TELL.
Friend, let me go.

FRIESS.
Away, away to prison!

WALT.
Father to prison. Help!

[Calling to the side scene.]

This way, you men!
Good people, help! They're dragging him to prison!

[Rosselmann the priest and the Sacristan, with three other men, enter.]

SACRIS.
What's here amiss?

ROSSEL.
Why do you seize this man?

FRIESS.
He is an enemy of the King—a traitor.

TELL. (seizing him with violence).
A traitor, I!