/ 
 
 urn ben mddfyt'gen rb^errn tuo^l berbienen, l 
 eifjt (Saaten in bie ^w^ttft ftreun. 
 
 bu fo n>eife? 
 
 Better fe^n, al beine ebeln Setter, ' 
 2)ie urn ber ^rei^eit foftbarn dbelftein 
 895 9Rit ut unb Slut unb clbcnfraft geftritten? 
 <Sd;iff' nad; Sujern ^tnunter, frage bort, 
 9Bie Dftreid> ^>errfd;aft)laftet auf ben Sdnbern. ' 
 <Sie toerben lommen, unfre c^af'unb 9tinber 
 3u jd^Ien, unfte Stl^en abjumeffen,
 
 48 25>ilf)dm 
 
 900 3)en od>flug unb bas >i>d;gen)Ube bannen 
 3n unferu fveicn SBdlbern, ifyven (5d;lagbaum 
 2(n unfre 33ritden, unfrc fyore fetjen, 
 Sftit unfrcr 2(rmut if;ve Sdnbcrfdufe, |^ 
 9Wit unferm 33Iutc tyre tege ga^Ien. J^r 
 
 905 Sictu, toenn toir unfcr 23htt bran fe^en fotten, 
 
 ((So fet'3 fiir unl; ioo^Ifeilcr faufen totr 
 2)ic grci^ctt aU bie ^nec^tfrf)aft ein. 
 
 iMuticnj 
 
 2Ba fonnen toir, 
 (Sin 33ol! ber nrtcn, gegen 2llbrcdE)t 
 
 2ern' biefe 33olf ber ^ivtcn fennen, 
 910 ^cf) fcnn% id; l;ab' eg angefii^rt in <5d)Iad;ten ; 
 !^<i) ^ab' e fed;ten fefyen bet ^abenj. 
 
 fatten fommen, uns ein ^od; aufgioingen, 
 
 h)ir entfd)Ioffen finb n t d) t ju ertragen ! 
 D, lerne fii^Ien, tt)eld)e Stamm3 bu bift. V 
 3Birf md;t fiir eiteln lanj unb ^litterfd;ein 
 
 ed)te ^erle beinc^ 2Berte t)in. 
 
 aupt ju i)ei^en eine freien 
 
 bir au Siebe nur fid; fyerjlid; 
 
 treulid) ju bir ftet)t in $ampf unb 
 920 a fei bein @tol, be Slbelg riifyme bid;. 
 2)ie angebornen S3anbe fnitbfe feft; 
 
 (2tn 3?aterlanb, an tenre, fd;Iie^' bid; an, 
 a fyalte feft mil bcincm ganjen >erjen. 
 ^."pier finb bie ftar!en SSurjeln beincr ^raft ; J 
 925 >ort in ber fremben SBelt ftei)ft bu attein, 
 @in fd;U)anfe "Sio^v, ba jeber turm jerfnirft. 
 D lomm', - - bu I;aft un lang nid;t me(;r gefe^n, -
 
 Grfte @$ene. 49 
 
 2>erfud)'s> mit un< nur cinen Stag; nur fyeute 
 eb/ nidit nad; 2lltorf, -- b,6r[t bu? fyeute nid)t; 
 930 2)en etnen^ag nur fdjenfe bidf) ben 3)einen. 
 
 Gr fapt jciite ^>anb. 
 
 
 %d) gab metn 28ort. Sa^t mid) ; tcfy bin gebunben. 
 
 2(ttingfj(IHfcn, liipt fcine ^anb Io, mit ernft, 
 
 2)u bi(t gebunben ; ja, Ungliidlid^er, 
 
 2)u bt[t', bod) nicfyt burcf) 9Sort unb <Sd)tour;- 
 
 ebunben bift bu buvd^) ber Siebe eile. 
 
 SRubeitj rocnbet fid) loeg. 
 
 935 SSerbirg bid;, tote bu toitlft. a ^yrciulein ift'S, 
 33ertl;a toon Pruned, bie jur ^errenburg 
 
 gic^t, bic^ feffelt an be ^ai[er 2)ienft. 
 
 9iitterfrciulein tmllft bu bir ertoerben 
 
 beinem 3lbfatt toon bem Sanb. Setriig' bid) nid)t. 
 940 SDid) anjuloden, jetgt man bir bie 33raut; * 
 
 beiner Unfd)ulb i[t jie nid;t befdjieben. ^r 
 
 Qenug t)ab' id) ge^ort. el)abt eud^ h)oi)l. 
 
 ffialmfinn'ger Bungling! bleib'. -- (Sr get)t bafyin ; 
 
 %<fy lann ib,n nid;t er^alten, nid)t erretten. 
 945 <So ift ber 9Bolfenfdf)ie^en abgefatten 
 
 33on jeinem Sanb ; fo toerben anbre folgen. 
 
 2)er frembe 3 au & er rei^t bie 3 u 9 en ^ f rt / 
 
 etoaltfam ftrebenb iiber unfre Serge. 
 
 D ungludfel'ge Stunbe, ba ba^ frembe 
 950 ^n biefe ftitt beglitdten ^F)aler fam, 
 
 itten fromme Unfcfyulb ju jerftoren.
 
 50 2BUl)elm XeU. 
 
 DZeue bringt fyerein mit 9Racftt; ba 2Ute, 
 >a2Burb'ge fd;eibet; aubre geiten fommen, 
 3 lebt ein anberS benfenbeS efd>led;t. 
 955 2Ba3 tfyu' id) fyter? <ie fiub begraben atte, 
 Wiii benen id) gcloaltet unb gelebt. 
 Unter ber 6rbe fd?on Ucgt mcine 3^5 
 
 bem, ber mtt ber neucn nicfyt mefyr brand;! ju leben! 
 
 (Sine SBiefe on l)of)en geljen unb 9BaIb umgeben. 
 
 uf ben fjelten pnb tci fl c mit ^clanbern, aurf) ^eitern, Don benen man 
 narf)f)er 6ie eaubleute Ijerabftciocn fictjt. om ^inlctfliunbe jeiat fid) ber See, 
 fiber roelc^cm anjangS ein OKonbreacnboflen ju fetjcn ifl. ^cn ^rofpettirfjlieBen 
 Ijolje 3?erae, fytnter inelcljen ncd) l)6f)ere 6i0cbiroe ragen. ^ ift uodig 
 auf ber Sjene; nur ber See nnb bie weipen W(et|rf)cr Icucfoten 
 3JI e t d 1 1) a I , Sautnflarteu, SSinfctrieb, 9K e i e r o n Sarnen, 
 58 u r f f) a r b t a in SB ii t) c ( , %rnotbtoon S e m a , R ( a u o n ber 
 unb nod) toter anbere iJanbleute, alle beroaffnet. 
 
 s JOtdd)tl)aI, noc^ Ijintev ber jene, 
 
 Serglueg offnet fid}; nur frifd) mir nad). 
 960 3)en gel erfenn' id) unb ba ^reujlein brauf; 
 2Bir finb am 3iel, ^ier ift ba 9lutU. 
 
 Zreten nuf mit ?inbltrf)tern. 
 
 @eno 
 
 am leer. 
 
 ffllcier 
 
 ' i(t nod; fein Sanbmann ba. 2Str finb 
 2)ie crften auf bem <pla$, toir Untcricalbncr. 

 
 51 
 
 2Bie toeit ift'3 in ber 9iarf)t? 
 SBaumgartcn 
 
 fflkicr 
 
 Still! ordj! 
 
 
 965 2$om eli^berg fyat eben jtoei gerufen. 
 
 Y^ 
 
 2)a3 SRettenglodflein in ber 2BalbfapeHe 
 $lingt l;ell fyeriiber au bem Scfylotyjerlanb. 
 
 $ou ber ffliit 
 2)ie 2uft ift rein unb trdgt ben <5d;alt fo h)eit. 
 
 l'Jcltl)tt|al 
 
 efyn einige unb jiinben Sleis^olj an, 
 970 . 35afj e lob, brenne, ioenn bie 3JJdnner fommen. 
 
 3iuei Sonbteute ge^en. 
 
 '^ ift eine fcfyone 3Jionbennad^t. 25er See 
 iegt ru^ig ba, al twe ein ebner Spiegel. 
 
 Sie l>aben eine leirf>te 
 
 ), jetgt nn^ bent ee, 
 
 a! fe^t; 
 bortfyin. 
 
 benn ? 
 975 Gin ^egenbogen mitten in ber 
 
 ift ba Sic^t be ^Jionbe^, bag ib,n bilbet.
 
 52 SBityelm 
 
 Won iier Aim- 
 
 ift ein feltfam tmmberbare<l ^eicfyen. 
 leben mele, bie ba nicfyt gefefyn. 
 
 @r ift boppelt ; fefyt, ein blaffercr fte^t briiber. 
 
 ^numnarten 
 980 @in ^iacb/en fcif^rt foeben brunter loeg. 
 
 ift ber taitffacfyer mtt feinem 
 2)er Siebermanu Idpt fief) nicf)t lang eiluarten. 
 
 e^t mtt SBaumgarten nnrf) bem lifer. 
 
 SDie timer finb e^, bie am langften fdumen. 
 
 <Sie miiffen iueit umget;en bur<f) ebtrg, 
 985 3)af$ fie be Sanbbogtl ^unbfcfyaft t)interge^en. 
 
 Uutevbeffen ^obeit bie jttiei Snnbleute tit ber SDhtte be ^5(a^e^ ein 
 angesiiitbet. 
 
 9Kefrf)tI)aI, nm Ufer, 
 
 28er ift ba? ebt ba 2Bort. 
 
 r, Don unlen, 
 
 ?l(lc flc^eit narf) ber Stcfe, ben fiommenben entgegen. %u bem Raljn ftcigen 
 
 Stanffat^er, StctMebinfl, $ a n a u f ber DJJauer, 3orfltm 
 
 ofe, ^onrab $unn, lllrtrf) b e r S t^ m i b , 3oftDon2Beilcr 
 
 unb nod) brei anbere Canbleute, g(eid)fa(( bemaffnct. 
 
 3Utc rufen 
 
 3nbem bie itbrigeit in ber Xtefe Derluetfen unb fic^ beflriifien, forniut aiJefc^tOot mit 
 tauffnc^er DoriuartS.
 
 groeiter Stufjug. 3 ro i te gene. 53 
 
 D err tauffarfier, id) fyab' ifyn 
 efefyn, ber mid) nicfyt toiberfe^en fcnnte. 
 SDie >anb fyab' id) gelegt auf feme 2(ugen, 
 990 Unb gUtbcnb 9?ad)gefitf)l fyab' id) gefogen 
 2(u ber erlofcfwen onne feine 33Ucf. 
 
 Stnuffod)cr 
 precftt ntrfjt on 9tac6e. Ditc^t efrf>ebne rdcfcen, 
 
 ,, 
 
 ebrof)tem Ubel tootlen tuir begegnen. 
 ^e^t fagt, toa3 if>r im Unterh>albner Sanb 
 995 efd)afft unb fitr gemetne @acfy' getoorben ; 
 2Bie bte Sanbleute benfen ; -tote i(;r felbft 
 SDen (Striken be SSerrat^ entgangen fetb. 
 
 ber urennen furd)tbare ebirg, 
 2tuf tweit berbreitet oben ifeefelbern, 
 
 1000 SBo nur ber fyeifre Sdmmergeter frci^jt, 
 
 ^_ elangt' id^ ju ber Sllpentrift, Ivo fic^ 
 3tu Uri unb bom ngelberg bie irten 
 Slnritfenb grit^en unb gemetnfam tueiben, 
 en 3)urft mir fttUenb mit ber letfcbev Wild), 
 
 1005 SDie in ben Jtunfen fd)dumenb nteberqutttt. 
 
 ^n ben einfamen enn^ittten fe^rt' id) ein, y^ 
 SJtein eigner 2Btrt unb aft, bi ba^ icfy fam 
 3u SSo^nungen gefeffig lebenber 9Jienfc^en. 
 rfd^otten tuar in biefen X^dlern fd^on 
 
 ioio er 9tuf be neuen reuel, ber gefdiefyn, 
 
 Unb fromtne ^rfurd^t fd)affte mir mein UngliidE 
 5Bor jeber ^forte, it)o id) iuanbernb llobfte. 
 Gntriiftet fanb ic^ biefe graben eelen 
 Db bem gelDaltfam neuen Regiment ;
 
 54 SBilljelm Sell. 
 
 1015 25cnn fo tine ifyre 2Utoen fort unb fort 
 'Diefelben Jlrduter ndfyren, ifyre Srunnen 
 (vHcid;formig fliefjcn, Solfen felbft unb SBinbe 
 SDen gleid;en trid) untoanbelbar befolgen, 
 @o fyat bie alte itte fyier bom 2lfyn 
 
 1020 3um @n!el unberdnbert fort beftanben. c ^ 
 
 tragcn fie toertoegne ^eiterung 
 altgeioof)nten glcicb.cn ang be^ 2eben. 
 2)ie fyarten dnbc reid;tcn fie mir bar ; 
 2>on ben SSd'nben langtcn fie bie roft'gen <5d;toerter, 
 
 1025 Unb aii ben 9lugen blttjte freubigeS 
 
 efii^I be'S 9}tut, al id; bie s ^amen nannte, 
 2)ie int cbirg bem Sanbmann b, eilig finb, 
 2)en eurigen unb 2SaIti>er giivft^. 2Ba cud; 
 9ted;t iuiirbe bitnfen, fd;iouren fie 511 tl;un ; 
 
 1030 @ud) fc^iourcn fie bi^ in ben Xob ju folgen. 
 <3o eilt' id; fid;er untcrtn I;eil'gen cfjirm 
 2)c aftrecbt^ Don e^ofte 511 ef;ofte, 
 Unb al id) fam ins ^eimatlid;e ^(;al, 
 3Bo mir bie SBettcrn biel berbreitet loo^nen, 
 
 1035 2(l icb, ben 3Sater fanb, beraubt unb blinb, 
 3(uf frcmbem Strof;, bon ber iBarm^erjigfeit 
 r 9Renf(^en lebenb- 
 
 Stouffot^cr 
 
 >err im 
 
 2)a Iveint' id) nid)t. 3Jid;t in o(;nmdd;t'gen 
 o^ id; bie $raft be ijei^en @d;merjen au 
 1040 ^n tiefcr Sntft, twie einen tcuren 
 33erfd;lof5 id; il;n unb bad;tc nur auf 
 v \d; frod; burd; alle ilrummen be
 
 Sufjug. ^roeite ^ene. 55 
 
 timr fo berftedt, id) fpafyt' e au3; 
 33t> an ber letter etebebeften $ufj 
 1045 rtoartet' icf> unb fanb betoofmte utten, 
 tlnb iiberaff, toofyin mein $ufj mid) trug, 
 ^yanb id^ ben gleicf)en a^ ber Styrannet; 
 2)enn bi an btefe le^te renje felbft 
 Selebter (5rf;6pfung, too ber ftarre Soben 
 1050 3(uff)6rt ju geben, raubt ber $6gte etj. 
 2)te erjen atfe btefe^ biebern 2SoIf 
 rregt' id) ntit bem tacf)el metner 2Borte, 
 Unb unfer finb fie aH' mit erj unb 
 
 Stauffttrfjcr 
 i)abt tf^r in lurjer ^rift geletftet. 
 
 1055 %$ tfyat nod9 mef>r. 3)ie betben ^yeften finb', 
 
 -9to|berg unb -> a r n e n , bie ber Sanbmann f itrcfytet ; 
 2)enn ^inter ifyren ^elfentodtlen fdfirmt 
 
 ^einb fid) Ieid;t unb fdftabtget ba l^anb. 
 eignen 2(ugen iooUt' id) e erfunben ; 
 1060 :jd> ^ uar 5 U a^ttcn unb befal) bie 
 
 Stouffadjcr 
 ^^r toagtet eud) bt in be 
 
 ^d^ h>ar tterfleibet bort in 
 %d) fafy ben Sanbbogt an ber Xafel fc^tyelgen. 
 Urteilt, ob id) mein erj bcjh)ingen fann; 
 1065 ^d; fa^ ben ^einb, unb icfy erfd^Iug i^n nic^t. 
 
 r, ba liic! toar eurer ^iUjn 
 
 Unterbeffen finb bie aiibcrn Saubleute Dortnart'5 gefommen unb nafjern 
 ben 6eiben.
 
 56 SBityetm Xe. 
 
 1)odj jetjo fagt mir, H>er bie ?reitnbe finb 
 
 Unb bie gerediten banner, bie end; folgten? 
 
 9.)Zad;t mid) befannt mit ifynen, ba$ nnr un3 
 1070 3traultd; nafyen unb bie ^erjen offnen. 
 
 Wcicr 
 
 9Ber fennte end; ntd}t, err, in ben bret Sanben? 
 
 ^d> bin ber SHei'r bon arnen; bie^ fyier ift 
 
 9Ketn (Sd^twefterfo^n, ber Strutty Don 3Sin!eIrieb. 
 etnnffflrf)cr 
 
 ( M)r ncnnt mir feinen unbefanntcn 9Jamen. 
 1075 6in SSinfelrieb iuar'^ ber ben >rad;en fd)lug 
 
 ^m @um^)f bet SBeiler unb fetn Seben liefj 
 
 ^n biefem 
 
 mein tyfyn, err Sterner. 
 
 9JiC(rf)t{)Of f jetgt ouf jiuet yanMeiite, 
 
 i e too^nen fyinterm 2Salb, |inb ^lofterleute 
 Gngelberg. ^^r iterbet fie brunt nid)t 
 1080 SSeradjten, leil fie eigne Seute finb 
 
 Unb nidit, nne loir, frei fi^en auf bent Grbe. 
 @ie Iteben'< ^anb, finb fonft and; h)ot)[ berufen. 
 
 2taiitfiirt)cr, ju ben beiben, 
 
 ebt mir bie anb. f G^ preif e fid;, iuer feinem 
 Wlit feinem Setbe ^fltditig ift auf Grben ; 
 1085 $)od> 9teblid;feit gebeif^t in jebem tanbe.l 
 
 ift err Sfebing, unfer SUtlanbammann. 
 
 Weicr 
 
 fenn' iF>n Jwo^I. @r ift mein 9Biberj>art 
 urn ein alte rbftitd mit mir red;tet.
 
 57 
 
 err Siebing, nnr finb ^einbe bor ericfyt; 
 1090 ier finb Unv eintg. -dmtteit tfjm bte ant>. 
 Stnuffadjcr 
 
 35ae ift brato gefprocfyen. 
 9Biitfetrieb 
 6rt ifyr? 6ie fommen. ort ba^ orn Don Urt. 
 
 unb lints fieftt man betoaffnete SRiinner mit SSinblic^tent bie getjen 
 fteigen. 
 
 Sluf bcr Waucr 
 
 <Steigt nicf)t felbft ber fromme Wiener 
 toiirb'ge ^farter, mit i>erab? 9?tcf>t [d^>eut er 
 2Sege -JRufyen unb ba raim ber s j?ad^t, 
 1095 (Sin treuer irte, fur ba SSoIl ju forgen. 
 
 ^oumgartcu 
 
 2)er (Sigrift folgt i^m unb err 3BaIt^er ^iirft; 
 nicfyt ben Stetl erblirf' icf) in ber 5Kenge. 
 
 ' 9J6ffcImann,ber ^farver, ^ctermann, ber iflriji, 
 JJuont, ber irt, aScrni, ber Sofler, Diuobi, ber ^tl'djer, unb nocb funf 
 anbere Sanbleute. %He juiammen, breiunbbreifeig an ber .3<if)I/ trcten 
 
 toorroart unfc fteden \id) urn ba fjeuer. 
 
 @o miiffen toir auf unferm eignen Srb' 
 Unb toaterlicfyen Soben un berf^e^Ien 
 
 iioo 3 u fammen fd^Ieic^en, h)ie bie SJlorber tf^un, 
 Unb bei ber 9Zad)t, bie i^ren fcbtoarjen 5Rantel 
 5iur bem SerbredE)en unb ber fonnenfcfyeuen 
 SSerfd^irorung leibet, unfer gutel 9tecfyt 
 Uns ^olen, ba bod^ lauter ift unb flar, 
 
 1105 leicfytoie ber glanjbott offne c^o^ be3 
 
 gut fein. 2Ba> bie bunfle yiatfyt gefyonnen, 
 <5ott frei unb frofjlid^ an bal Sicf>t ber onnen.
 
 58 SBHljefot ell. 
 
 9t$ffefattra 
 
 b'rt, toa3 mir ott in* >crj giebt, Sibgenoffen. 
 2Bir ftefyen fyier ftatt etner 2anb3gemeinbe 
 ' mo Unb fonnen gelteit fitr ein gan$es> SSoIf. 
 
 (So lafjt itn tagcn nad^ ben alien Sra'itd^en 
 >e Sanb, n)ie U)tr'^ in rufyigen 
 
 ungefe^licf) ift in ber SSerfammlung, 
 
 bte 9Zot ber 3eit. (^Doc^ oti 
 1115 ^[t uberall, ino man ba JHcd^t berlDaltet,') 
 Unb unter fcinem .^tmmel ftef^en inir. 
 
 Stanffartyer 
 
 2Bo^l, la^t un tagen nad; ber alten itte; 
 J 3fi e gleid; ^arf^t, fo leurfitet nnfer 
 
 gletrf) bte 3 n ^ nid)t ttott, ba erj ift tj 
 ganjen 3SoIf^; bie 35 eft en finb jugegen. 
 
 (Sinb and; bie alten 33iid}er nid;t gur anb, 
 te finb in unfre erjen eingefd)rteben. 
 
 JHoffcImautt 
 
 SBofylan, fo fei ber 9itng fogleid? gebilbet. 
 9Jian ^flanje a^uf bie djiuerter ber etualt. 
 
 3(uf ber SKuiicr 
 
 1125 2)er 2anbeammann ne^me feinen ^3Ia^, 
 Unb feine SBeibel ftef)en il;m jur eite. 
 
 finb ber 33olfer breie. SKetdjem nun 
 
 ba au^t ju geben ber emeinbe? 
 
 Urn biefe Gf;r' tnag &d)\vty mit Uri ftreiten; 
 1130 2Bir Unteriualbner ftefjen frei juriid.
 
 3oeiter ^ufjug. 3ueite $ene. 59 
 
 3Bir ftefyn ^uriicf ; twr finb bie ^lebenben, 
 
 ;Die ilfe fyeifcben toon ben indent 'gen ^reitnben. 
 
 tauffadjer 
 
 <2o nefyme Uri benn ba <Sc^h)ert ; fein ^Banner 
 3ief?t bet ben S^omerjiigen un tioran. 
 
 293altl)er 3-flrft 
 
 1135 2)e cbiwerte'S fyre iuerbe <Srf)h)^ ju tetl ; 
 2)enn feme^ <2tamme riibmen hnr un atte. 
 
 JRoffcIntflttn 
 
 $>en ebeln 9Bettftrett lajjt midE) freunblicfy fdhli^ten ; 
 fott im 9?at, Uri im 
 
 t, reicfit bem tauffad)er bie S^lnerter, 
 
 ne^mt. 
 
 Stauffadjer 
 
 mtr, bem Sitter fet bie 6^> 
 
 1140 )ie mei[ten ^af>re jd^It Utrid; ber 
 
 2tuf bcr Waiter 
 
 5Diann i[t iuocler, bocfy nid^t freien <5tanb; 
 ei^ner 3Jlann fann 9iicf)ter fein in Scfjtoijj. 
 
 Stoitffadjcr 
 
 nirf)t >err 9?ebing ^ier, ber 2UtIanbammann ? 
 furf)en h)ir nocf) einen SBitrbigern? / 
 
 fet bet Slmmann unb begjageg 
 2Ber baju ftimmt, erb^ebe^ f^^Ban 
 
 3lUe hebeit bie recfi^^Hw ai:f.
 
 60 2Bill)dm Sell. 
 
 , tritt in bie-OTitte, 
 
 !gd; fann bie >anb nid;t auf bie 23iid;er legen, 
 <So fd;todr' id; broben bet ben eh) 'gen ternen, 
 25aj$ id; mid; nimmcr tflifl bom -ftecfyt entferncn. 
 
 3Ran rtcfitet bie jwei djmerter or ifjm auf; ber King bilbet fic^ urn ifin tier; 2cf)iut)j 
 
 pit bie 3HUte, rec^tS ftedt fic^ llri unb lints Untenoalben. (Sr fte^t auf iein c^larf)t= 
 
 fc^iuert geftiift. 
 
 "50 3Sa ift', ba bie brei Golfer be^ ebirg 
 >ier an be^3 <5ee unti)irtUd)em eftabe 
 3ufammenfiif)rte in ber etfterftunbe ? 
 
 foil ber ^nt>alt fein be neuen 93unb^, 
 fair fyier unterm <Sternenf)immel ftiften? 
 
 tauffadjcr, tritt in ben Wincj, 
 
 "55 SSir ftiften feinen neuen S3unb; e ift 
 in uralt 33unbni3 nur toon Setter 3 e ^/ 
 ;Da tt)ir erneuern. 3Siffet, Sibgenoffen, ^ 
 Db un ber (See, ob iin bie Serge fd^eiben ,\l 
 Unb jebe SSoIf fid; fiir fid; felbft regiert, X" J* 
 
 1160 <2o finb fair eine @tamme bod; unb Slut*, 
 Unb eine >eimat ift% au ber tt)ir jogen. 
 
 (So ift e tva^r, im'e'g in ben Siebern lautet, 
 2)a| fair bon fern^er in ba Sanb gcjtjaHt? 
 0, teilt'S un mit, tua eud; batoon bcfannt, 
 1165 2)af$ fid; ber neue 33unb am alien ftcirfe. 
 
 ort, h)a bie alien irten fid; erja^Ien: 
 (S tvar ein grofceS 9?olf, ^inten im Sanbe 
 9tad; 5Jlitternad;t^fcp litt toon fd;h>erer Xeurung. 
 ^n biefer 9Zot bejc^ji bie Sanblgemeinbe,
 
 jene. 61 
 
 1170 )afj je ber jefmte SSiirger nad; bem 2o 
 >er $ater Sanb toerlaffe. >a< gefdjab, ; 
 Unb jogen au, hxfyflagenb, SRanner unb 28eiber, 
 in grower ^eerjug, nad; ber 9Jiittagfonne, 
 2Rit bem d;ft>ert fid) fd;lagenb burd; ba beutfd;e Sanb, 
 
 1175 33i an ba orf)Ianb biefer 2Balbgebirge. 
 
 Unb efyer nidit ermiibete ber 3 U 9/ ** 
 
 St ba^ fie famen in ba toilbe 
 2Bo jetjt bie ?0?uotta ^m[d;en 9Biefen rinnt; 
 3fiirf)t 5Renfd;enf^uren ir>aren i)ier \\\ fc^en, 
 1180 9iur eine iitte ftanb am lifer einfam. 
 >a fa^ ein ^ann unb iuartete ber 
 J)eftig toogete ber See unb tear 
 faf)rbar; ba befaben fie ba 2anb 
 id; ncib,er unb getoafyrten fdione ^iitte 
 1185 2)e^ >ole3 unb entbedten gute Srunnen, 
 Unb meinten, fid) im lieben 33aterlanb 
 3u finben. 2)a befd)toffen fie ju bleiben; 
 (Srbaueten ben alien $leden dito^j, 
 Unb fatten mand;en fauren STag, ben SKalb 
 1190 Sftit h?eittoerfd)(ungnen 3KurjeIn au^juroben. 
 $)rauf, a.U ber SBoben nid;t mefyr niigen 
 ba jogen fie b^iniiber 
 ja, 
 
 2Bo, Ijinter eh) 'gem GifeStDaH berborgen, 
 1195 in anbre 3SoI! in anbern 3 un 9 en fync 
 2)en ^leden t a n j erbauten fie am 
 25en g-Ieden 21 1 1 o r f in bem Xb, al ber 9ieufj ; ^ 
 blieben fie be^Urf^rung^ ftetg gebenf. 
 aH ben fremben tammen, bie feitbe"m 
 
 n 9JJitte ib,re 2anb fid; ] cmgefiebelt, .- 
 I
 
 62 SHtjelm Sefl. 
 
 $inben bie (Sdjnn^er banner fid) fyerauS ; 
 {&$ giebt ba >erj, ba 33lut fid; ju erfennen!) 
 
 SReirfjt rerf)t itub Iiitf bie .>anb Ijtit. 
 
 2(uf bcr Waiter 
 $a, toir finb eine ^erjen^, eineg 23lut3. 
 
 ?lHc f fid) bie ^>anbe retrfjenb, 
 
 2Bir finb etn Self, unb etnig iuottcn twit f)anbeln. 
 
 etauffndjcr 
 
 1205 ie anbern 2>6(fer tragen frembe< ^orf) ; 
 @ie fyaben fid) bem tegcr unteriuorfcn. 
 @ leben fclbft in un[ern 2anbemarfcn 
 2)er affen met, bie frembe ^f[irf)ten tragen, 
 Unb ifyre ^nerf)tfdiaft erbt auf if^re Kinber. 
 1210 Qofy it)ir, ber alien d}lucijer ed)ter (Stamm, 
 JBir ^aben ftet bie ^rei^eit un3 beiuatirt. 
 unter 5" r f tcn bogen h)tr ba ."Rnie, 
 
 loa'fylten lr>ir ben Sdiirm ber $atfer. 
 
 JHiJffelmoHU 
 
 h)df>lten loir be3 9tctdie Sdiu^ unb d>irm ; 
 1215 (So ftet^t'^ bemerft in $aifer ^riebrid;^ 33rief. 
 
 Staufftidicr Lt> 
 
 F>errenlo ift aud) ber Jyreifte nid;t. 
 Dberfyaupt inu^ fein, ein I;od;fter 3tid>ter, 
 SBo man ba 9ted}t mag fd>opfen in bem StreitA 
 3)rum f>aben nn[re 9?ater fiir ben 33oben, 
 1220 2)en fie ber alien 2Bilbni abgetuonnen, Jf 
 
 3)ie Gf>r' gegonnt bem ^aifcr, ber ben errn 
 (Sid; nennt ber beutfd>cn unb ber luelfd^en Grbe, 
 Unb, toie bie anbern $reien feine
 
 3roeiter 
 
 id; U;m 511 cbelm SBaffenbieuft gelobt; 
 1225 'JJenn biefc3 ift ber g-reien einj'ge $flid 
 
 9tetrf) ju fd;irmen, bal fie felbft befrfjirmt. 
 
 briiber ift, ift 2Herfmal eine^ ^nec^t. 
 
 Stouffodjcr 
 
 ie folgten, toenn bcr ^eribann erging; 
 2)em 9ietd;s)3anter unb fdjhtgen feme <3d>Iad;ten. 
 ^1230 ^tad; 2BcIfd)Ianb jogcn fie geirap^net mit, 
 
 omcrfron' it^m auf ba aut ju fe^en. 
 tm regierten fie fid; frofyltd; felbft 
 altem 33raurf) unb cigenem efe ; 
 b,6d;fte 33Iutbann loar aflein be^ ^aifer^ t i v 
 1235 Unb baju toarb beftettt ein grower raf, ^ 
 2)er fyatte feinen i^ nid)t in bem Sanbe ; 
 3Benn 33Iutfd;ulb fam, fo rief man \fy\ fyevein, 
 Unb unter offncm A^immel, fd;lid;t unb flar, 
 ^rad; er ba3 9ted;t unb ob^ne ^urd;t ber 9JIenfd;en. 
 1240 2Bo finb fyier S^uren, ba^ loir ^ned;te finb? 
 3ift einer, ber e anber toeip, ber rebe. 
 
 3m $fe ^ 
 
 5Rein, fo beri)d[t fid; alleS, h)ie ib,r f^redjt; 
 etoaltfyerrfd^aft tarb nie bei un gebulbet. 
 
 ^aifer felbft berfagten tuir e^orfam, 
 1245 2)a er bag 9ted;t ju unft ber $faffen bog. 
 3)enn al bie Seute toon bem ottebau<S 
 Ginfiebeln un bie 2tlto in 2lnfyrudj nab, men, 
 3)ie toir beiueibet feit ber $titer $t\t, 
 2lbt ^erfiirjog cincn alien 33rief,
 
 64 SBHfjelm Sell. 
 
 
 
 
 1250 2)er ifym bie fyerrenlofe 2Biifte fcfyenfte 
 
 3)enn unfer 2)afein fyatte man t>erl;efylt 
 2)a fpracfyen n>ir: ,,(rfd)licr;en ift ber 33rtef. 
 
 $aifer fann, toa unfer ift, toerfctyenfen ; p 
 Unb toirb un 9?ed;t fcerfagt bom 9}eid;, fair fonnen 
 1255 3jn unfern 23ergen aucty be3 9teicty3 entbetyren." 
 
 <So ft>rad)en unfre SSater. <3ol(en to i r 
 
 \y\ 
 $)e neuen 3 Dc ^ e ^ <Sd)anbItd)!eit erbulben? 
 
 (Jrleiben toon bem fremben 5lncd)t, toa un3 
 ^n feiner 5Rad>t fein $atfer burfte bieten? 
 
 1260 3Sir fyaben biefen 53oben un erfdjaffen 
 2)itrd) unfrer ^cinbe ^-lei^, ben alien 3SaIb, 
 S)er fonft ber S3a'ren toilbe SSotynung toar, 
 3u etnem @i fur s )Jtenfd^en umgetoanbelt; 
 "SMc 33rut_bef_^ractyen tyaben toir getotet, 
 
 1265 SDer au ben (Siim^fen giftgefdjtoollen ftteg ; 
 2)ie 3fiebelbedEe fyaben toir jerriffen, 
 S)ie etoig grau urn biefe 28ilbni tying ; 
 SDen tyarten ^yel gcf^reugt, iiber ben 2tbgrunb 
 SDem 2Banbermann ben fictyern <Steg geleitet; 
 
 1270 Unfer ift burcty taufenbjdtyrigen S3efi^ 
 SDer 33oben, unb ber frembe >errenfned;t 
 Sott lommen biirfen unb un 5letten fctymieben' 
 Unb ctymacty anttyun auf unfrer eignen @rbe? 
 feine >ilfe gegen folctyen rang? 
 
 (Sine grope Skiuegmtg uitter ben Sanbleuteit. 
 
 "75 3icin, eine renje tyat ^rannenmad)t : 
 
 ($Senn ber (Sebriicfte nirgenb 9iectyt fann finber., 
 JBenn unertrciglicty toirb bie Saft, greift cr 
 inauf getroften 3Butc^ in ben >immel 
 Unb tyolt tycnmter fcine eto'gen " 

 
 3iueiter 2tufiitg. 3nwte gene. 65 
 
 i28o 2)ie broben fyangen 
 
 Unb unjerbredjlicr), hrie bie terne f elbft \ 
 2)er alte Urftanb ber 9Zatur fefyrt tbieber, 
 So -JJfenfcr; bem -Jftenfdten gegeniiber ftefyt; 
 3um letjten 'DJJittel, Ibenn fein anbre mefyr 
 
 i28s^3Serfangen 'mill, i(t i^m ba 6c^ibert gegeben. 
 
 iiter ^od;fteg biirfen ibir bertetb'gen 
 egen elbalt. 2Btr ftef;n bor unfer 2anb, 
 Sir fte^n bor unfre SBeiber, unfre $inber. 
 
 ?(((c r an tfire Scfjloerter fcf)(agenb, 
 
 Sir fte^n bor unfre Seiber, unfre ^inber. 
 
 ^ijffchnttttn, tritt in ben King, 
 
 1290 @fy' it>r jum <Sd;tberte greift, bebenlt e lbof>l. 
 ^^r fonnt e frieblid) mit bem 5laifer fdjlicfyten 
 6 loftet eud) ein Sort, unb bie r/rannen, 
 3)ie eud; je^t fd;tuer bebrdngen, fd;meid^eln eucl 
 rgreift, iba man eud? oft geboten bat, 
 
 1295 Xrennt eud) bom ^cid) ; erfennet Dftreid> ^o^ 
 
 5tuf bet s J)ioucr 
 
 fagt ber ^farrer? Sir ju Dftreid> 
 
 9tm 
 
 it>n nicr)t an. 
 
 rat un ein SSerrater, 
 . 
 letting 
 
 ig, Gibgenoff en ! 
 2Sir Dftrcid; ^ulbigcn, nad) folder
 
 66 SBityelm 2eQ. 
 
 Son ber 3-liic 
 
 1300 2Bir un abtrotjen laffen burd; Gktoalt 
 hrir ber iite toetgerten? 
 
 2)ann loaren 
 2Bir HaDen unb berbtentcn, e3 511 fein. 
 
 3luf bcr yjiauer 
 
 2)er fet gefto^en au bem 9ted;t ber 
 
 2Ber toon (Srgebung fprid;t an Dfterretd;. 
 
 1305 Sanbammann, irf> 6eftei)e brauf, bie fei 
 
 erfte 2anbgefe^, ba iptr t>ter geben. 
 
 @o fet'3. 2Ber toon Srgebung fyrtrfrt an Dftretd;, 
 oil red;tlo^ fein unb atler Gi|ren bar; 
 $ein Sanbmann ne^m' i(;n auf an feinem 
 
 9tlle f fjeben bie recite aitb nuf, 
 
 1310 3Btr JtoUen e, ba fet efeij. 
 
 JHcbilti), nac^ etner '?nuie, 
 
 @S tft'8. 
 yjoffclmaitii 
 
 ^f^t feib il;r fret, i^r fetb'^ burd; bte 
 9itd;t burd; eicalt foU Dfterretd; ertro^en 
 2Bag e burd; freunbltd; 3Serben nid;t erl;ielt. 
 
 3ft won SfiJciler 
 3ur XageSorbnung, toetter. 
 iHebtitg 
 
 Stbgenoffen, 
 
 1315 inb aHe fanften SKittel aud; Derfud;t? 
 23tettetd;t Juet^ e ber ilontg nidjt; e ift
 
 ^wetter 9tufjug. '3roeite (Sjene. 67 
 
 3Sof)I gar fein 2Sitte nid;t, ft>a fair erbulben. 
 3lud; biefe3 Seljte fottten toir berfudjen, 
 @rft unfre $lage bringen bor fein Bfyr, 
 1320 @I?' toir jum <5d;n)erte greifen. (<Sd;redlid; immer, 
 2tud; in geredjter @ad;e, ift etbalt. 
 ott ^ilft nur bann, h)enn 5Renfd;en nid;t me^r 
 
 3taitffatf|cr f 511 fionrab unn, 
 
 yiun ift' an end;, Serid;t ju geben. 
 Jioitvaft .VMUIH 
 
 ^d; h>ar ju 9i^einfelb an be 5laifer 
 1325 9Siber ber 3Sogte f>arten 2)rud ju flagen, 
 23rief ju fjolen unfrer alien ^retfyeit, 
 jeber neue ^onig fonft beftatigt. 
 
 2)ie Soten bieler tcibte fanb id; bort, 
 
 SSom fd;toab'fd;en 2anbe unb bom Sauf be 
 1330 |e all' erl)ielten ifyre ^Sergamente, 
 
 Unb fe^rten freubig hneber in il>r Sanb. 
 
 ^Jiid;, euren 53oten, n)ie^ man an bie Sffate/ 
 
 Unb bie entlie^en mid; mit leerem STroft : 
 
 ,,^!er ^aifer f>abe biennial feine $eit; Lr 
 
 1335 Gr h)itrbe fonft einmal tool^l an un> benfen." . j^^) 
 x^Unb al id; traurig burd; bie ale ging 
 
 2)er ^b'nigsburg, ba fat) id; erjog anfen 
 
 ^n einem rfer toeinenb ftel?n, um if^n 
 
 SDie ebeln errn bon 2Bart unb Segerfelb. \& 
 
 1340 2)ie riefen mir unb fagten: ,,elft eud; felbft; oV^ 
 
 ered;ttgfeit erioartet nid;t bom 
 
 ^eraubt er nid;t be eignen 33ruber 
 
 Unb l)interf;cilt ifym fein gered;te Grbe? 
 ^erjog flefyt' il;n um fein 9Jiiitterlid;e :
 
 68 
 
 1345 (|r_4Lflfc_Ieine ^a^re boll, e tocire 
 
 9?un geit, au( ty 2anb unb Seute ju regieren. 
 
 toarb ifym jum SBefcfyetb ? Gin ^rdnjlein fet ifyn 
 ^aifer auf: ba fei.bie ^ier ber ^ugenb." 
 
 'g ge^ort. 9lecf)t unb erecfytigfeit 
 1350 riuartet nifyt bom ^aifer. elft eucf) felbft. 
 
 Stoking 
 
 9?ic^t 3lnbre bleibt un iibrtg. 9iun gebt 
 SSie it)tr e^ Kug jum frozen nbe leiten. 
 
 tf tvitt in ben King, 
 
 Stbtreiben lootten toir Der^a^ten B lDan 95 
 2)te alten Sfecfyte, iote loir jie ererbt 
 1355 3Son unfern SSdtern, tooEen loir betoafyren; 
 9iid;t ungejiigelt ncufy ban Sfteuen greifen. 
 3)em ^aifer bleibe, ioa be 5!aifer ift ; 
 t, bien' ify 
 
 34> trage ut Don Dfterreid; ju Sefyen. 
 
 SBolt^er g-iirft 
 1360 3^r fafyret fort, Dftreic^ bie pflid^t 511 leiften. 
 
 Soft on 2eiler 
 3$ fteure an bie errn toon 
 
 fafyret fort 311 jinfen unb ju fteuern. 
 
 iHoffelmann 
 gro^en $rau 511 3" r ^ ^ n ^ bcreibet. 
 
 2altl)cr g-iirft 
 gebt bem Softer, h?ag be ^lofterS ift.
 
 Slufjng. 3roeite $enc. 69 
 
 touffttdjcr 
 
 1365 3$ trage leine Sefyen, al be 
 993oltl)cr ftitrft 
 
 ^2Ba3 fein mujj, ba gefcfyefye,. bocft, nicfyt briiber?) 
 )ie SSogte Gotten fair mit ifyren $ned;ten 
 SSerjagen, imb bie f eft en cfyloffer bred^en; 
 3)0^, loenn e fein mag, obne Slut. i 3 fefye 
 1370 2)er ^aifer, ba^ toir notgebrungen nur 
 
 er 6f)rfurd^t fromme ^flt^ten abgeicorfen. 
 Unb fte^t er un in unfern c^iranfen bletben, 
 SSieKeidjt befiegt er ftaatfhtg fctnen 3 rn i 
 2)enn(^bitt'ge ^urd^t ertoedet ficfy ein 3SoI!, 
 1375 a tmt bem ~Scf>h)erte in ber $au[t fic^) m a ^ i g L\ 
 
 9teiiiug 
 
 2)0$ laffet fioren, iuie boUenben h?ir'? 
 @ I?at ber ^einb bie 2Baffen in ber anb, 
 Unb nicfyt fiiriDa^r in ^rieben toirb er toeid^en. 
 
 @r toirb'3, toenn er in -JBaffen un erblicft; 
 1380 2Bir iiberrafefyen ib,n, eb/ er fief) ritftet. 
 2Keier 
 
 3ft balb gefyrodfyen, aber fcfytoer get^an. 
 
 Un ragen in bem Sanb jtoei fefte cfyloffer, 
 
 ^ie geben @rf>irm bem $einb unb toerben furcf;tb 
 
 2Benn un ber ^onig in ba 2anb follt' fallen. 
 1385 S'io^berg unb arnen mu^ bejtuungen fein, 
 
 @b,' man ein <Scf;n)ert erb,ebt in ben brei Sanbeu. 
 tttuffodjcr 
 
 <5a'umt man fo lang, fo toirb ber ^einb getoarnt ; 
 
 3u biele finb'^, bie ba efyeimniS teilen.
 
 70 SBilljelin Sell. 
 
 $n ben SBalbftatten finb't ficf> fern SBerrater. 
 
 92offclmann 
 1390 )er tfer aud;, ber gute, fann berraten. 
 
 2BaUl)er ftitrft 
 
 (5d>iebt man e auf, fo h)trb ber String bollenbct 
 3n 3dtorf, unb ber 3Sogt befefttgt ftc^. 
 
 SJicicr 
 ^r benlt an eucfy. 
 
 igrift 
 
 Unb ifyr fetb ungererf)t. 
 
 r f ouffa^renb, 
 
 2Bir ungerea^t? 2)a^ barf un llrt bieten? 
 
 1395 33ei eurem ibe^ 
 
 ^a, toenn firf) 
 SSerfte^t mit Uri, miiften h)ir ioo^I fd^toetgen. 
 
 KeMttg 
 
 ^5(f) mu^ eucf) h)eifen t>or ber SanbSgemetnbe, 
 if;r mit fyeft'gem inn ben ^rieben ftort. 
 n h?ir nid^t atte fiir biefelbe <Sad)e? 
 
 9Binfclricb 
 
 1400 2Benn h)ir' berfrf)ieben bi jum $eft be er 
 bringt'g bie <3itte mit, ba^ ade affen 
 SSogt e[c()en!e bringen auf ba @rf)Io^. 
 @o lonnen jefyen Banner ober jluolf 
 i$/up er kfl$ti8 ^ n ^ er Surg berfammeln, 
 1405 ie < j^ren f)etmlid; f^i^'ge ifen mit, 
 
 man gefd;rtinb fann an bie Stabe fteden,
 
 jene. 71 
 
 2)enn niemanb fommt mit 2Saffen in bie Surg. 
 3unadift im 28alb fyalt bann ber grofje aufe, 
 Unb toenn bie anbern gliicflid) fid; be SfyorS 
 1410 rmticfytiget, fo Unrb ein >orn geblafen, 
 Unb jgie Bremen aii bem interfcalt. 
 (So h)irb ba cfylofc mit leister Strbeit unfer. 
 
 iibernefym' id; ju erfteigen, 
 eine irn be <5d;loffe ift mir fyolb, 
 1415 Unb leid;t betbor' id; fie, jum nad;tlid;en 
 SBefud; bie fdfytoanfe Setter mir ju reid;en; 
 broben erft, jie^' id; bie $reunbe na 
 
 3ft' aUer 2Biae, ba^ berfc^oben toerbe? 
 
 |Cr r aa^tt bie ttmmeii, 
 
 ift ein 9Ke^r bon jtoanjig gegen jh)5lf. 
 
 1420 SSenn am beftimmten Stag bie Surgen fatten, 
 @o geben fair toon einem 33erg um anbern 
 a 3dcfy en mit bem Staud;; ber Sanbftitrm Im'rb 
 Slufgeboten, fd;nett, im aitptort jebe Sanbe^; 
 9Benn bann bie SSogte fe{>n ber SBaffen (Srnft, 
 
 1425 laubt mir, fie toerben fid; be <Streit begeben 
 Unb gern ergreifen frieblid;e eleit, 
 2tu unfern Sanbe^marfen 311 enttoeid;en. 
 
 tauffadjer 
 
 9Rur mit bem e^Ier fiird;t' id; fd;ioeren @tanb; 
 gurd;tbar ift er mit 9ieifigen umgeben;
 
 72 
 
 1430 9ftd>t obne Slut rciumt er ba3 $elb; ja, felbft 
 23ertrieben bleibt er furcfytbar nod) bem Sanb. 
 @d;toer ift'S unb faft gefafyrlid), ifyn ju fdjonen. 
 
 fyalvgefdfyrlid) ift, ba ftettt mid^ fyin. 
 Sett berbanf tc^ mein gerettet 2eben; 
 1435 ern fcfylag' i^' in bte @d;anje fur ba3 Sanb. 
 t>r' fyab' id) befdf)ii^t, mein erj befriebigt. 
 
 3eit bringt ^at.] Grtuartet'S in ebulb. 
 bem 2(uge1^blid aud^) tua bertrauen.") 
 ^t, inbe n)ir nad^tlidb J)ier nod> tagen, 
 1440 tettt auf ben fyocbften 83ergen fd;on ber 9Jiorgen 
 2)te glii^nbe od)iuac^)t au. ^ommt, lajjt un fdjeiben, 
 2eud)ten iiberrafdit. 
 
 (Sorgt nidftt ; bie ^Jadjt toeid)t langfam au ben 
 
 9lUe ^a6en unlDtUfiirlid) bie >iite obgencmmen unb betractjtcn mil ftiUer nmiii(ung 
 bie 
 
 JKoffclmnitu 
 
 biefem 2icf)t, ba un juerft begriijjt 
 1445 5Bon atten ^Bolfern, bie tief unter un 
 
 <3d)h)eratmenb U)o^nen in bem Qualm ber table, 
 2afjt un ben (Sib be3 neuen 53unbe f(fn)oren : 
 (2Bir tooffen fein ein einjig SSol! t>on ^Briibern, 
 ^511 feiner %lot un trennen unb efafyr. 
 
 91 lie iprccfjen c nacf) mil erfiobetten bret giiigcni. 
 
 1450 ^ir iuotten frei fein, tuie bie 33dter lt>aren, 
 
 I5'kr ben Sob, alS in ber ^ned>tfdmft lebcn. -me o
 
 ,3roeiter $1113119. 3njeite &yne. 73 
 
 22ir tooffen trauen auf ben fyocbften ott 
 
 Unb un ntd^t fiircfyten bor ber SRarftt ber 5Renfd)enj 
 
 SBie o6en. ie Sanbleute umarmen einanber, 
 
 @touffJtf)cr 
 
 $e* get)c jeber feine 2Cege ftttt 
 1455 3 U feiner ^reunbfd^aft unb enof^fame. 
 9Ser irt ift, iutntre rubig feine erbe 
 Unb toerb' im ftiffen ^reunbe fiir ben 33unb. 
 2Ba nod^i bt bafjtn inu^ erbulbet h)erben, 
 rbutbet'g. 2a^t bie ^ecfynung ber ^rannen 
 1460 Sfntttadbfen, bt3 etn ^ag bie affgemeine 
 Unb bie befonbre <S^ulb auf einmal jafylt. 
 S3ejabme jeber bie gerecfyte 2Sut 
 Unb f^are fiir ba anje feine Sfiac^e; 
 \^Denn 9taub begeb^t am attgemeinen ut, 
 1465 2Ber felbft ficb, f>ilft in feiner eignen 
 
 fie ju brei bcrjc^iebenen Seiten in gtofcter 5Hu^e nbge^en, fadt ba Crc^efter 
 mil eiiiem pvac^tDotten Scf)li>uiig etn ; bie feere Sjene bteibt :toc^ eine 3eitfong often 
 unb seujt ba c^aufpiet ber aufgefjenben onne iiber ben GiSgebirgen.
 
