'Tis those false messengers.
And Dankwart drives them forth. He does it well.
Lovers will hear it even while they kiss.
SCENE X
Enter SIEGFRIED; as HAGEN notices hint.
HAGEN.
By all the fiends of hell! No! ten times no!
It were disgrace for us, and Siegfried thinks
Assuredly as I do. Here he comes!
Now speak, thou may'st decide it.—
(As DANKWART enters.)
Though thy word
Can alter nothing more. The answer's gone.
(To DANKWART.)
Thou surely hast not spared to scourge them well
(To SIEGFRIED.)