Was he stopped in his sage counsels:
"Turn him out, this old fool Balthes!
May God damn him! He is faithless;
He's a traitor to his country!"
Thus they howled out, stones were flying,
Spears were threatening, and his friends could
Hardly get him off in safety.
"To be short, what use of speaking?"
Fridli said, of Bergalingen.
"Who are faithful to our old rights