 Dritter 21 u f 3 ti g. 
 
 of or Sells $aufe. 
 
 6r if} mit ber Simmerart, ,>ebn)ig nut etncr f)aultdjen Arbeit kfcfjaftigt. 
 3GB a 1 1 fyer unb 28 il J) elm in ber Siefe fpielen mit ciuer fleinen ?lrmbruft. 
 
 it bem ^feil, bent 
 ebirg itnb 
 ber (Sd^it^ gejogen 
 ^yriil) am 9JJorgen[tra^I. 
 1470 2Bte im Stetd^ ber 2iifte 
 
 $onig ift 'ber 3Bet^ 
 2)urc^) ebirg unb ^lufte 
 errfd;t ber dfwtje fret. 
 ^bm geb.ort ba 2Bette, 
 1475 3Ba fetn ^fetl erreicfyt; 
 
 ift feine 33eute, 
 ba fleugt unb fr^rfit. 
 
 fflommt neiprungen, 
 
 Strang ift mir entjtoei. 3JJad/ mir i^n, SSater. 
 
 nicf)t. @in renter dm^e ^ilft fid; felbft. 
 
 ffnaben entfernen fic^. 
 
 1480 )ie ^naben fangen jejtjg an ju fd;ie^en. 
 
 Xcll 
 
 I ^rut> itbt fidi, tt>a ein SJtcifter toerben tuid. f 
 
 4
 
 rittev 2luf5ug. (Srftc jcne. 75 
 
 2ld), iwottte ott, fie lernten'S nie! 
 
 <2ie fotten atte lernen. 2i3er burcf> Seben 
 f Sid> frifcb toifl fdblagen, imtjj ju <S^u^ unb 
 1485 eriiftet fetn. 
 
 2lrf>! e Voirb feiner feine 
 
 finben. 
 
 XcU 
 
 Gutter, id) fann' auc^ nid^t ; 
 at 9?atur micfy nirfit gebilbet; 
 mu^ id) cin flitcbtig Qid berfolgen. 
 2)ann erft genie^' ic^ meine 2ebcn red^t, 
 2Benn id) mir' jeben Stag auf< neu' erbeute.' , 
 
 Unb an bie 2lngft ber auefrau bcnfft bu nidbt, 
 2>ie fid) inbeffen, beiner iuartenb, t)drmt. 
 S)enn mic^ erfiittt'g mit raufen, toa bie ^necfjte 
 s Son euren 2Bag_efal;rten fid^) erja^Ien. 
 
 1495 33ei jebem 2(bfd)ieb gittert mir bag erg, 
 a^ bu mir nimmer toerbeft toieberfebren. 
 ^d) fef>e bid^, im tuilben i^gebirg 
 3Serirrt, toon einer $lippe 511 ber anbern 
 )en ^ef)lf^rung tf)un; fe^', toie bie emfe bid^ 
 
 1500 9^itdf^ringenb mit fid) in ben Stbgrunb reijjt ; 
 2Sie eine 2BinbIait)ine bicfy berfd)iittet ; 
 9Sie unter bir bev triigerifd^ie ^irn 
 inbrtdbt unb bu binabfinfft, ein lebenbig 
 Segrabner, in bie fdia^uerlicbe vuft. 
 
 1505 2ldf> ! ben berVD^nen Hlpenja'ger (;a[d;t
 
 76 23MU)dnt If II. 
 
 $)er ob in fyunbert u>ed;felnbcn Weftaltcn. 
 
 $)a3 ift ein unglftdtfeCiged (yciverb', 
 
 $a3 fyategefal;rlid; fit(;rt am Stbgrunb fyin. 
 
 Xcll 
 
 ( SSer frifd; umfyerfpcifyt mit gcfunbcn Sinnen, ) 
 1510 2(uf (#ott Dertraut iinb bte gelenfe 5lraft, 
 
 35er ringt firf> Icid)t au3 jeber %al)ic unb 9iot ; 
 $)en fd;red"t ber 33erg md)t, ber barauf gcborcn. 
 
 Gr fjnt feine 9lrbcit uoHenbct, leflt bn Wcrfit fjtniDeg. 
 
 %<tty, mein' id), b^alt ba Xb,or nuf ^a(;r unb Xag. 
 f ^)ie 2tjt im au^ erf^art ben ^in^u'rmann. *iimm ben .out. 
 
 bu 
 
 XcK 
 
 3lltorf ju bem 5 
 
 (3inn[t bu aud; nid;t 
 ffiie fommft bu barauf, 
 
 egen bie SBogte. 2tf bem 3Jiit(i Umrb 
 etagt ; id; lueif?, unb bu 6 ift and) im 23unbe. 
 
 1520 ^d; tuar nid;t mit babei, bod; luerb' id; mid; 
 >em ^anbe nid;t entjicben, toenn c^ ruft. 
 
 @ie Juerben bid; f)inftcflcn, \vo OJefab^v ift ; 
 
 d;n)erfte lutvb bein XHnteil fein Juic immcr.
 
 fritter uf',ug. Crfte S^ene. 77 
 
 Xca 
 
 VGin jeber toirb befteuert nacfy Sermogen. 
 
 1525 I5cn Untertoalbner fyaft bu audj im Sturme 
 tlber ben See gefdjafft. Gin 2Sitnber hjar 1 ^, 
 TciB ibr entfommen. 2)ac^teft bu benn gar ntc^t 
 3tn ^inb unb 2Beib? 
 
 XcU 
 
 2ieb 9Beib, id; bacfit' an 
 2)rum rettet' id; ben ^Bater feinen $tnbern. 
 
 1530 3 U Wff en n ^ em h)iit'gcn See ! 
 
 9iid>t ott bertrauen ; ba ^ei^t ott toerfucfyen. 
 
 XeU 
 
 1 3Ser gar ju toiel bebenft, h)trb iwenig leiften. 
 
 3a, bu bift gut unb bilfreic^, bieneft alien, 
 
 Unb toenn bu felb[t in 9?ot fommft, ^ilft bir feiner. 
 
 Xell 
 535 ^Ber^iit' e ott, bafj ic^ ni(^t ilfe brauc^c! 
 
 ti nimmt bie ?(rmbruft unb ^Jfeile. 
 
 iQft bu mit ber 3(rmbruft? 2a fie fier. 
 
 XcU 
 ir fe^lt ber Hrm, h>enn mir bie ffiaffe fefylt. 
 
 Xie ftnaben fommeit uiriicf. 
 
 SSater, two gelift bu fyinV
 
 78 SBilfjelm Sell. 
 
 2Utorf, 
 
 3um @^m. 2Bittft bit mit? 
 
 a, freilid) huff id}. 
 
 1540 >er Sanbbogt ift jeijt bort. Sleib' toeg toon 2Htorf. 
 Gr ge^t, nod^ i)eute. 
 
 Drum lafj t^n erft fort fein. 
 emat>n' ii>n ntdfit an bid;; bu tDei|t, er grottt un. 
 
 Sell 
 
 ir foff fein bofer 2&iHe nic^t biel frf>aben; 
 tfyue recf)t itnb fd)euc feinen $etnb. 
 
 1545 3)ie redbt tfyun, eben bte f>a^t er am meiften. 
 
 iI er nicfyt an fie fommen fann. 9)1 i d^ h)irb 
 fitter tno^I in ^-rieben laffen, mein' id). 
 
 bu baV 
 
 6 ift nicfyt lange I^er, 
 2)a gtng icr) jagen burd^) bie ttilben ritnbe 
 1550 2)e c^ac^ent^al^, auf menfcfyenleerer ^ur 
 Unb ba id) einfatn einen ^et|enfteig 
 
 e, h)0 nid)t au^utpeic^en tt)ar, - 
 iiber mir ^ing fd^rpff bie $el3U)anb ^e 
 Unb unten raufcbte fiirdbterlid; ber
 
 2)ntter $1115119. (Srfte @jene. 79 
 
 lie siitnben brangen ftcfj recijts uitb linte ait tfjn unb jeljen mit geipanntet 9?eugiei 
 
 an ii'i in innaiif. 
 
 1555 3)a fam ber Sanbbogt gegen mid; bafyer, 
 Gr ganj allein tnit mir, ber aud; attein toar, 
 S3Io^ 9ftenf<f> 511 ^enf^, unb neben un ber Slbgrunb; 
 Unb at ber >erre mein anfic^tig toarb 
 Unb mid; erfannte, ben er furj jubor 
 
 1560 Urn flejnerUrfarf;' itntten fd;toer gebujt, 
 Unb fat> mid) mit bem ftattlid^en eiueb^r 
 3)ab,er ge)d)ritten fommen, ba berbla^t' er; 
 2)ie ^nie' berjagten i^m; id) fab, e3 fommen, 
 2)ap er jetjt an bie ^eltt)anb toiirbe finlen. 
 
 1565 2)a jammerte mid; fein; id; trat ju ifym 
 
 33efd;eibentlid; unb f^rad;: ^d; bin'3, err Sanbbogt. 
 @r aber fonnte feinen armen Saut 
 2tu feinem 3Hunbe geben. 9Kit be^^anb nur 
 2Binft' er mir fa^tneigenb, meine^8eg ju get>n; 
 
 1570 a ging id; fort unb fanbt' ifym fein efolge. 
 
 fyat bor bir gejittert; lue^e bir! 
 bu ib,n fd;toad; gefefyn, bergiebt er nie. 
 
 XeU 
 SDrum meib' id; if)n, unb er hnrb mid; nid;t fud;en. 
 
 33Ieib' b,eute nur bort toeg. eb,' lieber jagen. 
 
 Xtii 
 
 1575 2Ba fattt bir etn? 
 
 Witi) angfttgt'g. Sleibe toeg. 
 
 dl 
 2Bie lannft bu bid; fo ofyne Urfad;' qucilen?
 
 80 
 
 il'g feine Urfacfy' fyat. ett, bletbe fyier! 
 
 Xcll 
 fyab'3 bertyrod;en, UebeS 2Sctb, u lommen. 
 
 SJlujjt bu, fo gef)', nur laffe mtr ben ^naben. 
 
 253altl)cr 
 1580 g^ein, SRutterd^en. ^d) gef^e mit bem SSater. 
 
 Jpcltjuig 
 berlafjm toiffft bu beine Gutter? 
 
 bring' btr aud^ toa iibfd^e mit bom 
 
 &ef)t nut bem SBntet. 
 
 2Rutter, id; blcibe bei bir. 
 
 , umarmt i^n, 
 
 So, bu bift 
 5Rein Iiebe ^inb, bu blcibft mtr nod^ attein. 
 
 @te geljt on bn oftOor unb folgt ben Slbgefjenben fange mit ben 2(ugen. 
 
 (Sine eingejdjloffene tuilbe SSalbqegenb; taubbci^e ftitr^en t>on ben 
 
 gelfen. 
 
 Sertfa im Sagbflcib. (eit^ barauj 5Rubcnj. 
 
 1585 6r folgt mtr. (Snbltd^ fann id) mic^ er!Iaren. 
 
 })Jubcu,', r tritt rnfcfi ein, 
 
 ^rdulein, je^t enblid; ftnb' id; eud; aUcin ; 
 2(bgritnbe fd>lie^en ring^ umber un ein ;
 
 fritter 2luf,ug. Svelte jene. 81 
 
 n biefer 5Bilbni furd;t' id; !einen $eugen; 
 >erjen tvd'Ij' id; biefeS lange <5d)lreigen. 
 
 1590 <5eib ifyr gettnfs, bafj un3 bie ^agb nid)t folgt? 
 
 I?tnau. ^e^t ober me. 
 3^ muf? ben teiiren Stugenblitf ergretfen; 
 (i'ntfcfyteben fe^en nut^ id) mein efd^idE, 
 Unb follt' e mid) auf etoig toon end; fd;eiben. 
 1595 D ioaffnct eure giit'gen Slide nid;t 
 
 2Rit biefer finftern trenge. 9Ber bin id;, 
 id; ben fuf)n&n 2Bunfd; ju eiicfy erijebe? 
 f)at ber Sfhulm nod; nidbt genannt; id; barf 
 in bie Steit)' nid;t ftellen mit ben bittern, 
 1600 SDie fiegberii^mt unb gldnjenb eud; umtoerben. 
 
 5iid;t I^ab' id;, al mein erj boU ^reu' unb 2iebe. 
 
 ^" SBert^tt, ernft unb ftreng, 
 
 2)i'trft ii)r toon 2iebe reben unb toon Streue, 
 2)er treulod wirb an feinen ndd)ften ^}Ud)ten? 
 
 SRubenj tritt jutiicf. 
 
 3)er SHatoe Dfterreid;^, ber fid; bem grembling 
 1605 Serfauft, bem Unterbrudfer feineS 
 
 3>on eud;, mein ^rd'ulein, ^)6r' id; biefen SSortourf? 
 2Ben fud;' id; benn, al eud;, auf jener <Seite? 
 
 benft ib,r auf ber eite be 3Serrat 
 3u finben? 6b,er toottt' id; meine anb 
 1610 2)em efjler felbft, bem Unterbritder, fd;enfen, 
 21 1 bem naturbergefj'nen <Sof)n ber <Sd;h)eij, 
 2)er fid; 511 feinem UBerfjeug mad;en fann.
 
 82 
 
 Diubcit;, 
 D ott, lba rnujj id; fyoren? 
 
 SSte ! lba liegt 
 25cm guten 2)Zenfd;en nafyer, al bie (Semen? 
 
 1615 iebt'3 fd;onre *pjlid;ten fitr cm eble3 >erj, 
 9U3 ein Skrteibiger ber Unfdntlb fein, 
 2)a ^Jied^t ber llnterbritdften ju be|d;trmen? 
 2)te eele blutet mtr urn euer SSolf; 
 ^d; letbe mit if>m, benn id; mujj c lieben, 
 
 1620 2)a fo befd;etben ift uub bod; boll $raft ; 
 @ jie(;t metn ganje erj mid; 311 i(;m ^in ; 
 9Jlit jebem Sage lent' td;' mef;r beref)ren. 
 3jb,r aber, ben Diatur unb 9?itterpf(id;t 
 ^jf>m jum geborenen 33el"d;iier gaben, 
 
 1625 Unb ber'S t) e r I a [5 1 , bev treulol iibertritt 
 3um ^einb, uub 5letten fd;miebet feinem Sanb, 
 %t)i feib'S, ber mid; toerleijt unb Irdnlt ; id; muf? 
 SRein er bejiwingen, bafj id; eud; nid;t b,affe. 
 
 id; benn nid;t ba3 Sefte meine 
 630 ^sfrm unter Dftreid;^ mdd;t'gem 
 2)en ^rieben 
 
 $ned;tfd;aft toottt i(;r il)m beretten. 
 
 ifyr au bem lefcten 6d;lof$, 
 ifyr nod; auf ber @rbe blieb, berjagcn. 
 5BoI! berfte^t fid; beffer auf fein liid ; 
 1635 $ein d;ein berfii^rt fein fid;ere efiibl. 
 
 Sud; (;aben fie ba 9?e^ um^ Qanyt getoorfen. 
 
 23ertb,a ! %t) r (; afjt mid;, i(;r berad;tet mid;.
 
 fritter Stufjug. 3 Ilie i te @jene. 83 
 
 \ " 
 
 SBertfyn 
 
 Sfyat' id/3, mir tvtire beffer. 2lber ben 
 3Serad;tet f e f> e n unb berad^tung^luert, 
 1640 2)en man gern lieben mod;te 
 
 Serial 
 
 ^(;r jeiget mir ba i)orf)fte tmmelgliuf \^ r 
 Unb [tiirjt mid; ttef in einem Slugenblicf. 
 
 Sert^a 
 
 9?ein, nein, ba @ble i[t nid;t gang erftidft ^ 
 ^311 eud?. @ fd;lummert nur, id; toitf e toerfen ; 
 1645 ^f)r miijjt etcalt ausiiben an eud; felbj't, 
 ^ 2)ie angeftammte ugenb 511 ertoten; 
 od;, h)ot>I eud;, fie ift mad;tiger al ifyr, 
 Unb tro^ eud; felber feib ibr gut unb ebel. 
 
 JHufceits 
 
 3^r glaubt an mid;? D SBertfya, atte^ 
 1650 2Jtid; eure Siebe fein unb toerben. 
 
 Seib, 
 
 SBoju bie fyerrlid;e 9^atur eud; mad;te. 
 GrfiUlt ben ^Uatj, \vofy\n fie eud; gefteUt ; 
 3u eurem Solfe ftefyt unb eurem 2anbe 
 Unb fa'mpft fitr euer ^eilig 9(led;t. 
 
 mir! 
 
 1655 2Bie fann id; eud; erringen, eud; befi^en, 
 2Benn id; ber 2Jiad;t be ^aifer toiberftrebe ? 
 ^3ft' ber 3Seriranbten mad;t'ger 2Biffe nid;t, 
 iiber eure anb tt;rannifd; Jualtet?
 
 84 SBityflnt eH. 
 
 ^n ben 2&albftatten Uegen mctne liter, 
 1660 Unb ift ber Sdjtoeijer fret, fo bin aud; i 
 
 33ertf>a, toeld; einen S3lid tfwt ifyr mir auf ! 
 
 SBertlja 
 
 >offt nirf)t, burdf) Dftreicr) unft mid; 311 erringen ; 
 meinem @rbe ftreden fie bie >anb ; 
 tuiff man mil bent grofjen 6rb' bereinen. 
 1665 2)iefelbe Sdnbergier, bie eure ^reif>eit 
 
 3Serfrf)lingen toill, fie brofyet aud() ber meinen. 
 D $reunb, jum Dpfer bin id^ au3erfel)n, 
 SSieHeicf)t, urn einen iinftling gu belot>nen. 
 3)ort, tuo bie ^alfd^eit unb bie 9?an?e Jt)oi)nen, 
 1670 in an ben ^aiferl;of iciff .man mid^ jie^n; 
 2)ort Barren mein berf)af?ter @f)e ^letten; 
 35ie Siebe nur, bie eure, lann mid; retten. 
 
 JlJubcnj 
 
 ^3^r fonntet eud^ entfd)liepen, ^ier ju leben, 
 ^n meinem SSaterlanbe mein gu fein ? 
 1675 D 33ertfya, all mein (Se^nen in ba SSeite, 
 
 2Ba loar e, al3 ein Streben nur nad; eud)? 
 ^ @ud; fuc^t' id) 1 einjig auf bem 2Beg be^ ^ufymS, 
 Unb all mein l^rgeij roar nur meine Siebe. 
 5lonnt ifyr mit mir eud^ in bie ftitte Rfyal 
 1680 (Jinfc^lie^en unb ber @rbe lanj entfagen, 
 D bann ift meine @treben $iel gefunben; < 
 S)ann mag ber tront ber Juilbbetcegten SOBelt 
 fid;re Ufer biefer Serge fd;Iagcn. 
 flitd;tige^ -SSerlangen bab' id) mc^r
 
 rittev 'iliifjiig. 3\veite jcitc. 85 
 
 3\veite jcitc. 
 
 1685 inau ju fenben in be3 2eben SBetten ; 
 
 l > / 
 
 SDann mb'gen biefe ^elfen um un fyer 
 2)ie unburd;bringlid; fefte Waiter breiten, 
 Unb bic berfd;Ii)fj'ne fel'ge Sfyal aUein 
 
 often unb geliditet fein. 
 
 ^crtlia 
 1690 i^eijt bift bu ganj, toie bid; mein ai>nenb 
 
 etraumt, mid; fyat mein laube nid;t betrogen. 
 
 ^a^r' bin, bu eitler SBafw, ber mid; belbort! 
 ^d; fott ba liid in meiner >eimat finben. 
 ier, IDO ber $nabe frotdid; aufgeblii^t, 
 1695 2Bo taufenb ^yreubef^uren mid; umgeben, 
 SSo alle dueflen mir unb Saume leben, 
 ^m SSaterlanb toittft bu bie 9Jteine njerben. 
 2(d;! U)0^I fyab' id; e ftet^ geliebt. ^d; 
 fefjlte mir ju jebem liid ber @rben. 
 
 
 1700 SBo tear' bie fel'ge $nfel aufjufinben, 
 
 2Benn fie nid;t ^icr ift, in ber Unfd;ulb Sanb? 
 ier, too bie alie Sreue {)eimifd; too^nt, 
 2Bo fid; bie ^alfdi^eit nod; nid;t ^ingefunben, 1' 
 3)a trttbt fein 97eib bie dueHe itnferS 
 
 1705 Unb eh)ig fyeff entfliet>en un bie tunben. .^ 
 a fe^' id; bid; im ed;ten 9Kdnnertoert, ; 
 erften Don ben greien unb ben letdjen, 
 reiner, freier mlbigung bere^rt, 
 lie ein $onig toirft in feinen 9fleid;en. 
 
 1710 a fef)' id; bid;, bie $rone atter ^rauen,
 
 86 2Bilf)dm Sett. 
 
 
 %n Uwblid; reijenber efd;aftigfeit, 
 $n meinein au ben >immel mir erbauen, 
 Unb Une ber ^riifyling feine S3 lumen ftreut, 
 5Rit fd;6ner Slnmut mir ba Seben fd;muden 
 1715 Unb a((e rtng beleben unb beglitcEen. 
 
 teurer ^yreunb, warum id; trauerte, 
 2U id; bie bocfyfte Scben^glud 1 bid; fclbft 
 3erft6ren fal;. 2Be^ mtr! $Bie ftitnb'3 unt mid;, 
 SKenn id; bem ftoljen fitter mii^te folgen, 
 1720 ^em 2anbbebritder auf fein finftreS <Sd;Io^! 
 
 ier ift fein <5d;lof$. 93iid; fd;eiben feine SRauern 
 einem 3Solf, ba id; begliiden fann. 
 
 , toie mid; retten? Joie bie @d;Iinge lofen, 
 id; mir t(;orid;t felbft um au)3t gelegt? 
 
 1725 ,3m'df$ e fie mit mannlid;cm G - ntfd;luf$. 
 
 aud; braug ioerbe, ftefy' ju beinem 3?olf. 
 ift bein angeborner ^]Ia^. sngbrjomer in ber genie. 
 
 $ommt na(;er. ^ort, toir miiffen fd;etben. 
 g-iir SSaterlanb, bu ftimpfft fiir beine 2iebe. 
 1730 @<S ift ein ^etnb, t>or bem toir atte jittern, 
 Unb eine $reifyeit mad;t unl alle frei. eijenab.
 
 THE TELL STATUE AT ALTORF. Act III, Sc. 3.
 
 fritter Stufjug. 'Dntte @$ene. 87 
 
 Dritte 
 
 SBiefe bet SHtorf. 3m Sorbergnmb Sditme ; in ber iefe ber ut auf 
 
 einer tange. 3)ev ^rofpeft roirb begren$t buvd) beu 33atmberg, iiber 
 
 tueldjem ein @cf)neegebirg emporragt. 
 
 unD Ceutfjolb fatten SBadje. 
 
 9Bir ^affen auf umfonft. @g tiff fid^ ntemanb 
 >eran begeben'urib bem ut fein' -ftetierenj 
 drjetgen. ' toar bod^ fonft it)ie ^a^rmarft ^te 
 1735 S e * ift ^ er 9 an 5 e 3lngcr tote berobet, 
 
 ettbem ber ^o^anj auf ber tange ^dngt. 
 
 ftur fd^lec^t efinbel lap fid> fefyn unb fd^h)ingt 
 Un jum SSerbrie^e bie jerlum^ten 5Rufeen. 
 2Sa recite Seute finb, bie macf>cn Ueber 
 1740 2)en langen Umtoeg urn ben fyalben 
 @f>' fie ben 9liicfen beugten bor bem 
 
 muff en iiber biefen ^latj, tuenu fie 
 
 ftatfyau fommen um bie 9Jittagftunbe. 
 35a meint' \<fy fcfyon, 'nen guten $ang ju tfyun, 
 
 1745 $)enn f einer bac^te bran, ben ut ju grii^en; 
 2)a fiefyt'S ber ^Bfaff 1 , ber ^offelmann, -- fam juft 
 SSon einem $ranfen i>er, -- unb ftellt' ficb, b,in 
 5Uiit bem ^oc^tourbigen, grab' bor bie tange. 
 er i grift mu^te mit bem locflein fdjeffen; ' lt * 
 
 1750 3) a fielen att' auf ^nie, icf) felber mit, 
 
 Unb griifjten bie ^Jbnftranj, bocfy nic^t ben ut.
 
 88 2Bill)e(m Sell. 
 
 i'cntljoto x 
 
 >6re, efeft, e3 fiingt mir an gu J?eud)ten,' 
 
 2Bir ftefyen fyier am granger bor bem 
 ' ift bod; eiu Sd;imbf fiir einen 9leitermann, 
 1755 dulbtoad)' ju ftefm bor einem leeren ut, 
 Unb jeber red)te ^erl mu^ un berad;ten. 
 S)ie 9?eberenj ju madien einem ut, 
 @ ift bod), traun, ein narrifd)er SJefe^I. 
 
 Jyricparbt 
 
 2Barum nid;t einem leeren, b.o^Ien ut? 
 1760 Siidft bu bid; bod; bor mand;em [;ot)Ien 
 
 , 5Kccf)tl)i(b unt G I b e 1 1) treten auf ntit tf in&ern unb fleden 
 fte^ um bie Stange. 
 
 Unb bu bift aud; fo ein bienftfert'ger djurfe, 
 Unb 6rad;teft Joadre Seute gern in Unglitrf. 
 5Rag, h)er ba toiff, am ut Doriiberge^n, 
 ^d) briid' bie Slugen ju unb feb,' nid)t ^in. 
 
 1765 )a ftdngt ber Sanbbogt; fyabt 9{efpeft, i(;r Suben! 
 
 /to'' 2Bofft'^ ott, er ging' unb lie^' un f einen 
 6 fottte brum nid;t fd;Ied;ter fte^n um Sanb. 
 
 fie, 
 
 SBottt i^r bom $la ! 3Serh)imfcb,te Solf ber 2Beiber ! 
 SBer fragt nad) eud)? <3d)idt cure banner b,er, 
 1770 3Senn fie ber 2Rut ftid)t, bem Sefef)! ju trpjjen. 
 
 SSeifeer geljen. 
 
 Sell nut ber Tlrmbruft tritt auf, ben Anaben an ber ^ianb fiiljrenb ; \\e geljen 
 an bem ut uorbei QeQen bie Uorbere Sjene, o()ne barauf 311 adjien.
 
 fritter Slufeug. 3>ritte jette. 89 
 
 jeigt nadj bent Sann&ercj, 
 
 SSater, ift'S toafyr, bajj auf bem Serge bort 
 2)ie 23dume bluten, toenn man einen treicb, 
 rauf fufyrte mit ber 2lr.t? 
 
 XeH 
 
 2Ber fagt ba, ^nabe? 
 SSaftljer 
 
 er ^Jieifter irt erjd^It'^. $)ie 33dume feten 
 1775 ebannt, fagt er, unb toer fie fcfyabige, 
 Xem tuadf)fe feine anb fyerauS gum rabe. 
 
 33tiume finb gebannt, ba i[t bie SBafyrfyeit. 
 bu bie gtrnen bort, bie toei^en Corner, 
 
 S)ie fyocb, bi in ben immel ficfy berlieren ? 
 
 1780 25a finb bie letfc^er, bie be s J?adr)t fo bonnern 
 Unb un bie <Srf)IagIatt)inen nieberfenben. 
 
 Sell 
 
 (So tft'S, unb bie 2an)inen fatten Id'ngft 
 2)en ^lerfen 2lltorf unter if)rer Saft 
 ^Berfrfjiittet, toenn ber SBalb bort oben nirf)t 
 1785 2tl eine Sanbioe^r ficfy bagegen ftettte. . 
 
 SSalt^Cf, nacfj eiiugem 53efinnen, 
 
 iebt' Sanber, 33ater, 5oo nidbt Serge finb? 
 
 Sea 
 
 2Benn man tjinunter fteigt Don unfern o^en, 
 Unb immer tiefer fteigt, ben tromen nad^, 
 elangt man in ein gro|e, eb'ne 2anb, 
 1790 2Bo bie 2Balblr>affer nicf)t mebr braufenb fc^dumen,
 
 90 
 
 2)ie $liiffe rufn'g unb gemiidjlidb jiefm ; 
 SDa fiefyt man fret nad) aflen $itnmel3rattmen ; 
 )a $orn toacfyft bort in langen, fd;b'ncn 2tuen, 
 Unb tote ein arten i[t ba 2anb ju fd;auen. 
 
 1795 @i, SSater, toarum fteigen toir bcnn nid;t 
 efd)U)inb t)inab in biefe fdwne Sanb, 
 iatt bap loir un3 i>ier dngftigen unb ftlagen V 
 
 Sanb ift fd^on unb giitig, toie ber immel ; 
 ;, bie'S bebauen, fie genie^en ntd^t 
 1800 2)en egen, ben fie pflanjen. 
 
 9altl)cr 
 
 2Boijnen fie 
 
 frei, h)ie bu, auf i^rem eignen (E'rbe? 
 
 gefyort bem 53ifd)of unb bem $6nig. 
 
 9Solt!)cr 
 
 <So biirfen fie bod) frei in 2Ba'lbern jagen? 
 
 e!I 
 
 2)em ^errn gefibrt ba 2BiIb unb bag efieber. 
 
 9BottI)cr 
 
 1805 (Sie biirfen bod^ frei fifteen in bem (Strom? 
 
 2cU 
 (Strom, ba Sfieer, ba <SaI gef)6rt bem ^b'nig. 
 
 9Ber ift ber ^onig benn, ben atte fiird)ten? 
 
 ItU 
 @ ift ber eine, ber fie fcbiitjt unb na^rt.
 
 Svittev 5ttuf$ug. 2>rttte jene. 91 
 
 <Sie fonncn ficfy nidf>t mutig felbft befdnitjen? 
 
 1810 $ort barf ber -ftadjbar nidfyt bem !iftad)bar trauen. 
 
 28altl)er 
 
 SSater, e totrb tntr eng im toetten Sanb ; 
 S)a h)o^n' tcfy lieber unter ben Satoinen. 
 
 Sell 
 
 3a, h?ol)l ift' beffer, $inb, bie IetfdE)erberge 
 ^m 9tudEen fyaben, al bie bofen 2Renfd;en. 
 
 <te tootTen boriiberge^en. 
 
 SBottljcr 
 
 .1815 (Si, ^Batcr, jiet) ben ut bort auf ber tange. 
 
 Xcll 
 
 3Ba fiimmert un ber ut? $omm', Ia^ un ge^en. 
 
 3nbem er afegefjen tfiU, tritt t^m gvtepfjarbt mit tiorge^attenev $ife entgegen. 
 
 n be ^aifer ^amen ! ^altet an unb fte^t. 
 
 greift in bie ?pite, 
 
 2Ba toottt it)r? 2Barum l;altet ifyr inicf) auf? 
 
 l;abt' SRanbat berle^t; it>r mii^t un folgen. 
 
 1820 ^b,r fyabt bem ut nid;t 
 
 Xttt 
 
 Ia^ mid; gefyen. 
 
 , fort in eftingniS !
 
 92 SBityelm e(. 
 
 SSnltljcr 
 
 >en Skter in efangni< ! nlfe! nlfe! 3n 
 erbei, ifyr banner, gute Seute, fyelft! 
 etoalt ! etoalt ! <5ie fiiJ)ren i^n gefangen. 
 
 9t5ffe(mann, ber $farvcr, unb ^etermann, Der Siflrift, fommeu 
 l)erbei , mit brci anbern DDtdiincrn. 
 
 tgrtft 
 1825 2Ba giebt'g? 
 
 JHiiffelmontt 
 
 2Ba Ieg[t bit >anb an btefen S 3)knn? 
 
 gfriejjljnrbt 
 @r ift ein ^etnb be 5latfer f ein SSerrater. 
 
 XcH, fafct t^n fjeftig, 
 
 @in SSerrciter, id;V 
 
 JKoffclmnitu 
 
 35u irrft bic^, $reunb. a ift 
 er Stett, ein fyrenmanu unb gutcr Sitrger. 
 
 2B(lUIjCr f erblictt SBaltfier Jjfitrfteu itub ei(t tf)iu entgeijeit, 
 
 ro^Dater, ^ilf ! etoalt gefc^iei)t bem SSater. 
 
 1830 ^n efdngni^, fort! 
 
 %3) leifte Siirg^aft, 
 Urn otte toitten, Xett, h)a ift gefdbeften ? 
 
 9Jle tc^t I) a ( unb Stauf fairer tommen. 
 
 ^ric^arbt 
 
 2)e 2anbbogt oberfyerrlicfye etoalt 
 3Serad;tet er unb iuill fie nirf)t erfennen. 
 
 tnuffnt^cr 
 
 t>att' ber
 
 Drttter 2tuf$ug. >ritte jene. 93 
 
 3Held)tf)al 
 
 3>a3 liigft bu, 33ube! 
 eutl)olt> 
 
 1835 Sr fyat bem >ut nid)t Steberenj behnefen. 
 
 Unb barum foff er in efangnt? ^reunb, 
 9^imm meine 23iirgf<f)aft an unb Ia^ i^n lebig. 
 
 
 ^3iirg' bu fiir bid) unb betnen etgnen Seib. 
 
 mtt 
 
 ( f 5" ben 2anb(euten, 
 
 1840 s Jietn, bag ift fc^reienbe etualt. rtragen fair's?, 
 2)a^ man ii)n fortfii^rt, fred), bor unfern Stugen? 
 
 Stgrtft 
 
 2Sir finb bie tdrfern. ^reunbe, bulbet'3 nid^t. 
 2Btr ijaben etnen 9tiicfen an ben anbern. 
 
 2Ber toibcrfc^t fid; bem Sefe^l be3 
 
 9Jo^ brct SaitbfeutC, fjer&eteUenb, 
 
 1845 2Bir Ijelfen eud;. 2Bagiebt'? <Sd;lagt fie ju SBoben. 
 
 Jpilbegorb, aWec^tf)ilb unb SBbetf) fommeit jitriicf. 
 
 ^d; f>elfe mir fd;on felbft. e^)t, gute Seute. 
 9Jtemt ifa, faenn id; bie $raft gebraud^en h)offte, 
 ^d; toiirbe mid; toor i^ren piemen fiird;ten? 
 
 9JJefd)tljaf r 511 griejjfjnrbf, 
 
 j', ifm au unfrer SJiitte toegjufii^ren! 
 
 935alt^cr $iirft "i 1 ^ Stauffoe^cr 
 1850 etaffen!
 
 94 SBUIjelm SeU. 
 
 frfjrett, 
 2IufruI)r unb Gmporung! 
 
 aWau prt Sagbpruer. 
 
 2Betber 
 
 3)a fommt ber Sanbbogt. 
 
 , erlje&t bie Sttmme, 
 
 SJieuterei ! Smporung ! 
 
 cfyret', bi bit berfteft, @d;urfe ! 
 
 9idffelmattn unb 
 
 SBiaft bu f4>tetgen? 
 
 t, ruft noc^ [outer, 
 
 prft 
 
 )a ift ber SSogt. 9Be{> un, tt?a iotrb ba Herbert? 
 
 ju ?Pferb, 'ben flatten auf ber ?5fauft, iRubolf ber arra, 
 ffiertfja unb Wubenj, eiii flrofeeS efotge ou bcroaffnetcn $necf)ten, 
 weldie einen ^ret Don ^Bifen urn bie ganae Sjene fcfjltefjen. 
 
 JHubolf ber ^porra 
 
 1855 ^S(a^, ^Bla^ bem Sanbbogt! 
 
 Xreibt [ie auetnanber. 
 lauft ba 3Solf jitfammen? 2Bcr ruft 
 
 9l(lgeincine Stiffe. 
 
 tuar'^ ? ^3^ luiff e tt)i)fen ; ju griefeoorbt, 
 
 2)u tritt toor. 
 3Ber bift bu, unb tt>a ^altft bu btcfen 3Kann? 
 
 6r giebt ben galfeit etnent 2>iener. 
 
 Jyricfifiarbt 
 
 eftrcnger err, id; but betn SSaffenfned^t 
 1860 Uub toofylbeftettter 9Bdd)ter bet bcm ut.
 
 fritter Sfufaitg. S)rittc gene. 95 
 
 2)iefen 9Rann er griff id; iiber frifd;er 
 2Bie er bem wt ben fyrengrujs berfagte. \ 
 SSerfyaften tooflt' id; ifyn, tote bu befafylft, 
 Unb mit etoalt toitt i^n ba SSoIJ entrei^en. 
 
 r, nac^ enter 
 
 1865 SBcrad^tcft bu fo beinen ^aifer, Steff, 
 
 Unb m i d;, ber ^ier an fetner tatt gebtetet, 
 bu bie @fyr' berfagft bem wt, ben id; 
 ^riifung be3 er/orfam aufge^angen? 
 boje Straiten Ijaft bu mir berraten. - 
 
 XtU 
 
 1870 SSerjei^t mir, lieber >err. 3lu Unbebad;t, 
 9?id;t au^ 3Serad;tung eurer ift'S gefd;ef)n. 
 28dr' id; befonnen, i)ie^' id; nid;t ber 3:ett; 
 ^d; bitt' urn nab', e fott nid;t me^r begegnen. 
 
 t, nae^ eintgem , 
 
 bift ein 3Jleifter auf ber Sfrmbruft, 3rett; > 
 
 1875 3ftan fagt, bu nef)mft e auf mit jebem <5d;utjen? 
 
 aaBalt^er Sell 
 
 Unb ba mu^ tt)af)r fein, >err; 'nen 3l^)fel fd;ie^t 
 2)er SSater bir bom 33aum auf fyunbert @d;ritte. 
 
 (Beftlet 
 
 3ft ba bein ^nabe, 
 
 a, lieber err. 
 r 
 
 bu ber $inber me^r?
 
 96 SBityelm Sell. 
 
 QJefjler 
 
 1880 Unb nxld;er ift'3, ben bu am meiften liebft? 
 
 ell 
 
 >err, beibe finb fie mir gleid; liebe $inber. 
 
 efjler 
 
 9lun, ett, toeil bu ben 2lbfel triffft bom Saume 
 2(uf Fwnbert ( @d;ritte, fo tnirft bu beine 5lun[t 
 SSor mir bettKifyren miiffen. 9timm bie 2Irmbruft, 
 1885 u F>aft fie gleid; gur anb, unb mad)' bid; fertig, 
 Ginen 2(^fel toon be ^naben Slo))f ju fdnejjen. 
 2)od), JtiiH id) raten, jiele gut, ba^ bu 
 2)en 2(pfel trejfeft auf ben erften @dmj$; 
 2)enn fef)lft bu i^n, fo ift bein ^o^f berloren. 
 
 Stile geben geidjeu be @ef)rerfen. 
 
 1890 >err, ft>e(d;e Ungefyeure finnet i 
 
 an? ^d; foil bom Bauble meineS . 
 
 , ncin bod;, lieber err, ba fb'mmt end; nid;t 
 
 $u <3inn. 5Bert)ut'^ ber gnab'ge ott! 3)a fo^nt il 
 $m @rnft bon einem SSater nid;t begel;ren. 
 
 c^ler 
 
 1895 2)u h)irft ben 3tpfel fd;ic^en bon bem 
 3)e ^naben ; id; bcgefyr'3 unb iuill'e. 
 
 XeU 
 
 SO 
 
 Sftit meiner 2trmbruft auf ba liebe >aubt 
 eignen ^inbe jielen? Gfyer fterb' id;. 
 
 fd;ie|3eft, obcr fttrbft mit beinem ^naben.
 
 2)ntter Sluing. 2>ritte jene. 97 
 
 Sell 
 1900 ^rf) fed ber 9Jiorber toerben meineS 
 
 >err, ifyr fyabt fetne $inber, imffet nidtt, 
 
 fid) betoegt in eine 23ater 
 
 jt 
 
 
 @i, ett, bu bift ja plotjlid; fo befonnen. 
 
 9Jian fagte mtr, bafj bu ein 2;rdumer feift J\ 
 1905 Unb bid^) entfernft toon anbrer 5Renfcb y en 2Bei[e. 
 ^A u Itebft ba eltfame ; brum bab' \$ je^t ^ 
 
 Gin etgen SBagftudE.Jur bid) augefud)t. cA^ 
 
 { . | A*VM*' 
 
 (Sin anbrer toofyl 'oebdcbte fid; ; b u brucfft 
 1)ie 2(ugen ju unb greifft e ^erj^aft an. 
 
 ert| ^ 
 
 1910 (Sd;erjt nid;t, o err, mit biefen armen Seuten. 
 ^b,r fei)t fie bleid; unb jitternb fteb,n ; fo toenig 
 @inb fie ^unit)eil getoobnt anl >eurem SRunbe. 
 
 - . Jv fjt^^n^ 
 
 Jf efeler 
 
 2Ber fagt eucfy, ba^ id; fd>erje? 
 
 reift jia^ einem Saumjmeige, ber iiber iljn ^erfiongt, 
 
 ^ier ift ber Stpfel. 
 
 3Kan mad)e 9taum; er nefyme feine SSeite, 
 1915 2Bie' 33raud> ift; ad;tjig @d>ritte geb' id; if^m, 
 5iid;t toemger, nod; met>r. @r rub.mte fid;, j^-.--' 
 9tuf if)rer ^unbert feinen 9Jlann ju treffen. 
 ^e^t, dwtje, triff unb feb.Ie nid;t ba 3^^- 
 
 9iubolf ber >>nrvnc- 
 
 ott, ba h)irb ^ritftaft. ^atte nieber, nabe, 
 1920 @ gilt, unb fleb/ ben Sanbbogt urn bein Seben! 
 
 2Saltl)cr prft 
 Seifeite ju SJMcfjtfjal, ber Inum feiue Ungebutb beaming!, 
 
 altet an cud;, id; fleb/ end; bruin, bleibt rut^ig.
 
 98 \JL^ tf SBilfclm Sell. 
 
 8krtl)rt, sum Conboogt, 
 
 e3 genug fein, err. Unmenfcfylid; ift '3, 
 eine3 $ater Slngft alfo ju fbielen. 
 2Benn biefer cmne -JJlann aud) Seib unb 2eben 
 1925 23ertirft burcfy feine leicfyte (Sc^ulb, bet ott 1 
 (Jr ^citte je^t je(>nfac^en ^Cob empfunben. *tfv 
 ntlnfjt if>n ungefrdn!t in feine wtte ; vr 
 @r t>at euc{> lennen (ernen; biefer <Stunbe 
 SKirb er unb feine $inbefinber benfen. 
 
 efjler 
 
 1930 Off net bie affe. ^rifd), iuaS jauberft bu? 
 2)ein Seben ift toerlwrft, id; fann birf> toten ; 
 Unb fie^ id; lege gncibig bein 
 ^n beine eigne funftgeitbte anb. 
 3)er fann nicfyt flagen iiber fatten 
 1935 2)en man jinn SJeifter feine @cf)ic!fal mad^t. 
 2)u riifymft bicf) beine fid;ern SSlid'S. SBofylan! 
 ^ ^ier gilt e, <5 dE) it ^ e, beine $unft ju jeigen ; 
 
 unb ber ^reiS >ift gro^. 
 
 djtoarje tfffen in ber @ 
 1940 ^ann aud^ ein anbrer; ber ift tnir ber 2Reifter, 
 SDer feiner ^unft geiwi^ ift iiberaff, 
 3)em '$ erj nicfyt in bie anb tritt, nod) in Stuge. 
 
 SSalt^cr $tirft f nrirft fic^ ot ifjm nieber, i^$* 
 
 err SanbDogt, h)ir erfennen cure or;eit ; <K 
 od> laffet nab' bor 9fted;t crgefjen; nefymt 
 1945 2>ie d'Ifte meiner abe, ne^mt fie ganj. 
 9iur biefes rdplic^e erlaffet einem 9?ater. 
 
 ro^bater, !nie' ni4>t bor bem falfcften 
 
 agt, h)o id; I;inftef;n fott. ^d) fiird)t' mid) nid;t.
 
 fritter Stufjug. S)ritte jene. 
 
 99 
 
 SDer SSciter trifft ben 23ogel ja im 
 1950 (Sr toirb nid;t fefylen auf ba erj be 
 
 4, tauffadjer 
 err Sanbtoogt, rufyrt eud; nid;t be 
 
 D ben!et, 
 
 jeigt nuf ben ffnaben, 
 
 binb' i^n an bie Sinbe bort. 
 
 Unfc^ulb? 
 
 ein ott im >tmmel ift, 
 9tebe ftetjn fiir eure 
 
 btnben? 
 1955 -Wein, id^ ioitt md)t gebunben fein. ^5^) tt)ttt 
 
 till fyalten, h)ie ein Samm, tinb aurf) nid;t atmen. 
 2Benn ifyr mtrf) binbet, nein, fo fann id; '3 nid;t, 
 @o toerb' id) toben gegen metne S3anbe. 
 
 *9iubolf ber ^>arro^ 
 ie 3lugen nur lajj bir berbinben, ^nabe. 
 
 SBottljcr 2ctt 
 1960 2Barum bie Stugen? en!et i^r, id; fiird^te 
 
 $en ^feil toon 3Sater anb? %$ \v\tt tyn feft 
 
 rtoarten unb nid;t juden mit ben SBimpern. 
 
 ^rifd), SSater, jeig'l, ba^ bu ein d^iUje bift. 
 
 @r glaubt bir' nid;t; er ben!t un gu berberben. 
 1965 2)em SSutrid; jura SSerbruffe fd;ie^' unb triff. 
 
 9^^' 
 
 Gr ge^t an bie Sinbe, man legt i^m ben 9tyfet auf. 
 9)ic(d)t^of f su ben Sonbleuten, 
 
 2Ba ? <5ott ber ^rebel fid; bor unfern 2lugen 
 SSottenben? 2Boju ^>aben imr gefd;tooren?
 
 100 SBiHjelm 
 
 touffadjer 
 
 ift umfonft. 2ir fyaben feine SBaffen; jr 
 
 fefyt ben S&alb toon 2anen urn un3 fyer. 
 
 1970 D, fatten fair's mtt frifd>er Sfyat toottenbet! 
 ott benen, bie gum 2(uffd)iib rieten! 
 
 2Berf! man ffi^rt bie SSaffen ntd&t 
 efabrltrf) ift', ein SRorbgeiue^r ju tragen, 
 llnb auf ben <5cf>iien fbrtngt ber ^Bfetl 
 1975 2)ie ftolje Slecfyt, ba fid) ber 53auer nimmt, 
 SBeleibiget ben t)5rf)ften errn be Sanbel. 
 etoaffnet fei ntemanb, al tuer gebietet. 
 
 euc^, ben ^feil ju fufjren unb ben 53ogen, 
 , fo h)ttt id) ba 3i^ euc ^ ^ a 3u geben. 
 
 Xcfl f fponnt bie Strntbruft unb legt ben ^Sfeil auf, 
 
 980 Dffnet bie affe. ^Ia ! 
 
 touffarf)cr 
 
 mmerme^r ! %fy jittert, 
 erbebt eud> ; eure ^niee toanfen. 
 r 
 
 Zt\\, lafet bie 9lrm6ruft finfen, 
 
 bor ben 2lugen. 
 
 SBcibcr 
 
 ott im ^wnmel ! 
 
 XeH, sum anbogt, 
 
 T" Grlaffet mir ben c^ufe. ier ift mein 
 
 Gr rcijit bie nift nuf. 
 
 1985 Stuft eure ^Heifigen unb fto^t mid) nieber.
 
 fritter 2(ufjiig. Sritte gene. 101 
 
 v- 
 
 %<fy toitf bein 2eben nid;t, icf) toill ben cfwfj. yA 
 SDu fannft ja atte, ett, an nicfytS berjagft bu; * 
 SDa teuerruber fiifyrft bu toie ben 33ogen ; j> 
 2)i4> fc^redtt !ein turm, luenn e 511 retten gilt.* 
 1990 ^e^t, 9fietter, i)ilf bir felbft; bu retteft aUe. 
 
 2ett ftef)t in fitrrfjterlic^em Sompf, mit ben $anben suctenb unb bie rodenben 
 
 2tugen balb aitf ben Sanbbogt, bn(b jum ^irntnet geric^tet. sptotjiirf) greift er iit 
 
 jeinen fiodjer, nimmt einen jioeiten ^5feU IjernuS unb ftecft i^n in feinen ofler. 
 
 Set SonbDogt bemerft ntte biefe Seloegungen. 
 
 cr Xettf unter ber Sinbe, 
 
 ' bu. $$ fiird^t' m\<fy ni 
 Sell 
 
 6r rafft ficfj jufommen unb fegt on. 
 
 bet bie gaije 3it "&" in ber ^eftigiten pnnuung geftanben unb mit ettjatt nn 
 fief) geljalten, tritt ^eroor, 
 
 err .^jnbbogt, h)eitev tuerbet if>r' nid^t tretben ; 
 iuerbet nid;t. 6 nxir nur eine ^riifung; 
 ^i 06 ^ ^ a ^ ^ r erreirf;t. 3 U ^^ getrteben, 
 1995 erei)It bie trenge i^re h)ei[en 3^ e ^/ f** 
 Unb atlguftraff gef^annt, jerfpringt ber Sogen 
 
 WcfJlcr 
 
 ^3^>r fc^toetgt, bi man eud^ aufruft. 
 
 reben. 
 
 barf'3. $e ^ontg @^re ift mtr fyetltg; 
 folcf)e 3^eg^ment mu^ >afj ertuerben. 
 ift be ^ontg SBitte nid)t, id) barf'S
 
 102 SBityelm 
 
 <K^ 
 Sefycwpten. olcbe G5raufam!eit toerbient v/ 
 
 ^ 
 
 2Jlein SSoII nicfyt; baju fyabt ib,r feine S3ottmae$t. 
 
 a, ifyr Iprfiib, nt cud) ! 
 
