you shall do, if there be judge or judgment
In Germany. The Baron shall decide!

_Gab._ Does _he_ abet you in your accusation?

_Iden._ Does he not?

_Gab._ Then next time let him go sink
Ere I go hang for snatching him from drowning.
But here he comes!

_Enter_ STRALENHEIM.

_Gab._ (_goes up to him_). My noble Lord, I'm here! 200

_Stral._ Well, sir!

_Gab._ Have you aught with me?

_Stral._ What should I
Have with you?

_Gab._ You know best, if yesterday's
Flood has not washed away your memory;
But that's a trifle. I stand here accused,
In phrases not equivocal, by yon
Intendant, of the pillage of your person
Or chamber:--is the charge your own or his?

_Stral._ I accuse no man.

_Gab._ Then you acquit me, Baron?

_Stral._ I know not whom to accuse, or to acquit,
Or scarcely to suspect.

_Gab._ But you at least 210
Should know whom _not_ to suspect. I am insulted--
Oppressed here by these menials, and I look
To you for remedy--teach them their duty!
To look for thieves at home were part of it,
If duly taught; but, in one word, if I
Have an accuser, let it be a man
Worthy to be so of a man like me.
I am your equal.

_Stral._ You!

_Gab._ Aye, sir; and, for
Aught that you know, superior; but proceed--
I do not ask for hints, and surmises, 220
And circumstance, and proof: I know enough
Of what I have done for you, and what you owe me,
To have at least waited your payment rather
Than paid myself, had I been eager of
Your gold. I also know, that were I even
The villain I am deemed, the service rendered
So recently would not permit you to
Pursue me to the death, except through shame,
Such as would leave your scutcheon but a blank.
But this is nothing: I demand of you 230
Justice upon your unjust servants, and
From your own lips a disavowal of
All sanction of their insolence: thus much
You owe to the unknown, who asks no more,
And never thought to have asked so much.

_Stral._ This tone
May be of innocence.

_G