All steel and gold! I hear the people say
That in the ranks of those who fought and bled,
No braver soldier lives!
Bar. (maliciously).Alas, poor Gottfried!
Bess. Poor Gottfried! To have gained such poverty
I’d given ten years—ay, though it made me thirty!
Bar. Fool! He is head and ears in love with Gretchen!
There’s but a bitter time in store for him.
Bess. Ah, ’tis a sorry thing this love!
Aga.For that,