heap more obligations on me, till
I bow beneath them.

_Ulr._ You shall say so when
I claim the payment.

_Stral._ Well, sir, since you will not--
You are nobly born?

_Ulr._ I have heard my kinsmen say so.

_Stral._ Your actions show it. Might I ask your name?

_Ulr._ Ulric.

_Stral._ Your house's?

_Ulr._ When I'm worthy of it, 190
I'll answer you.

_Stral._ (_aside_). Most probably an Austrian,
Whom these unsettled times forbid to boast
His lineage on these wild and dangerous frontiers,
Where the name of his country is abhorred.
[_Aloud to_ FRITZ _and_ IDENSTEIN.
So, sirs! how have ye sped in your researches?

_Iden._ Indifferent well, your Excellency.

_Stral._ Then
I am to deem the plunderer is caught?

_Iden._ Humph!--not exactly.

_Stral._ Or, at least, suspected?

_Iden._ Oh! for that matter, very much suspected.

_Stral._ Who may he be?

_Iden._ Why, don't _you_ know, my Lord? 200

_Stral._ How should I? I was fast asleep.

_Iden._ And so
Was I--and that's the cause I know no more
Than does your Excellency.

_Stral._ Dolt!

_Iden._ Why, if
Your Lordship, being robbed, don't recognise
The rogue; how should I, not being robbed, identify
The thief among so many? In the crowd,
May it please your Excellency, your thief looks
Exactly like the rest, or rather better:
'Tis only at the bar and in the dungeon,
That wise men know your felon by his features; 210
But I'll engage, that if seen there but once,
Whether he be found criminal or no,
His face shall be so.

_Stral._ (_to_ FRITZ). Prithee, Fritz, inform me
What hath been done to trace the fellow?

_Fritz_. Faith!
My Lord, not much as yet, except conjecture.

_Stral._ Besides the loss (which, I must own, affects me
Just now materially), I needs would find
The villain out of public motives; for
So dexterous a spoiler, who could creep
Through my attendants, and so many peopled 220
And light