 Oiubenj 
 
 ^d^ f>ab' ftiU gefdjhriegen 
 3u alien fd^ioeren Xf>aten, bie icf) fa^>; 
 2005 5Jiein fefyenb 2luge f>ab' id; jugefrfdoffen ; 
 
 9JJein iiberf4)iDeKenb unb em^orte^ erj '<r A 
 ' idE) ^inabgebriirft in meinen 33ufen; jr 
 
 langer fcbioeigen Vocir' SSerrat 
 3ln meinem SSaterlanb unb an bem $aifer. 
 
 tt, loirft fid) smiidjeit if)it unb ben Sanbbogt, 
 
 D ott! ib,r reigt ben 28iitenben nod^ meb,r. - 
 
 ~js jM ' 
 
 JHubenj V 
 
 fcerliejj id^ ; meinen Slutgberioanbten 
 ntfagt' id^, affe Sanbe ber 9iatiir 
 3erri^ ic^, urn an cud; micfy anjufd;lie^en. ' 
 2)a 33efte aller glaubt' id^) ju beforbernjjK 
 2015 2)a id^ be &atfer SKad^t befeftigte. K^ 
 
 2)ie Sinbe fa'IIt Don meinen Slugen. <Sd;aubernb 
 >' ic^ an einen 2(bgrunb mid) gefiifyrtj , 
 freie3;'a(ftm fyabt i^r irr geleitet, r ^^ 
 reblic^) erj berfii^rt. ^cfy h>ar baran 
 2020 3Jlein 3SoIf in befter SRcinung jit berberben. 
 
 c^lcr 
 SSertoegner, biefe @^rad;e beinem errn? 
 
 35er ^aifcr ift mein .^err, nicf^t ib^r. ^rei bin id(> 
 2Bie ib,r geboren, unb icb, meffe mid;
 
 fritter Hufjug. 2)ritte @$ene. 103 
 
 eudj in jeber ritterlicben 
 2025 Unb ftiinbet ifyr nicfyt fyier in $aifer3 9tamen, >j 
 2)en icfj berefyre, felbft too man ifyn fdfyanbet, * 
 2) en >anbfrf>ub, toa'rf' id} toor eucfy ^in, if)t fofftet 
 ^ac^ ritterltcfcem S3raud^ mir 2lnth>ort geben. 
 ^a, iotnft nur euren 9teifigen. ^d^ fte^e 
 
 2030 -ftidjt h)ei)rlp ba, tote b i e. 9tuf ba gjott 
 
 >^* x ' 3^ ^ab' ein cfytoert, 
 
 llnb it>er mir nab,t 
 
 @touffncf)er f ruft, 
 
 ift gefatten. 
 
 Snbem ftc^ atle nac^ btejer eite geroenbet uitb Sert^a jioifc^en SRubenj unb 
 ben Sanb&ogt fic^ geroorfen, ^at Sell ben ^Jfeil afigebriidt. 
 
 2)er ^nabe lebt. 
 
 Side Sttmmcit 
 
 $5er 3l^fel ift getroffen. 
 
 SBaltfjer gurft (c^toantt unb brof)t }u finfeit, SBertfja ^iilt 
 
 erftaunt, 
 
 gefcfyoffen? 2Bie? 2)er Stafenbe! 
 
 iilt if)n.V 
 
 7 
 
 2)er ^nabe lebt. $ommt ju eud^, guter 2?ater. 
 
 s !l*altl)Cr Xcfl f fommt mtt bent Slpfel gefprungen, 
 
 2035 SSater fjier ift ber 2tpfel. 2Bu|t' tcfy'S ja, 
 SDu toiirbeft beinen $naben ni<f)t berle^en. 
 
 XeH ftanb niit sorgefcognem 2eib, at moUt' er bent ^Sfeit fotgen ; bte 2lrm= 
 bruft entftnft feiner anb ; tote er ben Snaben fommeit fiefjt. eilt ec tfjm ntit 
 
 mp~4*-f\s 
 
 auSgebretteten 9lrmen entgegen uitb ^ebt if)n mtt Ijeftiger gnbruntt jit (einem 
 ^erjen t|inauf ; in biefer Stellung fintt er fraftloS jufammen. 9llle ftefjen gerii^rt.
 
 104 SBityelm 2eO. 
 
 .0 giit'ger tmmel! 
 
 28dftljer $ttrft, jit SSnter unb ofjit, 
 
 $tnber! meine $tnber! 
 
 tcntff cither 
 ott fei gelobt! 
 
 iieutljolb 
 
 ftmr ein @d^u^ ! 
 2Birb man nod^ reben in ben fyatften 
 
 JKubolf bcr 
 
 2040 rja'f)len toirb man toon bem 
 
 <2olang bte Serge fteF>n auf ifyrem runbe. 
 
 SRetd^t bent Sombsogt ben 9lpfet- 
 
 cftlcr 
 
 Set ott ! ber 3l^fel mitten burcfy ge[c^o[fen. 
 @ h)ar ein -Bteifterfcfwjj, ic^ mu^ if>n loben. 
 
 JKoffclmanu 
 
 er c^u^ h)ar gut; bod^ Jet)e bem, ber il>n 
 2045 2)aju getrieben, ba^ er ott berfmf)te. 
 
 
 ju eurf), ^ett, [tet^t auf, i^r fyabt eud; mannlidb 
 eloft, unb frei fount ifyr nac^ aufe gefyen. 
 
 9idffc(maint 
 
 ^ommt, fommt unb bringt ber Gutter if>ren 6ot)n. 
 
 @ie iootten ifin luegfiiljren. 
 
 f fommt juriitf, 
 
 befe^It i^r x
 
 fritter Stufjiig. >ritte @jene. 105 
 
 cjjlcr 
 
 2)u ftedteft' 
 
 2050 -ftod) einen jtoeiten ^pfeil 311 bir. -- 3>a, |a, 
 %<fy fafy e$ toofyl. 2Ba3 tneinteft bn bamit? 
 
 efl, berfegen, ^//' 
 
 err, ba ift alfo 6raurf)Itd^ bet ben cfyuijen. 
 
 c^Ier 
 
 Xeff, bie 3lnttoort Ia^' id) bir nicfyt gelten ; 
 toirb h?a 2lnber tool^l bebeutet fyaben. 
 f Sag' mir bie SBafyrfyeit frifc^ unb fro^lirf), STeH; 
 2Ba|_e|_aud^_jei / bein Seben ftc^r' ic^ bir. 
 SSoju ber jtoeite $f eil ? 
 
 o err j 
 
 2Beil i()r ntid^ meineg ebj?ng fyabt 
 
 @o ttil( id) eucf) bie 2Baf)rf)eit griinblirf) fagen. 
 
 6r jie^t ben ^fett au bent otter unb ftefit ben SanbBogt mit einem 
 fcaren Sltcf on, 
 
 2060 5Jiit biefem jtoeiten ^feit burrftj'dBo^ id^ eucfy, 
 $Benn id) mein Iiebe3 ^inb getroffen, f>dtte, 
 Unb eitrer, VDa^rlicf), f>att' id^) nic^t gefefylt. 
 
 2eben3 ^ab' td^ bic^ gefid^ert; 
 $dj gab mein Stittertuort, ba toitf id^ fatten. 
 2065 2)od9 toeil id) beinen bo[en 6inn erfannt, 
 $Btff id() bic^ fit^ren (affen unb beriua^ren, 
 2Bo tueber 9Konb nod^ onne bid; befd;eint, 
 SDamtt ic^ ftdjer fei Dor beinen 
 rgreift if>n, ^ned;te. S3inbet
 
 106 SIMHfffoi Sell. 
 
 touffctdjer 
 
 2070 @o fonntet ifyr an einem SRanne fyanbeln, . 
 Sin bem fid) otte >anb ficfytbar.berfunbigt? 
 
 AAV> 
 
 OJefeler 
 
 Sajj fefyn, 06 fie ifm jtoeimal retten toirb. 
 
 9ttan bring' ifm auf mein Srf;iff. ^d; folge nad^ 
 
 ogleicfy; id^> felbft toitt i^n narf) ^ii^nad;t fii^ren? 
 
 JHoffclmoun 
 
 2075 $<* biirft if)r nidfit, ba barf ber $atfer nid^t ; 
 3)a h)ibrftreitet unfern ^rei^eitbriefen. 
 
 c^'^ efeler j 
 
 2Bo finb fie? $at ber ^aifer fie beftattgt?'}* 
 E>at fie nj6t beftdtigt. $)tefe unft f 
 | erft Irfoiorben iuerben burcf) ef)Drfam. 
 2080 9lebeUen feib i^r atte gegen $atfer 
 erid^t unb na^rt beriuegene m^oritng. 
 ^d) fenn' eud^> atte; tcr; burdBfd^au' eud) ganj. 
 SDen nefym' ic^ je^t berau^ au eurer 9}Jttte; 
 atte feib if>r tetl^aft feiner <Scf)iiIb. 
 
 2085 28er Kug ift, lerne fcfytoetgen unb ge^ora^en. 
 
 6r cntfernt fic^; Sert^a, Kubenj, $arrn unb ffnetfite folgett, griefe^arbt unb 
 fieutfjotb bleiben juriicf. 
 
 iirft, in fjefttgcm Sc^merj, 
 
 @ ift borbei; er I?at'5 befcfjloffen, micr; 
 Wit meinem ganjen aufe ju berberben. 
 
 tnnffadier. jum Sea, jf 
 
 v * 
 
 D ioarum mu^tet i(;r ben 3Bittrid() reijen? 
 
 Sell 
 
 Skjtmnge fief), toer meinen cbmerj gefit^It.
 
 fritter lufjug. SDritte @$ene. 107 
 
 tauffadjer 
 
 2090 D nun ift aKe3, alle fyin. 3JJtt eud^i 
 inb fair gefeffelt atte unb gebunben. 
 
 Saitblcute, umringen ben JeH, iv^ 
 
 2Rit eud^ gef)t itnfer letter ^roft ba{>in. 
 
 Seitt^otb, na^ert ftd), 
 
 SteH, e erbarmt mi<^ ; bocfy id; mu^ ge^ord^en. 
 
 Sett 
 2e6t too^I! 
 
 2BnItl)cr ^cll, 
 
 ftrfj mit ^eft'9 em center j an if)n fc^miegenb, 
 
 D 3Sater! SSater! IteBer SSater! 
 
 Xd( r 5ett bte 9lvme jum 
 
 2095 2)ort broben ift bein SSater. 2)en ruf an. 
 
 (5tttitffotf|cr 
 , fag' idb eurem SSeibe nid^t bon 
 
 ben ffnaben. mit Snfcrunft on feine Sruft, 
 
 ' ift unbetle^t ; mir toirb ott f>elfen. 
 
 SRetfet fid) fdjneU lo unb fotgt ben 2Baffenfned)ten.
 
 Dtertcr 
 
 (rfte 
 Oftlidjeg lifer beS SMertoalbftfittenfeeS. 
 
 $ie feftjam geftalteten fdjroffen fjfelfen im 3Beftcn )d)f iejjen ben ^rofpcft. 5?cr (See 
 ift beroegt ; f)ejttQe 9taufd)en unb Sofen, ba3tt)i)d)en S8(i^e unb 
 
 Don crfau. fjifdjer unb fjf i ) ^ e r f n a b e. 
 
 ^rf; fafy'3 mit Stugen an, ii)r fount tnir'< glauben; 
 '^ ift atfe fo gefc^e^n, h)te i^ eud; fagte. 
 
 2100 S)er eff gefangen abgefiiFjrt narf) 
 
 SDer befte 9)?ann im 2anb, ber brabfte 2lrm, 
 2Benn' einmal gelten fofite fitr bie 
 
 ' 
 
 
 2anbbogt fiifyrt if>n felbft ben 6ee fyerauf; 
 <5te toaren eben bran, fia) einjufdtiffen, 
 2105 31I ia^) toon ^Utden abfui)r; bod; ber titrm, 
 2)er eben ic|tim 3lnjug ift, unb ber$ 
 9lud; mid^ g^jtrwngen, eilenb f)ier ju lanben, 
 berf)inbert fyaben. 
 
 in $effeln, in be SSogt eioalt. 
 2110 D glaubt, er inirb ifyn tief genug Dergraben, 
 er be Srage 2i<f>t nidbt toieber fieb,t. 
 fiird)ten mu^ er bie geredte 3 
 freien 9Jianne, ben er fd;tt)er
 
 SMerter Slufjug. Grfle jene. 109 
 
 1)er Sntfanbammann aucfy, ber eble 
 2115 2]on Sitttngfyaufen, fagt man, lieg' am Xobc. 
 
 S-tfdjer 
 
 @o brid)t ber leljte 2(nfer unfrer offnung. 
 toar e nod^ affein, ber feine (Sttmtne 
 burfte fur be 5BoIfe 9^edBte. 
 
 turmlnimmt iiberbanb. @eba6t eudb iuoBI 
 
 IS r\f)AJ3l.~J 
 
 'n'f^mc'^crberg' in bem orf; benn ^eut' 
 bod^ an !eine 3tbfaf)rt mefyr ju benfen. e^t 06 
 
 ftifdjcr 
 
 ^ett gefangen unb ber ^reifyerr tot: 
 
 bie f red? e^@ time, SC^rannei, 
 2Birf atte @d;am fyintoeg ! 2)er 9J?unb ber SBaty 
 2125 ^ft ftumm, ba fe^nbe 2(uge ift geblenbet, 
 3)er 2(rm, ber retten foffte, ift gefeffelt. 
 
 ffiute 
 
 @l b,agelt fdBtoer. ^ommt in bie ^iitte, SSater; 
 6^ ift ni(i)t fommlicf), ^ier im ^reien ^ 
 
 ^ * fttfefjcr 
 
 : 9lafet, i^r 2BinJe ! glammt b^erab, ib,r 
 2130 ^b,r 2BoIfen,^berftet' / ie^t ^erunter, trome '/ 
 
 2)e ^tmmelS, unb^Trfauft ba Sanb! Berftort r 
 
 ^m $etm~bie imgeborenen efrf)(ed;ter ! 
 
 $br toitben lemente, iDerbet err! 
 
 $b,r Sdren, lommt, ib,r alien 9Bolfe toieber 
 2135 2)er gro^en 2Biifte! eucb, ge^ort ba Sanb. 
 
 9Ber twirb ^ter leben twotten ofyne
 
 110 2BUl)dm 
 
 <port, hrie ber 2lbgrunb toft, ber 2Birbel bruttt ; / 
 o fyatM nod) nie geraft in biefem cfylunbe.j A 
 
 3u jielen auf be eignen jtinoes ^paupi, ,0 
 2140 old)e toarb feinent 3Sater nod; geboten."' 
 llnb bie yicdwc foU nid;t in toilbent rimnti 
 id) brob^miporen? D,ntid) fott' nid)t ttmnbern, 
 JBenn fid; bi ^-elfen oiidfen in ben ee ; 
 2Benn ienq B a ^ en / i cne @ifetiirme, <Jr 
 
 fSV^* 4 ^ Lr^ 
 
 2145 2)ie nie auftauten fett bent qo^fungStag,' 1 ^ 
 3Son i^rcn ^of?en $utmen nieberfd^meljen ; 
 2Benn bie Serge bredjen; ioenn bie alien 
 ^inftiirjen, eine jn^eite iinbflut attekX 
 IBofynfta'tten ber Sebenbigen berfdilingi. man 
 
 ftnate J 
 
 2150 ort iF>r, fie lauten broben auf bent Serg. ^ v 
 eh)i^ I>at man ein d)iff in Wot gefef>n . 
 Unb giet)t bie lode, bafj gebetet tnerbe. etdgfatf etac>| 
 
 9Bel^e bent ^afyrjeug, ba, je^t untern)eg, u 
 ^n biefer furd)tbarn <t; '^lege it>irb getoiegt! ^ 
 2155 ier ift ba teuer*urmu"^ unb ber teurer; 
 
 turm ift SJkifter; 2Binb unb SfficUc f^ielen 
 mtt bent 9Kenfd)en. 2)a ift naf> nnb fern 
 Sufen, ber if?m freunblid) dn^ getua'fyrte. 
 6anblo nub f d;roff anfteigenb ftarren ifym 
 
 "' jifjy^'^l^ ' '' 
 
 2160 3)ie ^elfen, bie'unimrtlidten, entgegen, 
 
 Unb toeifen i^nt nur i^re fteinern fdiroffe Sruft. 
 
 ^r .Qitabc, bcutct liufs, 
 
 3?ater, ein d)iff; e lommt toon
 
 SBterter 2Iuf$ug. <5rfte jene. Ill 
 
 ott fyelf ben armen Seuten ! SBenn ber turrn^ 
 ^n bie fa SBafferf luft ficfy erft toerfangen, ' . , 9 
 
 2165 ann raft ermn ftc^ mit be Slau&tterS ^ngft, ^ 
 an be tttcr ifenftabc fc^Iagt. 
 $forte fud^t er^eulenb ft^ bergeben^, 
 4>ran!en if)n bie $elfen ^, 
 ben engen ^ajj bermauren. 
 
 Gr fteigt auf bie 
 
 2170 @ ift ba 
 
 am roten ad unb an ber 
 
 erid;te otte! ^a, er ift e* felbft, 
 
 2)er 2anbt>ogt, ber ba fa{>rt. .3)ort fcfyifft er fyn 
 
 Unb fiif)rt im cfyiffe fein SSerbrec^en mit. 
 
 2175 <5cfynett i^at ber 2trm be 9lad^er if>n gefunben; 
 ^e^t fennt er iiber fify ben fta'rfern errn. 
 2)iefe 2Betlen geben nid?t auf feine timme; 
 2)iefe $elfen biirfen if)re aubter nid^t 
 33or feinem ute. ^nabe, bete nirf)t; 
 
 2180 reif nid;t bem ^icf^ter in ben Slrm. 
 
 bete fiir ben Sanbbogt ntdf)t ; tcf) bete 
 
 ben SCeH, ber auf bem (Scfyiff fid^ mit befinbet. 
 
 D llnbernunft be blinben elements! 
 s Diupt bu, um einen <5d;ulbigen 511 treffen, 
 2185 ^>a dfttff mitfamt bem 6teuermann berberben?
 
 112 SBilljelm Sell. 
 
 M italic 
 
 fief), fie toaren gliidlid; fdion borbei 
 SBitggiSgrat; bod; bie etoalt be 
 $)er toon bem ^eufetemuufter ioiber^rallt, 
 SBirft fie jum grofjen 21 gen berg juriid. 
 2190 ^jd; fef;' fie ntd)t mef>r. 
 
 Sort ift ba acfmeffer 
 2Bo fct;on ber <Srf)iffe me^rere gebrocfyen. 
 3Senn fie nid^t leiIid; bort Doriiber Icnfen, 
 (So toirb ba dnff jerfd;mettert an ber ^ 
 35te fid}^ga^jb^tgA(lfenft in bie Siefe. 
 2195 <Sie F>aben einen gutcn teuermann 
 
 2lm 33 orb ; fount etner retten, h)dr' ber 
 Sod; bem finb 2lrm' unb dnbe ja gefeffelt. 
 
 28 i I f) e I m Sell nut ber Slrmbruft. 
 
 ttr fommt mit rajcfien Sc^rttteit, blicft erftnunt itmfjer unb jetgt bie ^efttgfte Seroe= 
 
 gung. 28enn er mitten auf ber Sjeite ift, imrft er fic^ nieber, bie anbe ju ber Grbe 
 
 unb bnnn jinn .^tmmel oubreitenb. 
 
 5iltat)C r bcmerlt if)n, 
 
 ieb, SSater, tt>er ber 9Jtann ift ber bort Iniet? 
 
 ^if^cr 
 
 6r fa^t bie Grbe an mit feinen anben 
 2200 Unb fdjeint ir>ie au^er fid; 311 fein. 
 
 ii Italic, fommt orioiirt, 
 
 2Ba fei)' id>! 3?ater, 35ater, fommt unb fe^t. 
 
 ^tft^Cr, naf)ert firf), 
 
 2Ber ift c ? ott tin immel! 28a? ber Sett? 
 2Bie fommt it;r ^iel;er? 9tebet.
 
 Alerter 2luf$ug. (Srfte @jene. 113 
 
 ftuabe 
 
 SBart ifyr nid&t 
 
 3)ort auf bent <5rfnff gefangen unb gebunben? 
 
 &ifd)er 
 2205 ^fyr tourbet nicfyt nad^ 5lii^nac^t abgefii^rt? 
 
 Xcfl, ftefit auf, 
 
 ^(^ bin befreit. 
 
 ^titfjer unb Slnolic 
 
 Sefreit? D 28unber otte! 
 
 2Bo fommt ibr ber? 
 
 2)ort au bem <5d)iffe. 
 
 c f jugteid), 
 ift ber Sanbbogt? 
 
 2tuf ben 2Betten tretbt er. 
 
 3ft' mogltrf)? Slber ityr? 2Bie feib i^r ^ier, 
 2210 etb euren S3anben unb bem <5turm entfommen? 
 
 otte3 gndb'ge ^iirjejjung. 6rt an. 
 
 Jyifrljcr nub iiuabc 
 D rebet, rebet. 
 
 Xctt 
 
 in Slltorf fid? 
 
 Segeben, toi^t i^r'? 
 
 ^tfd)cr 
 
 ei^ id9 ; rebet.
 
 114 SBUljelni Sell. 
 
 Sell 
 
 $>ajj mid) ber Sanbbogt f($en lief} unb binben, 
 2215 9tad> feiner 23urg 511 $iif}nacr)t iuotltc fiifyren? 
 
 Unb fid) mit eud> ju ^litelen etngefdnfft. 
 
 2Bir toiffen alle. @pred;t, n)ie ifyr entfommen? 
 
 lag trn d^tff, tnit <5tridfen feft gebunben, 
 
 etn aufgegebner SJiann. 9Ud)t ijofft' id) 7 
 fro^e Sic^t ber <5onne mef>r ju fe^n, 
 attin unb ber 5ltnber UebeS 
 Unb troftlo^ bltcEt' id> in bie 
 
 O armer 
 
 IcH 
 
 60 fufyren totr ba^in, 
 2)er SSogt, S^ubolf ber arra unb bie 
 
 2225 S^etn ^bd;er aber mit ber Slrmbruft lag 
 2tm ^intern ranfen bei bem teuerruber. 
 Unb all h)ir an bie @cfe ]e|t gelangt 
 33eim fleinen 2lren, ba berl)dngt' el ott, 
 2)a^ fold; ein graufam rniirbrifd) Ungeiuitter 
 
 2230 a|ilingl ^erjuljjbrac^ au bel otti)arb @d)liinben, 
 2)al atten Stuberern bal erj ent[anl, 
 Unb meinten atte, elenb ju ertrinfen. 
 3)a ^ort' id^)% tote ber Wiener einer fid^ 
 3um Sanbbogt tuenbet' unb bie 2Borte tyrad? : 
 
 2235 S^r fef>et eure -ftot unb unfre, err, 
 
 Unb bajj Juir all' am 9tanb be Xobel fc^h)eben ; 
 2)ie tcuerleute aber toiffen fid; 
 
 grower ^urd;t nid;t 9tat unb finb be
 
 SSievter Stitfang. (Srfte @$ene. 115 
 
 berid;tet. 9?un aber ift ber 
 2240 (Ein ftarfer 5)iann unb toeifj ein cfyiff ju fteuern. 
 
 28ie, toenn toir fein jeijt brauditen in ber -Wot? 
 
 a farad) ber $ogt jii mir: Steff, toenn bu bir'3 
 
 etrauteft, itn ju fyelfen au bem Sturm, 
 
 <5o mocfyt' irf) bic^) ber Sanbe it>ot)I entleb'gen. 
 2245 ^c^ aber fpracfy : ^50, err x mit otte ilfe 
 
 etrau' ic^ mir' unb ftelf un too^I ^iebannen. 
 
 @o luarb ic^ meiner Sanbe Io unb ftanb 
 
 2(m Steuerruber unb fufyr reblid; b^in. 
 
 2)od^ fcfyielt' icb, feittrdrt^ iuo mein djtejjjeug lag, 
 2250 Unb an bem Ufer merjft' id) fc^arf umfyer, 
 
 9Bo ftd^ ein 3Sorteit auftfytit' jum ntf^rtngen. 
 
 Unb h)ie icb; eine ^elfenriff^ getua^re, 
 
 2)a abgeplattet borf^rang in ben See 
 
 ^cfi, lenn'l, e ift am $uJ5 be gro^en Sljen, 
 2255 3)006, nicb,t fiir moglicb, ac^t' icb,', fo gar fteil 
 eb,t' an, bom c^iff e f^ringenb abjureicb,en. - 
 
 @cb,rie id^ ben ^ned^ten, b,ajibj[ic^ jujugefm, 
 ba^ toir bor bie gelfenblatte lamen; 
 
 35ort, rief icb,, fe,i ba Slrgfte uberftanben. 
 2260 Unb al h)ir fie frifcb,rubernb balb erreicb,t, 
 
 %k\)' icb, bie nabe otte an unb briirfe, 
 
 5Rit alien Seibe^fraften angeftemmt, 
 
 2)en b,intern ranfen an bie $eltoanb ^in. 
 
 ^e^t, fd;neH mein d;ie^eug faffenb, fcf)h)ing' id; jelbft 
 2265 >od)fyringenb auf bie ^5Iatte mid; b,inauf, 
 
 Unb mit getoalt'gem $ujjftojj b,inter mid;
 
 116 3Bilf|e(m 2cU. 
 
 cfyleubr' id) bag (Sdnfflein in ben djlunb ber SSaffer. 
 2)ort mag', tote ott imfl, auf ben -fikllen treiben. 
 <So bin \d) tyier, gerettet au3 be <Sturm 
 2270 eh)alt_unb_auber fcr/limmeren ber 
 
 , ein ficf>tbar SSunber fyat ber 
 2ln eurf) getfyan; laum glaub' i<f)' meinen innen. 
 orf) f aget : 2Bo geben!et i^r je^t i^in ? j 
 2)enn icfjer^eit ift nirf)t fiir eud), htofern'^ 
 2275 2)er Sanbbogt lebenb biefem tiirm entfommt. 
 
 XcQ 
 
 %d) f^ort' ib,n fagen, ba ict) nod) \m @rf>tff 
 ebunben lag, er toott' bei Srunnen lanben 
 Unb iiber <Scf)h)^ nad) feiner 33urg mic^ fii^ren. 
 
 itt er ben 28eg bafyin ju Sanbe nef)men? 
 2280 @ 
 
 D fo berbergt eucf) of>ne ciumen. 
 yt\d)t jtoeimal ^ilft eudE) ott au feiner 
 
 mir ben nddE)ften 2Beg nad) 2lrtt> unb 
 
 2>ie offne Strafe jief)t fid() iiber teinen; 
 S)ocr; einen fiirjern 2Beg unb fyeimlicfyern 
 2285 ^ann eud) mein ^nabe iiber Sotoerj fiib,ren. 
 
 giebt i^m bie nnb, 
 
 ott lot^n' eud^ eure utti)at. 2ebet toob,!. 
 
 efjt unb feljrt iDtebev urn,
 
 SBterter 3lufgug. @rfte @jene. 117 
 
 >abt ifyr nid>t au<f> im Stutli mitgefd;looren ? 
 9Jlir beucfyt, man nannt' eud^) mir. 
 
 $$ roar babei, 
 llnb fyab' ben ib be Sunbe mit befrf>iooren. 
 
 Sell 
 
 290 So etlt nad) SBurglen, t^ut bte 2ieb mir an; 
 5Rein 2Seib berjagt um mid; ; berfimbet i^r, 
 icfy gerettet jei unb n>o^l geborgen. 
 
 ' f> 
 
 in fag' icfy i^r, ba^ ii>r geflofyn? 
 
 ^b,r roerbet meinen @d^rodt)er bei ib,r finben, 
 2295 Unb anbre, bie im 9tiitli mit gefd>rooren: 
 @ie foUen roacfer fein unb gute 3Jiut ; 
 >er 5eH fei frei unb feine 2trme mac^tig ; 
 33alb roerben fie ein SBeitreg toon mir fyoren. 
 
 9Ba ^abt ifyr im emiit? ntbedft mir' frei. 
 
 Sell 
 2300 $ft e getfyan, roirb'g avufy jur 9lebe fommen. 
 
 3eig' ib,m ben 2Beg, ^enni. ott fteb,' ib,m bet! 
 @r fii^rt' jum $\tl, toa er auc^ itnternommen.
 
 SBilfjelm Sett. 
 
 S$ene. 
 (Sbelfyof gu Stttingfjaufen. 
 
 5retf)err, in einent Wrmfcffet, fterbenb. SBaltfjer 
 t a u } } a 4 e r , TO e I d) t f) a I unb S a u m a a r t c n urn iljn 
 USaltljcr Sell, fnieenb toor bcm terbenben. 
 
 @s ift Dorbet mit ifym, er i(t ^iniiber. 
 
 touffadjcr 
 
 6r Itegt nirf>t iwie ein oter. <Se^t, bie 
 2305 Sluf fetnen Si^cn regt fid). Sftubig ift 
 
 ein 6c^Iaf, unb frieblicfy ldcf)eln feine 3 u S e - 
 
 SBaumgarteit gefjt on bie 2pre unb fpridjt mit jemanb. 
 SBttlt^er $itrft, 511 Saumgarten, 
 
 2Ber ift'? 
 
 ^aunii'iartcu, fommt juriicf, 
 
 @^ ift ^rau ^tebtmg, cure 2;od;ter; 
 @ie loitt eucfy f^rec^en, h)iU ben ^naben fefyn. 
 
 2eU ric^tet fief) auf. 
 
 tc^ fie troften? ^ab' id^ felber roft? 
 2310 auft ade Seiben fid; auf meinem >aupt? 
 
 i, fjereinbrtngenb, 
 
 2Bo ift mein 5linb? Safct micf), id; mup e fefyn. 
 
 tauffadjer 
 ga^t eucf). Sebenft, bafj ib,r im 
 
 ^)ebn>tg f fturjt auf ben ftnaben, 
 
 in 28alti; ! D ! er lebt mir.
 
 SBiertev Slufeug. 3tt>eite jene. 119 
 
 efl, Ijangt an iljr, 
 
 3lrmc Gutter! 
 *' 
 
 3ft '8 aucf) getoifc? Sift bu mtr unberle^t? 
 
 Setradjtet if)n mit angftlidjer Sorgfntt. 
 
 2315 Unb ift e mogltcfy? ^onnt' er auf bic^ jielen? 
 SSie fonnt' er'^? D ! er fyat fetn erj. @r lonnte 
 2)en ^5fetl abbruden auf fetn etgneS ^inb ! 
 
 933ol^er prftJ^ 
 
 @r tF>at' mit Slngft, mit fcfymwjgerrijj'ner eele; 
 ejtoungen ti>at er'g, benn e gait ba 2eben. 
 
 '^V* '^ebwig 
 
 2320 D ^dtt' er etne 3Sater ^erj, el^' er' 
 et^an, er todre taufenbmal geftorben. 
 
 fofftet otte gndb'ge cfyicfung ^reifen, 
 3)ie e fo gut ge.Ienlt. 
 
 rf) bergeffen, 
 
 fommen f o n n e n ? ott be 
 2325 Unb lebt' id^ ad^tjig 3 a ^> r / ^ f e ^' ^ en ^nabeu etoig 
 ebunben ftef^n^ben 25ater auf iljn jielen, 
 Unb etoig fliegt ber ^Bfeil mir in ba erj. 
 
 , twii^tet i^>r, tote ifyn ber 9?ogt geretjt. 
 
 D ro^e^ erj ber banner! 2Benn ib,r 
 2330 33eleibigt ittirb, bann a^)ten fie nicf>t3 meb,r; 
 @ie fe^en in ber blinben 2But be (S^iel^ 
 
 unb ba er ber Gutter.
 
 120 SBilljefni 2>H. 
 
 SBcwmgarten 
 
 $ft eure 9ftanne 2o nicfyt fyart genug, 
 3)afj ifyr mit fcfytoerem Xabel ifyn nod; franft? 
 2335 $" r f e i n e Seiben fyabt ifyr fein efiifyl ? 
 
 fefjrt fief) itacfj iljin urn unb ftef)t i^n mit einein flrojien SBttcf nn, 
 
 aft bu nur f)rdnen fiir be ^reunbe Ungliicf? 
 2Bo twaret if>r, ba man ben Strefflicl^en 
 ^n SBanbe fcfylug? 2Bo h)ar ba eure ilfe? 
 ^S^r fa^et ju, i^r Itefjt ba ra^Iicf)e gefrf)e^n; 
 
 2340 ebulbtg Itttet tf>r', ba|i man ben $reunb 
 3tu eurer 3Kittc futyrte. at ber 3rett 
 2luc^ fo an eud^ ge^anbelt? tanb er audj 
 Sebaurenb ba r al fytnter bir bie better 
 2)e 2anbt>ogt< brangen, all ber toiit'ge (See 
 
 2345 3Sor bir erbraufte? -iRtcfyt mit mii^'gen Stf)ranen 
 Sellagt' er bi$; in ben 9iad>en fprang er; 2Beib 
 Unb ^inb fcergafj er unb befreite bic^. 
 
 28alt!)er 5rft 
 
 lonnten totr ju feiner Settling h?agen, 
 fleine 3 a ^/ ^i e unbeh)affnet toar? 
 
 luirft fief) an feiite SBruft, 
 
 2350 D 33ater! Unb aud^ bu ^aft i^n Derloren 
 
 2)a 2anb, iuir atte F>aben ifyn berloren. 
 
 Un atten fefjlt er, ad), toir fe^len i^m. 
 
 ott rette feine eele bor SBerjtoeiflung ! 
 
 3u ifym t>inab in obe 33urgberlieg 
 2355 5)ringt !eine ^yreunbe roft. 3Benn er e 
 
 21(11, in be 5ler!er feud;tcr JyinjtermS 
 er erfranfen. 2Bie bie 2ltyenrofe
 
 Alerter Slnfjug. ^K^i^ <jene. 121 
 
 SBleicfct unb berfiimmert in ber 
 o ift fiir ifyn fein Seben al im id;t 
 2360 2)er <2onne, in bem Salfamftrom ber 2itfte. 
 efangen ! @r ! <3ein 2ttem ift bie greifyeit ; 
 r fann nid^t leben in bem aud^ ber riifte. 
 
 Stauffnrtjcr 
 
 Seru^igt eud). Sir atte irollen 
 Urn feinen $er!er aufjut^un. 
 
 2365 2Ba fonnt i^r fd^affen ofyne if>n? @o tang 
 Sett nocfy fret tuar, ja, ba toar nod^ 
 fyatte nodb bie Unfcfiulb einen $reunb, 
 ^atte einen elfer ber SSerfoIgte ; 
 atte rettete ber Sett ; i^r atte 
 
 2370 3 u f ammen ^fonnt nid^t feine ^efjeln lofen. 
 
 et jjrei^err eriundjt. 
 
 23aumi]artCH 
 
 (Sr regt fic^. titt! 
 
 3ltttttg^(iufcn f f* aufri^tenb, 
 
 2Bo ift er? 
 tnuffacfjcr 
 
 2Ittinijl)nufcit 
 
 @r fe^It mir, 
 mid) in bem lefeten Stugenblicf. 
 
 (Sr meint ben 3w n ^ er - <3d;icftc man nad) 
 
 @ ift nad) if>m gefenbet. Sroftet euc^. 
 2375 @r {>at fein erj gefunben, er ift unfer.
 
 122 SBilljefot .Sen. 
 
 at er gefprodjen fur fein 33aterlanb? 
 
 tauffndjcr 
 9Jlit ^elbenlufmfyeit. 
 
 $Utttt01jaitfcn 
 
 2Sarum fommt er nicfyt, 
 Urn meinen le^ten (Segen 511 empfangen? 
 %fy fitfyle, bajj e f4)leiuiig mit mir enbet. 
 
 tauffadjcr 
 
 2380 9?id)t alfo, ebler err. SDer furje cftlnf 
 erguirft, unb fjeH tft euer 
 
 ift 2eben, er berlie^ mt$ aud;. 
 2eiben ift, fo luie bte ^offnung, au. 
 
 (v bemerft ben ffnoben. 
 
 2Ber ift ber nabe? 
 
 9SttltI)cr prft, 
 
 egnet ifjn, o err ! 
 2385 @r ift mein 6nfel unb ift baterlog. 
 
 ^ebroig finft mit bent Jhtaben or bemSterbenben nieber. 
 
 2tttini)()aufctt 
 
 Unb baterloS Ia^' id) eurf) atte, affe 
 3uritdf. 2Befy' mir, bafi meine le^ten 33ltc!e 
 2)en Untergang be 35aterlanb gefefyn! 
 
 ' id) be Sebeng fyocfyfteS 5Ra^ erreid^en, 
 gang mit alien .^offmmgen ju fterben? 
 
 tdltffndjcr, }u SBalt^er giirft, 
 
 @oH er in biefem finftern Summer fcbeiben? 
 SrfjeUen tuir if>m nidtt bie letjte tunbe
 
 3? letter 2(ufjug. weiie jene. 123 
 
 f&onem trotyl ber offnung ? @bler greiberr, 
 grbebet euren eift. 2Bir ftnb nid>t ganj 
 2395 SSerlaffen, finb nid>t rettungslo toerloren. 
 
 2Ser fott eucfy retten? 
 
 SBoItljcr 
 
 2Btr iin felbft. SBernefymt 
 6 ^aben bie bret Sanbe fic^ ba SSort 
 cgeben, bie ST^rannen ju berjagen. 
 efc^Ioffen ift ber SSunb; etn ^etl'ger detour 
 2400 SSerbinbet ung. Sg iritb ge^an^elt toerben, 
 @^' nod) ba ^a^r ben neuen $retg beginnt. 
 @uer (Staub h)irb ru^n in einem freien 2anbe. 
 
 ^ttttngljaufen 
 D faget mir: efd&Iojfen ift ber 33unb? 
 
 3lm gleid^en 2^age h)erben atte brei 
 2405 2BaIbftatte fid; erF>eben. 2lffe ift 
 
 Sereit unb ba efyeimniS h)o^Ibeiaf)rt 
 
 33i je^t, obgleid) biel f>unberte e teilen. 
 
 D^>I ift ber Soben unter ben Styrannen; 
 
 S)ie Stage it>rer errfdbaft finb geja^It, 
 2410 Unb balb ift ifyre @^ur nid;t mei)r ju finben. 
 
 feften SBurgen aber in ben Sanben? 
 
 @ie fallen atte an bem gleid;en Stag. 
 
 Slttutflfjaufcn 
 Unb finb bie Gbeln biefe S3unb teityaftig?
 
 124 fflBilljelm eU. 
 
 2Bir Barren ifyre S3ctftanb, toenn e3 gilt; 
 2415 jetjt aber fyat ber Sanbmann nur gefcfytooren. 
 
 9(tttngfjaitfcit, rirfjtet fief) tangfam in bte olje, mit grojjem Grftnunen, 
 
 at fid) ber Sanbtnann folckr Sfyat toerinogen, 
 3(u eignem Mattel, of)ne >ilf ber Gbeln, 
 at er ber eignen ^raft fo biel bertraitt, 
 ^a, bann bebarf e -unferer nicf)t me^r, 
 2420 etroftet fonnen loir ju rabe fteigen, 
 
 63 lebt n a c^) itn, burdf) anbre $rafte Jt)iff 
 
 2)a ^errlid^e ber 5Renfd;l)eit fid^i crF)aIten. v 
 
 6r tegt jeine $nnb auf bnS $>aupt beS Sinbe,bn bor itjm auf ben Snieen Itegt. 
 
 2lu< biefem aupte, it>o ber 2fyfel lag, 
 2Birb eucf) bie neue befj're ^rei^eit griinen; 
 2425 )a 2l(te ftiirjt, e cinbert ficfy bie $e\t, 
 Unb neue 2eben blufjt au ben 9iuinen. 
 
 jer, 511 SSaft^er 5iirft, 
 
 toeld)er lanj fid^ urn fein 2(ug' ergie^t ! 
 ift nid)t ba @rlo|^en ber ^atur; 
 ift ber @traF>I fc^on eine neuen 2eben. 
 
 SlttingljottfcH 
 
 2430 Xer 2tbel fteigt toon feinen alten Surgen 
 Unb fd^ioort ben (Sta'bten feinen Siirgereib ; 
 ^m iicfytlanb fd;on, im X^urgau f)at' begonnen; 
 2)ie eble 33ern erF>ebt ifyr F^errfc^enb au))t; 
 % r e i b u r g ift eine ficfy re 33urg ber ^reien ; 
 2435 2)ie rege Quicid) toaffnet if^re $imf te 
 
 3um friegerifc^en eer; e bricfyt bie 5Ra<f)t 
 ^onige fid; an ifyren eiu'gen 2Ba'Dfen.
 
 
 33ierter 3luf$ug. ,3n)eite }ene. 125 
 
 6r fpridjt baS golgenbe mit bent Xon eineS SefjerS ; feine SRebe fteigt bi jur 
 Segeifterung. 
 
 >ie $itrften fel)' id) unb bie ebehi >errn ,^-. , 
 
 ^n qrnifd;en fyerangejogen fommen, J^s Lr* 
 
 2440 Sin I)armlo> SSol! Don irten u 6efriegen. .,? 
 
 2(uf Stob unb 2eben ioirb geldm^ft, unb ^errlid) i^x- 
 
 2Birb mand)er tya$ burd; blutige Sntfcfyeibung. 
 
 3)er 2anbmann ftiirjt fid) mit ber nacften 33ruft, 
 
 Sin freie D^fer, in bie @d;ar ber 2anjen. 
 2445 Sr 6rid;t fie, unb be<3 2lbel S3Iiite fdttt; 
 
 S ^ebt bie ^reif)eit fiegenb if>re ^af)ne. 
 
 . SBaltfjer 3urft unb @tauffad)er ^anbe foffenb, 
 
 3)rum ^altet feft jufammen, feft unb etoig; 
 ^ein Drt ber $reil)eit fet bent anbern fremb. 
 >od)toad)tcn ftellet au auf euren 23ergen, 
 2450 a^ fid) ber 33unb jum S3unbe rafd) berfammle. 
 @eib einig einig einig 
 
 Sr fallt in ba3 Siffen juriicf ; feine nnbe Ijalten entfeett nodi bie nnbern gefafet. 
 giirft unb tnuffadjer betradjten ifjn nod) eine gdttong jcfj^e^eiib ; bann treten fk 
 ^intoeg, jeber feinem Sdjmerj iibertaffen. llnterbeffen ftnb bie Snedjte ftift ljeretn= 
 gebntngen ; fie naljern fid) mit Seifyen eine-3 ftiflent ober ^eftigern d)inerjen ; 
 einige fnieen bei ifjm nieber unb Ivseinen ouf feine anb ; njafjrenb biefer ftummen 
 jene roirb bie Surggtorfe gelautet. 
 
 Uliibenj u ben iBortgen. 
 J)JubCH', r rafd) eintretenb, 
 
 2e6t er? D faget: fann er mid) nod; fyoren? 
 
 beutet ^in mit roeggetoonbtem eftrfjt, 
 
 ^{>r feib jetjt unfer 2e^en^err unb <Sd)irmer, 
 Unb biefe (Sd)Io^ I>at einen anbern -ftamen. 
 
 SittbCttJ, erbltcft ben 2eid)nnnt unb fte^t toon ^eftigent Sdjnterj ergriffen, 
 
 2455 D giit'ger ott ! $ommt meine 9leu' ju fpat? 
 er nid)t iuen'ge $ulfe longer leben,
 
 126 SBityelni efl. 
 
 Urn mein geanbert $erj ju febn? 
 SSerarfttet fyab' id) feine treue Stimme, 
 2)a er nod) toanbelte im Sicbt ; - - cr ift 
 2460 SDafn'n, ift fort auf immerbar, unb Icifjt mir 
 ie fcfytoere, unbejafylte cfwlb. D faget: 
 6cfyieb cr bafyin im Unnuit gegen tnid^? 
 
 taufffldjer 
 
 @r t)5rte fterbenb nod^, iua tfyr get^an, 
 Unb fegnete ben 5Rut, mit bem it>r fprad^t. 
 
 fniet on bem 2oten nieber, 
 
 2465 ^a, t>eil'ge 3^efte etne teuren 5Rannel, 
 
 SntieiLter Seid^nam, fyier gelob' id) bir'g 
 
 ^n betne falte 2otenf)anb : jerriffen 
 
 ab' id^ auf eh)ig atlc fremben 93anbe; 
 
 3urii(fgegeben bin id^) meinem SSolf; 
 2470 @in Sc^toetjer bin icfy, unb id^ tt)itt el fein 
 
 3Son ganjer eele. siufftefjenb, 
 
 ^rauert urn ben ^reunb, 
 3Sater aUer, bod) be_rja0et nicfyt. 
 blo^ fein @rbe ift mir jugefatten ; 
 
 6^ fteigt fein ^erj, fein eift auf mid; fyerab, 
 2475 Unb leijten foff eua^ meine frifd^e ^ugenb r 
 
 2Ba euc^) fein gretfel 3llter fd;ulbig blieb. 
 
 f>rturb'ger 3Sater, gebt mir eure anb. 
 
 ebt mir bie eurige. ^JMcfytljal, aucf) ifyr. 
 
 Sebenlt eudt nid^t. D toenbet eud() nid;t toeg. 
 2480 mpfanget meinen dituur unb mein eliibbe. 
 
 2BnItl)cr g-iirft 
 
 ebt if>m bie anb. ein it)ieberfef)renb 
 SSerbient 23ertraun.
 
 SSierter Slufjug. weite @$ene. 127 
 
 3$r fyabt ben Sanbmann nid)t3 geadfjtet. 
 @pred)t, toeffen fott man fid? u eud> berfefyn? 
 
 iKubcuj 
 
 D benfet nid)t be ^rrtum meiner ^ugenb. 
 
 taitffadjer, ju SHetcfjtljat, 
 
 2485 eib etnig, rear ba Ie|te SSort be 
 ebenfet beffen. 
 
 ' 
 
 >ier ift metne 
 
 Sauern ^anbfdilag, ebler err, ift aud) 
 @in ^Jtannelhjort. 2Ba ift ber fitter o 
 Unb unfer tanb ift alter, al ber eure. 
 
 2490 ^d) efyr' ifin, unb mein @d)toert fott ifm 6efd)u^en. 
 
 5Der Slrm, err ^rei^err, ber bte fyarte @rbe *$* 
 <Sid; untertoirft unb ifyren @d;o^ befrud)tet, y 
 aud; be 9Jianne 33ruft befd;iitjen. 
 
 ottt meine 33ruft, id) IwiH bie cure fdju^en; 
 2495 @o finb ^L^tter burd; ben anbern ftarf. 
 2)od) toofureVen, ba ba SSaterlanb 
 Gin 3lau& nod) ift ber fremben r/rannei? 
 SBenn erft ber S3oben rein ift toon bent ^einb, 
 ^)ann iootlen loir'^ in ^rieben fd;on bergleid)en. : ' 
 
 SKarfjbem er einen 9lugenb(tcf time geljalten, 
 
 2500 %fa fd^toeigt? %fyic f^abt mir nid?t ju fagen? 2Bie?
 
 128 2BiU)efm Sell. 
 
 58erbien' id;'* nod) nicftt, bap ifyr mir bertrauH 
 
 2o mujj id; toiber euren 23itfen mid; 
 
 3n ba efyeimnis eure 33unbe bramjen. 
 
 ^fyr fyabt getagt, gefd;h>oren auf bem Siiitli. 
 2505 S^ h>ei$, toeip atte tuas ibr bort berf)anbelt 
 
 Unb, h>a mir nirf)t son eucfy bertrauet luarb, 
 
 ^d; ^ab'l beh?4rt gleicbtcie ein ^eilig $fanb. 
 
 3iie tear ic^ meines Sanbes 5 e i n ^/ glflubt mir, 
 
 Unb niemaB fya'tt' tc^ gegen eurf> get>anbelt. 
 2510 SDocfy iibel t^atet ibr, ee 511 berfcf^ieben ; 
 
 ie Stunbe bringt, unb rafter Xf?at bebarf. 
 
 2)er 2^ett h>arb fc^on ba C^fer eure @dumeng. 
 
 Stouffo^cr 
 
 6^ri[tfe[t abjutoarten, fcbtouren toir. 
 
 ^(^ h)ar ni4>t bort, id> ^ab' nicbt mitgef^iuoren. 
 2515 2Bartet ii^r ab ; id; banble. 
 
 28a? 
 
 2anbe 3Sdtern jafyl' id; mid; je^t bei, 
 Unb meine erfte ^Bf(id;t ift, eud; ju fd;ii^en. , 
 
 SBoltljer prft /sT 
 
 35er Grbe biefen teuren Staub ju geben, 
 Sft eure nddfte ^Bflidit unb ^ciligfte. 
 
 JHubettj 
 
 2520 2Benn h)ir ba Sanb befreit, bann legen n?ir 
 2)en frifd;en ranj be iegs ifym auf bie 
 D 5 reun ^ e / eure Sad;e nid;t atlein, 
 meine eigne auejufed;ten
 
 SMerter S 3ufjng. ^roeite @Jne. 129 
 
 bent Sttjrnnncn. 6rt unb imfct: 2>erfdbtounben 
 2525 3ft nteine 33ertl;a, fyeimlid; tueggeraubt, ^^^ .* 
 
 Sliit !eder grebcltfrat, au unfrer S 33iitte. 
 
