WIFE. [To MASTER STIG as she leaves the room by the door at the right] Pray for us!
MASTER OLAVUS and HERMAN ISRAEL enter.
MONS. Who is doing me the honour?
OLAVUS. I am the acting secretary of his Highness, the King. And this is the venerable representative of the free city of Luebeck.
MONS. Come in, my good sirs, and—let us hear the news!
OLAVUS. The King is here and has pitched his camp on Falu Flat. Personally he has taken his abode at the Gildhall of Saint Jorghen.
MONS. What is the errand that has made the King cross Långhed Forest and Brunbeck Ford without permission and safe-conduct?[3]
OLAVUS. He hasn't told.
MONS. Then I had better go and ask him.
OLAVUS. With your leave, this is the message our gracious lord, the King, sends you through us: "Greetings to the goodly miners of the Copperberg, and let every man stay in his own house." If he desires speech with any one, that one will be called.