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,