Sanctuary! sanctuary! sanctuary!
Rejoice, O people!
Hail to the good bell-ringer!
Oh, destiny!
The criminal
Belongs to heaven!
The scaffold falls!
The eternal God
Instead of a tomb
Discloses the altar!
Executioners, back!
King's officers, back!
This barrier
Limits your power.
Thou hast changed
Everything here.
The angels claim her;
She belongs to God!
CLAUDE FROLLO (commanding silence by a gesture).
She is not saved! She is a gypsy!
Notre Dame can save none but Christians!
Pagans are proscribed even when clasping the altar!
[To the King's men.] In the name of my lord the Archbishop of Paris,
I give you back this sinful woman!
QUASIMODO (to the archers).
I will defend her! I swear it.
Approach us not!
CLAUDE FROLLO (to the archers).
Do you hesitate?
Obey me, on the instant!
Tear the gypsy from this holy place.
[The archers advance. Quasimodo places himself between them and Esmeralda.
QUASIMODO.