 ^ tottffo^er 
 
 Soldier eiwaltt^at ^dtte ber Stijrann 
 3Kiber bie frete 
 
 D mctnc ^reunbc, eud) bcrfprac^ ic^ ilfe, 
 2530 Unb id) juerft mu^ fie toon eud> erfle^n. fl 
 eraubt, entriffen ift mir bie eliebte. 
 2Ber tr>ei^, Jo fie ber SSutenbc bCLbirgt, 
 2BeIrf;er etualt fie frcbelnb firf; erfiibnen, 
 ^^r erj ju jloingen jum Derf)a^ten 33anb ! 
 2535 SSerlafct mirf; nirf;t; o fyelft mir fie erretten. 
 @ie liebt eitd; ; o fie fyat'3 Derbient um^ 2anb, 
 atte 2(rme firf; fiir fie beloaffnen. 
 
 Wnltljcr prft 
 iuottt ifyr unternejyijen ? 
 
 ;'? 2Id>, 
 
 3n biefer ^ad)t, bie ifyr efc^icf um^uttt, 
 254 S n biefeS 3 ir)e 'f e ^ ungc^eurer 2tngft, 
 5ESo id) nid)t^ ^-efte ju erfaffen ioeijj, 
 ^ft mir nur biefe^ in ber (Seete flar: 
 Unter ben Xrummeru ber 
 
 2((Iein fann fie ^erborgegraben toerben; 
 2545 2)ie 5 e f ten a ^e miiffen iuir bejtmngen, 
 Db tuir bieffeid;t in ifyrcn ^erfer bringen. 
 
 ilommt, fufyrt un an. Sir folgen cud;. SBarum 
 SBi^ morgen f^aren, lua luir I;eut' ucrmogen
 
 130 
 
 SBityelm 2efl. 
 
 
 2550 
 
 ttmr ber Sett, al toir im ^iitli fd&hwren; 
 
 Ungefyeure tear nod) nicfyt gefcfyefyen. 
 ( bringt bie $eit cin anbere efeij; 
 3Ser ift fo feig. ber jeijt nod) fb'nnte gagen ? ^ 
 
 9ittbc3, ju etciuffadjer nb SBatt^er giirft, 
 
 ^nbe 6eh)affnet unb jum 2Berf bereit, 
 (Srtoartet if)r ber 33erge ^euerjetd^en; 
 ^555 SDenn fdjnetter alg etn 33otnjegel fliegt, 
 
 off eucf> bie Sotfcfyaft unferg @ieg erreidE)en ; 
 
 Unb fefyt if)r Ieurf)ten bie hnllfommnen 
 
 2)ann auf bie $einbe fttitjt, n)ie 
 
 Unb brecfyt ben 33au ber ^ijrannei gufammen. et)t 
 
 Dritte 
 
 te {)ol)Ie affe bei flufjnadjt. 
 
 5Ran fteiflt toon I)tnteii ainiidjen fjelfeu Ijcrunler, unb bie SBanberer mcrben, 
 
 elje fte auf ber jene erf^eincn, fd)on oit ber fyolje gefe^en. Sfeljen unu 
 
 jdjltejjeu bie gan^e jene ; auf etnem ber Dorberfteit ift cut Sorfprung mit 
 
 cfirciud) beiuadjfen. 
 
 trttt auf mit ber 3lrmbruft, 
 
 2560 2)urd^) biefe i)o{)te affe mu^ er fommen ; 
 @3 fiil)rt fein anbrer 2Beg nad; ^ii|nad)t. 
 3SoUenb' id^'S. SDie elegen^eit ift giinfttg: 
 S)ort ber oflunber[traudf> berbirgt mid^) i^m ; 
 3Son bort ^erab fann ifyn mein ^Pfeil erlangen ; 
 $De 2Bege nge iue^ret ben 33erfolgern. 
 9Jiad)' beine 9led^nung mit bem >immel, 3Sogt ; 
 $ort mu^t bit, beine UI;r ift abgelaufen. 
 
 ^c^ lebte ftiff unb fyarmlo. 2)a efd>o^ 
 2Bar auf be 2Balbe Jiere nur gerid;tet ;
 
 THE TELL CHAPEL AT K.USSNACHT. Act IV, Sc. 3.
 
 3?ierter 2Utfgug. >ritte jene. 131 
 
 2570 9)teine ebanfen toaren rein toon SUJorb. 
 >u fyaft au3 nteinem ^rieben micb, fyerauSs 
 efdjredt; in ga'fyrenb 2)racf>engift baft bu 
 ie 3)tilc^ ber frommen SDenfart mir bertoanbelt; 
 $um Ungefyeuren fyaft bu mid; getobfynt. 
 
 2575 3Ber firf) be inbe au^)t gum $iele fe^te, 
 
 fann auc^ treffen in ba erg be $einb. 
 
 ie armen ^inblein, bie unfcfyulbigen, 
 treue 2Beib mu^ id; toor beiner 2But 
 
 , Sanbbogt. Qa, al ic^ ben Sogenftrang 
 2580 Stnjog, al mir bie >anb erjitterte, 
 31I bu mit graufam teufelifcfjer Suft 
 
 jtoangft, auf au^t be ^inbe anjulegen, 
 c^) o^nma'd^tig flefienb rang bor bir, 
 
 gelobt' id) mir in meinem ^nnern 
 2585 5Rit furcb^tbarm tbfcb.tDur, ben nur ott get)5rt, 
 a^ meine n a d> ft e n Sdwffe e r ft e 
 35ein erj fein fottte. 3Sa icb, mir gelobt 
 
 >ft eine fyeil'ge <Scfwlb ; id) toifl fie jafylen. 
 
 2590 !)u bift mein >err unb meine $aifer 3Sogt ; 
 SDocb, nid)t ber $aifer b^a'tte fid) erlaubt, 
 2Ba b u. @r fanbte bid) in biefe Sanbe, , ^ 
 
 Um S^ecb.t ju fbred^en, ftrengeg, benn er jiirnet, i, *r 
 2)oc^ nid^t, um mit ber morberifdjen Suft ^/ 
 
 2595 2)id^ jebe reuel^ ftraflo ju 
 
 @ lebt ein ott, ju ftrafen unb ju rcicfyen. 
 
 bu ^erbor, bu Sringer bittrer 
 teureS 5lleinob je^t, mein fyocbjter 
 @in 3i e ^ toitt ict) bir geben, ba bi^ je|
 
 132 SBilljelm Sett. 
 
 2600 $)er frommen 33itte unburcfybringlid; tear, 
 3)od> bir foil e nicfyt toiberftefyn. Unb bu, 
 SSertraute Sogenfefwe, bie fo oft 
 9Jiir treu gebient fyat in ber $reube btelen, 
 $erlafj' mid; nidjt im furrfiterlidjen @rnft. u/ N 
 
 2605 9htr iefet nod) balte feft, bu treuer tranq, '/A J^O 
 
 \tJfty Li' LV\ 
 
 'Ser mtr fo oft beiv^erbcn s ^feil befliigelt. * j>r 
 ntrann' er je|o fraftlog meinen a'nben, *^ 
 $<fy i>abe feinen jioeiten ju berfenben. 
 
 SSanbever geljeit ii6er fate jene. 
 
 Stuf biefer 33an! toon tein loitt \<fy mid) fe^en, 
 2610 2)em 2Banbcrer jur furjen 9iuf)' bereitet; 
 2)enn i)ier ift feine eimat. $eber treibt 
 @id; an bem anbern rafd;) unb fremb boriiber 
 Unb fraget nicfyt nafy feinem @d;merj. 
 2)er forgenboKe ^aufmann unb ber leicfyt= 
 2615 (S5efd)urjte $ilger, ber anbac^t'ge 
 2>er biiftre Member unb ber ^eitre 
 2)er <3aumer mit bem fd;toerbelabnen 
 2)er feme Iierfommt bon ber 9Jtenfc^en Sanbern; 
 S)enn jebe 6tra^e fii^rt and @nb' ber 2BeIt. 
 2620 <5ie atte jte^en if>re 2Sege fort 
 
 2tn if)r efdjdft, unb meinel ift ber 
 
 Sonft, iwenn ber 3Sater au^og, Itebe 
 2)a luar ein ^reuen, toenn er ioieber fam ; 
 25enn mentals fefyrt' er ^eim, er bracfyt' euc^ etn?a, 
 2625 2Sar'S eine fcfyone 2(lbenblume, toar'S 
 Gin fcltner SSogel ober ^ImmonJ^orn, 
 ^.tj* 1 28ie eS ber SBanbrer finbet auf ben SBergen. 
 ^"^ ge^t er einem anbern 2Be]bJi>erf nad; ;
 
 SMerter 2tuf$ug. 2)ritte jene. J33 
 
 2tm toilben 2&eg fit er mit -JRorbgebanfen ; 
 2630 3)e geinbeS Seben ift'<, toorauf er lauevt. 
 Unb bod) an eud; nur benft er, lieben $inber, 
 2lud; jeijt ; eudi ju berteib'gen, eure fyolbe llnfd;ulb 
 3u fd)ii^en toor ber 9lad}e be ^rannen, 
 
 er jum SRorbe je^t ben Sogen f^annen. <sterjt nuf, 
 
 2635 ^d; laure auf ein eble3 SBtlb. Sa^t 
 2)er 3&3 er n ^ 4 berbrie^en, tagelang 
 limber ju'^reifen in be $&tnter trenge, 
 3Son ^el ju $el3 ben 2Bagef^rung 511 t^un 
 gnnan gu fltmmen an ben gtatten 3Bdnben, 
 
 2640 33?o er fid) anleimt mit bem eignen 33Iut, 
 Urn ein armfelig rattier 511 erjagen. 
 ier gilt e einen,, foftlid;eren ^rei 
 $)a erj be *^obf einb, ber tnid) toill berberben. 
 
 2Kan prt bon feme eine ^eitre SDJuftf, >oe(c^e ftcfj naftert. 
 
 5Rein ganje Seben lang fyab' id; ben 33ogen 
 2645 efyanbfyabt, mid; geiibt nad; dmtjenregel; 
 ^d> F>abe oft gefd)offen in bas djioarge, 
 llnb mand;en fdtbnen ^BreiS mir ^eimgebrad^t 
 SSom $reubenfd)ieJ3en. 2tber ^eute tttitt id; 
 2)en SReifterf d;u^ fyun unb ba Sefte mir 
 2650 %m ganjen Um!rei be ebirg geitinnen. 
 
 Gtne Jpod)3ett jieljt iiber bie Ssene unb bitri^ ben ^oljlroeg fjinauf. Xett 
 betra^tet fie, auf feinen Sogen gete^nt; Stuffi, ber fjrturfdiufe, gefedt 
 fid) ju iljm. 
 LA/ 
 tiiffi 
 
 ift ber^Ioftermei'r bon ^orlifdiad^en, 
 t)ier ben Srautlauf ^cilt; ein reiser 5Rann, 
 @r t>at loo^I je^en enten auf ben 2Uben.
 
 134 WUtyim 2cll. 
 
 $>ie SBraut fyolt er jefet ab ju 
 2655 Unb biefe 9iad;t U>irb fyod; gejdjitoelgt ju $iiJ5nad;t. 
 Slommt mil; '3 ift jeber SBiebermann gelaben. 
 
 in ernfter aft fturtmt nid;t jum 
 
 tiiffi 
 
 eud; ein Summer, toerft if>n frifd; bom crjeu. 
 mit, ioa fommt ; bie $eiten finb je^t fd^tuer ; 
 2660 SDrum mu^ ber 3Renfd) bie ^yreube Ieid;t ergreifen. 
 ier toirb gefreit unb anberslwo begraben. 
 
 Unb oft fommt gar ba eine ju bem anbern. 
 
 tufft 
 
 @o get^t bie SSelt nun. @3 giebt aUerivegen 
 Ungliid^ genug. @in 3^{uffi ift gegangen 
 2665 ^m larner Sanb, unb eine ganje eite 
 3Som larnifd; eingefunfen. 
 
 SBanfen and; 
 )te Serge felbft? fte^t nid;t feft auf @rben. 
 
 anberStoo bernimmt man SBunberbinge. 
 2)a f))rad) id; einen, ber toon SBaben lam : 
 2670 @in fitter toottte gu bem bnig reiten, 
 Unb untern)eg begegnet if>m ein <Srf;h)arm 
 3Son ^orniffen; bie fallen auf fein Stof^ -/- 
 2)a^ e fitr 3%rter tot ju 93oben finft, \ 
 Unb er ju ^aifje anfommt bei bem ^onig. 
 
 XeU 
 2675 3)em <3d;n)ad;cn ift fein tad)el aud; gegeben.
 
 3Sterter Shtfjiig. >ntte gene. 135 
 
 Tlrmgarb fommt mtt nefjveren flinbern unb ftettt ftdj an ben Gingang 
 
 tufft 
 
 beutet'g auf etn gro^e 2anbeunglitcf, 
 3luf fdEitnere Sli)aten totber bie -ftatur. 
 
 2)ergletcen 3:f^aten bringet jeber Stag; 
 ein SSunberjei^en brauc^t fie ju berfiinben. 
 
 2680 $a, too bent, ber fein ^elb beftettt in 
 Unb ungefrdnft baf>eim fi^t bet ben einen. 
 
 @ fann ber $rommfte nic^t im ^rieben bleiben, 
 
 2Benn e bem bofen 9?acfybar nicfit qef dfft M {^ 
 
 j 
 
 2cK fiefjt oft mit unruljiger Grtunrtung nac^ ber Jpo^e be S35ege. 
 
 eucfy h)ol>l. ^i>r tuartet ^)ier auf jemanb? 
 
 Xttt 
 2685 a tfyu' id^. 
 
 tiifft 
 
 ~ ^rofye ^>eim!ef)r ju ben 
 
 3^> r f e '^ au ^ r ^? Unfer gnab'ger 
 2)er Sanbbogt, toirb nodE) ^eut' bon bort ertoartet. 
 
 SBnnbrcr, fommt, 
 
 2)en 2Sogt ertoartet t>eut' nid^t meF)r. 25ie SBaffer 
 inb r du^getreten bon bem gro^en 9tegen, 
 2690 Unb atte Srudfen fyat ber trom jerriffen. 
 
 Xett fteljt auf. 
 3(rmgflrb f fommt DorttmrtS, 
 
 Sanbbogt fommt nid^t?
 
 136 
 
 Stiiffi 
 
 Sucfyt ifyr toaS an ifym? 
 Slrmgarb 
 2ld; freilid}! 
 
 tiiffi 
 
 2Barum ftettetifyr eurfj benn 
 %n biefer fyofylen aff ijmt in ben 2Beg? 
 
 t 3lrma(irb 
 
 tf^/- 
 
 ietrf>t er mir nid;t au, er mujj mic^ fcoren. 
 
 fomuit eilfertig ben of)llueg erab uiib ritft in bte Sjene, 
 
 2695 2Ran faf)te au bem 2Keg. 3Rein gndb'ger 
 Sanbbogt, fommt bid^t ^tnter mir geritten. 
 
 3)er Sanbbogt fommt. 
 
 @ie ge^t mil ifjren Sinbevit racf) ber borberen jette. efeter unb 9?ubolf ber 
 seigen fid) 511 $ferb ouf ber $6f)e be 333eg. 
 
 jut" 
 
 2Bie !amt if>r burd^ bag SSaffer, 
 bod^ ber trom bie Sriicfen fortgefiif>rt ? 
 
 SBir E)aben mit bem See gefocfyten, ^reunb, 
 2700 Unb fiircfyten un^ Dor feinem Sll^enioaffer. 
 
 Stufft 
 
 ^^r Iwart ju (Sd^iff in bem getualt'gen (Sturm? 
 
 ioaren h)ir. SRetn Sebtag benf id; bran. 
 
 tuffi 
 D bleibt, erja^lt.
 
 5>ierter ?Utf$ug. Sritte ejene. 137 
 
 J* 
 
 2afjt mid), id; mujj DorauS, j>'" 
 
 2anbtogt nwfj id; in ber 33urg berfunben.*mb. 
 
 tftfu .*)* 
 
 2705 28d'r'n gute 2eute auf bem 2d;iff geluefen, f r 
 
 runb gefun!en iudr'^ mit -Stann unb 
 25ol! lann iueber SSaffer bet nod; Better. 
 2Bo fam ber SBeibmaivnybJn, mit bem id; fjjr 
 
 e B ( e r unb 9? noolfb er ^arra ju 
 
 cjilcr 
 
 <Sagt, h)a if>r iuofft, id; bin be3 ^aifer^ Wiener, 
 2710 Unb mufj brauf benfen, nne id; ibm gefaHe. 
 @r $at mid; nid;t in 2anb gefd;idt, bem 3>olf 
 3u fd;meid;eln unb ibm fanft u tF)un. eb^orfam 
 rtoartet er; ber treit ift, ob ber 53auer 
 
 err fein in bem 2anbe, ober ber $aifer. 
 
 2715 3 e ^t ift *> er 3lugenblid. ^e^t bring' id; 'I an. 
 
 9Jaf)ert ftdj furc^tfom. 
 
 cfeler 
 
 ^d; ^ab' ben ut nid;t aufgeftedt ju Slltorf 
 2)e Sd;er5eg h>egen, ober um bie erjen 
 S&& 33olf ju ^riifen; biefe !enn' id) langft. 
 3^ fy a &' ty n aufgeftedt, ba^ fie ben 9?aden 
 5Jiir lernen beugen, ben fie aufredjt tragen; 
 
 Unbequeme b^ab' id; ^inge^flanjt 
 2(uf ibren 2Beg, JDO fie toorbeigefyn rnuffen, 
 2)a fie brauf ftofen mit bem 2(ug' unb fid; 
 (Srinnern i^re^ errn, ben fie bergeffen. 
 
 Siubolf bcr ^orrn 
 2725 3)a S^olf i;at aber bod; getoiffe 
 
 ih/ "~~" 
 
 ..^V^^ag 
 *T Huf
 
 138 SBttyelm efl. 
 
 Okfeler 
 
 utoa gen, ift jetjt feine $eit. 
 2Beitfd)id;)t'ge )inge finb im 2Ber! unb 
 )a $aiferfyait imff tunrfifen; ica ber 
 lorreicf) begonncn, Vuid bcr <3obn 
 2730 ie Heine $olf ift un ein Stein im 2Beg; 
 <3o ober fo, e mu^ fid) unteriuerfen. ^J?^ 
 
 <K" v '~* ^^ 
 
 te )Dof(en ttoriiOer. Xie gran luivft fic^ Dor bent Saitbttogt nieber. 
 
 Krtngmrb 
 
 eit ! erv Sanbbogt. nabe ! nabe ! 
 
 efjlcr 
 
 bringt if)r eud^ auf offner trajje mir 
 n 9Seg ? 
 
 / 
 
 SJtein -iUZann liegt im ef(ingni; 
 
 2735 25ie armen^aifen frfirein narf) 33rot. abt SJiitleib, 
 eftrenger err, mit unferm gro^en lenb.. 
 
 JRitboIf bcr 
 
 SBer feib i^r? 2Ber ift cucr 
 
 5trmgavb 
 
 i w Gin armer 
 
 ^T 
 SSilb^euer, guter ei-r, bom ^igtbcrge, 
 
 2)cr iiberm 2lbgrunb h)eg ba freie ra3 
 2740 2lbmaf>et toon ben fcfyroffen ^elfeniDanben, 
 2BoF)in bal 3Siei> fid) nicfyt getraut ju fteigen. 
 
 9Jubo(f ber ^arra r jum Canbsogt, 
 33ei ott ! ein elenb unb erbdrmli^) Seben ! 
 bitt' cud), gebt il;n Io, ben armen 5Rann. 
 
 er aucfy Sdbtoere mag tcrfd)iilbet 
 2745 Strafe gemtg ift fein entfetjlid) ^anbloerf.
 
 SBierter 2litf$ug. 3)ntte @,$eite. 139 
 
 Sucb foil Sledjt toerben. 3)rtnnen auf ber 33urg 
 5?ennt cure 23itte ; bier ift nicr/t ber Drt. 
 
 9Mn, nein, id) toeicfye nirftt Don biefem 
 33i mir ber $ogt ben 5)tann juriicfgegeben. 
 2750 cfion in ben fecbften 9JJonb liegt er im Sturm 
 
 Unb garret auf ben SfJicBterf^rud^ DergebenS. 
 #*& 
 
 cjjlcr ^ 
 
 2Beib, tooUt i^r mir eiralt ant^un? inh)eg! 
 
 erecfytigfeit ! Sanbbogt. 2)u bift ber 
 3m Sanbe an be ^aifer tatt unb otte. 
 2755 fm' beine ^>fltrf)t. *^o bu erecfytigfeit 
 3Som immel ^offeft^o erjeig' fte un. 
 
 ba frecr/e 3SoIf mir au ben 2lugen. 
 
 greift in bie Siiget be? ^Sferbe?, 
 
 nein, irf> f)abe nirf>t mef)r ju berlieren. 
 3)u fommft nirfit toon ber SteUe, S^ogt, bi bu 
 2760 2Rir Sftea^t gef|)rorf)en. galte beine time, 
 $RoI[e bie Slugen, tone bu trittft. 2Bir finb 
 o'^renfem^ unglitcflicb, ba^ tuir 
 beinem rn me 
 
 c^Icr 
 
 SBeib, mac^' pla^ 
 Dber mein 9?of; gefyt iiber bicfi f)inh)eg. 
 
 9lrmgnrb 
 2765 2af$' e iiber mic^ bafyin ge{>n. 3)a! 
 
 Sie reifet ifjre Sittber 511 S3oben unb iwrft fic^ mil tOnen t^m in ben SBeg. 
 
 lieg' tcfy
 
 UO SBilljelm 2eH. 
 
 meinen inbern. 2a' bie arrnen -JBaifen 
 beine3 ^ferbe3 uf jertreten toerben. 
 Gs ift t>al 2trgfte nicfyt, toa bu getfyan. 
 
 9inbo(f ber 
 
 SBeib, feib i^r rafenb? 
 
 , ^efttger fortfa^renb, 
 
 Xrateft bu bod) langft 
 2770 2>a Sanb be ^atfer^ unter beine $ujje ! 
 
 0, icf) bin nitr ein SSeib. 2Sar' tc^t ein 5)Zann, 
 ^cf> h)ute ioo^l toal Sefjere^ al^ ^ter 
 ^m Staub ju Itegen. 
 
 TOan Ijort bie toorige 3Kufif micber ouf ber of)e be 5J8eg, ater gebampft. 
 
 2Bo finb metne necf>te? 
 rei^e fie toon frinnen, ober ic^ 
 2775 SSergeffe mid) unb tbue, toa mid; reuet. 
 
 JKubolf ber ^>arrtt 
 fonnen nid)t b,inburd^, o err, 
 ift gefperrt burd) eine Dd)jeit. 
 
 @in attju milber errfc^er bin ic^) nod) 
 
 egen bie 3Solf ; bie 3 un 9 en f*^ n>c ^ f re i i 
 2780 @3 ift nod) nicfyt ganj, h)ie e fold, gebanbigt. 
 
 2)od^ e fott anber toerben, id) gelob' e. 
 
 ^5^) lt>itt tf>n brec^en, biefen ftarren inn; 
 
 SDen leden eift ber $reify eit ,h)i(( ic^) beugen ; 
 
 Gin neu efe^ iutd id^ in biefen Sanben 
 2785 3Ser!iinbigen. ^cfy lu 'tt - 
 
 in ^Jfeil burrf)bo[)rt if)it; er fii'irt niit ber .anb an rj unb tottt fiitfett. 2Ktt 
 matter (Stiinme, 
 
 &ott fei mir gnabig !
 
 SMerter 3luf$ug. 3>ritte @jene. 141 
 
 !Kubolf ber 
 
 err Sanbtoogt ! ott ! 2Batftba3? SBofyer fam ba? 
 
 &rmgarb,aij#djrenb, 
 
 SKorb ! 9ftorb ! @r tailmelt, ftnft. @r tft getroffen. 
 3Rttten tn erj fyat if>n ber $feil getroffen. 
 
 ilhtboJf bcr wrra f fprtngt born ^ferbe, 
 
 2BeIc^ graf$Iirf)e gretgnig ! ott ! err fitter, 
 2790 9luft bie Srbarmung otte an; if>r feib 
 
 tft 
 
 3ft Bom ^ferb ^erab bem SRwbotf $arra in ben 9lrm gegfeitet unb lotrb auf ber 
 93onf niebergelaffen. 
 
 erfcfieint oben auf ber 6fje be 
 
 2)u fennft ben (Scfwtjen, fucf^e feinen anbern. 
 $ret finb bie ^i'ttten; ftd^er tft bte Unfd>ulb 
 SSor btr; bit imrft bem Sanbe mdf)t mefyr fc^aben. 
 
 SBerfc^loinbet toon ber 6fje. SBoIf ftiirjt ^erein. 
 tiifft, soran, 
 
 2795 2Ba gtebt e fyter. 
 
 Sanbbogt tft toon etnem ^Bfetl burt^fd^offen. 
 
 SBoIf, im ^ereinfturjen, 
 
 2Ber tft erfcf>offen? 
 
 gnbem bie SSorberften toon bent Sraittjug auf bie sene fommeit, finb bie 
 terften noc^ auf ber olje, unb bie iWufif gefjt fort. 
 
 $ort! d^affet tlfe. e^t bem -DZorber nac^). 
 - SSerlorner ^SJlann, fo mu^ e mtt btr enben; 
 2800 Qofy metne 9Barnung twottteft bit nid^t ^oren.
 
 142 2BtIfdm Sell. 
 
 Stitfft 
 Set ott ! ba Uegt er bleid) itnb ofyne 2eben. 
 
 SSiefe Sttmmcn 
 
 2Ber fyat bte Xfyat getfyan? 
 
 SKubolf ber amt3 
 
 $aft biefe 3SoIf, 
 e bem 3ftorb 9Jiufif mac^t? 2a|t fie fcfitueigen. 
 
 SWupf 6vicf)t i)l6^Itrf) n6 ; e fommt uoc^ mefjr $olf mid). 
 
 ^anbbogt, rebet, toenn iF)r fonnt. abt ifyr 
 2805 5Rir nirf)t tnet>r ju bertraun? 
 
 Qtedt 3eic^en mit ber anb, bie er nut ^eftigfett iDteberf^ott, ba fie tucf)t 
 fterftanben loerben. 
 
 2Bo foil i 
 
 d&t? ^cf> berfte^' euc^> nic^t. D toerbet 
 ungebiilbig. 2a^t ba ^rbifd;e ; 
 2)enlt je|t, eucfy mtt bem immel ju berfofynen. 
 
 J)ie gnitje ^oc^jettggefeKf^aft untfteJjt ben Ster&enbeit mit einent fii^flojen raitfett. 
 
 tufft 
 
 iel), h)te er Bletdj) it)irb! ^e^t, je^t trttt ber 
 2810 ^5^m an ba erj; bie Slugen finb gebrocfyen. 
 
 f)ebt ein Sinb entyor, 
 
 ^inber, tt>ie ein 2Siiterid; berd^ejbet. 
 
 JRubolf ber .^arrn 
 
 SBafynfinn'ge SSetber, f>abt if>r fein efiifyl, 
 2)a^ if>r ben 33lidf an biefem 6direcfni l^eibet? 
 elft. Seget anb an. (Stel^t mir niemanb bet 
 2815 2)en @a)merjenbfeil ifym au ber 93ruft j
 
 SBterter ^ufjiifl. ritte jene. 143 
 
 C f trcten juriict, 
 
 2Bir ifyn beriifyren, tt>el<f)en ott gefcfylagen? 
 
 'Jiubolf ber ^>arra3 
 
 $lud? treff' eud) unb 23erbammni ! 
 
 3ief)t ba cfjtuert. 
 titfft, faUt ifjm in ben 9lrm, 
 
 2Bagt a, 
 
 @u'r 2BaIten ^at ein nbe. 5Der Styrann 
 2)e 2anbe ift gefallen. 3Bir erbulben 
 2820 J^eine eh)alt mefyr. 2Bir finb freie 5Renfcf)en. 
 
 2lfle, tumultuartfc^, 
 
 SDa^ Sanb ift frei ! 
 
 9iubo(f ber ^>arraS 
 
 ^jft e baf>in gefommen? 
 Snbet bie $itrrf)t fo fc^neff unb ber efyorfam? 
 
 3u ben SSaffenfnec^ten, bie Ijereinbrtngen, 
 
 ^TC fe^t bie graufenboHe %fyat be 9)torb, 
 js'' ' 2)ie ^)ier gefd^e^en. ilfe ift umfonft ; 
 2825 33ergeblic^ ift'3, bem SJlorber nad^jufe^en. 
 
 Un brangen anbre <5orgen. Sluf nacf) ^iijjnac 
 toir bem ^aifer feine $efte retten ! 
 
 il^LrH/V,, -, . ... nf f * * 
 
 *aufgeloft m btefem ^lugenbua 
 inb ader Drbnung, aller ^flid^ten Sanbe, 
 2830 Unb feine 9)ianne ^treu'ift ju bertrauen. 
 
 3nbem er mit ben SBaffenfne^teu abgel)t, erfdjcinen fe^ 
 Si^uber. 
 
 Slrmgorb 
 
 ! $Ia$ ! 2)a lommen bie barmfyerj'gen SBriiber. 
 
 tiiffi 
 Dbfer liegt, bie 3^aben fteigen nieber.
 
 144 SBilljelm 2>U. 
 
 Snibcr, 
 
 etnen >atbfret um ben Xoten uitb fingen iu ttefetn Xon, 
 
 9tafd; iritt ber ^ob ben 3Jlenfd)en an ; 
 
 61 ift tfym feine grift gegeben; 
 2835 @ ftiirjt i^n mitten in ber Safyn, 
 
 S^ rei^t ifyn fort bom DoIIen 2eben. 
 SBereitet ober nic^t, 511 ge^en, 
 @r mu^ bor feinen 9ticf)ter ftefyen. 
 
 Snbem bie le^ten QeUen luieberfjolt luerben, fiittt bet
 
 ^iinfter 21 11(311 
 
 (rfte S$ene. 
 Cffentlidjer ^tofe bei Stltorf. 
 
 3m $intergrunbe red)t bie Qfefte Srotng llrt mit bem nodj ftefjenben 
 
 riifte inie in bet brtttcn Sjenc be erjlen ?lufjuo ; Iinf cine ?tufi(^t in 
 
 iclc SBerge Ijtnein, auf rocli^en alien Sifliialfeuer brennen. 6 ifl eben 
 
 Sagelanbrucf), (Slocfen ertonen ou Jjcrit^tcbenen fteinen. ^r\^J^> 
 
 5Ruobi, ftuoni, SSerni, TOeifter Stein mefe unb biele anbere 
 Canbleute, oui^ SBeiber unb ^inber. 
 
 OTuobi 
 
 i^r bie Syeurfignale auf ben ^Bergen? 
 
 2840 <Qdrt i^r bie Icxfen briiben iiberm SBalb? 
 
 2)te ftt'inbt jinb berjagt. 
 
 Stctumelj 
 
 3)ie Surgen finb erobert. 
 
 Unb toir im Sanbe Uri bulben nod> 
 2fuf unferm S3oben ba tyrannenfcfyloji ? 
 inb.tDtr bie 2e^ten, bie jirf) frei erflaren? 
 
 Steinmcl? 
 
 2845 2)a S oc ^ fott fte^en, ba un 
 2luf ! Steifct e nieber. 
 
 Nieber! nieber! nieber! 
 
 145
 
 146 SiUjelm Sell. 
 
 2Bo ift ber tier toon Uri? 
 
 tier Doit Uri 
 
 ier. 2Ba3 foil id)? 
 
 Steigt auf bie od)toad;>t, 6laft in euer orn, 
 2)a eg ipettfd)me.tternb in bie Serge fd;aUe, 
 2850 Unb, jebel (|djo in ben ^elfenfliiften 
 
 Sdiftoecfenb, fd;nett bie banner be ebirg 
 3ufarnmenrufe. 
 
 tier toon Uri get)t ab. SBaltljer gurft fomtnt. 
 
 grurft 
 
 ! ^reunbe. altet ! 
 fef>lt un %nbe, toa in Unterittalben 
 Unb @d;it)^ gefdjefyen. 2a^t un Soten erft 
 2855 rtuarten. 
 
 JHuoOi 
 
 9Ba ertoarten? )cr ^rann 
 Sft tot; ber ag ber ^rei^eit ift erfd;ienen. 
 
 teiumclj 
 
 3ft ' nid;t genug an biefen flammenben 33oten, 
 2)ie ring fyerum auf atten Sergen Ieud;ten? 
 
 ftuobi 
 
 ^ommt atte, lommt ; legt >anb an, 5Ranner unb 2Beiber. 
 2860 Sred)t ba (Skrujte. prengt bie 33ogcn. S^ei^t 
 3)ie SJiauern ein. ^ein (Stein bleib' auf bem anbern. 
 
 Stcmmclj 
 
 efellen, fommt. SSir l;aben'^ aufgebaut, 
 9Bir nnffen'S ju ^erftoren.
 
 pnfter Hitfjug. (Srftc gene. 147 
 
 $ommt, reijjt nieber. 
 
 Ste ftur^en ftcfj toon alien eiten nuf belt S3au. 
 
 ftiirft 
 
 ift im Sauf. %d) tann fie nicfyt mefyr fyalten. 
 
 SJJtefdjtfyal unb Saumgarteu fommen. 
 
 2865 2Ba? <Ste^t bie 53urg nod;, unb cfylojj (Sarnen Itegt 
 ^n Slfcfye, unb ber S^o^berg ift ge&rocfyen? 
 
 (Seib if)r e, 'SReld^al ? 33ringt if;r un bie ^reifyeit? 
 @agt, fitnb bie 2anbe atte rein bom ^einb ? 
 
 9Jte(d)tlja(, itmnrmt i^it, 
 
 Stein iji ber 33oben. ^reut eud^, alter S3ater. 
 2870 ^n biefem 2lugenbli<fe, ba toir reben, 
 
 ^ft lein ^rann me^r in ber- cfytoeijer Sanb. 
 
 D fprecfyt, toie iuurbet if>r ber Surgen mad^tig? 
 
 -Kubenj tuar e, ber ba arner 
 5Rit mannlicf) fii^ner SSoaet^at getoann. 
 
 2875 2)en Stoperg fyatt' ic nad^tg jubor erftiegen 
 SDocfy ^oret, h)a gefcfjaf). 21I toir 
 3Som ^einb geleert, nun freubig angejiinbet, 
 2)ie glamme ^raffelnb fd^on gum immel 
 2)a fturjt ber ^iet^elm, GkjjIerS Sub', 
 
 2880 Unb ruft, baft bie 33runedferin berbrenne. 
 
 ered^ter ott ! 
 
 SWan f)brt bie Salfeit beS eviiftel ftiirjen.
 
 148 SBityelm etl. 
 
 @ie tear e felbft, roar fyeimlicfy 
 ter etngefdjloffen auf be 33ogt %fye_ijj. 
 gjgjenb erl;ub fid) Stubcnj; benn toir fyorten 
 $>ie 33al!en fcfyon, bie feften ^foften ftiirjen 
 2885 Unb au bent 3tauc^ fyerbor ben 
 Ungliidfeligen. 
 
 @ie ift gerettet? 
 
 2)a gait efd;h?inbfein itnb 6ntfdilo[fenl?eit. 
 9Bar' er nur unfer (Sbelmann gehjefen, 
 9Bir fatten unfer Seben loot)! geltebt ; 
 2890 2)od) er iuar unfer Gibgeno^, unb 33ertf>a 
 
 a 2]olf. o fe^n h)ir getroft 
 Seben bran unb fturjten in ba 
 
 2BnltI)cr prft 
 
 @ie ift gerettet? 
 
 (3ie ift'g. Stubenj unb id), 
 
 2Btr trugen fie fejbanber au ben ^lammen 
 2895 Unb b^inter un fiel frad^enb ba ebalf. 
 
 Unb je^t, al fie gerettet fid; erlannte, 
 
 2)ie 2(ugen auffcfitug ju bem 
 
 ^e^t fti'trjte mir ber ^reifyerr an ba 
 
 Unb fd;Jeigenb tuarb ein 33iinbni je^t befdjiooren, 
 2900 2)a, feft gel)drtet in be geuer^ lut, 
 
 SBefte^en iuirb in alien 
 
 ift ber Sanbenberg ?
 
 gitnfter ufjug. (Srfte jene. 149 
 
 Uber ben SBrimig. 
 
 Iag'3 an mir, bafj er ba Sicfyt ber 2lugen 
 'Dabontrug, ber ben 33ater.mtr geblenbet. 
 2905 Wad) jagt' id) ibm, erreidfyt' ifyn auf ber $lucf)t 
 Unb rift ib,n ju ben ^iipen metneS 3]ater. 
 
 iiber if?m toar fcfjon ba @cf)tt)ert; 
 ber SBarmfyerjtgfeit be blinben retfe 
 er fle^enb ba efrf^enf be Seben; 
 2910 Ur^^ebe frfitour er, me juritcf ju fe^ren; 
 (Sr lotrb fie fatten ; unfern 2(nn i>at er 
 efii^lt. 
 
 eu(^, ba^ i^r ben reinen <Steg 
 Slute ntc^t gefi)a'nbet. 
 
 eilen mit Xriimmern be eriifte iiber bie jene, 
 
 3)a $oru Bon Uvi roirb mit 2Wac^t geblafen. 
 
 SBolt^er ftitrft 
 
 t, tuelrf) ein ^eft ! 2) e age toerben fid^) 
 2915 2)te timber fpa't al retfe nod; erinnern. 
 
 eh bringen ben itt auf einer tnnge getiagen ; bie ganje @jene fiidt 
 mit o[f ait. 
 
 RtttM 
 
 ier i[t ber ut, bem U)ir un beugen mu^ten. 
 
 SBnitmgarteu 
 ebt un Sefd^eib, h>a bamit iuerben foff. 
 
 ott ! Unter biefem ute ftanb mein @nfel. 
 
 9Jicf)rcrc ctimmeit 
 3er[tort ba 3)enfmal ber 
 2920
 
 150 SBityelm ott. 
 
 ftiirft 
 
 9?ein, la|t ifyn aufbetoafyren. 
 SDer tyrannei mufjt' er jum SBer^eug bienen ; 
 @r foil ber $reifyeit eung geicfyen fein. 
 
 2>te fiaitbteute, 9Kauner, SBetber nub fitubet fteljeu nub ftfeit auf belt Salfen 
 jerbrorfjenen (SeritfteS malecijcf) gruppiert in einent gropeit atbfret umfjer. 
 
 @o fte^en ioir nun frof;Iic^ auf ben 5rUmmern 
 2)er i;rannet, unb ^errlirf> ift'g erfiillt, 
 2925 2Ba iuir im ^iitli fd;luuren, Gibgenoffen. 
 
 SSer! ift angefangen, nid^t bottenbet. 
 ift un 9Hut unb feftc intracfyt not; 
 , feib geunfj, nicf)t fdumeu h)irb ber $onig, 
 Slob ju racfjen feine SSogtl, unb ben 
 2930 23ertriebnen mit eloalt juritc! u fiifyren. 
 
 iel)' ^eran mit feiner 
 au bcm ^nnern boc^ ber ^einb berjagt, 
 
 ?ir iegegnen. 
 
 h)en'ge ^3affe offnen ii>m ba Sanb; 
 2935 2>ie toollen unr mit unfern Seibern bedfen. 
 
 2Sir finb beretnigt burdf) ein eloig 
 Unb feine eere fotten un nic^t fd^recfen. 
 9t5f|e(mann unb tauffa^er fommen 
 ;)iO|"ll % huauit, im li-tiitvctcn, 
 
 finb bel immel3 furd^tbare ericf>te. 
 
 ^nublcntc 
 
 giebt'3?
 
 pnfter ufjug. (Srfle @jene. 151 
 
 IHoffelmaim 
 $n toelcfyen 3 e i ten ^ e ^ en *i r 
 
 SBaftljer $iirft 
 
 2940 agt an, h>a6 ift e? a, feib i^r', err 2Berncr? 
 2Ba bringt i^r un? 
 
 anb(eute 
 2Ba gi< 
 
 unb erftaunet. 
 tniiffatfjer 
 3Son einer gro|en $urrf)t finb totr befreit. 
 
 2)er ^aifer ift ermorbet. 
 
 2Sattf)er prft 
 
 nab'ger ott ! 
 
 fianbleute ntacfjeit einen Slufi'tonb unb umbraitgcn ben tauffarfjer, 
 
 rmorbet? 2Ba! er 5laifer? ort! 2)er ^aifer? 
 
 2945 5<iid)t moglicf). 2Bob,er Jam eud^i biefe ^unbe? 
 
 Staiiffadjer 
 
 6 ift geh)t^. 33ei 33ruc fiel ^onig 2llbrec^t 
 2)urd9 $R6vber3 anb; ein glaubenicerter SJiann, 
 $ob,anne SJiiiller, brad^t' e toon (Scfyafffyaufen. 
 
 2Ber toagte fold^c grauentiolle 
 Staujfarfjer 
 
 2950 6ie n)irb nodp grauenboUer burd^ ben X^ater. 
 toar fein 9kffe, feine Sruberl ^inb, 
 ^ofyann toon d^maben, ber'^
 
 152 SBHljelm 
 
 trieb ib,n ju ber 
 
 Stnuffodjcr 
 
 $aifer fyielt ba ba'terlid;e @rbe 
 2955 25cm itngebulbig SRaljwenben juriid; 
 
 G3 fyiefj, er benf i^n ganj barum 511 fitrjen, 
 etnem SifcfyofSfyut if)n abjufinben. 
 bem aucfy fei, ber Bungling offnete 
 >er 2Baffenfreunbe bofem 9tat fetn Dfyv, 
 2960 Unb mtt ben ebeln errn bon Gf^enbad^, 
 3Son Stegerfelben, toon ber 9Sart unb 
 
 er, ba er Slecfyt nid^>t fonnte ftnben, 
 ju f;olen mtt ber eignen anb. 
 
 D f^red^t, h)te toarb ba ra^Iid^e bottenbet? 
 touffadjcr 
 
 2965 SDer ^onig ritt f>erab bom tetn ju 33aben, 
 en S^^einfelb, two bie offtatt iDar^^ju tei)n, 
 3Jlit i^m bie ^iirften an unb Seobolb 
 Unb ein efolge fyocfygeborner ^erren. 
 Unb al fte fcunen an bie 3teu^, h>o man 
 
 2970 2(uf einer ^-cibre fid; lafjt iiberfe^en, 
 
 3)a brangten fid; bie 9ft6rber in ba d^ff, 
 3)a^ fte ben ^aifer bom efolge trennten. 
 2)rattf, a.U ber $itrft burd; ein geadert 
 ^inreitet, eine alte grofse <5tabt 
 
 2975 <3ott brunter liegen au ber eiben 3 e ^, 
 2)ie alte ^efte abbttrg im efid;t, 
 2Bo feinc tamme^ ."gofyeit augegangen, 
 tofjt er 59 an ben SDold; i^tn in bie
 
 gihtfter 2hif$ng. Grfte gene. 153 
 
 9JuboIf toon ^Salm burcfyrennt ifyn mit bent peer, 
 2980 Unb @|rf)enbarf) jerfyaltet ifym ba >aupt, 
 
 afj er tyenwterftnft in feinem Slut, 
 
 emorbet toon ben <5einen, auf bem <3einen. 
 
 2lm anbern Ufer fafyen fie bie b,at; 
 
 SDod), burrf) ben trom gefd^ieben, fcmnten fie 
 2985 5fur ein ofynmticfytig SBe^gefrf^rei er^eben; 
 
 2(m SSege aber fajj ein armeg 2Sei6, 
 n if)rem <Sdo berblutete ber 
 
 @o ^at er nur fein friifyeS rab gegraben, 
 
 2)er unerfdttlic^ atte toottte ^aben. 
 
 tauffadjer 
 2990 in ungeb^eurer @rf>recfen ift im Sanb timber; 
 
 ef^errt finb atte ^Saffe be^ ebirgg; 
 
 ^ebtoeber tanb bertoa^ret feine renjen; 
 
 2)ic alte ftiind) felbft fc^Io^ ib,re ^l^ore, 
 
 3)ic brei^ig ^a^r'Iang offen ftanben, ju, 
 2995 2)ie SJiorber fitrc^tenb unb, noc^ mef>r, bie Staler; 
 
 2)enn, mit be^ 33anne3 ^lud^ betoaffnet, fommt 
 - 3)er Ungarn ^oniginfTie ftrenge 2tgne, 
 
 ie ntd^t bie 3JtiIbe lennet ib,re jarten 
 
 ef^Ie^tS, be $ater Ioniglic^e Slut 
 3000 3" rad)en an ber SJtorber ganjem tamm, 
 
 2ln ib,ren ^ned^ten, ^inbern, ^inbefinbern, 
 
 ^50, an ben teinen tl)rer c^Ioffer felbft. 
 
 efc^hjoren fyat fie, ganje Reugunacn 
 
 ^inabjufenben in beg $ater3 rab, 
 3005 ^n 23 hit fief), h)ie in SRajentau, 511 baben. 
 
 man, too ficfy bie 9Jiorber b, ingejUtcb, tet ?
 
 154 SBUljelm 2efl. 
 
 Stnuffndjer 
 
 @ie flofyen alebalb nad> DoIIbrad'ter 
 2luf fitnf berfdnebnen Strafen augeinanber, 
 Unb trennten fid?, urn me fid; mebr u fefyn.V'Q 
 3010 Jgerjog l^ofyann foil irren im ebirge. 
 
 @o tragt bie Ujttfjat i^nen feine 
 
 9^acf)e trdc3t feine ^rudht. <Sirf> felbft ift fie 
 
 2)ie fiirrf)terlidie ^Jta^ntng; i^r enu^ 
 
 ^ft 9)torb unb ifyre gtti^ung ba raufen. 
 
 Stunffodjcr 
 
 3015 2)cn ^Jlorbern bringt bie Untfy at nidi t 0etinn ; 
 Sir aber bved^en nut ber reinen anb 
 2)e blut'gen ^rebeld fegenDoffe ^rud^t; 
 2)enn einer gro^en $urd;t finb icir entlebigt ; 
 efatten ift ber ^rei^eit grower $etnb, 
 3020 Unb h)ie berlautet, toirb ba (Scepter geb,n 
 
 abburg ^au ju einem anbern tnmm; 
 iuiff feine SBabJfreifi 
 
 urft unb 2Keljrere 
 
 Stouffo^er 
 
 2)er raf toon 2uEcmburg 
 3ft fcon ben meF)rften Stimmen fd;on bejeidinet. 
 
 3025 SKob,! un, ba^ trtir beim 9letd;e treu gcfyalten ; 
 ^e^t ift jit fjoffen auf ered)tigleit. 
 
 tnuffa^cr 
 
 >em neuen errn tbnn tapfre ^rciinbe not ; ^ 
 (r ioirb un fd)trmen gcgen DftreidiS 
 
 2 tc iinittitcitte itmnniieii einattber.
 
 gilnfter 2fofjiifl. Grfte jene. 155 
 
 <St grift mtt einem Oi e tc 
 
 finb be 2anbe3 toiirb'ge .Dberfyaupter. 
 
 5Koffdmamt itnb 9Ke1jrere 
 3030 igrift, toa giebt'3? 
 
 tjjrift 
 in ^eicfySbot' bringt bte @cf>reiben. 
 
 3lHc f 511 SBott^er gttrft, 
 
 rbre(f)t unb lefet. 
 
 gffirjt, deft, ^X* 
 ,,2)en bejc^etbnen SJlannern 
 ,,3Son Uri, @d;h)^ unb Untertoalben bietet 
 ,,$ie ^onifltn (SUbet^ nab' unb atte uteg." 
 
 Stele ttntmen 
 2Ba hntt bie ^omgin? ^^r gfieicb, ift au. 
 
 993olt^cr prft, Heft, 
 
 3035 S n intern gro^en dfimerj unb SBittoenletb, 
 ,,3Soretn ber blut'ge ^infcfyeib tyu errn 
 rr^ie ^ontgin berietjt, gebenlt fie nod^ 
 
 alien reu' unb Sieb' ber cfytoeijerlanbe." 
 
 ^n if>rem liicf ^at fie ba nie getfyan. 
 
 9{bffclmoun 
 3040 titt ! Saffet fioren. 
 
 SSolt^cr f5iirft r Heft, 
 
 ,,Unb fie berjiebjjid) 511 bem treuen 33olf, 
 e geredjten Slbj^eu iwcrbe tragen 
 ben toerfludjten ^f)a'tern btefer St^at; 
 ertoartet fie toon ben brei Sanben,
 
 156 2BtIf)elm Sell. 
 
 fie ben -JJlorbern nimmer ^orfdwb tfyun, 
 
 t rr getreulicfy baju fyelfen toerben, 
 
 w "Sie auSjuIiefern in be 9itid)er<S anb, 
 
 ,,3)er 2ieb' gebenfenb unb ber alien unft, 
 ,,)ie fie toon 9iubolf $iirftenfyau empfangen." 
 
 3eicf)en be Uu>Dif(eitg unter ben Saitbteuten. 
 
 Sttmmen 
 
 3050 3)er 2ieb' unb unft ! 
 
