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Peer.
[Smiling.]
H'm; doing? Eh?
All Four.
[Coming closer.]
Yes, let us hear!
Peer.
Well, first of all, I want to travel.
You see, that's why I shipped you four,
To keep me company, at Gibraltar.
I needed such a dancing-choir
Of friends around my gold-calf-altar
Von Eberkopf.
Most witty!
Mr. Cotton.
Well, but no one hoists
His sails for nothing but the sailing.
Beyond all doubt, you have a goal;
And that is?
Peer.
To be Emperor.[1]
All Four.
What?
Peer.
[Nodding.]
Emperor!
The Four.
Where?
- ↑ In the original "kejser." We have elsewhere used the
word "Kaiser," but in this scene, and in Scenes 7 and 8 of this
act, the ordinary English form seemed preferable.
