Yes, my dear children, hearing and sight
in this great pleasure will disappear quite!
Hänsel.
Eh? both my hearing and seeing are good!
You'd better take care you do me no harm!
(Resolutely.)
Gretel, trust not her flattering words,
come, sister, come, let's run away!
(He has in the meantime got out of the rope, and runs with Gretel to the foreground. Here they are stopped by the Witch, who imperiously raises against them both a stick which hangs at her girdle, with repeated gestures of spellbinding.)
The Witch.