 2Bir jjaben $unft em^fangen toon bem SSater; 
 ^toeffen "rU^inen h)ir un3 toon bem ofyn? 
 er ben S3rief ber $retfyeit un beftatigt, 
 bpr ibn affe $aifer bod^) get^an? 
 3055 at er^e^tet nac^ gered)tem (Spru 
 
 Unb ber bebrangten UnfdBuIb 6d;ut} berlie^n ?' 
 at er aud) nur bie Soten looHen fyoren, 
 2)ie tnir in unfrer Stngft ju i^m gefenbet? 
 3fiid)t ein toon biefem affen I>at ber $onig 
 3060 2Cn un getfyan, unb fatten h)ir nic^t felbft 
 
 Stecfyt Derfd^afft mit eigner mut'ger anb, 
 rii^rte unfre 5iot nid;t an. ^^m anf? 
 an! fyat er gefcit in biefen Stfyalern. 
 @r ftanb auf einem fyofyen ^(a^ ; er fonnte 
 @in SSater feiner SSolfer fein ; boc if)tn 
 efiel e, nur ju forgen fiir bie <Seinen. 
 2)te er geme^rt fjat, mogen um it)n ireinen! 
 
 933oft!)cr prft 
 
 iuotten nic^t fro^oden feine^ $aff<, 
 be em^fangnen Sofen | e tj t gebenf en ; 
 3070 $ern fei' Don un. $>od;, ba^ iuir r a d) e n foflten
 
 THK REUSS WITH THE TEUFELSBRttCKE. Act V, So. 2.
 
 giinfter SUtfjiig. groeite @jene. 157 
 
 3Tob, ber me un ute3 tfyat, 
 Unb bie berfolgen, bie un nte betriibten, 
 2)a jiemt itn nicfyt unb iuitt urnS nicb,t gebii^ren. 
 2)ie 2tebe totH ein freie^ D^fer fetn; 
 3075 2)er ^ob entbinbet toon erjiDungnen 
 
 ^bm fyaben toir nirf)t hjeiter ju entridjten. 
 
 9)ic(d)tt)aJ A^VJ 
 
 rf*** 7 * r 
 
 Unb h)eint bte ^ontgtn in tfyrer hammer, 'Y^ ^ 
 Unb flagt il^r totlber d^mer^^>eri i ^tmmet an, (yi 
 o feb,t it^r fyter ein angftbefreitel 33olf 
 gu eben biefem ^immel banfenb ftefyen. 
 2Ber St^ranen ernten nntt, mit^ Siebe faen. 
 
 9Jeic^6ote geljt 06. 
 8tOUfftt(^Cr f 511 bent SBoIf, 
 
 2So ift ber 2:ett ? @ott e r attein un3 fe^Ien, 
 2)er unfrer ^reib^eit tifter ift? 35a ro^te 
 at er get^an, ba drtefte erbulbet. 
 3085 $ommt aUe, fomntt, nacb, fetnem ^>au ju Jraffen, 
 Unb rufet eil bem better toon un alien. 
 
 91 He ge^en ab. 
 
 auflnr. 
 
 6iu fjeuer brennt auf bem ^erb. Tie offenftefjenbe S f)ure jeigt inS Qfreie. 
 ^ebrotg. 3Sattf)er unb 2B tlljelm. 
 
 eut' !ommt ber SOater. ^inber, liebe $inber, 
 @r lebt, ift frei, unb h>ir finb frei unb aHe. 
 Unb euer 33ater ift% ber' Sanb gerettet.
 
 158 SBilljelm Sell. 
 
 3090 Unb id; bin aud; babet getoefen, Gutter. 
 Wid) mufc man aud) mit nennen. 33ater3 
 ing mir am Seben fyart borbei, itnb id) 
 nid>t gejitiert. 
 
 iintarmt ifm, 
 
 ^a, bu bift mir h)ieber 
 egeben. ghKwml fyab' icf) birf; gcborcn. 
 395 3^^^ ^tt icb, ben Sftutterfcfymerj um birf;. 
 @ ift borbei ; irf; b.ab' eurf; beibe, betbe. 
 Unb Feute fommt ber liebe SSater toieber. 
 
 6in TOoncf) erjc^cint an ber ^)aul{)iire. 
 
 Gutter, fie^ ; bort ftef)t ein frommer 33ruber. 
 etoifj toirb er um eine abe flel)n. 
 
 3100 ^ii^r' ifyn ^erein, bamit h)ir if>n erquidfen; 
 Gr fuel's, ba^ er tn ^reuben^auS gefommen. 
 
 e^t ^inein uitb fommt ba(b mit etiient 93erf)er tpteber. 
 
 Slommt, guter 3Jtann. 3)ie 5Rutter toitt eurf; laben. 
 
 t, rufyt eurf; au unb ge^)t gefta'rft bon bannen. 
 
 9JiOttd) f fc^eu umfjerbttrfenb mit jerftorten 3ii9 e11 ' 
 
 2Bo bin id)? (Saget an, in it>eld)em Sanbe? 
 
 3105 <5eib ifyr berirret, ba^ ibr ba nidit iuifjt? 
 ^jbr feib jit SBiirglen, err x im Sanbe Uvi, 
 2Bo man bineinge^t in ba Sd;a'd;cntl;al.
 
 giinjter Slufgucj. 3ro e i te J^ne. 159 
 
 ), our eblt>ig, ineldje juriicffomnit, 
 
 eib ifyr affein? 3>ft euer err ju >aufe? 
 
 %3) ertoart' ifyn eben; bod) h?a ift eurf), SKann? 
 3110 ^^r fefyt nid;t au, al ob ifyr ute brdrf)tet. 
 2Ser i^r aucfy feib, i^r feib bebiirfttg ; nefymt. 
 
 SReidjt t^nt ben Secfjer. 
 
 ie aurf) metn Iecf)enb erj nad^ Sabung fd^mad^tet, 
 rii^r' irf) an, bi ifyr mir jugefagt 
 
 mein ^leib nid^t; tretet mir ntd)t n 
 3115 33leibt feme ftefyn, trenn id; euc() b,oren foil. 
 
 Set biefem ^euer, ba ^ier gaftlic^ lobert, 
 93ei eurer $inber teurem ^au^t, ba tdfj 
 
 Umfaffe Srgreift bie ffnoben. 
 
 a finnet ifyr? 
 SSon meinen ^inbern ! %t)x feib lein SJiondE) ! ^fyr feib 
 3120 @ nid)t ! er ^riebe tpob^nt in biefem $leibe ; 
 ^n euven 3"9 en n>of)nt ber griebe nicfyt. 
 
 bin ber ungliicffeligfte ber SRenfc^en. 
 
 Ungliid: f^rid;t getoaltig ju bem 
 euer Slid fd>nuri mir ba ^nnre ju 
 
 nitffprinoenb, 
 
 3125 5ERutter, ber 33ater ! cut ijt
 
 160 SBttyelm 
 
 D inein ott! 
 
 SSMK nocfj, jittert nub pit ficfj nn. 
 SSMlljefat, ei(t nnrf), 
 
 2)er 3kter! 
 233aftl)er, 
 bift bu hn'eber. 
 
 3Sater, Iteber 5Bater ! 
 
 ell f browftett, 
 
 2)a bin id) ioieber. 2Bo ift cure -Stutter ? Xreten 
 
 26 altfjcr 
 
 3)a fteijt fie an ber I)uv unb fann nid^t toeiter; 
 (So jittert fie fiir cfyrecfen unb fiir ^reube. 
 
 3130 D ebft>ig ! ebit)ig ! SJhitter metner ^i 
 
 ott fyat gef>olfen ; un trennt fein ^rann mef>r. 
 
 f nit feinem .^alfe, 
 
 D XeU ! 3Tea ! 2BeIc^e 2lngft litt ic^ urn btc^ ! 
 
 SRondj tvirb aiifinertjani. 
 
 3Sergif, fie jeljt unb lebe nur ber $reube. 
 3135 a bin id; toieber. S)a ift meine iitte. 
 ^d; fte^e toieber auf bem -Btcimgcn. 
 
 2Bo aber ^>aft bu beine Strmbruft, 33ater? 
 3d; fe^ fie nid;t. 
 
 imrft fie nie mef^r fe^n.
 
 gitnfter Stufgitg. B^ette @3ee. 161 
 
 2ln fyeil'ger tcitte ift fie aufbetoafyrt ; 
 
 <Sie totrb fyinfort ju feiner ^agb mefyr bienen. 
 
 3140 D Sett ! Xell ! Zritt jurucf, la&t feine anb lo. 
 
 Sett 
 
 erfcfyrecft btc^, ItebeS 28etb? 
 
 2Ste, to i e fommft bu mir toieber ? 2)ief e anb 
 2)arf ict> fie faff en ? biefe anb o ott ! 
 
 Idl, fyerjlicf) unb mittig, 
 
 at eud^) berteibigt unb ba Sanb gerettet ; 
 $cfy barf fie frei fyinaiif jum tmmel ^eben. 
 
 2JZond ntnd)t cine rafc^e SBemegung; er erbtirft i^n, 
 
 3145 SBer ift ber SBruber ^)ier? 
 
 2ld^, tcfy 
 rtcf) bu nut ifym, mir grout in feiner ^iafye. 
 
 s JDtiJMrf|, trittna^er, 
 
 @eib ifyr ber XeDl, burd^ ben ber Sanbbogt fiel? 
 
 XcU 
 
 bin icf), ic^ berberg' e fetnem 
 
 3^r feib ber Sell! 21$, eS ift otteS 
 3150 2)ie unter euer 2)ad) mid^ ^at gefii^rt. 
 
 XcU, miftt i^n mtt ben Stugen, 
 
 %fy feib fein 3)ionc^! 2Ber feib i^r? 
 
 3^r erfcfilugt 
 Sanbbogt, ber e-u.c^ 236fe t^at.
 
 ' einen $ctnb erfcfylagen, bcr mir 
 33erfagte. (Sr iuar euer $einb, toie meiner; 
 3155 $cf) fyab' ba Sanb toon ifym befreit. 
 
 S^r feib 
 
 @ntfet$en! ^tnber, 5linber, gefjt t)inein. 
 d)', Iiebe 3Beib. e^', gd;'! -- UnglucfU^er, 
 ^r iuciret 
 
 ott, ioer ift 
 
 nicfyt. 
 
 fort ! SDie $inber bu'rfen e nicfyt fyoren. 
 3160 efy' au bem aufe, loeit fyintoeg ; bu barfft 
 itnter einem 2)ad; mit biefem toi)nen. 
 
 ift ba? $0mmt. e^t mit ben tiubent. 
 Xett, S" bem 2Kfiiid), 
 
 ^^r feib ber erjog 
 
 Son Dfterreid;. ^^r feib'! 3^r fyabt ben ^aifcr 
 Grfc^Iagen, euern Dfym unb errn. 
 
 ^oljaitue^ ^arriciba 
 
 @r loar 
 3165 2)er 9tauber metneS (SrbeS. 
 
 XeU 
 
 uern Dl;m 
 
 , euern ^aifer! Unb eud^) tragt 
 @rbe noc^ ! (Surf) leuc^tet nod^) bie <5onne ! 
 
 ^arriciba 
 , ^ort mid;, efy' it^r -
 
 gunfter "Jtufjug. von(e @jene. 
 
 Sell 
 
 35on bem 33Iute triefenb 
 23atermorbe unb be 
 3170 28agft bu ju treten in mein reineS 
 
 SDu toagft'3, bein 2lntli einem guten 9)tenfd;en 
 3u jeigen unb ba aftred^t 311 bege^ren? 
 
 ipomcibo 
 
 Set eud^ fyofft' \<fy Sarml^er^gfeit ju finben; 
 2lucf) i^r naf)mt 9iad)' an euerm ^etnb. 
 
 Ungludflid^er, 
 3175 SDarfft bu ber @|rfud)t blut'ge cfyulb bermengen 
 
 SJiit ber gered^ten 9iqttoej)r eine 3Sater? 
 
 a[t bu ber $inber Iiebe aupt berteibigt? 
 
 25e3 erbe ^eiligtum befc^ii^t? ba djrecfftdjij'te, 
 
 2)a Se^te toon ben )einen abgeirejrt? 
 3180 ^um ^tmrnel fyeb' icf) meine retnen anbe, 
 
 33erflurf)e bic^) nnb beine St^at. @eracr)t 
 
 ab' id^ bie ^eilige 5Katur, bie bu 
 
 efd^anbet. ^ic^t teif id? mit bir. emorbet 
 
 aft bu, id; ^ab' mein Steiterftel berteibigt. 
 
 ^arricibo 
 3185 %fa ftojjt mid; toon eud;, troftlo^, in SSerjtoeiflung ? 
 
 2Rid) fafst ein raufen, ba id; mit bir rebe. 
 $ort ! SBanble beine fiird}terlid;e trafje. 
 Sajj rein bie iitte, too bie llnfdjulb too^nt. 
 
 ^arrictba f menbet fid) ju ge^en, 
 
 o fann id;, unb fo toill id; nid)t me^r leben.
 
 164 
 
 Xttt 
 
 3190 Unb bod; crbarmt mid; beiner ; &ott be 
 o jung, bon- fold;em abelid;en tamm, 
 35er (Snfel 9iubolf3, meineS >errn unb $aifer, 
 2ll 3Rorber fliidjtig, I)ter an meiner @d;h)elle, 
 $)e armen 2Ranne, - - flefyenb unb berjhjeifelnb ! 
 
 SJer^uttt fief) ba efic^t. 
 
 ^arrtciba 
 
 3195 D, toenn i^r toetnen fonnt, Ia|t mein efd)i(f 
 (Sud) jammern ; e ift furd;terlid). ^rf> bin 
 in gairft id) toar'; id) fonnte gliidflid; toerben, 
 2Benn id; ber 2Biinfd;e Ungebulb bejtoang. 
 3)er 9Zeib jernagte mir ba 
 
 3200 )ie ^ugenb meine Setter^ 
 
 efront mit @i)re unb mit Sanb belo^nt, 
 Unb mid), ber gleid;e^ 2llter^ mit it>m lt>ar, 
 %n ff(at>ifd;er Unmiinbigleit gebalten. 
 
 Ungliidlidfyer, h)oi)[ fannte bid; bein Dfym. 
 3205 3) a er bir Sanb unb Scute toeigejrte. > 
 
 2)u felb[t mit rafter, toilber Sa^ * 
 
 Sted^tfertigft furd)tbar feinen toeifen 
 2So finb bie blut'gen elfer beine 
 
 ^arrtciba 
 
 2Bot)in bie 9lad;egeifter fie gefiifyrt ; 
 3210 ^d; faf; fie feit ber UngliidStfyat nid;t toieber. 
 
 bu, ba^ bid; bie 2ld;t berfolgt; ba^ bu 
 2)em 5 reun ^ berboten unb bem $einb erlaubt? 
 
 -it
 
 gimfter Slufjitg. 3 rof it f @Jfne. 165 
 
 ^orricibo 
 
 >arum benpeib ' idj affe offne - <5trafjen ; J^ 
 Sin feine wtte toag' id; anju^ocfyen ; r 
 3215 er SSiifte lefyr' id; meine d^rttte ju; 
 
 5Rem eigneg c^redEnig, irr' id^ burd^ bie Serge 
 Unb fafyre fc^aubernb Dor tnir felbft jururf, 
 3eigt mir etn 33ad^ mem ungliirffeUg 33ilb. 
 D, toenn if>r SJcitleib fiifylt unb 
 
 6or i^m nieber. 
 
 , abgetnenbet, 
 
 3220 6tet)t auf. @te{>t auf. 
 
 ^nrriciba 
 ^id^t, bt i^r mir bie anb gereidt>t jur ilfe. 
 
 Sell 
 
 $ann ic^ euc^ ^elfen? $ann'3 etn 9Jlenf4) ber Sitnbe? 
 ftefyet auf. 2Sa ifjr aucf) rdplic^e 
 
 feib em 9ftenfcf> ; id; bin e aud;. 
 3225 3Som Xetf fott feiner ungetroftet fdeiben. 
 2Ba ic^ bermag, ba U)iU icfe, tbun. 
 
 , auffpringenb unb feine $anb mit ^efttgteit ergreifenb, 
 
 D Xett, 
 rettet meine (Seele toon SSerjtoeiflung. 
 
 Xett 
 
 meine anb Io. ^f>r mit^t fort. ter fonnt 
 ^f>r unentbedft nicfyt bleiben, lonnt entbedft 
 3230 Sluf <^u^ nid;t rerf)nen. 2Bo gebenft ify 
 2Bo b,offt ib,r 9iub,' ju finben? 
 $arrtciba
 
 166 SBityefat Xett. 
 
 XcQ 
 
 ort, toa mir ott in3 erj giebt: ifyr mitfct fort . 
 3n3 Sanb ^talien, nacb, anft ^eterl tabt ; Jf 
 2)ort toerft ifyr eu4> bent ^a^)ft 311 ^iijsen, beicfcteteT 
 3235 3^>m eure @d)ulb unb lofet eure <SeeIe. 
 
 ^arrtctba 
 
 3Sirb er mtdf) nicf)t bem 3itirf)er iiberliefern? 
 
 er eud) t^ut, ba ne^met an toon ott. 
 
 ^arrtciba 
 
 3Bie fomm' id^ in bag unbefannte 2anb? 
 ^ bin bel 2Seg nicfyt funbig, Irage nid^t 
 3240 3" SSanberern bie d^ritte ju gefetten. 
 
 2Seg toil! id^ euc^ nennen ; merfet toob, I : 
 fteigt fytnauf, bem trom ber 9t e u fc entgegen, 
 ttnlbe|__2aufe Don bem Serge ftiirjt - 
 fP i ^arricibfl, erf^rtrft, 
 
 c^ bie S^eu^ ? <Sie flo^ bet meiner Stb,at. 
 
 Sell 
 
 3245 3tm 2(bgrunb gef>t ber 28eg, unb biele ^ r e u 5 e 
 SBejeidiwen i^n, errirf)tet jitm ebdd^tnil 
 2)er 2Banberer, bie bie 2ah)ine begraben. 
 
 ^arrtctba 
 
 %<fy fiirc^te nic^t bie <5cfyrecfen ber ^Jiatur, Mf 
 2Benn icf> be erjen^ n)ilbe Dualen jd^me.'t' 
 
 XtU 
 
 3250 3Sor jebem $reuje fattet f^in unb biijjet 
 2Rit ^ei^en Sleuet^rdnen eure <S<fwlb.
 
 giinftev 5lufjug. 3 tt)f i te ftene. 167 
 
 llnb fetb ifyr gUicflicb, burcb, bie 
 
 enbet ber 33erg nicfyt feme 2Binbeftoeb,en 
 
 2(uf eucfy fyerab toon bent beeiften 
 
 3255 o fommt ifyr auf bie SBrucfe, 
 
 2Benn fie nicfyt einbricfyt unter eurer cfyulb, 
 9Benn ifyr fie gliicflicb, fyinter eucb, gelaffen, ; * 
 
 o reijjt ein fd^toarjeS ^elfent^or fic^ auf; *y 
 ^ein ag ^at'l nocf) erb, ettt. 3)a geb,t ib,r burd^) ; 
 
 3260 63 fiifyrt eud^) in ein fyeitreS ^b,al ber ^reube; 
 2)od) frfmetten cbritt^ mit^t ib,r tooriiber eilen ; 
 Sfyr biirft nicf)t toetlen, too bie S^ufje toob^nt. 
 
 ^arriciba 
 
 D SRuboIf ! SRuboIf ! ^oniglirf) er Slj^it ! 
 
 o jiefyt bein nfel ein auf beine 3teicb,e3 Soben. 
 
 XeU 
 
 3265 o imtner fteigenb, fommt ib,r auf bie ob,en 
 2)e ott^arbS, too bie eto'gen een finb, 
 !Die toon be3 immel tromen felbft fid? fiiffen. 
 3)ort ne^mt if?r 2tbfcf)ieb toon ber beutfc^en @rbe, 
 Unb 'muniern 2auf3 fiib,rt euc^ ein anbrer trom 
 
 3270 $n3 Sanb ^talien b,inab, euc^ ba gelobte. 
 
 3Ran ^ort beit Su^ret^en on sieten 9t(p^ornern gefilajen. 
 
 ^c^ bore ttmmen. ^ort! 
 
 .$>eblt)tg f eilt fierein, 
 
 2Bo bift bu, 2:ett? 
 
 3)er SSater fommt. nab,n in frob,em 
 2)ie Sibgenoffen atte. 
 
 mir! 
 barf nicfyt toeilen bei ben litdlic^en.
 
 168 SBiHjflm 2eQ. 
 
 3275 ef)', liebeS 2Seib. rfiifcfye biefen 5Jiann; 
 SBelab' ifyn reirf) mit aben, benn fein 2Beg 
 ^ft toeit, unb feine erberg' finbet er. 
 tie. @ie nafyn. 
 
 2&er ift 
 
 $orfrf;e nidpt; 
 
 Unb tuenn er ge^t, fo tuenbe beine Slugen, 
 3280 $)aji fie mdE)t fe^en, tuelc^en SSeg er toanbelt. 
 
 ^Sarrtciba geljt eutf ben Xetl 511 mit enter rafc^en S3eloegung ; biejev nber bebeutet 
 
 i^n mit ber >anb unb gefjt. SSenn 6eibe ju erfcf)tebenen Seiten nfegegangen, 
 
 tteriinbert fief) ber Sdjattptotj, unb man fiefjt in ber 
 
 Sjene 
 
 ben ganjen 3:f)algrunb bor ScII SSofynung, ncbft ben ^Infjoljen, roeft^e ifjn 
 einf^lieBen, mit Canbleuten befe^t, roetdje ftt^ ju einem malerifc^en anjen 
 gruppieren. %nbcre fommen iibereinen fyofyen teg , ber iiber ben (Sclja^en 
 fiiljrt, gejogen. SBaltljer fur|"t mit ben beiben ftnaben, DJJe((f)t^a( unb Stauf= 
 father fommen bormartS, anbere brongen nac^ ; toie Sell ^erautritt, empfan= 
 gen fte tfjn alfe mit 
 
 G lebe ett ! ber d^it^ unb ber rretter ! 
 
 3nbem (trf) bie Sorberften urn ben Sell brcingen unb i^n umarmen, erfc^einen 
 
 nocf) 9i u b e n j unb Sertlja, jener bie Canbteute, biefe bie ^)ebtuig umar= 
 
 menb. te 3Kuftf bom Serge beglettet biefe ftumme Sjene. 28enn fie ge= 
 
 enbigt, tritt Sertlja in bie Witte be 
 
 2anbleute, Gtbgenoffen, net>mt mic^ auf 
 ^n euern Sunb, bie erfte GHiidflicfye,
 
 THE SCHILLER STONE. Act V, Last Scene.
 
 gunfter SStufeug. ?e^te @jene. 169 
 
 $)ie dfjui} gefunben in ber ^retfyett Sanb. 
 3285 ^n cure tctyfre anb leg' \$ mein 
 fyr al eure 33iirgerin mic^ f< 
 
 Sanbleute 
 
 Gotten tir mtt ut unb Slut. 
 
 @o reid^' ic^ biefem ^iingling metne 
 2)ie freie d^tueijerin bem freien 
 
 JRubenj 
 3290 llnb frei erflar' ic affe meine 
 
 3nbem bie SWufif Bon neuein rafc^ einfattt, faUt bet SJorfjang.
 
 NOTES.
 
 ABBREVIATIONS. 
 
 cf., compare. /., line; //., lines. 
 
 com/>., compound. lit., literally. 
 
 dimin., diminutive. fr., pronounce. 
 
 exflet., expletive. sc., supply. 
 
 Jf., and following pages. SD., Stage Directions. 
 
 imfers., impersonal. sttbf., subject. 
 
 Introd., Introduction. tr. y translate.
 
 NOTES. 
 
 ACT I. SCENE I. 
 
 SD. Sfine. In most of the dramas of his second period, and in 
 gifSfo, Schiller uses ^lufjug and 3luftritt ; in 2)te Stailber and $abdle 
 unb iebe he uses 21ft and 3ene ; in 2)oit $arlo8 and the translation 
 of 3pb,igeme in $uti8 he combines Sft and Sluftritt; in ell, JlufjUg 
 and S3Ctte. There is no significance in the selection. DtertDClIbftat= 
 tcnfecs, the Hamburg Theatre MS. has 3SierroaIbftatterfee, now the 
 established spelling. The place indicated is on the southern arm of the 
 lake, called the Uvner @ee, near the SDJtythenftein and the cape where 
 the shore turns to the west. Let the student gather the evidence for 
 this from the map and the text. untDCtt, usually with genitive. fjafen, 
 see map. Hod?, yet, omit in translation. Kufyretfyen, a simple bit of 
 melody, sung or played on a pipe or horn, ancient and inimitable, vary- 
 ing according to the canton. 
 
 Page 5. line i. <s, explet; labet = tabet ein. 
 
 1. 2. fcfyltef Ctrl, but for the metre we should probably have iff eiit= 
 gefrhfafen. 
 
 1. 4. read : fo fiifj rote ^loten. 
 
 1. 8. fpitlen, wask, dash; tfym, dative of possession. 
 
 1. 9. CS, impers., there comes a voice, 
 
 1. 10. teb, in older German the neuter and sometimes the mas- 
 culine singular nominative adjective, strong declension, might be without 
 ending. Here the license favors the meter. 
 
 1. 11-12. Schiller found in Scheuchzer a legend of a certain lake 
 that draws people even from quite a distance into its waters. 
 
 1. 14. After personal pronouns the adjective is strong in the singular, 
 weak in the plural. 
 
 1. 16. The shepherds leave the high Alps about the last week in 
 August. 
 
 Page 6. line 17. fafyrett 311 23erg, come up, the verbs may be 
 read as future.
 
 1 74 WILHELM TELL 11. 2047. 
 
 1. 20. The herds are taken into the high Alps as late as June. 
 
 1. 25. <s, explet.; Steg, foot-bridge. 
 
 1. 26. grauet, impers. (fg understood), the order due to the meter; 
 fd?tmnblid?t = fdjttnnblijj (the t is unorganic, i.e. is not accounted 
 for by regular rules of derivation and declension). 
 
 1. 31. nebltd?t = nebUg (see 1. 26); unter ben ^uen, beneath his 
 feet ; JTteer is absolute nominative, as though subj. of Uegt or ift 
 understood, dependent on a (understood) at beginning of line. 
 
 1- 35- IDaffern, i.e. of the misty sea. 
 
 1. 36. bas griittenbe ^elb, the field growing green, gdb in same con- 
 struction as SBelt. 
 
 SD. ccrdnbert fid;, changes its aspect. 
 
 SD. ITtclFnapf, milk-pail. Huobt (pr. Ru-o-di; a closer approxi- 
 mation to the Swiss pronunciation is expressed by Rd-di, where the 
 small o represents the faint portion of a vanishing diphthong. Cp. also 
 Kuoni, and Muotta, 1. 1178), nickname of 9Jubolf ; JDernt, of JBernev ; 
 Kuont (pr. Ku-o-ni), of $onrab; Seppi, of Sofepb,. ?anbbube, 
 attendant. 
 
 ! 37- 3 enn '' dimin. of 3obamie8. HailC, boat, skiff, applies to 
 same thing as ^afytt (before 1. i), from Latin navis, through M.H.G. 
 nawe. 
 
 1. 38. (Tfyaloogt, a word reported by Scheuchzer as used in the 
 monastery Engelberg, (lit. valley-governor), storm-cloud, ^trn, tr. snow- 
 field, field of half-melted and frozen snow in loose, coarse grains or 
 masses, not yet packed enough to become glacier-ice. Such fields feed 
 glaciers, and their masses sliding or rolling down roar (bl'iiUt). 
 
 Page 7. line 39. UTYttyenftetn, see map. The mountain called 
 bcr grojje 3Jft)tben is probably meant, and not the natural obelisk near 
 the Riitli; I^aube, here cloud-cap. 
 
 1. 40. In prose fyer would be at the end; IDetterlocfy, vjeather- 
 quarter (lit. hole), i.e. the south, the Gotthard pass. 
 
 1. 41. metrt', think, metneit is think = judge, have an opinion; 
 glauben is think = believe, conjecture; betlffH = expect. 
 
 1. 43. IDacfyter, Watch, a dog's name; these and the following signs 
 of approaching rain Schiller found in Scheuchzer. 
 
 1. 46. ng, look (South German and Swiss dialect) ; fid? Derfcmfen, 
 strayed, supply babe, or bat. 
 
 1. 47. ifel, dimin. of (glija, or (SHfabetb, Lizzie (the cow's name);
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE I. 175 
 
 (Sdaut, here = Sailt, but in 1. 49, and perhaps here, chime, several 
 bells tuned in chord. 
 
 1. 48. So = dd'o, then; bte, she ; ber, bte, bd demonstrative is to be 
 distinguished from bev, bif, bd relative by the position of the verb. 
 
 1. 49. fcfyort, see note to 1. 10. 
 
 1. 50. anbsmann, cp. with ?anbmann, 1. 1056. 
 
 1. 51. nit = nirf)t (common South German dialect form). 
 
 1. 52. Des 2Ittingb.a'ufers, the baron of Attinghausen (see map), 
 genitive in apposition with ewt; 3Uge3afyIt, entrusted, perhaps let on 
 shares. 
 
 1. 53- ber Kufy, indirect object of ftefyt; 311 fjalfe, as to her neck, tr. 
 looks on the cow's neck. 
 
 1. 54. Das, i.e. what is in 1. 53; since the following clause, beginning 
 bdfj, is in the herdman's mind equivalent to 1. 53, bd may refer to this 
 also; Heifyen, confusion with ber 9?. the dance. 
 
 1. 55. \\\t,from her ; fyorte auf, imperfect subjunctive for conditional. 
 
 Page 8. line 56. nicfyt fllig, foolish; with Diet} understand 
 either ift e or foitn bag nid)t. 
 
 1- 57- 3ft bflfo qt\Q.Q,i,thatiseasytosay; bas (Tier, not' this animal,' 
 but animals. The definite article, with a noun in either the singular or 
 the plural, has a generalizing force; compare English usage. 
 
 1. 58. btc IDtr, when the antecedent of the relative pronoun ber, bie, 
 bdS, is of the ist or 2nd person, the relative is usually followed by the 
 personal pronoun, as here ; when not so followed the verb is in the 3rd 
 person. 
 
 1. 59- Die, demonstrative pronoun, They. 
 
 1. 60. 'ne = etne ; bte, it, not 'which.' 
 
 1. 61. Pfeife, call. 
 
 1.62. dbgetpeibet, grazed bare. 
 
 1. 63. Die, that; tr. I -wish you the same. 
 
 1. 64. Kefyrt ficfy's, an extreme case of the impersonal reflexive, 
 one does not always return. 
 
 1. 65. gelcuifert, running, thus always after fommen and gehett, the 
 past participle of the verb indicating the mode of motion. 
 
 1. 66. ber, colloquially and familiarly the definite article is used with 
 surnames as in the family it is used with Christian names; Baumgart, 
 short for meter's sake; ~2i \y Hen, see map. 
 
 1. 68. mas gtebt's fo eilig ? what is the hurry?
 
 1 76 WILHELM TELL. II. 71107. 
 
 Page 9. line 71. bicfyt fcfyon, read fcfjon birfjt. 
 
 1. 72. Sanbrocjt, governor (see 1. 131), in this case, aitbenberg, 
 see Introd. xliv 
 
 1. 73. CUt fflamt bes Cobs, a dead man. 
 
 1. 76. H>as fyat's gegebeil, ?i'//a/ ^0-f happened. 
 
 1. 77. Des Katfers/ cp. 1. 130, 2Ul)recb,t was not in fact emperor. 
 But the titles are used indifferently in "Tell"; 23urcjDogi, castellan, 
 see 1. 130; fa, had his seat. 
 
 1. 78. IPolfenfcfyteften (see Introd. xliii) is also the name of a place ; 
 see map; cp. 1. 131; agt cud? ber oerfolgetl ? Is he having you 
 pursued. 
 
 1. 81. jeber, any ; at the end of the line supply gethatl hcitte. 
 
 1. 82. rttettt gutCS f7ausred?t, my domestic rights. 
 
 1. 83. 2Jm, against. 
 
 Page 10. line 85. bos, see note to 1. 10; (Seliiften, infinitive 
 
 as noun = diift. 
 
 1. 87. ifym/ dative of possession. 
 
 1. 89. BtS, before. 
 
 1. go. See Introd. xliii; fyatte gefSUt, had been felling ; ba, 'then,' tr. 
 when. 
 
 1. 91. ill ber Jlltgft bes JEobes, in deadly fear, not ' in the anguish of 
 death.' 
 
 1. 92. Heg', subjunctive of indirect discourse, about which the Ger- 
 mans often use quotation-marks. 
 
 1. 94. Utigebiifyrlicfyes Con ifyr perlangt, made improper demands 
 of her. 
 
 1. 95- frtfcfy, promptly. 
 
 1. 97. 's = ba ; cjefegtiet, blessed. The expression is from Tschudi 
 (gefegnett) and of course ironical. See Introd. xliii. 
 
 1. 98. fcfyelten = tabeln. 
 
 1. 101. ntcfytbar = mcljbav ; mir toirb nad^gefetjt (subject e under- 
 stood). Note that an indirect object cannot properly be used as 
 subject in a passive voice, but remains in the oblique case, as here; tr. 
 / am pursued. 
 
 Page 11. line 104. (Seb.t Iticfyt, 3rd person singular with e 
 understood. 
 
 1. 106. totet, is death. 
 
 1. 107. mit (Sott, in God's name.
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE I. 177 
 
 1. 108. (Sleicfyes, the like; ja, why, at beginning, or you know, at 
 end. The student should make a point of getting good idiomatic ren- 
 derings for bod), ja, fdjon, lt>ol)t and and). 
 
 1. 109. ^ofyrt, south-wind, on lake Lucerne usually a dangerous 
 storm-wind, cp. 1. 423 ff. 
 
 1. in. meitt (an historically correct form) = metner ; the line is 
 meant as an appeal, not as a threat. 
 
 1. 112. <s gefyt Utn's ebett, ifs a matter of life and death. 
 
 1. 1 1 6. How the breakers roll, how it seethes and eddies. 
 
 1. 121. Hettlingsufer, analyze and translate accordingly. 
 
 Page 12. line 123. This is possible at the narrowest point in- 
 dicated. 
 
 1.124. tjiniibertriige, conditional, with suppressed condition: n>ettn 
 ifyr es toagen loolltet. 
 
 1. 125. Before mil sc. fid) ; cc^agen, infinitive, same construction 
 as liegen. 
 
 1. 127. Observe that the abrupt question from Tell implies assured 
 superiority and mastery. 
 
 1. 128. 2Il3eller, of Alzellen, accent on penult, cp. 1. 66. 
 
 1. 130. Konig's, here and often instead of $aifer. 
 
 1. 131- anboogt, see 1. 72; the 93ltrg&ogt (see 1. 77) was subordi- 
 nate to the ?anbogt. See also SSoIfenfdjtefsen, 1. 945. 
 
 1. 135. After ruagen sc. fei. 
 
 1. 136. ISt ftd?, may ; tDdgcn, passive infinitive; the dialogue that 
 here follows is a specimen of what is called in the Greek drama 
 ' stichomythy,' (lit. dialogue in lines). It is marked by its brevity, and 
 by being cast in general terms. See Introd. xxxvi. Let the student ob- 
 serve its recurrence, and note who uses it. 
 
 1. 137. fjollcttracfyen, analyze and translate accordingly. 
 
 1. 141. Iat ftd?'s gemad^Hd? raten, it is easy to advise. 
 
 Page 13. line 143. Note the difficulty of well translating farm, 
 though it has the same meaning in both clauses : possibility. 
 
 1. 146. Simons unb 3uba (sc. Sag), the 28th of October, the 
 common anniversary of Simon the Canaanite and Judas the son of 
 James, not Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot. Perhaps such a confusion led 
 Schiller to transfer to this day a superstition belonging to St. John's Day. 
 
 1. 149. bem ITtann mu fylfe rocrben, the man must be helped; 
 roerbfn = gu etl rcerben, was formerly widely used in this sense, cp. 
 11. 645 and 1347.
 
 178 WILHELM TELL. 11. 152184. 
 
 1. 152. fcfytoacfy, not in comparison with Ruodi, but with the storm. 
 1. 153. IDetbgefellcn = SBeibmamt. 
 
 1. 155. lPob.1, indeed, read after eroalt. 
 
 Page 14. line 158. ber IHenfcfyen, genitive plural, sc. anb; 
 SanbSmann, all of the men are TelPs countrymen, but it must be inferred 
 that Kuoni is from near Tell's home. 
 
 1. 159. TXltn^lidcits, fatal (lit. human); was ettoaS. 
 
 1. 160. laffcn = untedaffen, tr. help doing. 
 
 1. 161. ITTeifter, probably ironical. Note the change in pronoun used 
 by Kuoni to Ruodi going back to the formal ifyr used previous to 1. 103. 
 
 1. 162. fid? getrailt, venture, cp. 1. 2244. 
 
 1. 163. Jtfotjt, indeed, read after Scanner. 
 
 1. 164. tin (Sebirge, i.e. the Forest Cantons. 
 
 1. 170. angefprengt, cp. note to 1. 65. 
 
 1. 171. H?etfj (Sott, inverted; inversion caused by an impersonal 
 e understood is quite common. 
 
 1. 172. After perborgett sc. fyabt ; this omission of the auxiliary at 
 the end of subordinate clause is so common that it will not be pointed 
 out again. 
 
 1. 173. Pes = btefeS, adverbial genitive. 
 
 Page 15. line 176. betlegt, /^ on; this the evident meaning 
 is not found in most standard dictionaries; perhaps Schiller misunder- 
 stood the nautical term beUegen = to lay by. 
 
 1. 179. Hetfjet Ctn, break open. 
 
 1. 181. IDiitrtcfye, monsters. 
 
 1. 182. biefem anbC; i.e. the Forest Cantons, not merely Uri. 
 The reference to one land is justified by the ,,uralt SBunbniS" cited 
 1. 1156. 
 
 ACT I. SCENE 2. 
 
 SD. bes Stauffacfyers. The article with personal names indicates in- 
 timacy or wide repute, but usage is fluctuant; cp. 11. 126, 134, 162, etc., 
 and the opening of Act III, Scene i. 
 
 SD. pfetfer is a name, not an office. 
 
 1. 183. fagtC, was saying. 
 
 1. 184. Sd?n>8rt ttid?t 311 (Dftretd?, Do not swear allegiance to 
 Austria, i.e. the Duchy of Austria, hereditary with the house of Habs- 
 burg; the imperial office was elective, but was held at this time by the 
 Duke of Austria.
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE 2. 179 
 
 Page 16. line 185. am Hetd?, i.e. to their (assumed) immediate 
 relation to the Empire. 
 
 SD. trill, is about to. 
 
 1. 187. IDtrttlt, wife, archaic, modern only 'hostess'; Slcibt bocfy, 
 pray or do remain. The quality of conversational German is greatly 
 affected by the use of the words : bod), ja, fdjon, aitd), and ttioht ; no 
 dictionary will give universal equivalents, but the student should make a 
 point of feeling and rendering the special force of each. 
 
 1. 189. Did, accusative but undeclined, as is usual with Diet and 
 irjenig in the nominative and accusative, masculine and neuter. 
 
 1. 190. Sdptneres, tr. hardships. 
 
 1. 193. arts Hetd? gelangen, come to the throne; the imperial office 
 was elective. 
 
 1. 194. Setb tfyr erft, If you are once ; (Dftermcfys, the regular form, 
 that in 1. 184 being a contraction; fetb tb_r CS, you are hers. 
 
 1. 196. For many days I have observed in silence, the present with 
 fcJjon or feit is used for the present perfect when the action or condi- 
 tion continues in present time. 
 
 1. 198. (Sebreftctt, grief, an unusual word suggested by Tschudi's 
 Chronicle, from the verb gebrefteit, ' to be lacking.' 
 
 1. 202. (Sliicfsftanb, condition. 
 
 1. 203. Sdpeunen, sheds, for hay and grain; after Sdparen sc. ftnb 
 DOU. 
 
 1. 204. ud?t, herd. 
 
 1. 208. Stammfyo^, massive timber (lit. trunk-wood). 
 
 Page 17. line 209. Symmetrically put together according to 
 the standard ; the line could have been spared. It is said to be due 
 to an attempt to imitate Homer whom Schiller as well as Goethe studied 
 as a model. 
 
 1. 210. Don, 'with, not ' from.' 
 
 1. 211. IDappenfcfyilbern. It is not likely that the house had more 
 than one escutcheon or. possibly two, one for Stauffacher and one for his 
 wife's family (Miiller, from whom the description is imitated, mentions 
 none), but it might have various scenes, or mottoes, as may still be seen 
 on old buildings in Switzerland. 
 
 1. 214. If obj, modifies gestmmcrt and gefiigt. 
 
 1. 215. ben, the accusative is very unusual. 
 
 1. 218. bas fd?cm Dollbrad^te, au is not distinctly understood; tr. 
 what is so beautifully finished.
 
 l8o WILHELM TELL. li. 220270. 
 
 1. 220. geritten with fam, cp. note to 1. 65. 
 
 1. 223. trat etttgegett, advanced to meet. 
 
 1. 226. bosmeinenb, with evil intent. 
 
 1. 227. befomien, past participle of beftnnen, tr. by present parti- 
 ciple reflecting; not quite like the petrified past participle in 1. 1872. 
 
 1. 229. cures, agrees with >errn understood; cp. the language in 
 Tschudi, Introd. xlvi. 
 
 1. 232. 2Iuf feme eigne fjanb, on his own motion ; alfo fret, thus 
 freely. Observe that German ,,alfo" is never ' also.' 
 
 1. 234. (End? bas 311 tDefyren, to prevent you (from doing) that. 
 
 1. 235. trutjiglid?, archaic for tro^tg, cp., 1. 168, fraftiglidj for 
 frciftig. 
 
 Page 18. line 238. (Efyetmrt, husband, cp. note to 1. 187; 
 
 IHagft bll, Are you -willing. 
 
 1. 240. 3& cr 9 s ' Gertrude's family name according to the chronicle 
 was Herlobig, but Schiller found the name Iberg in Miiller, and it 
 pleased him better; riifym' id? mid?, tr. I am proud to say I am. 
 
 \. 241. melerfafyrnen, much experienced; this adjective is suggestive 
 of the Homeric method of composition; certain commentators discover 
 a great deal of Homeric suggestion in " Tell," but it is well to remember 
 that word-composition is in the genius of the German language as much 
 as in the Greek; fafjen, used to sit. 
 
 1. 244. pergamente, tr. charters. 
 
 1. 251. prefjte = briicfte; nwt' id? langft, I have long known. 
 
 1. 253. <in ?inberttis, ba etc., an obstacle (tr.) preventing the 
 Swiss etc., but (leading them to) etc. Or tr. inberm8, cause, and pro- 
 ceed literally. 
 
 1. 254. bem rteuett ^urftenfyius, i e. the Habsburgs. 
 
 1. 257. ZlItDorbern, forefathers. 
 
 1. 258. liige, am wrong, often thus, and not 'lie.' 
 
 1. 259. (Sroll auf , more commonly gegetl. 
 
 1. 260. bir neibifd?, more commonly auf bid) iifibifd). 
 
 Page 19. line 264. So gut, as well or freely as; note that in 
 adverbial comparisons of equality, like this, the second as (inie or alS) 
 is not commonly expressed. 
 
 1. 266. ben fjodjftett in bcr dbjiftenfyeit, i.e. the Emperor, as head 
 of the " Holy Roman Empire." 
 
 1. 270. With envious looks of spiteful jealousy.
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE 2. l8l 
 
 1. 272. nod?, the student should be careful in translating nocf) not to 
 put still at beginning of sentence, as the word is then the equivalent of 
 bocf). 
 
 1. 273. bte bofe uft an btr gebiifjt, has accomplished his evil pur- 
 pose against you. 
 
 1. 275. Cp. this portion of Gertrude's speech with that attributed to 
 her by Tschudi, Introcl. xlvi. 
 
 1. 277. b, archaic for iibtr. Schiller has added ,,et$" to the 
 ,,'S>uterei" attributed to Gessler by Tschudi. 
 
 1. 279. llrner, genitive plural, lit., of the inhabitants of Uri, tr. the 
 land of Uri. 
 
 1. 281. fcfyafft CS frcd?, acts highhandedly. 
 
 1. 282. briiben iiberm See, yonder across the lake. 
 
 1. 284. <SetpaIt=23egtnnen, deed of violence. SBeginnen as noun is 
 
 commonly not 'beginning,' but has the sense of act, undertaking; cp. 
 
 2BaHenftetn ob, Act I, Scene 4: 2Ba ift bein SBeginnen? 
 
 1. 285. This is one of three instances in "Tell" where a word is 
 divided between two lines (cp. 11. 2571 and 2614) ; there are many more 
 in Schiller's earlier dramas; see Introd. xxxvii; t>ott, by. 
 
 \. 286. ttjat' es gut = toare e8 gut. 
 
 1. 287. rebltd? inetnert, are in earnest. 
 
 1. 289. So ad?t' id? tpobj, And I fully believe. 
 
 Page 20. line 291. (Saftfreuttb, friend (with whom one 
 exchanges visits). 
 
 1. 293. Cp. again the extracts from Tschudi, Introd. xlvii. 
 
 1. 294. CUtgefebiCtt, respected, same construction as grojje, but ending 
 dropped for meter's sake; )erretllcutc, leaders. 
 
 1. 295. getjetm, devoted; gar roobj ccrtraut, thoroughly trusted 
 (by me). 
 
 1. 297. 3 nncr f tc S, inmost soul. 
 
 1. 298. mtr entgegen, before me. 
 
 1. 299. (till, modifies benfen. 
 
 1. 300. fecfltd? = terf, cp. 11. 1 68 and 235. 
 
 1. 301. aud?, moreover, at beginning of line. 
 
 1. 303. friebgetDOhnt, peacewonted, or simply peaceful. 
 
 1. 304. tragten, subjunctive dependent on rtitft, should venture. 
 
 1. 309. Darin fdpaltetl, ' hold sway in it,' tr. rule it.
 
 l82 WILHELM TELL. 11. 315-356. 
 
 ! 3 I 5- fd?I2gtf strikes down. There is a resemblance between this 
 line and Matthew 26, 31. 
 
 Page 21. line 316. Cp. note to 1. 136. 
 
 1. 319. ber Ultgetjeure, 'the monstrous,' tr. the monster. 
 
 1. 331. )erb linb fjof, hearth and farm, tr. home, ^reuben, dative 
 plural; this usage is old and still common, but one may also say, init 
 
 greube. 
 
 ! 333- ftefynben ^UC5, adverbial genitive, without delay ; perhaps 
 the idea of the peculiar phrase ' with standing foot ' is ' on my feet as I 
 am'; gletdp is redundant. 
 
 ! 334- Tntr, dative of interest; the natural order is: Dort lebt mtt 
 C. (5., tr. I have there a friend. 
 
 1. 336. 23annerfyernt, banneret, military title of honor rather than 
 title of nobility. 
 
 Page 22. line 341. u>eU = bieroeil, rocifjrenb. 
 
 1- 343- 3ltm (Sottestjaufc. Probably Stauffacher refers to the monas- 
 tery of Einsiedeln about nine miles northeast of Steinen. 
 
 1. 346. u aufterft am, Right out on. 
 
 1- 347- f?eern>eg = ^ecrftra^e. 
 
 1. 348. fatjrcn, more commonly geljen. 
 
 1. 349. You have now no further need of me ; the phrase is more 
 commonly nottg hdben (with accusative). 
 
 ACT I. SCENE 3. 
 
 SD. bduen, passive infinitive in sense; cjebicfyett, past participle, 
 supply tft, tr. is advanced ; ttnrb cbett gcbaut (lit. is just being built), 
 tr. work is in progress ; fyatigt, clings. ^rortDOgt (gron = lord or 
 master, as in gronfeid)tiam, Corpus Christi, lit. the Lord's body), task- 
 master, the representative of Gessler. 
 
 ! 353- gcfetcrt, past participle, a substitute for the imperative, Don't 
 rest long ! so also jugefdfyren in the next line; the accusatives KdlP 
 and JTtortel show that the full construction is: ?a^t ben $alf jltgefahreit 
 tterben. 
 
 Page 23. line 355. bag = bainit. 
 
 1. 356. ftefyt, indicative to express certain expectancy where the 
 subjunctive would be more common. Das, i.e. biefeS 3Sotf (contemp- 
 tuous).
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE 3. 183 
 
 ! 357- fjeifjt bas gelaben ? 'Is that called loaded'? tr. Do you call 
 that a load? 
 
 1. 358. ifyre Pflid?t beftebjen, ' rob,' tr. shirk their duty. 
 
 1. 360. (EtDtng, archaic for 3tt)tng, which occurs in 1. 370; the latter 
 word, usually in the phrase 3tt>ttig Utlb 33dltn, now means jurisdiction, 
 while the meaning of the present text, fortress or keep, has been trans- 
 ferred to the newer word 3rotrtger. 
 
 . 361. Was = roarum. 
 
 . 362. anftelltg, dialect,^/. 
 
 . 364. After mefyr sc. arbeiten. 
 
 365. (EittgetDCib', bowels of mercy. 
 
 367. ^ronbienft, forced labor. 
 
 . 368. After 2IttttS sc. ift, what belongs to my office. 
 
 37- o)tmng, Hold or Keep Uri, gives an imperfect reproduction 
 of the play on the word. 
 
 Page 24. line 372. was giebt's babet 311 lacfyen, what occasion 
 
 is there in that to laugh. 
 
 1. 374. tnel, for toiele. 
 
 375- bis ein Berg brails tpirb, till they make a mountain. 
 
 377. in ben tiefften See, into the depths of the lake. 
 382. erfr, once ; after gefefyn sc. Ijtittet. 
 
 . 383. tDCr, whoever, the Per, at the beginning of next line, is un- 
 ne essary but the repetition is quite common. 
 . 384. fiirber, archaic, = roeiter. 
 
 386. ^lanFen, walls, lit. the retreating walls of a bastion, but 
 probably used here loosely for the bastions themselves. 
 
 1. 389. IDas toil! bie (Trommel? What does the drum mean ? 
 Page 25. line 390. ^afjnacb, tsauf3ltg, now commonly printed in- 
 correctly, ^dftnadjtSaufjug, carnival-masquerade; mas \tf&,what means. 
 1-393- 2-lllfricfyten. The word applies rather to the pole on which the 
 hat was set. 
 
