Sickingen: I thank you, and I thank you, Marie, who will lead me to happiness.
Goetz: A pleasant journey! Lerse will show you the way.
Marie: That is not what we meant. We shall not leave you.
Goetz: You must, sister! (To Sickingen) You understand? Talk to Marie; she is your wife. Take her to safety, and then think of me.
[Exeunt Lerse, Sickingen and Marie. Enter George.
George: They approach from all sides. I saw their pikes glitter from the tower.
Goetz: Have the gate barricaded with beams and stones.
[Exit George. A trumpeter is dimly heard from the distance, requesting Goetz to surrender unconditionally.
Goetz refuses angrily, and slams the window. Enter Lerse.