ENGELBRECHT. Well—it happens to be Engelbrecht!
KING. Eng-el-brecht?
ENGELBRECHT. It sounds mighty big, but I am not of that family.—You see, it was like this—once upon a time the King—who was no king at all then—oh, mercy, but I am drunk!... Well, it was me who followed you on skis to the border of Norway, and that time you gave me this here dagger and said: "If you ever need me, come on!" Now I've come, and here I am! And I wish only that I was not so frightfully drunk!
KING. And what do you want?
ENGELBRECHT. What I want?—I want to fight that man Dacke, of course, and that's what the rest of them want, too.
KING. You want to fight Dacke?
ENGELBRECHT. Why do you think we have come, anyhow?
KING. [Raising his arms toward heaven] Eternal God, now you have punished me!
ENGELBRECHT. Is it all right? You see, the rest are down there and they'd like to do something to celebrate the day.
KING. Is it all right?—Ask me for a favour!