The fiend! The atheist! Devil that you are!
Voices.
Kill him, ay, kill him!
Tannhäuser.
Crucify him, say!
[Tannhäuser extends his arms as on a cross.
Landgrave.
Blaspheme not! Dare not to insult the sign
Of our Redemption! Gentlemen and peers,
What say you? shall he live to boast himself,