Thrice Welcome Songtext - Howard Shore

Thrice Welcome - Howard Shore

The House of WALTER FURST.

WALTER FURST and ARNOLD

VON MELCHTHAL enter simultaneously at different sides.


MELCHTHAL.

Good Walter Furst.


FURST.

If we should be surprised!

Stay where you are. We are beset with spies.


MELCHTHAL.

Have you no news for me from Unterwald?

What of my father? 'Tis not to be borne,

Thus to be pent up like a felon here!

What have I done of such a heinous stamp,

To skulk and hide me like a murderer?

I only laid my staff across the fingers

Of the pert varlet, when before my eyes,

By order of the governor, he tried

To drive away my handsome team of oxen.


FURST.

You are too rash by far. He did no more

Than what the governor had ordered him.

You had transgressed, and therefore should have paid

The penalty, however hard, in silence.


MELCHTHAL.

Was I to brook the fellow's saucy words?

"That if the peasant must have bread to eat;

Why, let him go and draw the plough himself!"

It cut me to the very soul to see

My oxen, noble creatures, when the knave

Unyoked them from the plough. As though they felt

The wrong, they lowed and butted with their horns.

On this I could contain myself no longer,

And, overcome by passion, struck him down.


FURST.

Oh, we old men can scarce command ourselves!

And can we wonder youth shall break its bounds?


MELCHTHAL.

I'm only sorry for my father's sake!

To be away from him, that needs so much

My fostering care! The governor detests him,

Because he hath, whene'er occasion served,

Stood stoutly up for right and liberty.

Therefore they'll bear him hard


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