 1.395. ITTeinung, purpose. 
 1. 396. gefcfyefytt, tr. be shown. 
 
 1.400-401. Whoever disregards the command shall forfeit, lit. is 
 forfeit. etb, tr. life. 
 
 1. 402. llnerfyortes, atrocity, lit. unheard of (thing). 
 1. 404. bergleicfyen, this is the genitive plural, the real object of Won 
 being S)ingen understood.
 
 184 WILHELM TELL. 11. 407465. 
 
 Page 26. line 407. So, As it is. 
 
 1. 408. Per fjut, the emblem of the ducal office. 
 
 1. 409. Probably not at Vienna, but at Baden in Aargau where 
 Albrecht sometimes held court. efyen (Jtcbt, distributes the fiefs. 
 
 1. 414. nnffet Befcfyetb, are posted, lit. know definite information. 
 
 1. 415. Cp. note to 1. 136. 
 
 Page 27. line 422. fcfyrtell, rash or violent. 
 
 1. 423. $'6ty\, see note to 1. 109. 
 
 1. 427. Let each, tr. every one live quietly at home by himself (with- 
 out interfering). 
 
 1. 429. ITtetnt trjr, Do you think so. Die Scblattge fticfyt nid?t 
 
 uncjeretjt, The snake does not bite, lit. sting, tinless irritated. 
 
 1. 430. bocfy, certainly. 
 
 1. 431. anbe ; this plural is poetic, and more common in the mean- 
 ing ' estates,' Sciuber. being the regular form for ' states ' or cantons. 
 Schiller did not discriminate; cp. 11. 655 and 742. 
 
 1. 433- ber CtttjClnC, a man alone. 
 
 1. 439. 3ur HottDCrjr greift, resorts to self-defense, tr. arms. 
 
 Page 28. line 441. fotlte, should (i.e. is it to be expected that 
 he will). 
 
 1. 442. tDas = ft)a8 aud), whatever. 
 
 1. 443. Cp. this with 11. 2561-2651. 
 
 1. 444. bcfttmmtcr, a definite. 
 
 1. 448-9. Bertha's act was not wise but perhaps natural; feeling 
 rather than deliberate judgment often controls in such circumstances. 
 
 1. 450. ITttt Clirem (Solbe, expression of impatience, tr. Away with 
 your gold (in German sc. efit before 2Jttt). 2IHes tft end? fetl um 
 (Solb (fllrf), ethical dative), You think everything is to be had for gold. 
 
 1- 455- Cr|' tfyr famt, thus unjustly identifying Bertha with her kins- 
 man Gessler. 
 
 ACT I. SCENE 4. 
 
 Page 29. line 459. IDentt, tr. What if. 
 
 1. 461. It is not necessary to assume, as does Diintzer, that Fiirst is 
 just returning from a trip to Unterwalden. 
 
 1. 462. The order of ZTtcfyt Cttrag' tcfy's Idngcr is unusual and not 
 to be accounted for by the necessities of meter. 
 
 1. 465. llm, etc., tr. That I should.
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE 4. 185 
 
 1. 466. For the following recital cp. the account of Tschudi, Introd. 
 xliv. Dem f recfyen 23libett, and mtr, datives of possession; ill trans- 
 lation begin with 1. 469. Subett, servant, 
 
 \. 472. in Straf gefallett, more commonly ber trafe tterfatten, 
 incurred a penalty; mittjtet, were compelled (i.e. by prudence); more 
 natural would seem fjattet. . -fugen foflen. 
 
 1. 473- lt?ie fcfytuer fie (sc. and)) roar, however severe it was. 
 
 \. 476. mog', let. 
 
 Page 30. line 478. fpannte, unyoked. 
 
 1. 480. ftieen, hooked. 
 
 1. 487. gefyaffig, in active sense, tr. hates him. 
 
 \. 490. ntemanb ift = eS tft niemaiib (sc. ba) ; fcfyiitje, a delicate 
 subjunctive, common in French in such a case (relative after negative), 
 but rare in German. 
 
 1. 491. fyiniiber, across, i.e. the mountains, not the lake, which does 
 not lie between Uri and Melchthal, see map. 
 
 1. 493. pom H?albe, i.e. llnteruwlben. 
 
 1. 497. retcfyen ficfy bte anbe,join hands. 
 
 Page 31. line 501. fd?n>ant, dialect for aljnt, tr. what evil 1 
 
 forebode. 
 
 1. 503. laufcfyt; the use of a singular verb with two singular subjects 
 is quite common in German, where English usage would not permit it. 
 
 1. 505. tfyat' tS not, it would be necessary (sc. as condition, 'if it 
 kept on this way'). 
 
 SD. ba, as; the student should learn to discriminate between ba, 
 adverb = then or there (verb immediately following), and ba, conjunc- 
 tion = as or since (verb at end of clause) . 
 
 1. 507. bet (Sott ! The German uses the titles of the divinity with 
 much greater freedom than the English, yet without any sense of 
 irreverence, tr. by Heaven, or / declare. 
 
 1. 508. roerter, not 'worthy,' but dear, synonymous with teitrer, 
 which tr. valued. 
 
 1. 513. Die, those; mir tmrb fo u?ohl, for e8 thut nur jo root)f. 
 1. 514. c$el}t auf, swells; eurem llnbltcf, the sight of you. 
 1. 516. IPtrtut, cp. 1. 187. 
 1. 517. Cp. note to 11. 240 and 241. 
 
 1. 519. iiber nTetttrabs ell, by the way of Meinrad's hermitage, i.e. 
 (Sinfiebeln, which is on the old highway that leads over the Gotthard
 
 1 86 WILHELM TELL. 11. 522565. 
 
 pass. It is on the spot where St. Meinrad was murdered in 86 1, cp. 
 note to 1. 343. 
 
 1. 522. mrgenbs fottft nod), nowhere else besides. 
 
 1. 524. IDofyl, indeed, the natural order would be : JDobl tfdb' id?, 
 etc. 
 
 Page 32. line 526. ba fyabt tfyr's, there you have it ('the whole 
 story'). 
 
 1. 528. fett HTenfd?enbenfen (= =gebenfen), within the memory of 
 
 men. 
 
 1. 529. feft, impregnable. 
 
 1- 530. mit ZTamcn, by its (sc. righf) name. 
 
 1. 531. id? tmll eud?, etc., either sc. e8 as direct object, or bojj at 
 beginning of 1. 532. 
 
 1- 536- oJtel = (Snbe. 
 
 1. 537- t>on uralters \\W, from primitive times down i uralters, an 
 adverbial genitive, is here used substantively. 
 
 1. 539. <in fold?es, sc. 2)ing. roar = roarb. 
 
 1. 540. tricb, has driven, sc. as object feine erbe. 
 
 1. 541. CS trcibcn, carry on. 
 
 1. 543- nod?, (though} still (alive). It may be as well to omit alto- 
 gether in translation. 
 
 1. 544. To give the proper meter to the line the nid)t must be stressed 
 
 1. 545- lintcrm JPalb, Ultterroalben, or perhaps the phrase is used 
 for the part of Unterwalden called nib (i.e. unter) bent SBalb. Sd?a>e 
 res, deeds of violence. 
 
 1. 548. (Seliiftcn trug er, he longed. 
 Page 33. line 549. fyausrfalt, dwells. 
 
 1. 550. 3U fredper Ungebiihr, tr. in highhanded outrage. 
 1. 551. bcr ITtantt, the husband. 
 1. 554. bod?, tr. I hope. 
 
 1.555. (Eucr (Eibam, i.e. Sell; iibcrn = fiber ben; gefliid?tct, 
 aided inflight. 
 
 1. 557. bcrfelbc ITTann, i.e. SBaumgarten. 
 
 1. 560. tneld?tr;al, see map. 
 
 1. 561. eintritt, i.e. into the valley. 
 
 1. 562. I^alben, lit. slope, but do not translate. See Introd. xlii. 
 
 1. 563. gilt mas (= etttiaS), has some weight. 
 
 1- 565-
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE 4. 187 
 
 1. 566. After Um sc. eineg. 
 
 1. 567. ib,m, dative of possesion with Odjjett. 
 
 1. 568. Pa, thereupon; tnurbc fliicb, ttg,yW. 
 
 Page 34. line 571. fobern, archaic for forbern. He (the father) 
 
 is required to bring in to him (the governor) his son. 
 
 1. 574. Pa, tJierefore, or leave untranslated. 
 
 SD. to til, tries to. 
 
 1. 577. bofyren, thrust. 
 
 Page 35. line 585. The spacing (perrjdjrift) shows the 
 emphasis, gcblcttbet adds nothing to blind, tr. really and wholly 
 blind. 
 
 \. 586. fagt's = jagte e3; ausgefloffen, gone dry. 
 
 1-593- fiibJenb, groping. 
 
 1- 594- ^tnftern, unusual for ^inflerniS. erqiltcft, present for future. 
 
 1- 595- 5d?md3, lustre. 
 
 1. 596. Pie rotetl ^irnen, tr.rosy ice-peaks, see note to 1. 38; whole 
 peaks are sometimes covered with ,,5trnei," and receive thence the 
 name irn; the refracted and reflected light from such peaks causes 
 what is called 9ttyeng(uhen. 
 
 1. 599- frifcfye, sound. 
 
 1. 600. fctncs, neither. 
 
 \. 602. mir ins 2luge brtngt, enters my eyes. 
 
 Page 36. line 609. 2JUes, same construction as in 1. 605; note 
 that rauben takes accusative of the thing and dative of the person ; the 
 compound berauben has government like the English. 
 
 1. 614. )aupt, tr. life. 
 
 1. 615. gelaffen, same construction as gebadjt, 1. 613. 
 
 1. 618. ^tniibcr, sec note to 1. 491. 
 
 1. 620. fyeraus, separable particle with finben. 
 
 1. 625. f^crrcnburg, lordly castle, tr. seat. 
 
 1.628. ScfyrecF born, a peak in the Bernese Alps southeast of Lucerne 
 and about equidistant from Bern and Lucerne; bic 3utt(jfrait, a famous 
 peak about nine miles southeast of the Schreckhorn. 
 
 1. 629. cerfcfyletert, the figure does not apply literally, as the moun- 
 tain is by no means always veiled, macfye, present instead of niacfjte, 
 which would correspond to roobnt', to express greater reality in the con- 
 clusion. 
 
 Page 37. line 632. ifyr allc, i.e. men of means and leaders.
 
 1 88 WILHELM TELL. II. 637685. 
 
 1. 637. Sinn, mind. 
 
 1. 639. <s tft ailf feittem (Sipfef, it is at its height, i.e. Melchthal's 
 passion. IPolIcn nm crmarten bis bas JJufcerfte sc. uoriibev tft, 
 Let us wait until the extreme (or tr. worst) is fast. 
 
 1. 640. IPeld? 2}uerftes. Melchthal, to whom the remark was not 
 addressed, overhears it, and misunderstands its application, thinking it 
 to refer to the general state of affairs. 
 
 1. 645. 3 c ^em H?cfcn n>arb, cp. note to 1. 149. 
 
 1. 646. ZTotgetPCfyr, weapon in need, tr. means of defence. 
 
 \. 647. <s, expletive; ftcllt fid?, stands at bay. 
 
 1. 649. reit, drags or hurls. 
 
 1. 650. Bausgenofj, lit. house-companion, which was true in old 
 German houses where the whole establishment was under one roof; tr. 
 helpmeet, or with X)es JTCenfc^en, tr. simply, domestic animal. 
 
 \. 652. gebogett (b,0t), has subjected to. 
 
 1. 653. gcret3t, absolute past participle, when irritated, roctjt feitt 
 geroalttg fjorn, a fancy derived from the bull's habit of tearing the 
 ground with his horns. 
 
 1. 654. 311, separable particle with fd^leubert, towards. 
 
 1. 656. permogen, accomplish. 
 
 Page 38. line 658. See Introd. xlii. 
 
 1. 660. etb itnb 23 hit, tr. life and limb. 
 
 1. 661. am anbern,/>w others, ctttctt Hiirfen, backing. 
 
 1. 666. Hid^t ; the natural order to give the correct sense would be: 
 2?erad)tf t ntdjt, tueil, etc., tr. Do not, because, etc. 
 
 1. 668. liiftcrtt juc$enbltd?es Blllt, wanton, youthful blood, tr. spirits. 
 
 1. 670. Was, has no definite antecedent, tr. a case which. Stein 
 b0S ^elfetl, tr. a heart of stone. 
 
 1. 671. fjaufcs, and 1. 672, Sobn, tr. in plural. 
 
 1. 673. ebje, and 1. 674, bctt>ad?C, delicate uses of the subjunctive, 
 influenced by toiinfd^t, as though the sentence were: ItwnfcJjt, baft ein 
 tugenbbafter @ohn . . . eljve, etc. 
 
 1. 675. Read 1. 678 first, omitting barum. 
 
 1. 680. Cp. 11. 252-257. No details for this charge are given. 
 
 1. 682. tnitfdjlllb linb Dcrbammttis, guilt and condemnation. 
 
 Page 39. line 684. I^errn, usually erveu in plural. 
 1. 685. Silltncn, a family mentioned by Tschudi; the estate was on 
 the Reuss, nine miles above Altorf.
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE 4. 189 
 
 1. 688. Cltrcr, to Fiirst; ber cure, to Stauffacher. 
 1. 689. ed?te lUa'brimg, (he genuine worth. 
 
 1. 690. ttlang = 9hif. 
 
 1. 694. IParen tcir bod?, O would we were. 
 
 1. 695. fd?on, all right. 
 
 1. 696. tr. in passive; mit lltts, as we. 
 
 1. 698. Bis jetjt, Thus far. 
 
 1. 699. entftefytt = feljlen. 
 
 1. 703. After I)od?, sc. ber ; the omission of the first element of the 
 correlative is quite common in poetry. Katfcr, rather $onig, see note 
 to 1.77. 
 
 1. 708. lag', conditional or potential subjunctive. 
 
 Page 40. line 710. afjt mid?, sc. geben. 
 
 1. 714. mtt (Sott, in God's name. 
 
 1. 717. ber feller, i.e. SBaitmgarten. nib bent IPalb, cp. note 
 to 1. 545 ; see map. 
 
 1. 719. lins, reciprocal, to one another. 
 
 1. 721. Brumten obcr (Creib, Brunnen in Schwyz, Treib in Uri, 
 just opposite, see map. 
 
 1. 7 2 5- ttad? Brunnen, i.e. northward, bent IHyt^enftein grab' 
 
 Vthtt, just above the Afythenstein, a. natural obelisk loo feet high, in the 
 lake around a point southward from Treib; see map, also Introd. xlvii. 
 
 1. 727. Kiitli (lit. ' clearing,' from stem reuten, to root out), written 
 also Griitli, is above, but a mile south of the Mythenstein; grab' fiber, 
 may = grab' gegenitber, just opposite, in \vhich case the Mythenstein 
 would seem to mean the mountain Mythen in Schwyz, as in 1. 39. But 
 the Riitli is more properly just above the Mythenstein than 'just oppo- 
 site' the Mythen, Dolf ber fjirtett, genitive of identity, tr. the shep- 
 herds. 
 
 1. 729. Port ift's, in fact the Riitli is over a mile from the border of 
 the two cantons; the border may once have been different. 
 
 Page 41. line 732. b'ben, secret, solitary. 
 
 1- 734- tnag, let; cp. 1. 476. 
 
 1. 735. rfer3einig, of one heart. 
 
 1. 737- fnfd?, promptly. 
 
 1. 738. cure (to ^urfl). 
 
 1- 739- bie cure (to 3JMd)tb,aI). 
 
 1.741. ^alfd?, guile, archaic.
 
 1 90 WILHELM TELL. II. 742798. 
 
 1. 742. anber, see note to 1. 431. 
 
 SD. Ctntgc paufcn lan$,/or a few moments. 
 
 1. 749. tPilllen, make pilgrimages. 
 
 1. 751. foil CS bit tagen, shall the day dawn for you. 
 
 ACT II. SCENE i. 
 
 Some days must intervene between the first act and the second, to 
 allow for Melchthal's journey, and the arrangements for Scene 2. 
 
 Page 42. line 754. ^riifytnmf, morning-drink, perhaps a light 
 breakfast of which beer was the chief element. 
 
 SD. The custom of drinking round was very common formerly, cp. 
 the description in "Faust," 11. 725-28. 
 
 1- 757- EPie = fott)ie. 
 
 1. 758. ben Sdpaffner macfyen,//^ the steward. 
 
 1. 761. ettger, for ettgerm. Korner regarded this as a mistake, and 
 corrected it in his edition of Schiller's works. But there are numerous 
 examples in the classic writers where the second of two adjectives is de- 
 clined while the first is not; where both are logically comparative 
 Goethe sometimes left the first in the positive degree, as 9?im gliihte feinc 
 SBange rotfy unb rbtljer, 1. 49, Spilog 311 ,,2)a ieb toon ber lode." 
 
 1. 764. Scfyatte, older form for djatten. 
 
 1.765. brittg's eudp, with both literal and derived meanings : 1 bring 
 it to you, and / drink to you. 
 
 1. 765. gef)t, comes. 
 
 Page 43. line 770. It is assumed that there is a castle at Altorf 
 aside from the Keep that we see building in Act I, Scene 3; Tschudi 
 mentions a tower there, see Introd. xlv. 
 
 1. 772. f)aft bit's fo etltg, for aft bit jolcfje (Stle, or SBifl bu jo eilig. 
 
 1. 774. "2in, at the expense of. 
 
 1.778. >lir ^rembc, a strange place. UH, pet form of Ulridj. 
 
 1. 780. tragft 3itr Scfyau, you display. 
 
 Page 44. line 787. Kontgs, and just below, 1. 800, Kaifcr, see 
 note to 1. 77. 
 1. 788. ob = iiber. 
 
 1. 793. f^ofynfprecfyettb, mocking, not, as usual, ' defying.' 
 1. 794. tubes, for inbem. 
 
 1. 798. foftete, would cost, subjunctive for conditional.
 
 NOTES. ACT n, SCENE I. 19! 
 
 1. 801. ifynen, for benen. balten = gu fatten. 
 1. 802. Da, so that. 
 
 1. 803. tnnbern . . . Da nicfyt, prevent from, cp. 1. 253 and note. 
 1.8o6. H?orfl tfyllt tS itynen, it flatters them, fjemnbanf, bench 
 of lords (in the council). 
 
 Page 45. line 813. anbammann (= ?.*amtman), /<#<?, an 
 officer in the cantons corresponding to that of iBiirgermeifter in a city. 
 1. 817. fid? an ... an3ufd?lieen, to join. 
 
 1. 818. Pair, the equal. 
 
 1. 819. 311 (Seridjt fttjen, to sit in jttdgment ; the local assembly had 
 both judicial and legislative powers. 
 1. 822. Sic ergriff bein offnes (Dfyr, tr. It found your ear open. 
 
 \. 825. Den Sauernabel fd7elten, call us in ridicule peasant 
 
 nobility, fcfyelten in this sense, like nenneit and Ijdfsen, takes two accu- 
 satives. 
 
 1. 828. miifjtg (till, tr. idle and silent. 
 
 1. 829. bet, in. 
 
 1. 831. (Sefdpetjen, are being done. 
 
 1. 832. glan^enb, tr. as adjective with SBelt. 
 
 1. 833. ITtir, dative of possession. 
 
 1. 834. Kriegstrommete = $.=trompete. 
 
 1. 836. <r, as agreeing with 9tuf ; we might expect, @ie brtttgen. 
 
 Page 46. line 843. jetm fehnen nad?, lit. long home for, tr. 
 
 long for your home in; pa'terltcfyen, ancestral. 
 
 1. 847. fie bir anflingt, you hear it. 
 
 1. 848. ber (Efieb bes Daterlanbs, the instinct for, or the love of 
 fatherland. 
 
 1. 850. bleibft bu, etc., tr. you with, etc., -will remain forever a 
 stranger. The effect of Pir is : it will seem so to you. 
 
 1. 855. ein ^iirftenfnecfyt, a prince's vassal. 
 
 1. 856. Da, when, ein Selbftrjerr, your own master. 
 
 1. 863. Die, these. 
 
 1. 865. mein brecfyenb 2luge, my breaking, tr. closing eyes, or better, 
 the closing of my eyes ; the idiom comes from a misunderstanding of the 
 discharge of the tear-glands at death; thus, jeitl Sllige brad) =he died. 
 
 1. 868. con (Dftreid? 311 empfangen, the man who wished to be- 
 come the vassal of another first gave him his estates and then received 
 them back in fee.
 
 192 WILHELM TELL. 11. 872927. 
 
 Page 47. line 872. bie Sdnberfette ; Schiller had jotted down a 
 memorandum of this chain of lands as follows: 
 
 3ug Gtnftebelii 
 
 Unterttalben cfjnjeij 
 Sugertt larits 
 
 Uri 
 
 (5ntlibucf)er.n 2>ifenti 
 
 SBalb llrfern 
 
 1. 873. geroaltig, tr. as adjective with Sd'nberfette. 
 
 1. 874. The details of the situation here given are taken from Miillcr 
 and Tschudi, though only words and occasional phrases are borrowed. 
 
 1. 875. Kctufmamisftrafjen, commercial highways. 
 
 1. 879. bas Hetcfy, the estates of the Empire apart from the emperor. 
 
 1. 882. Was ift 311 gebetl ailf, What dependence is to be placed in. 
 
 1. 883. <Sdb= linb Kriegesnot, need of money and t/ie stress of war. 
 
 1. 884. bes 2lblers, of the eagle, i.e. as emblem of the empire. 
 
 1. 885. dare pawn and alienate from the empire, the practice was a 
 common one; of course it affected only the imperial revenues and the 
 feudal allegiance of the cities. 
 
 1. 889. Cp. note to 1. 184 and Introd. liv. 
 
 1. 891. But to deserve well of a powerful hereditary lord (such as the 
 Habsburg Duke of Austria). 
 
 1. 892. f7Ctt, is. 
 
 1.893. IPiUft, Do you claim to. 
 
 1. 899. ^afylen, enumerate (in census for taxation). 
 
 Page 48. line 900. f^ocfyflug, game birds; fjocfynnlb, large 
 game ; bdttttcn/ preserve, reserve for imperial use. 
 
 1. 904. 3ab l len = bqahlen. 
 
 1. gxi. bet ^at>eU3, Faenza, which was taken in 1241, after an 
 eight months' siege by Emperor Frederick II. 
 
 1. 912. Sic follett Fommen, spoken in defiance. 
 
 ! 9 X 5- ^Httcrfcfyetrt, glittering tinsel. 
 
 1. 919. 3U, by. 
 
 1. 920. bcs = biefeS. 
 
 1. 922. cms tcure, tr. as standing before Daterlailb ; notice that the 
 declined adjective is capitalized only when no noun agreeing is present 
 in the context. 
 
 1. 927. bu fyaft uns lang' mcfyt merjr gefet[n, it is long since we 
 have seen you.
 
 NOTES. ACT II, SCENE 2. 193 
 
 Page 49. line 939. UTtt, burcf) was rather to be expected. 
 
 1. 940. Me Braut, a (possible) betrotfied; the word is not used for 
 'bride,' save on the wedding-day. 
 
 1. 941. betner Un\d}ulb,/or your inexperience, i.e. for you, inex- 
 perienced fellow; befd?teben, destined. 
 
 1. 944. erbaltetl, here restrain. 
 
 1. 948. (Setualtfam ftrebenb (i.e. ber gauber), war king powerfully. 
 
 1. 950. (till begliicft, blessed in being quiet, but tr. blessed witli peace. 
 
 Page 50. line 954. embers benfenbes, with other thoughts. 
 
 ACT II. SCENE 2. 
 
 SD. Sit\qp, paths with steps cut; 3 m }intergrunbe ; we are sup- 
 posed to stand with our backs to the mquntain (the Selisberg), looking 
 across the Rutli toward the lake; the fyofye Berge must be those of 
 Schwyz the Haken; the (Eisgebirge are those of Glarus. For com- 
 ments on this scene, see Introd. xxiv, xxvii, xxx. 
 
 1. 961. Before nur sc. fommt. 
 
 1. 964. ^euertad?ter, a poetic and less common form for s Jtod)t= 
 ttmd)ter. 
 
 1. 965. Dom Seltsberg, i.e. from the village on the Selisberg. 
 
 SD. man bjbrt lauten, the ringing of a bell is heard. 
 
 1.966. ITlettenglocflein, matin -bell, though the regular hour for 
 that is three. 
 
 1. 969. (Sebn, subjunctive for imperative. 
 
 1. 972. als one, unusual for tt>te. 
 
 1. 975. A lunar rainbow is rare, but the secondary bow at night is 
 extraordinary. Schiller found the suggestion in Scheuchzer. 
 
 Page 52. line 978. nid?t = me. 
 
 1. 980. fdb,rt . . . rreg, is sailing along. 
 
 1. 982. fid? . . . ertoarten, more usual: auf ftdj marten. 
 
 SD. nad7 bem lifer. The Rutli is on a promontory a hundred feet 
 or more above the water's edge. 
 
 1. 985. Kunbfdpaft = fltinbfdjafter, spies. 
 
 SD. bret, as Stauffacher was to bring ten, this should be four. 
 
 Page 53. line 990. gefogctl ; the figure is neither clear nor 
 pleasant, tr. And the sight of the extinguished sun of his vision filled me 
 with, etc.
 
 IQ4 WILHELM TELL. 11. 9921049. 
 
 1. 992. (Sefcfyefynes, -what is done ; rSd?en, dependent on tt)otten 
 x>ir (1. 993) let us. 
 
 1. 995- gefd?afft, done ; gemeine Sad?', the omission of the article 
 is due to the meter. 
 
 1. 998. burdp ber Stirennett, i.e. going from Walther Fiirst's, in 
 Uri, where they had last met. The Surenne or Surner Alps, see map, 
 with peaks over 10000 feet high and considerable glaciers, lie on the 
 west of Uri adjoning Unterwalden. 
 
 1. 1000. atnmergeier, a large vulture, same name in English. 
 
 1. 1001. 2llpcntrtft, highland pasture. 
 
 1. 1002. (ngelberg, the monastery of Engelberg (see map), built in 
 1083. 
 
 1. 1004. bcr <SIetfd?er ITtild?, the glacier milk, so called from the 
 bluish white color of the water from the melted ice. 
 
 1. 1005. Kunfen, runlets. 
 
 1. 1007. It was so late in the fall that the huts were deserted. 
 
 1. 1008. gejellig lebenb, gregarious. 
 
 1. ion. <firfurd?t, object; fd?affte = tierfcf)affte,/ra:ra/. 
 
 Page 54. line 1018. In the long narrow alpine valleys this is 
 really the case in large measure. 
 
 1. 1020. fortbeftanbett, continued. 
 
 1. 1021. tragett, for ertragen, tolerate. 
 
 1. 1022. altgeroofyttt, long wonted; gletd?, uniform. 
 
 1. 1024. langten, took. 
 
 1. 1033. tjeimatHcfye, home or native. 
 
 1. 1034. mtr, dative of possession; otel has the effect of jebr and 
 also of Dide with 35? ttent. 
 
 1. 1042. Frod?, perhaps with reference to stealthy manner, perhaps 
 influenced by alliteration with Kriimmcn. 
 
 Page 55. line 1043. After es sc. bettn, the resulting construc- 
 tion, very common in the Bible = baft itf) e8 nicfjt auStytihte. This 
 peculiar construction is the relic of a M.H.G. construction in which 
 there was regularly the negative particle lie ; thus ' ez ne si denne ' 
 meant ' unless it be.' The particle vanished but the negative force re- 
 mained. Another relic of the construction is the word HUT which is the 
 contraction of (ez) ne waere. 
 
 1. 1045. After id? sc. ju ftnben. 
 
 1. 1049. ftacrc, frozen.
 
 NOTES. ACT II, SCENE 2. 195 
 
 1. 1051. Though alle agrees with 7er3CTt, tr. with 
 
 1. 1060. Sarnen, Landenherg's residence. 
 
 Page 56. line 1071. fennte, potential subjunctive. 
 
 1. 1075. See note to 1. 1264. 
 
 1. 1078. fytnterm ZDalb, = ob bent 2Ba(b, binter from Melchthal's 
 point of view, living in nib bent SBalb ; Klofterleitte, dependents of 
 the monastery, serfs, see note to 1. 1002. 
 
 1. 1080. eigne eittc, lit. owned people, serfs. 
 
 1. 1081. auf bent (Erbe, on their own inheritance. 
 
 1. 1082. tuobj berufen, of good repute. 
 
 1. 1083. s pretfe fid? sc. gliicflid) ; n?cr, comp. relative, logical 
 subject of pvetfe. 
 
 1. 1084. mit feincm eibe pfHdptig, lit. bound with his body, tr. in 
 personal bondage. 
 
 1. 1086. JUtlanbammann, ex -magistrate, see note to 1. 813. 
 
 Page 57. line 1090. brar>, observe that brat) is rarely ' brave,' 
 here well. 
 
 1. 1091. bas Ejorn t>on Uri, the head of the aurochs is the emblem 
 of Uri, the canton claiming its name from the animal. 
 
 1. 1094. bas (Sraun = rauen, tr. the terrors. 
 
 1. 1095. Before (tn sc. Um a(8. 
 
 1. 1096. Sigrift, sexton (both words from Middle Latin sacrista). 
 
 1. IIO2. fonttenfcfyeuen, lit. sunshunning, which avoids the light. 
 
 1. 1104. uns fyolen, secure. 
 
 1. 1105. bet . . . Sd?0 bes (Edges, tr. the brilliant open face (lit. 
 bosom) of day, i.e. the sun. 
 
 1. 1106. at's gut fetn, Never mind. 
 
 1. 1107. At end sc. fommen. 
 
 Page 58. line 1108. (Etbgenoffen, it is strange that the priest 
 thus addresses them before they have formed the confederacy. Perhaps 
 he is justified by 1. 1156. 
 
 1. 1109. $LanbSQ ! \ftt\n.'be, general assembly, town meeting, the polit- 
 ical assembly of the whole body of voters in a pure democracy, cp. 
 cmbgemeinbe = country congregation. 
 
 1. mi. tagen, hold session, same meaning as in anbtag, $Retdj&: 
 tag; cp. diet. 
 
 1. 1114. (Entfcfyulbtge, imperative subjunctive of which Hot is the 
 subiect.
 
 196 WILHELM TELL. 11. 11171156. 
 
 1. 1117. IPofyl = )UOl)(ait. 
 
 1. 1118. gletd? with \venn implied by inverted position of verb, 
 although ; so in 1119, and with aiicfy in 1 121. 
 
 1. 1 121. bie altett Biidper, the popular laws, such for instance as 
 were written down in the I3th century, as the Sachsenspiegel. 
 
 1. 1123. bcr Htrtg, an old Germanic custom for the assembly; fet, 
 where luet'be would be expected. 
 
 1. 1124. pffatt3C Clllf, set up; two bare swords were set point down in 
 the earth beside the speaker's chair; ber (Sctfalt, of authority. 
 
 1. 1127. breie, the declension of Jttiei, brei and Bier, common in 
 early N.H.G., is now rare or poetical ; JUKI and bvei have dative 
 and genitive endings, while rjter. has no genitive; when used without 
 a following noun all the numbers up to and including gttJOlf may form 
 the nominative and accusative in e. 
 
 1. 1128. Qcben, furnish ; ber (Sernetttbe may be either genitive or 
 dative. 
 
 Page 59. 1. 1131. bte ^lefyettbett, the point is not exactly clear; 
 the gathering was called with equal urgency from the three cantons; it 
 is true that Unterwalden is the only one in which there are two leaders 
 (Baumgarten and Melchthal) in outlawry. But cp. line 678. 
 
 1. 1133. bas ScfytDCrt, i.e. the presidency; one might expect bte 
 djruerter, as two are used. 
 
 1. 1134. bet ben Hoincr^iigen, in the processions to Koine to secure 
 the coronation of the emperor. 
 
 1. 1136. As indicated by the general title of nationality, Schweizer, 
 which is merely another form of Schwyzer. 
 
 1. 1139. After nefymt sc. jte. 
 
 1. 1140. The line will not scan without accenting lllrid? on the ulti- 
 mate, which is unusual. 
 
 1. 1144. Was = SBaram. 
 
 1. 1145. bes Sages, of the assembly. 
 
 1. 1146. J^anbe, sense and usage call for >atlb (see SD. below: bte 
 
 red?tc I^anb). 
 
 Page 60. - line 1150. Though in a poetical way, Reding is 
 following custom in calling on some one to state the object of the 
 meeting. 
 
 1. 1152. 3ufammenfiir|rte, more commonly jitfanimengefuljrt Ijat. 
 
 1. 1156. As we know (see Introd. xli) there was a league formed on
 
 NOTES. ACT II, SCENE 2. 197 
 
 this same spot in 1291, which was preceded by one in 1145-50. Before 
 Dciter sc. ber. 
 
 1. 1158. (Db for obgleid). 
 
 1. 1160. eines Stammes, i.e. the Swedish; legend identified 
 Schwyz and Swetia. 
 
 1. 1162. in ben Stebern. The legends of an origin in the north are 
 referred to by Miiller, Schiller's authority, who quotes from one song of 
 uncertain age now printed in Rochholz's Eidgenossische Liederchronik; 
 cp. 1. 1189. 
 
 1. 1165. am altett sc. 53unb, which would mean in this connection 
 only the original union of a common origin, not that in 1291. 
 
 1. 1 167. fytntett tin anb nad? IRttternacb, t, up in the land toward the 
 north. In fact the German tribes did enter south Germany from the north. 
 
 Page 61. line 1170. je ber sefynte, ever the tenth = every tenth. 
 
 1. 1172. Before 30gen cms sc. e to introduce the sentence. 
 
 1. 1176. So far as this may be supposed to be the real migration it is 
 exaggerated ; real migrations go slowly. 
 
 1. 1178. bie ITluotta (pr. Muot-ta), entering the Vierwaldstattersee 
 near Brunnen; see map. 
 
 1. 1179. Switzerland was occupied by Keltic tribes before the Ger- 
 mans came; for ntcfyt read fettle. 
 
 1. 1184. fid}, dative of advantage; getoafyrten, perceived, an unusual 
 word. 
 
 1. 1189. The old song (so called Westfriesenlied) quoted by Mttller 
 has ,,ie gotten mancfjen fd)tt>eren ag, el)' ifjnen ba 2anb etnen SRutjen 
 gab ; 9teut' b,auen war ifjr eigenbogen." 
 
 1. 1190. tt>ettr>erfd?Ilingnen,y?' reaching, inter -twined VailS3Urobcn, 
 
 cp. auSgereutet, 1. 728. 
 
 1. ugi. (Sniicjen (= eniige) tfjat, for genitgte. 
 
 1. 1193. 3um fd^tDarjen Berg the Bninig; lPetIanb = >aeli 
 or a8litt)at ; the latter begins with the pass of the former. 
 
 1. 1194. tt>o, not in Weissland, but beyond it in Wallis (French) and 
 in Tessin (Italian) ; tjtntcr eungem (EifestPatI interprets tt)0. The 
 people of Haslithal speak German. 
 
 Page 62. line 1201. fid? is reciprocal, not reflexive. 
 
 1. 1202. <s is an expletive; giebt fid? 311 erfcnncn, will show itself. 
 
 1. 1205. DoIFer, tribes, cantons. 
 
 1. 1208. ber Saffen, (from fi^eii), serfs; oiel iete, to favor
 
 198 WILHELM TELL. 11. 12111247. 
 
 the meter; bie frenibe Pflicfyten tragett, who are bound to tfie service of 
 others. 
 
 1. 121 1. For the accuracy of this see Chronology, p. Ivi. 
 
 1. 1214. Scfyutj unb Scfyirm, an alliterative couplet such as German 
 is rich in; the two words are close synonyms, tr. shield and shelter. 
 
 1. 1215. Kaifcr ^riebrtcfys Brief, such a charter was given to 
 Schwyz at Faenza (see note to 1. 911), Miiller says to all the Wald- 
 statte. 
 
 1. 1217. Read <s mug em 0berb i cmpt fctn ; e giebt expresses 
 generalities, but realities rather than abstract propositions, therefore fein 
 here, not geben; yet cp. "Faust" I, 3483, G nuifj cutd) folche Sduje 
 geben. The latter is speaking as of a fact in nature. 
 
 1. 1218. It)o = bei bem ; Hecfyt fcfyopfett, derive (lit. draw, dip, as 
 from a source) justice; cp. 9ted)t jdjaffen, to secure justice (for an- 
 other). 
 
 1. 1221. Die b.re= biefe (Shre. 
 
 1. 1222. The imperial title in the limited sense did not express this 
 claim, though it was implied in the official style of the empire, ,,eiliged 
 9fonufd)e 9Md) 2)cutjcl)fr Nation." 
 
 Page 63. line 1224. ebefm, the contraction of ebelem results more 
 commonly in eblem ; cjelobt, past participle of gdoben, with fyabeu 
 (1. 1219). 
 
 1. 1227. Wa.5 briiber iff, anything beyond that. 
 
 1. 1228. f)eribctttn/ call to arms, lit. army-order (from the Latinized 
 form heribannus; the more common form is eerbann). 
 
 1. 1230. The Homer3iige referred to 1. 1134. 
 
 1. 1234. Bhltbann, jurisdiction over blood-shed; ber fyocfyfte B., 
 jurisdiction in capital crimes. 
 
 1. 1235. bajU, i.e. to exercise this; beftellt for beftallt. 
 
 1. 1236. Note that Der is not relative. 
 
 1. 1237. Bllltfcfyulb, capital crime. 
 
 1. 1238. unter off nem ^immel, so always in primitive German courts 
 of law. 
 
 1. 1241. etner irgcnb einer. 
 
 1. 1245. bog, perverted ; ju (Sllttft ber Pfaffctt, more commonly ben 
 ^Pfaffen 311 Ultften. See Chronology, p. Ivi. 
 
 1. 1247. (JEinfiebelu, see note to 1. 343; such a dispute had actually 
 been carried on through a period of 200 years, uns, dative of possession.
 
 NOTES. ACT I, SCENE 3. 199 
 
 1. 1249. rfCrfiirjOg, archaic for herBor^og, the unseparated use seem- 
 ingly due to the government of beiltt (1. 1246) which was formerly re- 
 garded as a subordinate connective; the meter would have permitted the 
 modern order: S)ev 3lbt jog einen alien S3iief bevDov. 
 
 Page 64. line 1250. Ijcrrcnlofc, i.e. according to the Brief, 
 charter. 
 
 1. 1260. erfcfyaffen, lit. created, a strong figure to express the effect 
 of their labor in making the land tillable. 
 
 I. 1263. 511 Cittern, more commonly in einen. 
 
 II. 1264-65. The dragon here referred to, the same as in most dragon- 
 legends, is explained literally in 11. 1266-67. 
 
 1. 1269. geleitet, lit. directed, tr. built. 
 
 1. 1271. ber frembe jerrenfned?t, this foreign prince's vassal, i.e. 
 Gessler or Landenberg, as also in 1. 1258. 
 1. 1276. After nirgenbs sc. fonft. 
 
 1. 1277. greift, reaches. 
 
 1. 1278. getroften ITtutes, adverbial genitive, with courageous con- 
 fidence. 
 
 Page 65. line 1287. cor = fiir, not yet strictly distinguished in 
 use in the i8th century. 
 
 1. 1296. The rude interruptions show that some of the men have 
 misunderstood Rosselmann's motives in 11. 1290-95, which are to temper 
 and test them and bring them out. 
 
 Page 66. line 1300. abtrotjen, governs dative of person (uns) 
 and accusative of thing (the demonstrative element in 2Ba8). 
 
 1. 1303. fei geftojjen, for luerbe geftofjen, the use of fein for roerben 
 in cases that seem to be true passives is most common in the im- 
 perative. 
 
 1. 1304. 0?er for ber ; when the subordinate clause with toer comes 
 first, (as in 1 307) it is very common to express the unnecessary ber in 
 the following principal clause, but the present case is unusual, cp. 11. 330 
 to 331, 703, 1146; an connects rgebimg and Cfterreidj. 
 
 1. 1310. Though idealized, parliamentary usage is fairly well observed; 
 only here, after Melchthal's ' second,' the vote is given without waiting 
 for the Ammann to put the motion. For instance, the Ammann waits 
 (SD.) for appeals or negatives before announcing the result. 
 
 Page 67. line 1317. rootyl gar goes with nicht, perhaps , toas 
 u>ir erbulben is logical subject to iff.
 
 200 WILHELM TELL. 11. 13231380. 
 
 1. 1322. Commonly: (Soft fytlft ttltr batltt, IDCtttt ber ITtertfd? Iticfyt 
 mefyr fyelfett Fann. There is a profound difference between this and 
 the English, God helps those that help themselves. 
 
 1. 1324. Kfyeittfelb, on the Rhine in Aargau. 
 
 1. 1325. See Introd. xlii; where it will be seen that Schiller uses the 
 account of an embassy for another purpose from that given in Tschudi, 
 and combines with it part of an account of Duke Johann; 1. 1326 gives 
 the true object of the embassy. 
 
 1. 1335- roof}! fonft einmal, some other time probably. 
 
 1- T 337- J?er30(J ^attfett, Johannes Parricida of the List of Persons, 
 and Act V. 
 
 1. 1339. IPart urtb (Eegerfelb, cp. 1. 2961. 
 
 1. 1343. b.interr}a'It, rare for ttorentfjalt. 
 
 1. 1344. ITTutterltcfyes, maternal inheritance ; not Srbe understood, 
 as in that case SftiitterUdheS would not be capitalized, yet practically the 
 same in meaning. 
 
 Page 68. line 1345. fyabe, although no verb introduces the 
 quotation, the subjunctive shows clearly the indirect discourse; begin 
 the line with saying; fyctbe feme 3 a ^ rc D0 ^ was J ' S e - 
 
 1. 1347. tt)dS roarb tb.nt jum Befcfyetb, -what answer did he 
 receive ? 
 
 1. 1348. Das fet, this is the direct discourse, hence imperative. 
 
 1. 1357. Cp. Matthew 22, 21. 
 
 1. 1361. Die ^errn (correctly rafen) con Happersn>etl, a family 
 with estates on Lake Zurich; it became extinct in 1284. 
 
 1. 1362. 3tnfeit, to pay rent; fteiiern, to pay taxes. 
 
 1. 1363. ber grolgett ^rau 311 gttrcfy, the abbess of the cloister at 
 Zurich. 
 
 1. 1364. 3fy r Qebt, indicative for imperative like English, You will 
 give. 
 
 Page 69. line 1365. After als sc. bie. 
 
 1. 1369. <S.S, expletive; feb.e, subjunctive imperative. 
 
 1. 1372. in imfcrn Sdpranfen, i.e. within the bounds of our rights, 
 tr. within bounds. 
 
 1. 1373. Perhaps he will be politic enough to control his wrath. 
 
 1 1374. fid?, dative, for itself, or leave untranslated; DoIP is the 
 subject. 
 
 1. 1380. fid7 rtiftet, is equipped.
 
 NOTES. ACT n, SCENE 2. 2OI 
 
 1. 1382. Uns (also in 1384), dative of possession with attb, or 
 may be read as dative of advantage : two strong castles tower against us. 
 
 1. 1385. HUllg, singular as though with the idea of one obstacle, or 
 it may be an extreme case of co-ordinate singulars, cp. note to 1. 503; 
 fein, note the effect, i.e the subject must already have passed into the 
 condition indicated by the past participle. 
 
 Page 70. line 1390. The effect of the declined adjective as thus 
 placed in apposition may be represented by : Zeal too, however good, 
 may betray. 
 
 1. 1394. Pas barf lirts llrt btetett 1 with a threatening tone, which 
 means, Ta barf uii8 Urt nicfjt bieten. 
 
 1. 1397. The modern realism of this parliamentary quarrel is some- 
 thingrare in Schiller; n>etfen=3Hrecf)ttt)eiji'it. rx>r beranbsgemeinbe, 
 Reding probably means the regular public meeting of the people. 
 
 1. 1398. Pag . . . ftort, tr. for disturbing. 
 
 1. 1400. ^eft bes 7Crnt, Christmas. 
 
 1. 1401. Saffcn (lit. settlers), inhabitants, not, as in 1. 1208, serfs. 
 
 1. 1403. 3eb.ett, older uncontracted form of jebn. 
 
 1. 1405. Pic, demonstrative. 
 
 Page 71. line 1408. una'd?ft, near by ; fya'It = fjcitt ftd), will 
 
 wait. 
 
 1. 1410. <Ermad?ttget, for bemad)tiget. 
 
 1. 1414. See Introd. li. 
 
 1. 1416. bte fd7tt>anFe tetter, a rope ladder. 
 
 1. 1418. aller, genitive plural; after ba sc. e. 
 
 1. 1424. ber IPaffett (Ernft, the reality of arms. 
 
 1. 1428. On second reading it will appear strange that the question 
 of postponement has been settled without reference to Gessler, who has 
 also a stronghold, at Altorf, and is here spoken of as the most danger- 
 ous; Startb, for SSiberftanb. 
 
 1. 1429. ^urdptbar is adverb with umgebett, but tr. He has a 
 fearful retinue of troopers. 
 
 Page 72. line 1432. gefafyrltd? tljn 311 fd7onen, seems to be al- 
 most paving the way for Tell's act. 
 
 1. 1433. Ifo's rfalsgefdbjltd? tft, where risk of life is involved. 
 
 1. 1437. (c)s, the issue, or omit entirely. 
 
 1. 1439. iuid?tltd? . . . tagett, it is not likely that Schiller intended 
 this curious conjunction of words.
 
 202 WILHELM TELL. 11. 14431485. 
 
 1. 1443. This remark must apply rather to the concealment of those 
 going home than to the meeting-place which was on an exposed 
 eastern slope. 
 
 SD. ftiller Sammlutig, tr. inverted, solemn silence. 
 
 I. 1444. 3lierft . . . on, does not fit the following clause, tr. toon, 
 before. 
 
 II. 1448-89. This couplet was a favorite motto during the Franco- 
 Prussian War; 6111319, single, not einig as often printed. 
 
 SD. brei ,tnqern, perhaps as symbol of the trinity, though this 
 was not requisite in oaths. 
 
 Page 73. line 1455. (Senogfame, rare for euoffeni'djaft. 
 
 1. 1463. bas (5atl3C, tr. for the benefit of all or for the supreme occa- 
 sion. 
 
 1. 1465. See note to 1. 1304. 
 
 SD. iiber belt <isgebtra,Ctt, the mountains in the southwest corner 
 of the Canton of Glarus, which attain a height of 1 1,000 feet. 
 
 ACT III. SCENE i. 
 
 Page 74. line 1471. bcr lUetf}, lit. the hawk, here poetic for 
 the eagle. 
 
 1. 1473. fret, not adjective to ScfyiitjC, but unrestrained, adverb. 
 
 1. 1474. bas IPette, lit. the distance, tr. with 1. 1475, all within the 
 reach of his arrow. 
 
 \. 1477. Was is relative referring to Das ; freud?t, fleugt, older 
 and dialect forms for fried)! and fltegt ; ba is untranslatable, it adds 
 perhaps a little of generality to IPas, making it = whatever. 
 
 1. 1478. Der Strang . . . tnir, dative of possession; mad?', mend. 
 
 1. 1480. setttg, for friifyjeitig. 
 
 1. 1481. It?as = 2Ber ; general statements are thus made universal 
 in German by the use of the neuter pronoun. 
 
 Page 75. line 1482. rnoflte, lit. might God will, not as in Eng- 
 lish with /as subject, yet tr. Would God. Icrntett, subjunctive depen- 
 dent on tDollte, might learn. 
 
 1. 1483. follen, not should, but shall (in TelPs intent). 
 
 1. 1484. fid? frtfd? fdjlagen, vigorously make his 'way. 311 Sd?ut3 
 Utlb Sriltj 0,criiftet, equipped for both defence and attack. 
 
 \. 1485. fettier, neither. feiltC Kill}' . . . ftnbctt, be content.
 
 NOTES. ACT III, SCENE I. 203 
 
 1. 1486. and?, either. 
 
 1. 1487. Hatur, the omission of the definite article here is very un- 
 usual. 
 
 1. 1488. ctn fliicfytig tel, a fleeting goal. 
 
 1. 1489. erft, only ; recfyt, aright, or thoroughly. 
 
 1. 1490. erbeitte, wz, or earn; Schiller has also in the last two 
 lines of ,,2BaUenftetn$ ?ager" : 
 
 Unb jefet 3l)r nidjt ba Seben ein 
 
 9He roirb (Jud) baS Ceben fjeroonnen fein ; 
 
 and Goethe, in ,,gauft," Part II, Act V: 
 
 9Jur ber berbient ft(f) fjfreifjeit mie ba fieben, 
 2)er tdgli(^ fie erobertt rnufe. 
 
 1. 1492. ftdj . . . fydrmt, worries. 
 
 1. 1494. IPagefabrten, daring doings, lit. trips; cp. 11. 2638, 2874. 
 
 1. 1499. betl ^C^Ifprung tfylin, making a slip in springing, lit. mis- 
 leap. 
 
 1. 1500. Cp. 1. 649; Hu'cffpnncjenb goes with (Scmfc. 
 
 1. 1501. n?inblatrtnc, wind-avalanche ; in Scheuchzer Schiller 
 found very careful, though unscientific accounts of the various sorts of 
 avalanche, this one so-called partly because it was started by a wind 
 upon the soft freshly-fallen snow, partly because it aroused a great wind 
 in its passage. 
 
 1. 1502. ^irn = 5mw8/ see note to 1. 38. 
 
 1. 1504. (Sruft, crevasse. 
 
 Page 76. line 1508. fyalsgefafyrltcfy, see note to 1. 1433. 
 
