TannhAuser
{aside).
Let me try the truth
For certitude of incredulity
!
{Aloud, laughing)
I was in Venusberg!
All {except Heinrich, zvho
lai(ghs).
Save us, Maria !
[ They look about them fearfully and cross themselves.
Landgrave.
Even in jest, such words I— Most dangerous
Even to think of! — but to speak !
Heinrich
{aside).
These fools !
\^He remains, thoughtfully
regarding
Tannhixuser.
Landgrave.
God avert omens
!
Soft you,
Tannhauser,
You heard the heralds ?
Tannhauser.
Never
a word of them
!
Landgrave.
You must remember my Elizabeth,
My daughter — I designed to marry her
To a most noble youth —
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