What is the clock now? HOHENZOLLERN.

The name has slipped from me since I awoke, And goes for little in the story. HOHENZOLLERN.

HOHENZOLLERN.

DÖRFLING, the PRINCE OF HOMBURG with the glove in his collar, COUNT HOHENZOLLERN, COUNT TRUCHSZ, COLONEL HENNINGS, TROOP-CAPTAIN VON DER GOLZ and several other generals, colonels and minor officers.

The Prince of Homburg Where is the Prince of Homburg? HOHENZOLLERN (in a whisper).

Did you not see? HOHENZOLLERN.

About the trumpets? HOHENZOLLERN (aside, with emphatic indignation).

SCENE I COLONEL KOTTWITZ, COUNT HOHENZOLLERN, CAPTAIN VON DER GOLZ and other officers enter at the head of the cavalry.

Dismount! HOHENZOLLERN AND GOLZ (entering).

Hey, friends, who'll help me off my horse? HOHENZOLLERN AND GOLZ.

He fell? HOHENZOLLERN (turning).

Orders? HOHENZOLLERN.

I? HOHENZOLLERN.

Were the Mark's armies beaten then? HOHENZOLLERN (with a stamp of his foot).

Soso, so, so! HOHENZOLLERN (turning away from him).

COUNT HOHENZOLLERN enters.

No. HOHENZOLLERN.

Never! HOHENZOLLERN.

] HOHENZOLLERN (as he assists him) Adroitly used, this step may spell salvation.

SCENE I The ELECTOR, scantily clad, enters from the adjoining chamber, followed by COUNT TRUCHSZ, COUNT HOHENZOLLERN, and CAPTAIN VON DER GOLZ.

SCENE V COLONEL KOTTWITZ and COLONEL HENNINGS, COUNT TRUCHSZ, COUNTS HOHENZOLLERN and SPARREN, COUNT REUSS, CAPTAIN VON DER GOLZ, STRANZ and other officers enter.

Yourself, my liege; I say it, Hohenzollern. ELECTOR.

It was the Princess' glove? HOHENZOLLERN.

Eh? Is that the logic? HOHENZOLLERN.

The joy has killed him! HOHENZOLLERN (raising him).