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This ring to more than Stralenheim has lost
By his last night's slumber. Be not over timid
In your address, nor yet too arrogant,
And Idenstein will serve you.

_Wer._ I will follow
In all things your direction.

_Ulr._ I would have
Spared you the trouble; but had I appeared
To take an interest in you, and still more
By dabbling with a jewel in your favour,
All had been known at once.

_Wer._ My guardian angel!
This overpays the past. But how wilt thou 220
Fare in our absence?

_Ulr._ Stralenheim knows nothing
Of me as aught of kindred with yourself.
I will but wait a day or two with him
To lull all doubts, and then rejoin my father.

_Wer._ To part no more!

_Ulr._ I know not that; but at
The least we'll meet again once more.

_Wer._ My boy!
My friend! my only child, and sole preserver!
Oh, do not hate me!

_Ulr._ Hate my father!

_Wer._ Aye,
My father hated me. Why not my son?

_Ulr._ Your father knew you not as I do.

_Wer._ Scorpions 230
Are in thy words! Thou know me? in this guise
Thou canst not know me, I am not myself;
Yet (hate me not) I will be soon.

_Ulr._ I'll _wait!_
In the mean time be sure that all a son
Can do for parents shall be done for mine.

_Wer._ I see it, and I feel it; yet I feel
Further--that you despise me.

_Ulr._ Wherefore should I?

_Wer._ Must I repeat my humiliation?

_Ulr._ No!
I have fathomed it and you. But let us talk
Of this no more. Or, if it must be ever, 240
Not _now_. Your error has redoubled all
The present difficulties of our house
At secret war with that of Stralenheim:
All we have now to think of is to baffle
HIM. I have shown _one_ way.

_Wer._ The only one,
And I embrace it, as I did my son,
Who showed _himself_ and father's _safety_ in
One day.

_Ulr._ You _shall_ be safe; let that suffice.
Would Stralenheim's appearance in Bohemia
Disturb your right, or min