strangers?

_Iden._ Please you, my good Lord,
One says he is no stranger.

_Wer._ (_aloud and hastily_). _Who_ says that?
[_They look at him with surprise_.

_Iden._ Why, no one spoke _of you_, or _to you_!--but
Here's one his Excellency may be pleased
To recognise. [_Pointing to_ GABOR.

_Gab._ I seek not to disturb
His noble memory.

_Stral._ I apprehend
This is one of the strangers to whose aid[cp]
I owe my rescue. Is not that the other?
[_Pointing to_ WERNER.
My state when I was succoured must excuse 470
My uncertainty to whom I owe so much.

_Iden._ He!--no, my Lord! he rather wants for rescue
Than can afford it. 'Tis a poor sick man,
Travel-tired, and lately risen from a bed
From whence he never dreamed to rise.

_Stral._ Methought
That there were two.

_Gab._ There were, in company;
But, in the service rendered to your Lordship,
I needs must say but _one_, and he is absent.
The chief part of whatever aid was rendered
Was _his_: it was his fortune to be first. 480
My will was not inferior, but his strength
And youth outstripped me; therefore do not waste
Your thanks on me. I was but a glad second
Unto a nobler principal.

_Stral._ Where is he?

_An Atten._ My Lord, he tarried in the cottage where
Your Excellency rested for an hour,
And said he would be here to-morrow.

_Stral._ Till
That hour arrives, I can but offer thanks,
And then----

_Gab._ I seek no more, and scarce deserve
So much. My comrade may speak for himself. 490

_Stral._ (_fixing his eyes upon_ WERNER: _then aside_).
It cannot be! and yet he must be looked to.
'Tis twenty years since I beheld him with
These eyes; and, though my agents still have kept
_Theirs_ on him, policy has held aloof
My own from his, not to alarm him into
Suspicion of my plan. Why did I leave
At Hamburgh those who would have made assurance
If this be he or no? I thought, ere now,
To have been lord of Siegendorf, and parted
In haste, though even