Well devised, you cunning peasants!

While below there on the Danube

The proud eagle of the emperor

Lets the Turks feel his sharp talons,

You think that it will be easy,

On the Rhine to pluck his feathers!

Look out well that this your reckoning

Won't deceive you; and I swear here,

The old Baron will not fail to

Greet you with a warm reception."