 1. 1509. frifd?, alertly ; Stnncn, senses, so almost always in plural. 
 
 1. 1510. bie, tr. his own. 
 
 1.1511. rtngt ftd?, will get. ^atjr = (Sefabr. 
 
 1. 1514. crfpart, saves = dispenses with. 
 
 1. 1516. aud?, now, at beginning. 
 
 1. 1517. n?te !ommft bu barauf sc. 311 benfen. <s fptnnt ftd? 
 
 ({was, Something is plotting. 
 
 1. 1518. tparb getagt, (f3, subject, understood), there was a 
 meeting. 
 
 Pag 77. line 1535. The negative which seems to us superfluous 
 is paralleled by the use of ne in French; tr. Derfyiit', grant, or omit 
 negative, translating forbid.
 
 204 WILHELM TELL. 11. 1539 1COO. 
 
 Page 78. line 1539. (Efytti, Swiss diminutive of 2lhn, grand- 
 father, i.e. the boy's grandfather, Walther Fiirst. 
 
 1. 1540. One need not wonder at the knowledge of circumstances in 
 Altorf, since Biirglen is less than two miles away. 
 
 1. 1541. Ia ifytt erft fort feitt, wail (ill he is gone. 
 
 1. 1545. Die, the first has the effect of a compound relative, and 
 the second bie is the repeated demonstrative, translate ebett bte, these 
 very ones ; cp. note to 1. 1304. 
 
 1. 1546. an fie lovumtn, get at tktm (to harm). 
 
 1. 1549. Da, resumes the preceding phrase, lit. then, but tr. that. 
 (Srihlbe, regions. 
 
 1. 1550. Scb.dcfyentb.al, the valley of the Schachen, the stream on 
 which Biirglen is situated, see map. menfdpenleer, unfrequented. 
 
 1. 1552. nid?t aus3un>eid?en roar, there was no turning out, cp. 
 
 23?a tft JH thun? What can be done. 
 
 Page 79. line 1555. gegen mid? bafyer, along toward me. 
 
 1. 1558. ^erre, regular old form of the word, as seen in its weak 
 declension. 
 
 1. 1560. Cp. 11. 565-66. 
 
 1. 1561. ftattlicfyen (SetDCb.r, i.e. his cross-bow, the adjective due to 
 the hunter's pride in his weapon. 
 
 1. 1562. ba, omit, or tr. then. 
 
 1. 1563-64. 3d? fat] es fommen ba, / saw that he was about to, etc. 
 
 1. 1566. 23efd?eibetttltd?, for the ' t,' cp. note to 1. 26. 
 
 1. 1574. 23Ieib' . . . bort tr>eg, commonly Don bort ineg. 
 
 Page 80. line 1581. IDalty* pet form for SBaltber. 
 
 1. 1582. 3d? bringe tnit, P II bring along. 
 
 ACT III. SCENE z. 
 
 SD. Staubba'd7e, brooks which are dashed into spray as they fall; 
 cp. 1. 3255. 
 
 Page 81. line 1586-89. Note the rhyme, in accord with the lyric 
 spirit of the scene. 
 
 1. 1593. Two parts of the predicate are rarely put first, and here only 
 because of their close relation. 
 
 1. 1599. ttt bie Heth,' . . . ftellett, put myself on a par with. 
 
 1. 1600. cud? umterben = nut end) luerben.
 
 NOTES. ACT HI, SCENE 2. 205 
 
 1. 1603. tPtrb, cp. note to 1. 58; if the personal pronoun is not re- 
 peated, the verb does not agree in person. 
 
 1. 1607. als Cud?, but you. 
 
 1. 1611. naturnenjefjtten, lit. who has forgotten the voice of nature, 
 tr. unnatural. 
 
 Page 82. line 1621. <$ is expletive. 
 
 1. 1630. nidjt belongs with an understood DiU id? benn. 
 
 1. 1636. ftc, i.e. the Austrians. 
 
 Page 83. line 1638. ben | Deradptet fefyen, to see him despised. 
 
 I. 1642. eincrn, lit. one, tr. the same. 
 
 II. 1649-50. allcs lagt, etc., read, <ure iebe lagt mid? alles fein 
 
 Uttb TV>erben,jJ'0wr love will enable me to be and become anything. After 
 Setb sc. ba. 
 
 1. 1653. Stcfyt 311, Stand by, more commonly haltet eitrf) git. 
 
 Page 84. line 1664. mit bem groftem <Erb, i.e. the other 
 Habsburg estates. 
 1. 1665. anbergier = frinberfucfjt. 
 
 1670. Ejin, to be read with 3teb,n, or with Dort, ! 1671. 
 
 1671. mein (= meiner), object of Barren. Ketten, limited by 
 Dertjagter (Efye, subject of Barren. 
 
 1675. Sefynen in bas tDeite, longing for (lit. into) the far aivay. 
 
 1676. als, but. 
 
 . 1684. Note the rhyme in the following lines. 
 Page 85. line 1685. JDeiten, the distant fields. 
 \. 1687. Die, an article with Iltauer, not relative. 
 1. 1688. allein, limits 3um Bimmel offcn, not dfyal. 
 
 1. 1689. offett llttb gelid?tet, open unobstructed to the light of. 
 
 1. 1690. Note the very significant change of pronoun in address. 
 
 1. 1692. betfyort, past participle (sc. hot). 
 
 1. 1695. ^reubcfpuretl, reminders of joy. 
 
 1. 1696. mir leben, live for me. 
 
 1. 1699. febjte, subjunctive for conditional, for batte Qffehlt. <rbett, 
 a relic of the old weak singular of this word. 
 
 1. 1700. bie fel'cje 3njel, the Island of the Blessed^ according to the 
 old and widespread legend. 
 
 1. 1702. heimifd? tpohnt, " native, or is at home. 
 
 \. 1703. fid? fyingefunben.yowwa'jV.r way. 
 
 1. 1706. Note the almost stanza-like form of the next ten lines.
 
 206 WILHELM TELL. 11. 1709-1760. 
 
 1. 1709. toic em Kontg nnrft, tr. like a king ruling. Hetd?en,the 
 plural is accounted for only by the exigency of rhyme. 
 
 Page 86. line 1711. tyeiblid? ret3Cnb, the effect of such combi- 
 nations cannot be given in English, lit. womanly charming; the idea 
 is : charming because womanly. 
 
 1. 1719-20. bent fto^en Hitter . . . Dem cmbbebrucfer, seems to 
 mean Gessler, though from the contrast in iet it might mean any Aus- 
 trian noble. 
 
 ACT III. SCENE 3. 
 
 SD. Bannberg, the mountain slope back of 2lltorf, to the north- 
 east. The details about it, 11. 1771-85, are found in Scheuchzer and Fasi. 
 
 Page 87. line 1732. fid? . . . fyeran begeben, come hither. 
 
 1. 1734. bod?, -why, (exclamatory) at beginning. 
 
 1. 1736. popan"3, contraction of ^opelhaitS, bugbear, or perhaps from 
 Bohemian bobak, with the same meaning. 
 
 1. 1738. Uns 3um Derbriefte (archaic for 3Serbruffe) to vex us. 
 
 1. 1739. TOdS, universal compound relative (cp. note to 1. 1481), all 
 who. 
 
 1. 1741. The construction to be expected here is: 2i\5 ben Hiicfen 
 beugen. 
 
 1. 1742. After plat} sc. gefjen. 
 
 1. 1744. ^ang tfyun, make a catch. 
 
 1. 1748. fjocb. umrbtgen, the Host, i.e. the large wafer in the Eucharist 
 used in processions and for display carried in the monstrance; it is a 
 mistake to represent the priest as having this under the circumstances; 
 he would have a small plain box, the ciborium. But it makes no differ- 
 ence. 
 
 1. 1749. (Slocf letn, the bell used to call attention at the elevation of 
 the Host. 
 
 1. 1751. JTlonftran3, the ornamental, generally spire-shaped casket 
 in which the Host is displayed. 
 
 Page 88. line 1760. Inversion in an exclamatory sentence is 
 common if accompanied, as here, by bod) after the subject, and often 
 even later. 
 
 1. 1763. ITtag, let. ba, this word is often used after a relative pro- 
 noun as an indefinite particle, but cannot be rendered. 
 
 1. 1766. IDollt's = luoUte e.
 
 NOTES. ACT III, SCENE 3. 2C>7 
 
 1. 1767. fcfylecfyter ftefyn um, be worse with. 
 
 1. 1768. Dolf ber lUetber = SBetberoolf, women. 
 
 1. 1770. fttcfyt, pricks, impels. 
 
 SD. bie Dorbere Syne, the front of the stage. 
 
 Page 89. line 1772. Die Baumc bliiten, a common popular 
 belief. 
 
 1. 1775. (Sebantlt, in two senses: charmed, and literally, protected 
 by law. The penalty quoted is popularly applied to murderers, fcfyabtcje, 
 roacfyfe, subjunctives of indirect discourse. 
 
 1. 1776. Dem, dative of possession ; feme is a redundant possessive, 
 but very common colloquially. fyerdUS, separable particle; read at 
 end. 
 
 1. 1778. Renter, peaks, very common in names of Alpine summits, 
 as cftredhorn, 9)JatterI)ovn. 
 
 1. 1780. <SIetfd?cr, really the gimfelber. (see note to 1. 38) and not 
 glaciers, though in Tirol the word is thus used, bes Hacfyts, the -8 of 
 the noun is a relic of an old so-called consonantal declension of the 
 word, the be is due to false analogy. 
 
 1. 1781. Scb/lctgtairinen, heavy avalanches, of neve, or firn-ice; cp. 
 note to 1. 1501. 
 
 1. 1785. artbo>ebr, defence, lit. militia. 
 
 1. 1786. finb, would also be e giebt, save to avoid repetition; cp. 
 note to 1. 1217. 
 
 1. 1789. There has been some unprofitable disputing as to whether 
 this land is France or Germany; following the Rhine we come to either, 
 and the 'fair, long fields of grain' and the allusion (1. 1806) to the 
 salt monopoly rather suggest France, but it makes no difference. 
 
 Page 90. line 1798. ?immel, climate. 
 
 1. 1799. The fie is emphasized to take the place of the customary 
 tie (before geniefjen). 
 
 1. 1803. in = in'n (in ben). 
 
 1. 1804. ?err.n, rider. (Sefteber, for eflugel = odjftog ; cp. 
 1. 900. 
 
 1. 1806. bas 5al3, referring to the monopoly of the salt product 
 maintained by many rulers. 
 
 Page 91. line 1811. es roirb mir eng, f feel oppressed, as though 
 in imagination he were already there. jDCttett, wide. 
 
 1. 1812. Da barum.
 
 2O8 WILHELM TELL. 11. 18231927. 
 
 Page 92. line 1823. SD. 3 n &ie 53ene, into the wings. 
 
 1. 1829. gcfdptefyt, is being done. 
 
 1. 1834. fyatt' getb,an, subjunctive of indirect discourse, depending 
 on 2)it befjaitpteft, or the like, understood, or subjunctive of surprise, de- 
 pending on nteinen or some such word understood. Pas liigft bil, 
 you lie in that, tr. Thafs a lie. 
 
 Page 93. line 1839. n?as unfcrs Unites (sc. tft), what is of 
 
 our office, tr. our business. 
 
 1. 1840. fcfyreienbe (Setpalt, violence that cries to heaven. 
 
 1. 1843. emeu Hticfen an ben anbern, backing from the others, i.e. 
 the other members of the league. 
 
 Page 94. line 1854. was uMrb bas toerben, more commonly 
 bvauS nwben. 
 
 1. 1859. (Seftrenger, a merely formal adjective, tr. My lord. 
 
 1. 1860. tpob.lbeftellt, cp. note to 1. 1235, duly appointed. 
 
 Page 95. line 1861. fiber (commonly bet) frtfd?er (Efyat, in 
 
 the very act. 
 
 . 1872. ber (Eell, i.e. the Heedless, or Simpleton, see Introd. xlvii. 
 
 . 1873. begegnen, unusual for tootfommeit or gejdjehen. 
 
 . 1875. jebern, any. 
 
 . 1877. btr, dative of interest. 
 
 . 1879. mefyr for mebrere. 
 
 Page 96. line 1889. fefylft, archaic for rjerfeblft. 
 1. 1893. u Sinn, for in ben @tnn. 
 
 I. 1895. The future indicative as in English is a strong form of im- 
 perative; so also is the present, as in 1. 1899. 
 
 Page 97. line 1903. befonncn, cp. 1. 1872. 
 
 II. 1908-9. Ironical. 
 
 1. 1912. Kiir3n>etls, jesting (more commonly feminine), object of 
 getotjnt, which takes also the accusative. 
 
 1. 1916. <r riifymte fid?, reference to 11. 1876-77 shows that this 
 is a mistake ; compare the story of Toko, Introd. xfc. 
 
 1. 1917. ifyrer fyunbert, lit. a hundred of them, omit tbrer in trans- 
 lation. 
 
 1. 1920. (s Qtlt, it is needed, or it is very important ; cp. 1. 2415. 
 
 Page 98. line 1925. Perruirft, past participle. 
 1. 1927. ungefranft, with older meaning unharmed, in feine 
 f]iitte, accusative, since the idea is ' to go to.'
 
 NOTES. ACT III, SCENE 3. 209 
 
 1. 1933. futtftgeiibt, same as geiibt. 
 
 1. 1942. Dem 's, dative of possession with ^Ctj. 's = ba8. in 
 bte 7CUtb trttt, tr. affect his hand. 
 
 \. 1944. r>or = fiir, instead of. [affet . . . ergcfyen, show. 
 
 1. 1948. rjinfterjen, South German dialect for ftd) hinftellen ; cp. 
 11. 2247 an d 2838. 
 
 Page 99. line 1950. fefylen auf, miss, (lit. upon) and hit. 
 
 1. 1952. iff, feilt expresses the facts of absolute existence, as well as 
 the miscellaneous and accidental facts of existence; e gtebt serves be- 
 tween the two extremes to state the general facts of nature and life; 
 cp. 1 1217 and note, and 1. 1786. 
 
 1- 1957- ^> i- e - fttH tjaltcn. 
 
 1. 1964. glaubt bir's nid?t, doesn't believe it of you. 
 
 1. 1965. Dem IPiitrid? sum Derbruffe, to spite the tyrant; cp. 
 
 1.1738. 
 
 Page 100. line 1970. mit frifd?er Crjat, promptly. 
 
 1. 1972. Dergebens,/"" nothing (ironical). 
 
 1. 1975. Dies ftol3C Hed?t, i.e. of bearing arms. 
 
 1. 1977. ttcr = ber luefdjer. 
 
 1. 1980. (Saffe, path, so of any open way with side walls. 
 
 Page 101. line 1987. ja, Why, at beginning, allcs, anything. 
 
 1. 1988. n?te = roie and). 
 
 1. 1989. Doubtless an allusion to the rescue of Baumgarten. 
 
 1. 1990. Cp. Luke 23, 35. 
 
 1. 1991. <s mu sc. jein. 
 
 1. 1998. 3^? barfs, I have a right to, with reference to his position 
 as differing from that of the others. 
 
 Page 102. line 2003. fttll gefd^roiegctt, said nothing. 
 
 1. 2005. The sense is: Though my eyes were open, I refused to see. 
 
 1. 2020. in befter ITtetnung, with (in spite of) the best of inten- 
 tions. 
 
 1. 2028. 2Intn>ort, satisfaction. 
 
 1. 2030. bie, these. 
 
 SD. (after 1. 2036) ftanb = bat geftanben. 
 
 1. 2034. Komtnt 311 cud?, Be yourself again. 
 
 Page 104. line 2039. nod? in ben fpatften geiten, down to the 
 
 remotest future. 
 
 1. 2045. ba interprets ba3U.
 
 210 WILHELM TELL. 11. 20492114. 
 
 Page 105. line 2049. ftecfteft ... 311 btr, hid away, or about 
 you. 
 
 1. 2054. tmrb bebeiltet fyabett, future of conjecture, I am sure it 
 meant. 
 
 1. 2055. frtfd? llttb frobjid?, promptly and cheerfully. 
 
 \. 2058. The government of ftcfyer.lt in 1. 2056 is the usual one, here 
 we should expect Derftdjert. 
 
 1. 2060. burcfyfcfyo for burdjfcfjofj' (= bcitte bltrtf)fd)of|en) ( the in- 
 dicative here conceives the condition and the conclusion as real. 
 
 1. 2062. (Eurer, for Giter, genitive object of gefeb.It. 
 
 Page 106. line 2071. fid? r>er!iinbtgt (sc. hat), has been mani- 
 fested. 
 
 1. 2073. According to 1. 2170 Gessler had an official boat on the lake. 
 
 1. 2076. See note to 1. 1215. 
 
 1. 2083. Den, this one, i.e. Tell. 
 
 1. 2086. porbet, all over. 
 
 Page 107. line 2093. es erbarmt mid?, uncommon for e$ thut 
 mir leib. 
 1. 2096. fag' = foil . . . jagen. 
 
 ACT IV. SCENE i. 
 
 Page 108. SD. fd?lieen ben profpeft, limit the view, i.e. oc- 
 cupy the back of the stage. The lake is to be conceived as in the back- 
 ground to the right, so that the personages stand sideways or with backs 
 half turned to the audience. Kunz von Gersau is a personage introduced 
 after the play was nearly finished. The fisherman and boy here seem to 
 be Ruodi and Jenni of Act I, Scene I ; they are so named in one MS, 
 and the boy is called Jenni in the text at the end of the scene. But it 
 troubles Diintzer greatly to find them on the wrong side of the lake. 
 This, however, is not referred to as their home, and they could cross the 
 lake freely. 
 
 1. 2098. tnit 2Jugen, uncommon for mit eignen 3litgen. 
 
 1. 2102. fiir bie ^reifyeit gelten, uncommon for bie Jrnljeit gelten. 
 
 1. 2106. For im 2ltt3ug ift, unb ber two MSS read ,,getoa(tig ftd) 
 erfyobeu." 
 
 1. 2114. Reding was SHtlanbammottn in Schwyz, Attinghausen in 
 Uri.
 
 NOTES. ACT IV, SCENE I. 211 
 
 Page 109. line 2115. Itecje, after a present tense the verb is 
 more frequently indicative. 
 
 11. 2124-6. Der ITtuTtb refers to Attinghausen; ber 2trm is of course 
 TelPs; bas feb.nbe 2luge . . . geblenbet, at first suggest Melchthal's 
 father, but he is of.too. little consequence to be mentioned here. Lines 
 839, 893 and 2005 suggest Rudenz. 
 
 1. 2128. fommltd), dialect for nngenebm. 
 
 1. 2129. Cp. King Lear, II, 3,,the speech, "Blow winds and crack 
 your cheeks," which clearly suggested this. 
 
 1. 2133. tuerbet )crr, we expect >erren. 
 
 1. 2135. Per grogcu IPiifte, dative.; cp. 1. 1262. 
 
 1. 2137. Jlbgrunb, the lake at this point is said to be 600 feet deep. 
 
 Page 110. line 2144. tfestiirme, unusual for (gi^Surme. 
 
 1. 2147. Kliifte, i.e. the sides of the chasms. 
 
 1. 2148. Sihtbflut, flood (lit. universal flood, not sin-flood, as popular 
 etymology makes it seem). 
 
 1. 2152. gebetet tDCrbe, tr. prayers may be offered. 
 
 1. 2154. IDiege, ' cradle of the deep.' 1 
 
 1. 2158. 23ufen, bay. geroafyrte, subjunctive; cp. French in same 
 case, relative after negative, might furnish. 
 
 1. 2159. banblos, without ' anbhalje,' inaccessible. 
 
 Page 111. line 2164. UVfferFIuft, watery gorge; while the 
 whole of the Urner See might be termed a gorge, a reference to the 
 map will show a constriction at the Axenberg. 
 
 1. 2167. er, the antecedent is Sturm, fid?, dative of advantage. 
 
 1. 2170. ^errettfcfytff, official boat; see note to 1. 2073. 
 
 1. 2171. Pad?, canopy. 
 
 1. 2177. geben md?t auf, for geben nidjt 2tcf)t auf, or gebeu nicfits 
 aitf. , 
 
 1. 2180. Do not seek to slay the judge's arm. 
 
 1. 2183 ff. The readiness with which the boatman's religious philosophy 
 is adapted to his new understanding of the situation is startling. In- 
 deed, altogether this boatman talks little like a boatman. 
 
 1. 2185. mitfamt, strengthened form of famt ; bem Stcuermann, 
 certainly meaning Tell; but does the'boatman anticipate 11. 2247ff? 
 
 Page 112. line 2187. 23iujgtsgrat, a sharp ridge projecting from 
 the Axenberg. 
 
 1. 2188. (Ecufclsmuttfter, a steep ridge on the west side of the lake.
 
 212 WILHELM TELL. 11. 2189 -2-282. 
 
 1. 2189. The speakers themselves are probably on the northwest slope 
 of the Axenberg, some distance above the water, otherwise they could 
 not see what they describe. 
 
 1. 2190. I7aifmeffcr, another projecting ridge of the Axenberg. 
 
 1. 2191. gcbrodpen (sc. roorben ftub), uncommon for rfjtffbntcf) fle 
 litten. 
 
 1. 2193. ^Illb, rocky wall or slope. 
 
 1. 2194. gabj'to^tg, precipitously (Swiss dialect gab, = jcif), ftotjtg = 
 
 1. 2196. eincr = ivgenb einer. 
 
 SD. Several minutes must elapse between the last speech and Tell's 
 appearance. 
 
 1. 2200. iDtc or 311 fettl is redundant. 
 
 Page 113. line 2207. IJort = bortljer. 
 
 1. 2210. For Setb read S33ic fetb tljr. 
 
 1. 2214. fafyeit, archaic for fctngen. 
 
 Page 114. line 2219. aufgegebner, despairing, 
 
 1. 2225. For source of this speech see Introd. 1. 
 
 1. 2226. am, more commonly im, rjintcrit (Sranfcn, stern. 
 
 1. 2227. gelangt sc. ftub. 
 
 1. 2228. Fleittcn 2ircn, really a portion of the Axenberg. 
 
 1. 2230. (Sailings for 3al)ling8 ; cp. note to 1. 2194. fycrfiirbrad? 
 = fjeruorbrad). 
 
 1. 2232. mctnten, unusual for ernjarteten. 
 
 1. 2238. bcs ^abrens, for ber 5' n ^ rt - 
 
 Page 115. line 2239. bericfytet. //*</. 
 
 1. 2241. After itHe sc. ivore e. 
 
 1. 2246. b.tebannen, out of this. 
 
 1. 2248. rebltcb,, vigorously, not with usual meaning of 'honestly.' 
 
 1. 2251. fid? auftbat', might present itself. 
 
 1. 2256. ab3ureidpcn, unusual for meicfyeit. 
 
 1. 2257. fyanMtd?, dialect, meaning vigorously. 31131196^11, unusual 
 for gujugreifeit ; the use of the word seems to be due to a misunder- 
 standing on Schiller's part of 'Jltgiitb' (= should pull, imperfect 
 subjunctive, 3rd person plural of Jtehcn) in his source. See Introd. p. 1. 
 
 Page 116. line 2272. faum etc., scarcely do I trust my eyes. 
 
 1. 2280. benfr's, for acbeuft'S. 
 
 1. 2282. 2lrtr{, or 'Jlrt, at the upper end of Lake /.u, see map.
 
 NOTES. ACT IV, SCENE I. 213 
 
 1. 2283. Steinen, and 1. 2285, on?er3, on opposite sides of Lake 
 Lowerz, see map. 
 Page 117. line 2288. man nannt' end) mtr, in the present 
 
 text no name is given to the Fischer, but this phrase corresponds with 
 the MSS (see note to SD. at beginning of this act) which name him 
 Ruodi; of course Tell could not thus address a nameless personage. 
 1. 2290. tfyllt bte teb' mtr an, more commonly: tfyitt e8 mir JU 
 
 ?iebe. 
 
 1. 2296. 5tC follen toacfer fettl, Bid them be courageous. 
 1. 2298. etn roettres, something further. 
 
 1. 2299. itn (Semiit, for im @trnt. 
 
 1. 2302. roots er and? untcrnommcn, whatever he has undertaken. 
 
 Page 118. line 2304. bte ,eber, placed there as a test to see 
 whether life was extinct. 
 
 1. 2313. rDalty, pet form of Walther. er lebt mtr, not 'for me'; 
 rather an ethical dative, he lives and I have him. Similarly 1. 2314, 
 Have I thee unharmed. 
 
 Page 120. line 2334. nod?, in addition, frattft, depreciate, or 
 belittle (the original meaning of the word is 'to restrict,' or narrow). 
 
 SD. mit etnem groften Blicf, with a look of reproach. 
 
 1. 2336. bll, emphasized in contrast with herself. 
 
 1. 2339 ff. The reader may well wonder whence Hedwig has her 
 knowledge of the occurrences at Altorf, since Fiirst and her boy have 
 not yet seen her; see Introd. xxxii. 
 
 1. 2352. We need him, ah! and he needs us. 
 
 ! 2 355- n?enit er erfranfte 1 What if he should become ill ! 
 
 1. 2357. 2Jlpenrofe, Alpine primrose, or soldanel, a shy flower that 
 blooms only on heights close to the snow. 
 
 Page 121. line 2360. Balfamftrom ber iifte, the healing 
 breezes. 
 
 1. 2362. f^aud? ber (Sriifte, atmosphere (lit. breath) of tfie dungeon 
 (lit. pits). 
 
 1. 2369. rettete, conditional. 
 
 1. 2374. After gefenbet sc. niorbett, passive impersonal. 
 
 1- 2375. fein 7Cr3 gefunben, come to himself, repented. 
 
 Page 122. line 2380. alfo, for fo. 
 
 1. 2382. ift = bebeutet ; er, i.e. ber Scfymerj. perltefj, for b,at 
 oerlaffen.
 
 214 WILHELM TELL. 11.24002440. 
 
 Page 123. line 2400. Cp. 1. 2374, Action will be taken. 
 \. 2410. ift, present for future. 
 
 1, 2413. btc (Ebeln, the lords of Attinghausen and Sillinen (see 1. 
 685) are the only native nobles that are mentioned. 
 Page 124. line 2414. Barren (usually with oitf) = evroarten. 
 
 tDCttlt CS gilt, when the time comes. 
 
 1. 2416. fid? folcfyer (Eb.at Perroogen, ventured upon such a deed 
 (past participle of Devroegfll, or *)Tjageil ! in M.H.G. the past participle 
 was DertDCgeit, which is preserved as adjective (see 1. 27) ; the verb, now 
 rare, has gone over into the class with btegen). 
 
 1. 2419. utlfcrer, with final -ev due to false analogy with ineiner, in 
 which the final -ev is in turn due to analogy with the adjective declen- 
 sion; itnfei' is more common. 
 
 1. 2420. 311 (5rabc fteigtn, jV down to our graves (fteigen may mean 
 to go either up or down depending on the adverb of direction). 
 
 1. 2421. (5 Icbt, impersonal, There will be life. 
 
 I. 2422. The glorious possession (to wit freedom) be preserved for 
 mankind. HTcitjcfybett may be genitive, in which case tr. the glory of 
 humanity be sustained. 
 
 II. 2423-24. The figure is certainly awkward; tr. griittett, spring. 
 The boy is used as a representative of the new generation. 
 
 1. 2427. ftd? um fein 2htg' ercjteftt, suffuses his eyes. 
 1. 2431. feinetl Bihgeretb, their (lit. its, agreeing with Slbel) oath 
 as citizens. 
 
 I. 2432. ild^tlanb, in the middle ages name of a district about the 
 city of Freiburg, which to distinguish it from ^reiblirg im 33rci$gait, is 
 still called g-retblirg im Ud)t(aili). The historical allusions to the be- 
 ginnings of Swiss liberty are mostly based on Miiller, and have more or 
 less warrant. (EfyurgciU, the northeast canton of Switzerland, formerly 
 extending as far as Zurich. 
 
 II. 2433-34. Bern and Freiburg were made fortified places about 100 
 years before the formation of the Riitli League, see chronology, p. Ivi. 
 
 1. 2435. Zurich had a regular system of armed guilds in 1336, but it 
 is no violent supposition that these had done military service earlier. 
 
 1. 2437. ait ibjen cro'cjcu IDalletl, not necessarily those of Zurich 
 alone, but of all the cities named. 
 
 Page 125. line 2439. fjarnifcfyen, one would expect aruifd). 
 
 1. 2440. fyarmlos, peaceable.
 
 NOTES. ACT IV, SCENE 2. 215 
 
 1. 2441. Impersonal passive, tr. they fight to the death, 
 
 I. 2442. Allusion to the defence of passes at Zug and Morgarten. 
 bluticje (ntfd?etbutt<J, the arbitrament of blood. 
 
 II. 2443-44. Allusion to the heroic death of \Vinkelried at Sempach 
 (1386). 
 
 1. 2449. fjodptDacfytett, beacon-towers, also beacon-fires, here the 
 former. 
 
 1. 2450. ber Bunb 3um Bnnbe, more naturally SBunb Jil 33mibf. 
 
 SD. entfedt, tr. as adjective before fjattbe. mtt geicfyen . . . 
 Sdjmer^ens, tr. signs of grief, some silent, some violent. 
 
 SD. (after 1. 2452) tyin, lit. thither, tr. to the corpse. 
 
 1. 2454. The castle was called: Sdjlofj Slubenj aitf Sit ting haufen. 
 
 Page 126. line 2459. Da, -while. 
 
 \. 2467. 3tt' upon, or by, 
 
 \. 2476. fdjulbig blteb, left undone. 
 
 1. 2478. btc eurijje (to Stauffacher). 
 
 1. 2481. tt>ieberFeb i renb, repentant. 
 
 Page 127. line 2482. nicfyts geadjtet, for al8 nicf)t geacf)tet = 
 Derac^tet. 
 
 1. 2483. What are we to expect of you ? 
 
 \. 2484. benfct = gebenfet. 
 
 1. 2489. Stattb, class, rank. 
 
 1. 2492. Subjects (to itself) and makes it fruitful. 
 
 1. 2499. 's fcfyort t>erqleicfyeTt/ settle it all right, i.e. the contention 
 over precedence. 
 
 Page 128. line 2507. gletcfyroie, strengthened form of ttne. 
 
 1. 2512. toarb fcfyon, has become. 
 
 1. 2516. The presumption in Rudenz's attitude shocks a democratic 
 spirit, but royalty to-day is capable of just such arrogance. His patron- 
 izing patriotism loses still more of its halo when it appears that he is 
 prompted by his own loss. 
 
 Page 129. line 2528. ccrroogctt, see note to line 2416. 
 
 1. 2532. IPUtenbe = SBiitrid). 
 
 1. 2533. fid? erFufyueu, same meaning and construction as fid) tiev 
 roegen, see note to 1. 2416; freoelnb, tr. as adjective before <8etalt, 
 criminal. 
 
 I. 2534. Before 3fyr sc. lim. 
 
 II. 2543-44. Only out from beneath the ruins of the tyrants' power
 
 2l6 WILHELM TELL. 11. 25462597. 
 
 can she be dug forth ; the idea is: She can be rescued only by over- 
 throwing the tyrants. 
 
 1. 2546. 0b tmr melletcfyt . . . bnngen, if perchance, -we may pene- 
 trate. 
 
 1. 2548. fparen, for auffdjieben. 
 
 Page 130. line 2551. i.e. releases them from their agreement to 
 postpone. 
 
 1. 2555. Sotettfegel, rather unusual figure for Gilboot, or Stlfdfjtff. 
 
 1. 2558. ftiir3t, the unusual order is justified only by the meter. 
 rDetters Strati, for SBetterftrabt. 
 
 ACT IV. SCENE 3. 
 
 SD. fyofyle (Saffc, sunken road, or hollow way. Gessler, having come 
 along the shore of Lake Zug (see map), proceeds from Immensee 
 through this cut to his castle near Kiissnacht. The highest point of the 
 cut is in the background; the road comes down toward the front of the 
 stage. See illustration. 
 
 1. 2563. f7ollunberftrcmd7 = ofitnber= or >olberftraud). 
 
 1. 2567. betne Itfyr ift abgelaufcn, lit. your clock is run down, but 
 Schiller had probably an hour-glass in mind, hence tr. your hour is come. 
 
 Page 131. line 2571. See note to 1. 285. 
 
 1. 2573. Die ITTild? ber frommen Dcnfart mtr, the milk of my 
 kindly disposition, which was perhaps suggested by " the milk of human 
 kindness" (Macbeth I, 5). 
 
 1. 2574. um llngefyeuren, the usual government with geroofyttt 
 would be 9lrt8 lliigetjeure. 
 
 2583. ofynmacfytuj, less common for t>ergeben. 
 
 2592. Was b U, not an interrupted sentence, but abbreviated, sc. 
 
 btr 
 
 ertaubt Ijaft. 
 
 2593. After ftrengcs, repeat Hecfyt. 
 
 2594. Common usage does not employ the bcr before uft. 
 
 2595. Did? ... 311 erfrecfyett, to venture upon ; cp. 11. 2416, 2533, 
 and notes. 
 
 1. 2597. This apostrophe to a single arrow presumes that Tell was 
 allowed to put his second arrow (cp. 1. 2050) into his doublet again. 
 On the other hand 11. 2225 and 2264 indicate that he escaped with his 
 quiver. It is a slight discrepancy, due to the haste with which the 
 work was composed.
 
 NOTES. ACT IV, SCENE 3. 2 17 
 
 Page 132. line 2600. frommcn, kindly; unburd^rtnglicb, 
 
 more appropriate to the arrow, while to a request one is ,,tailb." 
 
 1. 2602. Pcrtraute, here past participle of the verb, trusted. 
 
 1. 2605. Hltr jetjt tied), only this once mart. 
 
 1. 2607. jety?, archaic for jft. 
 
 1. 2609. 2Iuf biefer. 5?anf, as though the verb were ftljen ; common 
 usage would require here btefe 33cmf. 
 
 1. 2611. trcibt fid?, goes. 
 
 1. 2614. leicfyt gefdjiirjtc, lightgirded, see note to 1. 285. 
 
 1. 2616. Spielmann, minstrel. 
 
 1. 2617. Saumer, freighter ; cp. auinrojj. 
 
 1. 2618. feme, tr. as adjective with anber.. ber JTleufdpen anber, 
 lands of foreign men; cp. Latin gentium, tr. foreign lands. 
 
 \. 2619. Every road leads everywhere, or All roads meet. 
 
 1. 2624. Ct brad?! 1 cud? ettuas, without bringing you something, cp. 
 note to 1. 1043. 
 
 1. 2625. IPar's, whether it was. 
 
 1. 2626. 2lmmonsb.orn, ammonite. 
 
 1. 2627. IDtc es (for fie) such as. 
 
 Page 133. line 2631. Itebett Kittber, the weak form here is in- 
 consistent with 1. 2622, yet all the MSS and the first edition have it; 
 usage in this construction was formerly divided. 
 
 1. 2635. 5|gt ftdj's, the inversion in exclamatory sentences is usually 
 followed by botf), but for meter's sake often omitted. 
 
 1. 2638. 511 ,els, found strong only in such phrases, and rarely; now 
 regularly weak. 
 
 1. 2640. Scheuchzer relates seriously how the hunter in such circum- 
 stances cuts his heel or the ball of his foot, in order to keep himself 
 from slipping as he undertakes a daring leap. 
 
 1. 2641. (Srattter, red chamois, the smaller variety that frequents 
 the summit (rat). 
 
 1. 2646. cjefd?offcn in bas Sd?tr>ar.iC, hit the bull's eye. 
 
 1. 2649. Den 111 e t ft C r f d? U tblin, make my masUrshot, as though 
 all before were but apprentice- work. 
 
 SD. ^(urfdpiitj, field-warden, a common officer to guard against 
 pilfering, and damage by stray animals. 
 
 1. 2651. Kloftermet'r, rent-collector. !ttor.Itfd?ad?en, a small estate 
 of the monastery of Einsiedeln, on Lake Lucerne, see map.
 
 2l8 WILHELM TELL. 11. 26522710. 
 
 1. 2652. ben Brautlauf, briJal-trip,\>\A a very different sort from 
 what we know; it is the formal trip made to the home of the betrothed 
 to take her to the scene of the wedding. The word takes us back to 
 semi-savage times when a man actually chased and ran down his bride, 
 or later, when the suitor won his bride by defeating her or a rival in a 
 race; after the savage reality was abolished the form was retained in 
 sport. 
 
 1. 2653. Serttett, shepherd-huts and often also appurtenances, the 
 meadows or the herds. 
 
 Page 134. line 2654. 3 m 'fec, for 3mmenfee, see map. 
 
 1. 2655. roirb rfOcfy gefd?ttefgt, impersonal, there will be high 
 revelry. . : 
 
 1. 2656. '$, a strong case pf expletive. 
 
 1. 2659. Hehmt mit, accept. 
 
 1. 2662. that is: the^tsvo meet. 
 
 1. 2663. allertoegen, for alleniegc. 
 
 1. 2664. llngliicfs, partitive genitive. Hltfft, landslide (Swiss) ; 
 
 gegangen, tr. happened. 
 
 1. 2665. (Slartter anb, the canton of Glarus, east of Schwyz. 
 Scite, slope. 
 
 1. 2666. (SlSrnifd?, a mountain southwest of the town of Glarus. 
 
 1. 2669. Da fpracb, id?, I just now spoke with a man. Babctt, in 
 Aargau, on the Limmatt northwest of Zurich. 
 
 1. 2673. fiir, archaic for Dor. 
 
 Page 135. line 2676. ITtatt beiltet's auf, it is interpreted as 
 meaning. 
 
 1. 2682. After farm sci aud). 
 
 1. 2688. Die IDdffer, the streams. 
 
 1. 2690. ber Strom, the flood. 
 
 Page 136. line 2691. an irjm, more commonly bet or won ; the 
 accusative is the government after SBitte, or efltd) ait ... 
 
 1. 2695. farjre, for ftdje, cp. 1. 17. 
 
 1. 2702. IHein ebtag, for ilfteiiie ?ebtage, (all) the days of my life. 
 
 Page 137. line 2704. rerfiinbett, more commonly melben. 
 
 1. 2706. 3" (Srunb, for 3n 'u riinb. 
 
 1. 2707. Dem (= biffein) DoIF (contemptuously), this crew,\.e. 
 Gtssler and his followers. With bci.sc. fomtneit, get at, harm. 
 1. 2710. trie, how.
 
 NOTES. ACT IV, SCENE 3. 219 
 
 1.2712. ifym, i.e. bem Dot!, fart ft thun, pet. 
 \. 2715. bring'. . . an, present. 
 
 1. 2720. Illir, ' not to me,' but ethical dative, tr. Thai I might see them 
 etc. 
 
 1. 2723. braufftofjen mtt bem 2Iug', that their eyes might fall upon it. 
 
 Page 138. line 2726. Die, demonstrative. 
 
 1. 2727. Things of vast import are being planned and executed. 
 Logically Herbert should precede H?erf. 
 
 1. 2730. uns, speaking as a representative of the house. 
 
 1. 2731. So ober fo, one way or another. 
 
 1- 2734- 3" = 3" &<" 
 
 1. 2738. IDilbfyeuer, wildgrass gleaner, his occupation is explained 
 in what follows. Higtbero., east of Lucerne, see map. 
 
 1. 2739. iiberm 2lbgrunb \Qt,from over the abyss, freie, unclaimed. 
 1. 2744. Whatever serious offence he may have committed. 
 
 Page 139. line 2746. (ud? foil Hed?t toerben, You shall have 
 
 justice. 
 
 1. 2750. in ben fecfyften ITtonb, going on six months. 
 
 1. 2752. rnir (Seroalt antburt, force me. 
 
 1.2755. So, <w (i.e. in case). 
 
 SD. gretft in, takes hold of . 
 
 1. 2762. nicfyts nacfy . . . fragen, pay no heed to. 
 
 Page 140. line 2769. (Erateft bu bod? langft, Why, you have 
 
 long been treading. 
 
 1. 2772. After 23effer.es sc. $u thun. 
 
 1. 2774. titan reige, Someone drag, etc. 
 
 1. 2778. In this line as well as in 1. 2784 Gessler presumes upon his 
 position rather too much. 
 
 1. 2780. Before foil sc. fetn. 
 
 1. 2781. es (after bod?), i.e. the situation. 
 
 SD. fab,rt mtt ber ?anb, puts his hand. 
 
 Page 141. SD. bem Hllbolf i^arras, everywhere else the article 
 is put between name and epithet ; it seems here to be an error for ^^ 
 
 bolf bem arra8. 
 
 Page 142. line 2802. Haft, not the usual meaning: to be fu- 
 rious, but : to be crazy. 
 
 SD. (after 1. 2808) fub.Uofen, for gefiihUofen. 
 
 1. 2810. bie 2Jugen finb gebrod?en, see note to 1. 865.
 
 220 WILHELM TELL. 11. 28162902. 
 
 Page 143. line 2816. gefcfylagen, stricken. 
 
 1. 2817. n^agt CS, ironical threat = Do not dare it! 
 1. 2818. fyat eitt (Ettbe, is at an end. 
 
 1. 2830. per.tr.auen, rare for traiteu ; (Ereu', is dative. 
 
 SD. Barmfye^tge Briiber, Brothers of Charity, an order founded 
 in the i6th century. Their introduction here is a harmless anachronism. 
 In Europe the garb is black, in America brown. 
 
 I. 2832. liegt, is doivn. bte Haben, allusion to the garb of the 
 Brothers, who had weaknesses enough to expose them to the ill-will of 
 some of the people. 
 
 Page 144. line 2834. (8 ift, for (3 roirb. 
 
 II. 2835-36. (s here is not expletive, scarcely impersonal; it repre- 
 sents fate, or practically the same idea as ber Cob. But for confusion 
 with (r in 1. 2838 we should perhaps have had Gv here. 
 
 1. 2838. r>or fetnen Hicfyter, as though the verb were fid) fiction ; 
 cp. 1. 1948, fjtnfteb.cn. 
 
 ACT V. SCENE i. 
 
 Page 145. line 2845. Das 3d?/ C P- ' 37 1 - toollte, promised 
 to. 
 
 Page 146. line 2855. Ifas = ttwntm. It is curious that the 
 first news, so far as we know, of the death of Gessler should be an- 
 nounced thus incidentally and received with absolute indifference. 
 
 1. 2857. 3ft's ntd? t gettug ait btefen, Are not these, etc., enough ? 
 
 Page 147. line 2864. im auf, for tm ang. 
 
 1. 2874. mannltd?, usually mamtlid) ; mannlid? Fiifyner, cp. note to 
 1. 1711. 
 
 1. 2876. bas Sdjlofi, i-e. aruen. 
 
 1. 2879. IHetb.eIm, (Seller's Bub', on a stray sheet Schiller had 
 begun a scene in which two servants appeared: Diethelm and Ross- 
 ling. 
 
 Page 148. line 2889. geltebt, read bebad)t ; the idea is, git fefjr 
 gdiebt inn e8 $u wageu. 
 
 1. 2890. Berttja, is the object of <f}rte. 
 
 1. 2894. felbanber, archaic for jufainmen (=anb?r = =jttjeiter, cp. 
 felbjiuanjigfter, I and nineteen others). 
 
 Page 149. line 2902. liber ben, accusative indicating a verb of 
 motion understood.
 
 NOTES. ACT V, SCENE I. 221 
 
 1. 2905. Had?, this position of the separable participle is rare and 
 poetical. 
 
 1. agio, llrpbebe, more correctly Urfffybe (the spelling here is due 
 to medieval Latin urpheda), a solemn oath, usually an oath to keep the 
 peace. 
 
 1. 2913. This seems like a pointed reflection on Tell's deed, which 
 Schiller can not have intended; cp. note to 1. 2855. 
 
 1. 2915. fpa't, tr. years hence. 
 
 1. 2918. This line is intelligible only on comparison of the Dalberg 
 and Mannheim MSS, which have in Act III, Scene 3, itnter ber tnnge 
 instead of Ullter bet" ?inbf. Accordingly it seems that the original plan 
 was to have Walther at the apple-shooting stand against the pole in- 
 stead of under the linden, and that after the change Schiller forgot to 
 strike out this line. 
 
 Page 150. line 2922. The hat, and the wearing of the hat seems 
 to have been a symbol of freedom from very early times. The student 
 may collect evidence of this for himself. 
 
 1. 2929. Cp. note to 1. 2855. Here too the death of Gessler is as- 
 sumed as generally know n. 
 
 1. 2932. With the comma at the end of the line it is to be read as a 
 condition, with 1. 2933 as conclusion; but the bod? tempts to read this 
 as an independent exclamatory sentence, in which case the line should 
 end with a semicolon, as the later Cotta texts have it. 
 
 Page 151. line 2943. Albrecht was murdered May ist, 1308. 
 
 1. 2946. Smcf , or 35mgg, on the Aar near the junction of the Lim- 
 matt. gfaubentuert = gtaubttwrbig. 
 
 1. 2948. 3t? anne5 ITUUIer, Schiller takes this method of paying a 
 compliment to the Swiss historian (see Introd. xx, xxiv). 
 
 Page 152. line 2953. Datermorbs, like the English parricide, 
 used of the murder of any relative of the elder generation. 
 
 1. 2954. oa'terltdje <rbe, cp. 1. 1344; according to Tschudi there 
 were estates from both parents; no reason appears for the variation. 
 
 1. 2955. IHab.nenben, claimant. 
 
 \. 2956. bariim 311 fiir^en, to deprive of it. 
 
 I. 2958. iEie bcm and? fct (e, understood, is subject, bcm is dative 
 of ba), However that may be. 
 
 II. 2960-61. The names as well as the details are from Tschudi, see 
 Introd. liii; but for meter there would be a OOU before palm.
 
 222 ^WILHELM TELL. 11. 29653062. 
 
 1. 2965. Stein, the castle overlooking the town of Baden; it was 
 destroyed in 1415. 
 
 1. 2966. (Sen, for gegen. Hfyeinfelb, see note to 1. 1324. 
 
 1. 2967. eopolb, Albrecht's third son, who was defeated at Mor- 
 garten. 
 
 1. 2974. The old Roman Vindonissa, modern Windisch. 
 
 1. 2976. Fjabsburg (contraction of abtd)tbltvg), about two miles 
 southwest of Brugg, the original estate whence the Austrian royal 
 family takes its name. 
 
 Page 153. line 2982. See Introd. liii. 
 
 1. 2988. friifjCS, premature, rather than early, Albrecht being 58 
 years old, and in the tenth of his reign. 
 
 1. 2992. Stanb, a vague word, estate (one of the three governing 
 classes in the empire: nobility, clergy, cities), rank, class ; practically 
 the line means : everybody is on his guard. 
 
 1. 2996. bcs BattnCS ,lud7, the imperial ban of outlawry, not the 
 papal ban of excommunication. 
 
 1. 2997. 2J(jnes, for the following details see Introd. liii. 
 
 1. 3003. geugungen, unusual in this sense, for e?d)led)ter. 
 
 Page 154. line 3009. um, expresses here result, not purpose. 
 
 1. 3012. Std? (dative) felbft tft fie, // is its own, etc. 
 
 1. 3021. The crown passed to the house of Luxemburg, but not for 
 long. 
 
 1. 3022. JDafylfretfjett, right of election ; the right was in full force, 
 hence befyailpten = exercise. 
 
 1. 3023. was = ettt>a$, i.e. about the probable succession; in fact, 
 Henry VII was not chosen until November, 1308. 
 
 Page 155. line 3029. The line is addressed to the messenger. 
 
 1. 3033. (Elsbetfy, wife of Albrecht. 
 
 1.3041. rerftefyt fid? 311, expects of. 
 
 Page 156. line 3045. Dorfcfyub tfyun, commonly SBorjcfiub feiften. 
 
 1. 3052. IDeffen rutjmen unr uns, What is there to speak of. 
 
 1. 3054. As we have seen, this is hyperbole. 
 
 1. 3055. The alliterative phrase here is a primitive Germanic legal 
 formula. 
 
 1. 3059. btefem alien, all this , biefen alien would seem more natural. 
 
 1. 3062. riifyrte . . . an, subjunctive conditional, for hfitte OH= 
 geriihrt.
 
 NOTES. ACT V, SCENE I. 223 
 
 1. 3064. fontttc . . . fetrt, note the form, and the force of the indica- 
 tive : It was possible for him to be. 
 
 1. 3067. gemefyrt, advanced, unusual for gefbrbert. 
 
 Page 157. line 3073. nnll, this auxiliary with an impersonal 
 subject is difficult to render; ' can't be made to ' be our duty. 
 
 1. 3074. ID ill, colloquial English, 'wants to,' must. 
 
 1. 3076. cntridjten, usually with object, as Stcucr, tr. We are under 
 no fart/ier obligation to him. 
 
 1. 3079. So, at the same time. 
 
 1. 3088. a lies, everybody. 
 
 Page 158. line 3092. (Sing Ijart . . . porbci, just missed, the 
 expression would be more suitable if .^ailpte stood in place of eben. 
 
 SD. (after 1. 3103) 3er(tortcn, for Derftorten. 
 
 Page 159. line 3109. The line begins with an anapest and re- 
 quires particular stress on ift in order to scan. 
 
 1. 3112. IPte aud?, However much. 
 
 1. 3120. tDofynt, belongs. 
 
 1. 3124. fcfyniht mir bas 3nnre 3U, oppresses my heart; cp. Faust, 
 
 1. 3493- 
 Page 160. line 3129. fur, archaic for t>or. 
 
 1. 3134. lebe tmr ber ^reilbe, give yourself up to joy. 
 
 Page 161. line 3138. There is not even a legend behind this: 
 the relic is nowhere preserved. 
 
 1. 3147. Even this fugitive, who dares scarcely speak to anyone, 
 knows of TelPs deed; cp. note to 1. 2855. 
 
 Page 162. line 3158. rocket, subjunctive of conjecture, fs it pos- 
 sible you are. 
 
