SIEGFRIED.
And has he tried?
HAGEN.
Why else should I complain?
In full sight of the castle! She at first
Resisted him, as it befits a maid,
And as our mothers may have done of old;
But when she saw that but the lightest touch
Sufficed to drive the ardent wooer forth,
She grew enraged, and, when he tarried still,
She seized and held him with her outstretched arm
Above the Rhine. A shame it was to him,
A shame to all of us.
SIEGFRIED.
She is a witch!
HAGEN.
Chide not, but help!
SIEGFRIED.
I think that if the priest
But married them—