MELCH.
Why let him come, with all his armaments!
The foe's expelled that press'd us from within;
The foe without we are prepared to meet?
RUODI.
The passes to our Cantons are but few;
These with our bodies we will block, we will!
BAUM.
Knit are we by a league will ne'er be rent,
And all his armies shall not make us quail.
[Enter RÖSSELMANN and STAUFFACHER.]
RÖSSELMANN (speaking as he enters).
These are the awful judgments of the Lord!