 \. 3163. We are left to conjecture how Tell knows of this; does 
 Schiller here and in 2855 attribute to his characters the information 
 given to the spectators? 
 
 1. 3167. <ud? leildpret, shines for you. 
 
 Page 168. line 3179. bas et3te, the worst. 
 
 1. 3183. ITtdpts tetl' id? mit btr, I have nothing in common with you. 
 
 1. 3187. Strafte, more commonly in poetry 53ahu or JSefl. 
 
 Page 164. line 3194. Des armen JTTannes, genitive by appo- 
 sition with the meilt in tnetttcr ; tr. of me, a poor man, or of a poor man 
 like me. 
 
 1. 3197. Fonnte, see note to 1. 3064.
 
 224 WILHELM TELL. 11. 3202 3270. 
 
 1. 3202. gletcfyes Alters, cp. 11. 3243 and 3269. 
 
 1. 3212. See Introd. liii; excluded from friends and exposed to 
 enemies. 
 
 Page 165. line 3213. offne, usually offlieil, only one MS has 
 the weak form. 
 
 1. 3216. IHein etgnes Scfyrecf nts, a terror to myself. 
 
 1. 3222. em ITtcttfd? ber Siinbe, a sinful man, as all men are 
 according to theological phrase. 
 1. 3229. Clltbecft, if discovered. 
 
 Page 166. line 3237. IPas, whatever. After an sc. al. 
 
 1. 3242. bem Strom entgegen, up stream. 
 
 1. 3244. Cp 1. 2969. 
 
 1. 3245. rnele KreiljC, one writer reckons thirty. 
 
 Page 167. line 3253. IPinbestDefyen, avalanches of light new- 
 fallen snow. 
 
 1- 3254- 3od?, ridge, 
 
 1- 3 2 55- ftaubet, is wrapped in mist; cp. tCUlbbad) in SD. at be- 
 ginning of Act III, Scene 2, and note. This particular bridge is sup- 
 posed to be the ' Teufelsbriicke ' on the Reuss. See illustration. 
 
 1. 3258. ^elfentfyor, the Urner, or llrfeiier ocl), opening into 
 the lU'ieitevthcil, above Andermatt. 
 
 1. 3264. auf betnes Hetd?cs 23oben, jieht. . . eitt, for jiefyt einljer, 
 wanders along on, etc., but perhaps Schiller meant the entrance upon 
 the imperial soil of Italy. 
 
 1. 3266. bte etu'gen Seett, Scheuchzer speaks of seven such lakes. 
 
 1. 3269. em anbrer Strom, the Ticino. 
 
 1. 3270. end? bas gelobte (sc. Saitb) , for you the Promised Land. 
 
 Page 168. SD. (After 1. 3280.) bcbeutet \ty\, gives him a sign. 
 
 ACT V. SCENE 2. 
 SD. S teg, foot-bridge. ge30gen, with foinmeit, come marching.
 
 APPENDIX.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
 
 LITERARY TREATMENTS OF THE TELL STORY 
 ASIDE FROM THAT OF SCHILLER. 
 
 Ein schon Lied vom Ursprung der Eidgenossenschaft und dem 
 ersten Eidgenossen, Wilhelm Tell genannt, auch von dem Bund 
 etc. Probable date of composition 1477, manuscript of 1501, 
 earliest print 1623. 
 
 A stanza from the above : 
 
 Der Landvogt sprach zu Wilhelm Thell : 
 " Nun lug, dass dir dein Kunst nit faP, 
 Und merk' mein Red' gar eben : 
 
 Triffstu in nit mit dem ersten Schutz, 
 Fiirwar, es bringt dir keinen Nutz 
 Und kostet dich dein Leben." 
 
 (Cp. Tell, lines 1887-89). 
 
 Ein schbnes Spiel, von Wilhelm Tellen ihrem Landmann 
 und ersten Eidgenossen. Probable date of composition 1511, 
 date of oldest print, 1579. 
 
 Some lines from the above : 
 
 " War' ich verniinftig, witzig und schnell, 
 So war' ich nicht genannt der Tell." 
 
 (Cp. Tell, line 1872). 
 
 " Ich will dich Ian verschliessen 
 
 In einen Thurm, da musst du biissen; 
 Dich soil b'schcinen weder Sonn' noch Mon, 
 Er muss gen Kissnacht auf das Schloss ! " 
 
 (Cp. TV//, 11.2065-8). 
 
 " Ein Pfeil daselbst ich in ihn schoss, 
 Dass er todt abfiel von dem Ross."
 
 228 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
 
 Ein hiibsch und lustig Spil, vorziten gehalten zuo Uri in dem 
 loblichen Ort der Eidgenossenschaft, von dem frommen und 
 ersten Eidgenossen Wilhelm Tellen, irem Landmann. Jetzt 
 nUwlich gebessert und gespilt am niiwen Jarstag zuo Zurich 
 im Jar 1545, per Jacobum Ruef (or Ruoft). This remodeled 
 perhaps from the source of the preceding. 
 
 Ein schbn new Lied von Wilhelm Tell : durch Hieronimum 
 Muheimb von newem gebessert und gemehret. Date of print, 
 1633- 
 
 Eidgenossisches Contrafeth auf- und abnehmender Jungfrauen 
 Helvetia etc. Played at Zug, 1672. 
 
 Grisler, ou Tambition punie. Tragedie en cinq actes ; anon. 
 1762, (by Samuel Henzi). 
 
 Guillaume Tell. Tragedie par A. M. Le Mierre. Paris, 
 1767. 
 
 Gesslers Tod, oder das erlegte Raubthier ; 1775. 
 
 Der alte Heinrich vom Melchthal, oder die ausgetretenen 
 Augen; 1775. 
 
 Der Hass der Tyrannei, oder Same durch List eingenommen ; 
 1775- 
 
 Wilhelm Tell, oder der gefahrliche Schuss ; 1775. 
 The four preceding by J. J. Bodmer. 
 
 Wilhelm Tell. Ein Trauerspiel, von J. L. Zimmermann ; 
 Basel, 1777. 
 
 Der Schweizerbund, ein Schauspiel ; Zurich, 1779. 
 
 Hans von Schwaben und Kaiser Albrechts Tod ; St. Gallen, 
 1789. 
 
 Wilhelm Tell. Schauspiel. Zurich, 1791. 
 
 Der Neujahrstag, oder die Eroberung von Sarnen. Left un- 
 printed. 
 
 All four preceding by J. L. Ambiihl.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 229 
 
 Der Dreibund. Ein vaterlandisches Original-Schauspiel ; 
 Basel, 1791. By J. B. Petri (appeared anonymously). 
 
 Wilhelm Tell, ein Schauspiel in Jamben, Berlin, 1804, (be- 
 fore Schiller's) by Leonhard Wachter (nom de plume Veit 
 Weber) . 
 
 Wilhelm Tell der Tausendkiinstler, etc. Hamburg, 1805. 
 (A satire on Schiller's Tell.) 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung. Karl 
 Goedeke ; zweite Auflage, Dresden, 1884-97. Bde. I-VI. 
 Incomplete. The standard general bibliography of German 
 literature. 
 
 Zeitschrift fur deutsches Altertum. Vols.XI-XVI. 1885- 
 1890. Anzeige, P. Strauch. 
 
 Jahresberichte f iir neuere deutsche Litteraturgeschichte. S tutt- 
 gart, from 1890 on. 
 
 Das Schiller-Buch. C. W. Tannenberg ; Wien, 1859. Very 
 complete for biography and Schilleriana as well as for his 
 works. Many illustrations and facsimiles. 
 
 Schiller-Bibliothek. P. Trb'mel; Leipzig, 1865. 
 
 Schiller's Dramen ; eine Bibliographic. August Hettler ; Ber- 
 lin, 1885. Numbers 468 to 590 relate to " Tell." 
 
 Geschichte der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft. T. Die- 
 rauer ; Gotha, 1887. For history and legend. 
 
 SCHILLER BIOGRAPHY. 
 
 Schillers Leben, Geistesentwicklung und Werke. K. Hoff- 
 meister; Stuttgart, 1838-42. 5 Bde. 
 
 Schillers Leben. Karoline von Wolzogen ; 6th edition, Stutt- 
 gart, 1884. 
 
 Schillers Leben und Werke. E. Palleske ; i3th edition, Stutt- 
 gart, 1 89 1 . The same, translated by Lady Wallace, London.
 
 230 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
 
 Schillers Leben. H. Dlintzer ; Leipzig, 1881. 
 
 - Translated by P. E. Pinkerton, London, 1883. 
 Schiller dem deutschen Volke dargestellt. J. Wychgram ; 
 
 Leipzig, 1895. Richly illustrated. 
 Schiller. Brahm ; Berlin, 1889 and 1892. 
 Schillers Leben und Werke. J. Minor; Berlin, 1890. Vols. 
 
 I, II. Not yet complete. 
 Life of Schiller. Nevison ; London, 1887. 
 
 EDITIO PR1NCEPS. 
 
 Wilhelm Tell. Schauspiel von Schiller. Zum Neujahrsge- 
 schenk auf 1805. Tubingen; Cotta, 1804. This the title 
 of the first edition, the only one printed under Schiller's su- 
 pervision. 
 
 COLLECTED WORKS. 
 
 Sammtliche Werke, edited by C. G. Kb'rner ; Stuttgart und 
 
 Tiibingeri, 1812-15. The first complete edition. 
 Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, edited by Goedeke and others ; 
 
 Stuttgart, 1867. The standard edition. 
 Schillers Werke, edited by Boxberger and Maltzahn, published 
 
 by Hempel, 1868. 
 Schillers Werke, edited by Boxberger and Birlinger, in Kiirsch- 
 
 ners Deutsche Nationallitteratur ; Berlin and Stuttgart, 1882. 
 Schillers Werke, edited by L. Bellermann ; Leipzig, 1895-96. 
 Schillers Werke. Illustriert von den ersten deutschen Kunst- 
 
 lern. Fifth edition ; Stuttgart, 1896. 
 
 ANNOTATED EDITIONS. 
 
 Wilhelm Tell. Mit einer geschichtlichen Einleitung und er- 
 klarenden Anmerkungen. C. G. Hugendubel ; Bern, 1836. 
 
 Schulausgabe mit Anmerkungen, Denzel ; Stuttgart, 
 
 1892.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 231 
 
 Wilhelm Tell. Mit Einleitung, dem alten Volksschauspiel von 
 Uri, und Erlauterungen. M. Carriere ; Leipzig, 1872. 
 
 Schillers Wilhelm Tell, erlautert und gewiirdigt fiir die 
 Schule. E. Kunen ; Miihlheim, 1874. 
 
 Mit ausfuhrlichen Erlauterungen in katechetischer Form 
 
 fiir den Schulgebrauch. C. A. Funke ; Paderborn, 
 seventh edition, 1895. 
 
 In English. 
 
 - With English notes by M. Meissner ; London, 1859. 
 With introduction and notes by C. A. Buchheim ; Oxford, 
 
 1880 (5th ed.). 
 
 -With introduction and notes by E. Fasnacht; London, 
 1887. 
 
 - With introduction and notes by K. Breul ; Cambridge, 
 
 1890. 
 
 - With introduction and notes by R. W. Deering ; Boston, 
 
 1894. 
 
 In French. 
 
 Accompagne de notes historiques et geographiques de 
 
 Lebas et Regnier ; Paris, 1840. 
 
 Avec une introduction, une analyse litteraire et des 
 
 notes, par Th. Fix ; new edition ; Paris, 1896, Hachette. 
 
 COMMENTARIES AND CRITICISMS WITHOUT THE TEXT, 
 
 Schiller-Lexicon. Erlauterndes Worterbuch zu Schillers 
 Dichterwerken. Goldbeck und Rudolph ; Berlin, 1869. 
 
 Schiller im Urteil seiner Zeitgenossen. Braun ; Leipzig, 1882. 
 
 Schillers Wilhelm Tell auf seine Quellen zuruckgefiihrt. 
 Joachim Meyer; Niirnberg, 1876 (revised ed.). 
 
 Goethes Faust und Schillers Wilhelm Tell. J . G . Rb'nnefahrt ; 
 Leipzig, 1855.
 
 232 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
 
 Schillers Wilhelm Tell. Versuch einer methodischen Er- 
 
 klarung. J. Becker; ZUllichau, 1868. 
 Schillers Wilhelm Tell, erlautert von H. Duntzer. Leipzig, 
 
 1887 (4th ed.). 
 Wegweiser durch die klassischen Schuldramen. Gaudig; 
 
 Leipzig, 1894. 
 
 Studien zu Schillers Dramen. Fielitz ; Leipzig, 1876. 
 Schillers Dramen. L. Bellermann ; Berlin, 1888. 
 Dramaturgic des Schau spiels. H. Bulthaupt ; Leipzig, 1897. 
 Schillers Schriften. Kuno Fischer, 2 series, 1891-2. Second 
 
 edition. 
 
 Schiller als Dramaturg. A. Koster; 1891. 
 Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Schillers Wilhelm Tell und 
 
 Shakespeares Julius Caesar. H. Schneeberger ; Miinner- 
 
 stadt, 1882. 
 Zu den Quellen des Schillerschen Wilhelm Tell. R . Peppmliller 
 
 in Gosches Archiv fur Litteraturgeschichte, I, 461 ; 1870. 
 Homerisches in Schillers Tell, by the same, in above, II, 544 ; 
 
 1872. 
 
 SCHILLER CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 Briefwechsel mit Korner, edited by Goedeke; Leipzig, 1874. 
 
 Briefwechsel mit Goethe. Stuttgart, 1882. 
 
 Briefwechsel mit W. von Humboldt. Stuttgart, 1876. 
 
 (Translations of the above in the Bohn Library.) 
 
 Schillers Briefe. Herausgegeben und mit Anmerkungen ver- 
 sehen von Fritz Jonas. Kritische Gesamtausgabe ; Stutt- 
 gart, 1893.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 233 
 
 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 English. 
 
 ROBINSON, London, 1825. 
 R. TALBOT, London, 1829. 
 T. C. BANFIELD, London, 1831. 
 W. PETER, Heidelberg, 1839. Many reprints of this. 
 
 E. B. LYTTON, London, 1844. 
 
 F. LEBAHN, London, 1852. 
 CHARLES T. BROOKS, Boston, 1847. 
 
 THEODORE MARTIN, London, 1848. (Reprinted in the Bohn 
 
 Library.) 
 
 T. BRAUNFELS and A. C. WHITE, London, 1859. 
 E. S. PEARSON, Dresden, 1885. 
 J. CARTWRIGHT, London, 1869. 
 
 D. C. CAMPBELL, London, 1878. 
 
 E. MASSIF., Oxford, 1878. 
 TARKARI, London, 1879. 
 P. MAXWELL, London 1893. 
 
 French. 
 
 Traduit par Merle d'Aubigny. Geneva and Paris, 1818. 
 
 In (Euvres dramatiques de Schiller (vol. 5), de Barante; 
 
 Paris, 1821. 
 In Theatre de Schiller. Marmier; Paris, 1844. 
 
 Italian . 
 Traduzione, del A. Maffei ; Milan, 1836. 
 
 SOURCES OF MATERIAL IN WILHELM TELL. 
 
 Geschichte der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft. J. von 
 
 Muller ; Leipzig, 1786-95. 
 Chronicon Helveticum. Aegidius Tschudi ; Basel and ZUrich, 
 
 1734-
 
 234 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
 
 Brief e liber die Schweiz. Aleiners ; Stuttgart, 1792. 
 Naturgeschichte des Schweizerlandes. Scheuchzer; Zurich, 
 
 1746. 
 Staats- und Erdbeschreibung der ganzen helvetischen Eidge- 
 
 nossenschaft. Fa'si ; Zurich, 1766. 
 Schilderung der Gebirgsvolker der Schweiz. Ebel ; Tubingen, 
 
 1798. 
 
 Geschichte der Deutschen. M. I. Schmidt; Wien, 1785. 
 Kronika von der loblichen Eydtgenossenschaft. P. Etterlin ; 
 
 edition of 1752, Basel. 
 Allgemeine Eidgenossenschaf tschronik. J . Stumpf, Zurich . 
 
 ON THE TELL LEGEND. 
 
 Guillaume Tell, fable danoise. U. Freudenberger ; no place 
 
 of publication given, 1760. 
 
 Defense de Guillaume Tell. F. von Balthasar ; 1760. 
 Essai sur 1'origine et le deVeloppement des libertes dans les 
 
 Waldstetten. J.J. Hisely; Lausanne, 1839. 
 Geschichte der eidgenossischen Biinde. J . E . Kopp ; Leipzig, 
 
 1845. 
 Les origines de la confederation Suisse : histoire et I6gende, 
 
 A. Rilliet; Basel, 1868. 
 Die Sage von der Befreiung der Waldstatte nach ihrer almali- 
 
 gen Ausbildung. W. Vischer; Leipzig, 1867. 
 Tell und Gessler in Sage und Geschichte. F. L. Rochholz; 
 
 Heilbronn, 1877. 
 Die Anfange zur schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft. W. 
 
 Oechsli ; ZUrich, 1891. 
 Die Tellfrage : ein Versuch ihrer Geschichte und Losung. A. 
 
 Gisler ; Bern, 1895.
 
 SUBJECTS FOR THEMES. 235 
 
 SUBJECTS FOR THEMES AND INVESTI- 
 GATION. 
 
 Compare and contrast the deed of Tell in killing Gesslerwith 
 that of John the Parricide in killing emperor Albrecht. 
 
 Compare the deeds of Tell and Baumgarten in slaying the 
 bailiffs. 
 
 Compare the action of Melchthal toward Landenberg with 
 that of Tell toward Gessler. 
 
 Do lines 433-37 show Tell to be selfish and indifferent? 
 What evidence is there anywhere in the play that Tell is acting 
 consciously for the common weal ? 
 
 What can be said ethically and artistically of Tell's first answer 
 to Gessler, line 2052 ? 
 
 Discuss the possibility of Tell's shooting Gessler at Altorf, 
 Act III, scene 3, or at the Tellplatte when he escapes from the 
 governor's boat, from the point of view of nature and of the 
 drama. 
 
 Is Tell's monologue in the Hohle Gasse inconsistent with his 
 character as a man of few words? 
 
 Seek the explanation of Tell's line 1576 ; if not found in the 
 text, comment on the line. 
 
 Discuss the arguments for a real Tell 
 
 Discuss the arguments against a real Tell. 
 
 How old do you judge Walther Tell to be? Collect his ac- 
 tions and speeches and justify your judgment by reference to 
 these. 
 
 Examine the speech of Rosselmann, lines 1290-95, and con- 
 sider in the light of his position and all his other utterances what 
 effect he means it to have. 
 
 Group the scenes in which Tell's part is given, noting what 
 relations are there indicated between Tell and the Rutli con- 
 spirators.
 
 236 SUBJECTS FOR THEMES. 
 
 Group the scenes in which the Riitli conspiracy and its exe- 
 cution are given, noting what influence is exercised upon them 
 by Tell and his actions. 
 
 Group the scenes in which Rudenz and Bertha appear, noting 
 their relation to the parts of Tell and the Riitli conspirators. 
 
 Note the means, the interests and the actions by which these 
 three groups of persons and events are brought together. 
 
 What purpose is served by the introduction of Armgard and 
 her children in the Hohle Gasse ? 
 
 Collect the instances in which the scenery furnishes a contrast 
 with the nature of the action ; in which actions or characters are 
 contrasted with other actions or characters. 
 
 Collect the lines which express general views on the subject 
 of government, and formulate from these Schiller's standpoint. 
 Collect the instances of realistic description and behavior. 
 (Note that realistic does not necessarily mean vivid.) 
 
 Collect the passages which seem to be spoken for the infor- 
 mation of the audience rather than of the persons to whom they 
 are addressed. 
 
 Discuss the seeming discrepancies in : 
 
 Ruodi's presence on the east shore, Act IV, scene i . 
 
 The presence of so many of the representatives of the three 
 
 cantons at Altorf, Act III, scene 3. 
 
 Walther's presence and Hedwig's appearance at the manor 
 of Attinghausen, Act IV, scene 2, and her knowledge of 
 the apple-shooting. 
 The knowledge of the death of Gessler possessed by all in 
 
 Act V, scene I, and by Parricide, Act V, scene 2. 
 Discuss the presence of Bertha in prison at Sarnen, reported 
 by Melchthal, lines 2872-94. 
 
 Collect the pithy sayings from the whole play, noting to whom 
 they are attributed. 
 
 Collect the lines having more or less than five feet, consider- 
 ing how far the irregularity serves a purpose.
 
 IMPORTANT VARIANTS. 237 
 
 Collect a hundred lines illustrating other irregularities of 
 meter, as two unaccented syllables together, cases where natural 
 accent conflicts decidedly with regular scansion, etc. , considering 
 whether these irregularities seem to be, on the whole, defects. 
 
 Collect the rhymed lines, excepting the lyric stanzas, noting 
 where they occur, and their effect. 
 
 Collect the unusual compound adjectives in the play. 
 
 Collect the archaic and dialect words in the play. 
 
 IMPORTANT VARIANTS. 
 
 11. 2075-76: thus the first edition; in two manuscripts the 
 line : Qfyr >olft ifyn aujjer. 2anb cjefangen fitljren? precedes these, 
 spoken by Rbsselmann, while Gesellen speak 2077-78. 
 
 1. 2107: thus the first edition; two manuscripts have: S)er 
 eben jefct geinaltig fid) erljo&en. 
 
 Act 4, scene 2 : the Aschaffenburg MS has here a brief scene, 
 numbered 2, and the present scene 2 becomes 3. The scene 
 is as follows : 
 
 SCENE 2. 
 
 SSorjtmmet. eblt>ig tritt Jmftig Ijerein. 53 ait tug at ten fotgt ifjr. 
 SBaumgartCtt, KM fie juriidljalten, 
 
 O grau, inaS fud)t if)r Ijier im au bc XobeS? 
 3^v fount iljn je^t nid^t fe^en. SBIeibt juriicf. 
 
 3Ber barf mir' tue^ren? 
 
 28tH einbrtngen. 
 
 iBaumgarten 
 
 3c^ ruf if)n. SBartet f)ier. e^t. 
 f bringt nad), 
 
 3t^ lami nifyt warten. 
 
 SCENE 3.
 
 238 IMPORTANT VARIANTS. 
 
 I. 2441 : thus the first edition; two MSS have: Ser 
 mut'ge $tnber ju berrtegen. 
 
 II. 2687-2708 : the Aschaffenburg MS has instead of these 
 the following : 
 
 JKubolf ber ^jarrag, ruft oteu, 
 
 2Nan faljre au bem SSeg. 9Kein gnab'ger err 
 3)er Sanboogt fommt. 
 
 Sett gef)t 06. 
 
 9lrmgarb 
 
 2)er ?anboogt, fomtnt er? 
 tilfft 
 
 iljr ttiaS an ifjn? 
 
 a, 
 @tiifft 
 
 SBarum ftettt iljr eud^ benn 
 biefer l)ol)ten @affe ifym in ben 2Beg ? 
 
 ier icetrfjt er mtr mcfyt au8; er tnn inid^ l)5ren. 
 Sort fommt er. 
 
 @ie ge!)t init i^reu fiinberu nac^ ber oorbern }ene, egler nub 9tub0lplj 
 ber $arra3 jeigeu ftc6 aitf ber >6t>e be 2Bege^. 
 
 titffi 
 
 2Bo lam ber SBeibmann fyin mit bem id) fpracfj? 
 
 11. 2722-25 are found only in the Aschaffenburg MS. 
 
 1. 3082. Following this the Aschaffenburg MS gives to 
 Stauffacher the following lines, and the five lines here spoken by 
 Stauflfacher are given to Melchthal. 
 
 Dft tft'3 ber gretiel ber ben grebel rcicfjt. 
 3llbrerf)t uar felbft ber 3K6rber jeineS 
 2)ama(S man barf e enblicf) je^t 
 a fid ber beffre burd) ben fcl)fed)ten 
 Unb nid)t ein fiirftltrf) rab moUt' er il)m gonnen. 
 SBir motlen nne nid)t mifcfjen in ben @treit, 
 25er brobeu ^errfd^et in ben tutlben oljen, 
 S)od) egen quitlt unb ttwrme ^rndjtbarfeit 
 SBenn bie emitteditfte fid) entlaben.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 (For names of persons occurring in the Text, see List of Persons, p. Iviii. The 
 references below are to the Notes, by lines unless otherwise specified, and to the 
 Introduction by page. Most references to the Notes have corresponding appli- 
 cation to the Text). 
 
 abtrotjen, 1. 1300. 
 
 adjective, form after personal pro- 
 noun, 1. 14. 
 
 termination omitted, 11. 10, 85, 
 189, 294. 
 weak declension, unusual, 1. 
 
 2631. 
 
 in pairs, 1. 761. 
 
 2lbler, symbol of the empire, 1. 884. 
 2tft, use of in Schiller's dramas, 
 
 P- 173- 
 2Ilbred7t, emperor, his death in 
 
 Tschudi, p. lii ff. 
 alliteration, 11. 1042, 3055. 
 JJlpenrofe, 1. 2357. 
 2llpentrtft, 1. 1001. 
 alfo, 1. 232. 
 
 Tntlanbammann, 11. 1086, 2114. 
 Jlltorf, H. 770, 1540. 
 feller, 11. 128, 717. 
 2H3eUert, 1. 66. 
 2Jmmonst)orn, 1. 2626. 
 anftellig, 1. 362. 
 2Jrtb, 1. 2282. 
 article, with generalizing force, 1. 
 
 57- 
 with proper names, 1. 66. 
 
 article, 11. 126, 134, 162, etc. SD. 
 after 1. 182. 
 
 equivalent to compound rela- 
 tive, 1. 1545. 
 
 omission of, 1. 1487. 
 
 as, the second, in comparisons, 1. 
 
 264. 
 
 2ttttngrjdufers, 1. 52. 
 2luftrttt, use of in Schiller's 
 
 dramas, p. 173. 
 2Jllf3ug, use of in Schiller's dramas, 
 
 P- '73- 
 
 auxiliary verb, omitted, 1. 172. 
 2Jrenberg, H. 2164, 2189. 
 2Iren, fletrten, 1. 2228. 
 
 Baben in 2Jargau, 11. 409, 2669. 
 23ann, 1. 2996. 
 
 Bannberg, SD. before 1. 1732. 
 Bannerfyerr, 1. 336. 
 Barmfyer^tge Briiber, SD. before 
 
 1. 2832. 
 
 Baurenabel, 1. 825. 
 Baumgartert, account of in 
 
 Tschudi, p. xliii. 
 Beginrten, p. 284. 
 bctfegt, 1. 176.
 
 240 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Berg, 311 Berg fabjen, 1. 17. 
 Bern, 1. 2433. 
 Befdpeib nnffen, 1. 4M- 
 
 roerben, 1. 1347- 
 befonnen, H. 227, 1872, 1903. 
 Bible, influence of, Introd. xxxvi, 
 
 U- 35 1 3S7> I 99- 
 Bibliographical Notes, p. 237. 
 
 Bliitbann, 1. 1234. 
 
 Slutfdjulb, 1. 1237. 
 
 Borne, opinion of Tell, p. xxxi. 
 
 Botenfegel, 1. 2555. 
 
 Braiit, 1. 94- 
 
 Brautlauf, 1. 2652. 
 
 Brant oon itteffina, bte, 
 
 plot of, p. xviii. 
 brao, 11. 165, 1090. 
 brecfyenb 2Iuge, 11. 865, 2810. 
 Brief, 11. 1215, 1249. 
 
 2 rucf } 11. 2946, 2926. 
 Brugg ) 
 
 Bdinig, 1. 1193. 
 Brunnen, 11. 7 2I > 7 2 5> "7 8 - 
 Biid?er, bie alien, 1. 1121. 
 Buggisgrat, 1. 2187. 
 Biinbe, 11. 658, 2450. 
 Biinbnis, 1. 1156. 
 Biirgereib, 1. 2431. 
 Burgoogt, 1. 77. 
 Biirglen, 11. 126, 1540. 
 
 Chronology, authentic, p. Iv. 
 
 legendary, p. Ivi. 
 
 of Wilhelm Tell, p. Ivii. 
 
 ba, after relative pronoun, 11. 1477, 
 
 1763- 
 as adverb, and as conjunction, 
 
 SD. after 1. 506. 
 Dad?, 1. 2171. 
 dative, ethical, 11. 450, 2313, 2720. 
 
 dative, of possession, with redun- 
 dant poss. adj., 1. 1776. 
 
 Demetrius, p. xix. 
 
 Denfen, cp. with meinen, 1. 41. 
 - =gebenfen, 11. 528, 2484. 
 
 bod?, colloquial equivalent of, 1. 
 187. 
 
 Don Karlos, outline of plot, 
 p. xiii. 
 
 Drad?en, 11. 1075, 1264. 
 
 brei ^ingern, SD. after 1. 1489. 
 
 Diintjer, 1. 461, SD. before 2098. 
 
 <beln, bie, 1. 2413. 
 r;enjirt, 1. 238. 
 (Efjiti, 1. 1539- 
 tbgenoffen, 1. 1 108. 
 etgne eute, 1. 1080. 
 etlig rjaben, 1. 772. 
 (Einftebeln, 11. 343, 1247, 2651- 
 (Etfestiirme, 1. 2144. 
 (Engelberg, 1. 1002. 
 enjambement, Introd. xxxvii, 11. 
 
 285, 2571, 2614. 
 (Entfd^eibung, blntige, 1. 2442. 
 erbeute, 1. 1490- 
 (rben, weak singular, 1. 1699. 
 erfred?en, 1. 2595. 
 erfurjnen, 1. 2533. 
 ero'gen Seen, 1. 3266. 
 
 farjen, 1. 2214. 
 
 ^atjr = (Sefaljr, 1. 1511. 
 
 ^alfd?, archaic, 1. 741. 
 
 ^a'ft, one of Schiller's sources, notes 
 
 from, p. liv. 
 
 ^anad?tsauf3ug, 1. 39. 
 ^auft, references to, SD. after 1. 
 
 754, 11. 1217, 1490, 3124. 
 
 (Faenza), 11. 911, 1215.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 241 
 
 r, 1. 2304. 
 
 g, 1. 1499- 
 ^elfentfyor, 1. 3258. 
 (Jeft bes fjcrrn, 1. 1400. 
 ^euerroacfyter, 1. 964. 
 $ t C S f , outline of plot, p. xi. 
 ^inftern, for ^infterms, 1. 594. 
 ^trn, 11. 38, 596, 1502. 
 ^lanfcn, 1. 386. 
 ffcugt, archaic, 1. 1477. 
 #uij, I- 2193. 
 
 ^lurjcfyiit}, SD. after 1. 2649. 
 fobern, archaic for forbcrn, 1-571. 
 ^orftt, 11. 109, 423. 
 $tau 311 iird?, 1. 1363. 
 ^retburg, 1. 2434. 
 ^rcubcfpuren, 1. 1695. 
 ^reuben, form of, 1. 331. 
 
 , (Suftac, opinion of Tell, 
 
 p. xxx. 
 
 t, SD. before 1. 353. 
 ^ronbtenft, 1. 367. 
 JriibtrunF, 1. 754- 
 fiir = cor, 11. 1249, 2230, 2673, 
 
 3129. 
 
 fiirber, archaic, 1. 384. 
 future indicative, for imperative, 
 
 1. 1895- 
 future of conjecture, 1. 2054. 
 
 ig, 1. 2194. 
 gainings, 1. 2230. 
 gebannt, 1. 1775. 
 gebert, impersonal use of, 11. 1217, 
 
 1786, 1952. 
 geben auf, 1. 2177. 
 (Sebirgc = Forest Cantons, 1. 164. 
 (Sebrefteu, 1. 198. 
 gebrod?en, 1. 2191. 
 (Sefteber, 1. 1804. 
 geriafftg, 1. 47- 
 
 (Selaut, 1. 47. 
 
 (Seliiften, 11. 85, 548. 
 
 genitive, adverbial, 11. 333, 537, 
 
 1278, 1780. 
 
 partitive, 1. 2664. 
 
 (Senofamc, 1. 1455. 
 
 gefegnen, 1. 97- 
 
 (Seller, account of in Tschudi, p. 
 
 xlvff. 
 
 (Beftrenger, 1. 1859. 
 geroarfrten, 1. 1184. 
 
 (5Iarus, 
 
 >,, ' v 
 
 (Slarner anb 
 
 n 
 SD. 
 
 . 1461;, 
 
 (Sldrmfd?, 1. 2666. 
 
 glctd?, with verb preceding = ob= 
 
 g[etd7, 11. 1118, 1121. 
 (5Ietfd?cr IHtld?, 1. 1004. 
 
 - 1. 1780. 
 
 Goethe, pp. xiv, xix, xx, xxiv, xxvi, 
 xxxi, xxxiv, xxxvii. 
 
 - his use of two comparatives, 
 1. 761. 
 
 (Sott, use of in asseverations, 11. 
 
 507, 714, 1482. 
 (Sotttfarb, 11. 519, 876. 
 (Srattter, 1- 2641. 
 (Sranfen, fjtntern, 1. 2226. 
 <Sriinbe, 1. 1549- 
 
 Ejabsburg, House of, 11. 254, 891, 
 1664. 
 
 - castle, 1. 2976. 
 ?acfmeffer, 1. 2190. 
 
 J^afcn, mountain, SD. before 1. I, 
 
 SD. before 1. 959. 
 jalbcn, 1. 562, Introd. p. xlii. 
 rjalsgefafyrltd?, 11. 1432, 1508. 
 fjanblid?, 1. 2257.
 
 242 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 ?aslttrtal, 11. 1193-4- 
 
 hat, the, account of in Tschudi, 
 
 p. xlv. 
 
 ?ausgetto6, 1- 650. 
 f?ausred7t, 1. 82. 
 jeerroeg, 1. 347- 
 fjctmfcbnen, 1. 843. 
 ?erre, archaic, 1. 1558. 
 ?crrenbanf, 1. 806. 
 ^ermtbiirg, 11. 625, 770. 
 %rreiifncd;>t, 1. 1271. 
 fjevrcnlcute, 1. 294. 
 ^errenfcfyiff, 1. 2170. 
 7crtbann, 1. 1228. 
 rfinftefyen, 1. 1948. 
 rftnterbalt, 1. 1343- 
 I^jocbflug, 1. 900. 
 7ocbroad?ten, 1. 2449. 
 ?od7ti>tlb, 1. 900. 
 ^ocfyroiirbigen, 1. 1748. 
 fyofyle (Saffc, SD. beginning of Act 
 
 IV, Scene 3. 
 ?b'Uenrad?en, 1. 137. 
 Bontmberftraud), 1. 2563. 
 Homer, influence of, 11. 209, 241, 
 
 pp. xv, xxxvi. 
 f}orn con Uri, 1. 1091. 
 Corner, 1. 1778. 
 fjut, 11. 408, 2916, 2922. 
 
 3berg, I- 240. 
 3fflanb, pp. xxiii, xxiv. 
 3tnmenfee, j SD. beginning of Act 
 3tmfee, ) IV, Scene 3, 1. 2654. 
 indicative, for imperative, 11. 1364, 
 
 1895. 
 
 for subjunctive, 1. 356. 
 
 imperfect of, for conditional, 
 
 1. 2060. 
 indirect discourse, 11. 92, 1345, 
 
 1775. 
 
 inversion, due to expletive es 
 
 understood, 1. 171. 
 - in exclamatory sentence, 11. 
 
 1760, 2635, 2769, 2932. 
 
 ja, colloquial equivalents for, 11. 108, 
 
 1987. 
 
 je ber = jeber, 1. 1170. 
 3enm, 1. 37. 
 jet30, 1. 2607. 
 3od?, 11. 371, 2845, 3254- 
 3urtcjfr.au con rlcans, 
 
 b t e , outline of plot, p. xvii. 
 3ungfr.au, bic (mountain), 1. 628. 
 
 Kabale unb tebe, outline of 
 
 plot, p. xi. 
 Katfcr, 11. 77, 266, 703, 800, 1221, 
 
 137. 2 943- 
 
 Katfcr ^rtebrtcfys Brief, 1. 1215. 
 Keltic tribes in Switzerland, 1. 
 
 1179. 
 
 Klofterleute, 1. 1078. 
 Kfoftermet'r, 1. 2651. 
 fommltd?, 1. 2128. 
 Kb'ntg, ber, 11. 130, 787. 
 Korner, pp. xii, xix, 1. 761. 
 fran!t, 1. 2334. 
 freud?t, archaic, 1. 1477. 
 Kuriretfyen, SD. pp. 5, 173. 
 
 Kuont, pronunciation of, p. 174. 
 Kiinad7t, SD. beginning of Act 
 IV, Scene 3, 1. 2655. 
 
 fiammergeier, 1. 1000. 
 
 anbammattn, 1. 813. - 
 anbbebriicfer, 1. 1720. 
 Sa'nbergter, 1. 1665. 
 anber!ette, 1. 872.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 243 
 
 ^nbsgemembe, Kj 
 anbgemetnbe, ) 
 anbsmann, 11. 50, 158. 
 anbmann, 1. 1056. 
 anboogt, 11. 72, 131. 
 atmnen, 1. 1812. 
 ef}en, 1. 229. 
 eben geben, 1. 409. 
 teber (JDeftfrtefenlteb), 11. 1162, 
 
 1189. 
 
 tfel, 1. 47- 
 oter3, 1. 2285. 
 Lucerne, Lake, see Diertralb= 
 
 flatten fee. 
 ug', 1. 46. 
 liigert, 11. 258, 1384. 
 lunar rainbow, 1. 975. 
 uremburg, 1. 3021. 
 
 mannltd?, 1. 2874. 
 
 Utarta Stuart, outline of plot, 
 
 p. xvii. 
 meinett, compared with benfetl and 
 
 glauben, 1. 41. 
 UTeinrab's ell, 1. 519. 
 JTteifterfdpulg, 1. 2649. 
 ITteld?tbaI, 1. 560. 
 
 account of in Tschudi, p. xliii. 
 HTelfnapf, SD. p. 174. 
 ITTenfcfyen anber (ber), 1. 2618. 
 meter, 11. 26, 66, 294, 995, 1140, 
 
 1208, 1249, 2 558, 2960, 3109. 
 JTTettenglocflein, 1. 966. 
 ITTttternad?t, 1. 1167. 
 XTTonftrans, 1. 1751. 
 ITtorgarten, allusion to, 11. 2442, 
 
 2967. 
 
 en, 1. 2651. 
 r, 3ot|annes von, 11. 240, 
 
 1 1 62, 2432, pp. xx, xxiv, xxxix, 
 liv. 
 
 Hlunb ber rDafyrfyett, 1. 2124. 
 
 JTtuotta, pronunciation of, 1. 1178. 
 
 miittedtcfyes, 1 1344- 
 ITTyttien, ber gro^e, 11. 39, 727. 
 ITTYtbenftein, SD. p. 173, 11. 39, 725, 
 
 727. 
 
 Had?ts, form of, 1. 1760. 
 naturoergenen, 1. 1611. 
 ZTaue, 1. 37. 
 negative, parallel to French, 1. 
 
 1535- 
 
 nod?, translation of, 11. 272, 543. 
 numerals, cardinal, declension of, 
 
 1. 1127. 
 
 ob = iiber, 11. 277, 788. 
 
 order of sentence, 11. 462, 666, 
 
 1249, 1760, 2905. 
 ftretd?, 11. 184, 868. 
 (Dfterretd?, 11. 194, 1304, 1604. 
 
 pair, 1. 8 1 8. 
 
 parliamentary usage, 11. 1150, 
 
 1310, 1397, Introd. p. xxxiv. 
 Parrictba, ^o^annes, criticism of 
 
 his part, pp. xxv, xxxii. 
 
 account of in Tschudi, pp. xlvii, 
 
 lii. 
 participle, past, with Fommen, 11. 
 
 65, 220 ; SD. beginning of Act 
 
 V, Scene 3. 
 for imperative, 1. 353 ff. 
 
 absolute, 11. 653, 3229. 
 passive voice, indirect object in, 
 
 1. 101. 
 with fein, 11. 1123, 1303, 1385, 
 
 2834. 
 
 pergamente, 1. 244. 
 Persons, alphabetical list of, p. 
 
 Iviii. 
 
 s, 1. 1736.
 
 244 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 present tense, for imperfect 
 subjunctive in a conclusion, 1. 629. 
 
 prefjte, 1. 251. 
 
 pronouns, used in address, 11. 161, 
 1690. 
 
 - omission of correlative, 11. 331, 
 703, 1146, 1304. 
 
 Hctppersroetl, 1. 1361. 
 
 H d u b e r , b t e , outline of plot, 
 
 p. ix. 
 
 realism in Tell, pp. xxxii, xxxiv. 
 Hed)t fcfyopfen, 1. 1218. 
 reblid?, 11. 287, 2248. 
 Hetd?, 11. 185, 193, 879, 885, 1223, 
 
 1365, 3264. 
 Hetcfyen, 1. 1709. 
 Hettjcn, 1. 54- 
 Hetrje, 1. 1599. 
 relative pronoun, ber, bte, bdS, 
 
 1.48. 
 
 - followed by personal, 1. 58. 
 
 compound, 11. 383, 1083, 1481, 
 '545. X 739> 
 
 Xeug, 11. 2969, 3244. 
 Htieinfelb, 11. 1324, 2966. 
 rhyme, 11. 1586, 1684, 1706, 1709. 
 Higtberg, 1. 2738. 
 Xing, 1. 1123. 
 Xome^iigen, 1. 1134. 
 Xogberg, 11. 77, 1385, 1414- 
 
 - capture of in Tschudi, p. li. 
 Xubetl3, criticism of his part, pp. 
 
 xxv, xxviii, xxxii. 
 Hilfft, 1. 2664. 
 
 Hltobt, pronunciation of, p. 174. 
 Hiitli, 11. 727, 729, SD. before 959; 
 
 SD. after 1. 982. 
 
 - scene, the, pp. xxiv, xxvii, xxx. 
 
 Sammlung, SD. before 1. 1444. 
 
 Sarnen, 11. 1060, 1385. 
 
 capture of in Tschudi, p. li. 
 
 Saffen, 11. 1208, 1401. 
 
 Saumer, 1. 2617. 
 
 Sd?dd?entbal, 1. 1550. 
 
 Sd?atten, 1. 764. 
 
 fd?clten, 1. 98, government of, 1. 825. 
 
 Scfyeud^er, one of Schiller' s authori- 
 ties, notes from, p. Iv, 11. u, 38, 
 975, 1501, SD. before 1. 1732, 11. 
 2640, 3266. 
 
 Schiller, sketch of his life, p. vii.ff. 
 
 Scfylaglarotnett, 1. 1781. 
 
 Sd?IcgeI, 11. W., opinion of Tell, 
 p. xxix. 
 
 Sd?o, 11. 1105, 2492. 
 
 Sdprecffyorn, 1. 628. 
 
 fcfyreienbe (Setualt, 1. 1840. 
 
 Sd?ut3 unb Scfytrm, 1. 1214. 
 
 Scfyutj tmb CErutj, 1. 1484. 
 
 fd?roant, dialect for afynt, 1. 501. 
 
 (um) fd? roa^en Berg, 1. 1 193. 
 , 6 
 
 3, SD. beginning of Act I, 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Sdproert, 1. 1133. 
 fefynbe 2luge, bas, 1. 2125. 
 fclbanber, 1. 2894. 
 fel'ge 3nfel, bie, 1. 1700. 
 Selisberg, SD. before 1. 959, 1. 965. 
 Sempad?, allusion to, 1. 2443. 
 Scnten, 1. 2653. 
 Shakespeare, influence of, pp. 
 
 xxii, xxx, xxxvi, 11. 2129, 2573. 
 Stgrtji, 1. 1096. 
 Stllinen, 1. 689. 
 Simons unb 3uba, 1. 146. 
 singular verb, with compound 
 
 subject, 11. 503, 1385. 
 fo, 11. 48, 407. 379-
 
 INDEX. 
 
 245 
 
 fonnenfcbeuett, 1. 1102. 
 
 fpuleti, 1. 8. 
 
 Stael, Madame de, p. xxiii. 
 
 Stammb,ol3, 1. 208. 
 
 Stanb, 11. 1428, 2489, 2992. 
 
 Stange, 1. 2918. 
 
 Staubbacbe, 1 SD. before 1. 1585, 
 
 ftaubet, / 1. 3255- 
 
 Stauffadper, account of in Tschudi, 
 
 p. xlv ff . 
 Steg, 1- 25, SD. beginning of Act 
 
 V, Scene 3. 
 
 ftebnben ^ues, 1. 333- 
 Stem bes $e\fen, 1. 670. 
 Stetnen, SD. beginning of Act I, 
 
 Scene 2, 1. 2283. 
 Stein, 3U Baben, 1. 2965. 
 stichomythy, Introd. p. xxxvi, 11. 
 
 136, 316, 415. 
 subjunctive, for imperative, 11. 
 
 969, 1114, 1369. 
 
 indicative for, 1. 356. 
 
 delicate use of, 11. 490, 673, 
 2158. 
 
 of conjecture, 1. 3158. 
 Sunbflut, 1. 2148. 
 suppressed negative, with benn 
 
 in subordinate clause, 11. 1043, 
 
 2624. 
 
 Surennen, 1. 998- " 
 Sweden, legendary home of the 
 
 Swiss, 1. 1 1 60. 
 S3ene, use of in Schiller's dramas, 
 
 P- 173- 
 
 t, unorganic, 11. 26, 31, 101, 1566. 
 tagen, 11. 751, mi, H39. '5 l8 - 
 dag, 1. IMS- 
 dell, n?ilb.elm, account of in 
 
 Tschudi, p. xlviii ff . 
 deufelsbriicfe, 1. 3 2 S5- 
 
 (Eeufelsmiinfter, 1. 2188. 
 
 (Etjalcogt, 1. 38. 
 
 Themes, subjects for, p. Iviii. 
 
 (Efyurgau, 1. 2432. 
 
 Ticino, allusion to, 1. 3269. 
 
 Toko, Danish prototype of Tell, p 
 
 xli. 
 
 (Eretb, 1. 721. 
 
 treiben, 1. 540, es tretben, 1. 541. 
 drommete, 1. 834. 
 trufctglid?, 1. 235. 
 Tschudi, pp. xxi, xxii, xxxvi, 11. 97, 
 
 198, 229, 275, 277, 293, 466, 
 
 685, 1325, 2960. 
 
 extracts from, p. xlii ff. 
 
 (Etmng, 1. 360. 
 
 iid?tlanb, 1. 2432. 
 llngebiibj, 1. 550. 
 Ungebiibrlid?es, 1. 94. 
 ungefranft, 1. 1927. 
 ttntertDalben, 11. 100, 461, 1131. 
 
 Uri ' il 279 
 Urner, I 79 
 
 Urpb.ebe, 1. 2910. 
 Urfener od?, 1. 3258. 
 
 Variants, list of important, p. 237. 
 Datermorb, 1. 2953. 
 Daterltd>e <rbe, 1. 2954. 
 verb, agreement of, 1. 1603. 
 Derbnee, 1. 1738. 
 periDogen, 11. 2416, 2528. 
 DtertDalbftattenfee, form of the 
 
 word, p. 173, 1. 1 178. 
 
 rxmnoten r|aben, 1. 349- 
 oor = fiir, 11. 1287, 1944. 
 
 IDacbter, 1. 43- 
 
 rr>agefab.rten, 11. 1494. 2638, 2874. 
 it, 1. 3 022 -
 
 246 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 IPalbe, for Untcrroalbcn, 11. 493. 
 545,717. fyinterm IDalb, 1.1078. 
 
 IPallenftcin, outline of plot, 
 p. xvi. 
 
 IPalty = ipaltber, 1. 1581. 
 
 n?appenfd?tlbern, 1. 211. 
 
 IV&S, as universal compound rela- 
 tive, 11. 1481, 1739. 
 
 IPeibgefellen, 1. 153. 
 
 JDetfy, 1. 1471. 
 
 tpetl, archaic use, 1. 341. 
 
 IPetglanb, 1. 1193- 
 
 tDettc, ) 11. 1474, 1675. 
 
 rDcitcn, ) 1. 1685. 
 
 VMtolan*,^ . I222)I230 . 
 
 tDerben 1. 645. 
 
 = 311 (Eeil toerben, 1. 149. 
 IPetterlod?, 1. 40. 
 IPtlbtjcucr, 1. 2738. 
 JPtlfyelm JEell, account of its 
 
 composition, p. xx ff. 
 
 notes for, pp. xxii, liv. 
 
 criticisms of, pp. xxv, xxvi ff. 
 
 primary merits of, p. xxxiii ff. 
 
 style and meter in, p. xxxv ff. 
 history and legend in, p. 
 
 xxxvii ff. 
 
 IPinbestDehen, 1. 3253. 
 
 rDtnbtfdi, allusion to, 1. 2974. 
 
 IDinblatmne, 1. 1501. 
 
 ir>trttn, 11. 187, 516. 
 
 rnofyl, 1. 524; =tDoljlan, 1. 117. 
 
 tpoblbeftellt, 1. 1860. 
 
 trollett, peculiar shades of, 11. 2845, 
 
 3073. 374- 
 
 IPiitnd), "I 11. 99, 181, 1965. 
 IDiitcnbe, i 1. 2532. 
 
 3erftort=ocrftort, SD. after 1. 3103. 
 gcugungen, 1. 3003. 
 3tnfcn, 1. 1362. 
 ud?t, 1. 204. 
 
 gug, Lake, SD. beginning of Act 
 IV, Scene 3, 1. 2282. 
 
 Siigesatjlt, 1- 52- 
 giirtd?, 1. 2435. 
 giircb., bcr grogcn ^rau 311, 1. 
 
 3U3ugcbn, 1. 2257. 
 
 f^'S' } 11. 360, 370. 
 grotngcr > 
 
 ttttg Uri, account of in Tschudi, 
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