Act Five

Buttler’s Room Scene One Buttler. Major Geraldin. BUTTLER. You’ll choose twelve stout Dragoons, whom you’ll equipWith pikes—no shot may fall—conceal them nearThe banquet hall, and when the final courseHas been brought in, you burst into the room, [3090]Crying: Who is the Kaiser’s friend? I shallUpend the table, while you throw yourselvesOn both of them and strike them down. I’ll haveThe castle locked up tight and closely guarded,So that no word of this can reach the Prince.Go now. Have you se.