LEUTNER.
Why, nothing but the natural should ever be presented on the stage! The prince should speak an altogether unknown language and have an interpreter with him; the princess should make grammatical errors, since she herself admits that she writes incorrectly.
MÜLLER.
Of course! Of course! The whole thing is unquestionable nonsense; the author himself is always forgetting what he has said the moment before.
The scene is laid in front of a tavern.
LORENZ, KUNZ, MICHEL are sitting on a bench. The HOST
LORENZ.
I shall have to be going again soon! I still have a long way home.
HOST.
You are a subject of the king, aren't you?