OLD URSULA
The bell, the bell! the church bell! They're bewitched!
[Peter rushes to the bell-rope and pulls it. The bell sounds heavily. Reenter, from the church, the citizens by twos and threes and scores.
OLD URSULA
I told ye all,—I told ye!—Devils' bargains!
[The bell]
[KURT, JACOBUS, and the others appear.]
KURT
Peter the Sacristan! Give by the bell.
What means this clangor?
PETER the Sacristan
They're bewitched! bewitched!
[Still pulling and shouting.]
URSULA
They're gone!
KURT
Thy wits!
OLD CLAUS
They're gone—they're gone—they're gone!
PETER the Sacristan
The children!
URSULA
—With the Piper! They're bewitched!
I told ye so.