Help, help, I say, the servants of the law!
FÜRST.
The Viceroy here! Then we shall smart for this!
[Enter GESSLER on horseback, with a falcon on his wrist: RUDOLPH DER HARRAS, BERTHA, and RUDENZ, and a numerous train of armed attendants, who form a circle of lances round the whole stage.]
HARRAS.
Room for the Viceroy!
GESSLER.
Drive the clowns apart.
Why throng the people thus? Who calls for help?
[General silence.]
[Illustration: TELL AND GESSLER As performed at the Royal
Theatre, Dresden, 1906.]