SECOND LAWYER. Your Honor, in order to grasp the jurist's meaning correctly, one must compare one article with another. Is it not written in the very next paragraph: Quodsi vis fluminis de tuo praedio—?
HERMAN. Here, let me go, you pettifoggers! Don't you hear me say I must go to the City Hall?
FIRST LAWYER. Oh, your Honor! A moment! Let us now hear what Hugo
Grotius says.
HERMAN. To the devil with both you and Hugo Grotius! What have I to do with Hugo Grotius? He was an Arminian. What in the devil have laws to do with us that people make way off in Armenia? Henrich, put them straight out the door. [Exeunt Lawyers.
SCENE 3
(Henrich remains in the entry squabbling with some one, then shoots in headfirst, followed by a man dressed up as a woman.)
WOMAN (taking the Burgomaster by the lapels of his and screaming). Oh, what kind of a government is this that passes such damnable laws that a man may have two wives? Do you think that the judgment of God isn't on you?
HERMAN. Are you mad, woman? Who the devil ever thought of such a thing?
WOMAN. Hey, hey, hey! I shall not go away until I have your heart's blood!
HERMAN. A—ah, help! Henrich! Peiter!