Why did they not, at least, attempt the passage?
I ordered this at all risks.
Gab.Could you order
The Oder to divide, as Moses did
The Red Sea (scarcely redder than the flood
Of the swoln stream), and be obeyed, perhaps320
They might have ventured.
Stral.I must see to it:
The knaves! the slaves!—but they shall smart for this.
[Exit Stralenheim.