Anhalt [to the Wife].
Do you take it.
Wife.
I always obey my paſtor. [taking it].
Agatha.
Good bye. [ſhaking hands with the Cottagers.] For your hoſpitality to me, may ye enjoy continued happineſs.
Cottager.
Fare you well—fare you well.
Wife.
If you find friends and get health, we won’t trouble you to call on us again: but if you ſhould fall ſick or be in poverty, we ſhall take it very unkind if we don’t ſee you.
[Exeunt Agatha and Anhalt on one ſide, Cottager and his Wife on the other].
SCENE II. A room in the Caſtle.
Baron ſitting upon a ſopha.—Frederick ſtanding near him, with one hand preſſed between his—the Baron riſes.
Baron.
Been in battle too!—I am glad to hear it. You have known hard ſervices, but now they are over, and joy and happineſs will ſucceed.—The reproach of your birth ſhall be removed, for I will acknowledge you my ſon, and heir to my eſtate.
Frederick.
And my mother——
Baron.
She ſhall live in peace and affluence. Do you think I would leave your mother unprovided, unprotected? No! About a mile from this caſtle I have an eſtate called Weldendorf there ſie ſhall live, and call her own whatever it pro-
