WEBVTT 00:00:33.006 --> 00:00:37.953 The Broken Pitcher 00:00:38.026 --> 00:00:43.009 By Heinrich von Kleist. Translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan. 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:40.072 Courtroom. Adam, village judge. 00:10:06.130 --> 00:10:09.852 Well, what the devil, tell me now, friend Adam? Whatever's happened to you? 00:10:09.877 --> 00:10:11.053 How you look! 00:10:11.145 --> 00:10:15.461 O well, to stumble all you need is feet. 00:10:15.810 --> 00:10:17.842 On this smooth floor, 00:10:17.983 --> 00:10:20.058 I ask you, where's a stump? 00:10:20.082 --> 00:10:21.621 And yet I stumbled here; 00:10:21.874 --> 00:10:26.084 For each man has The wretched stumbling block within himself. 00:10:26.210 --> 00:10:28.201 What's that you say? That each one has his block? 00:10:28.423 --> 00:10:30.561 Yes, in himself. 00:10:32.101 --> 00:10:36.740 Your name is that of a flighty ancestor, Who fell right at the very start of things, 00:10:37.160 --> 00:10:43.281 And whom that selfsame fall has given his fame; 00:10:43.375 --> 00:10:45.189 You're surely not? 00:10:46.072 --> 00:10:46.665 Well? 00:10:46.765 --> 00:10:48.079 Likewise? 00:10:48.390 --> 00:10:49.525 I? 00:10:50.416 --> 00:10:51.077 I think so! 00:10:51.629 --> 00:10:54.116 Right here it was I took a fall, I tell you. 00:10:54.236 --> 00:10:56.227 No figurative fall? 00:10:57.077 --> 00:10:59.682 Not figurative. 00:11:00.289 --> 00:11:02.635 I guess 'twas no fair figure that I cut. 00:11:02.749 --> 00:11:04.969 And when did all this happening come to pass? 00:11:05.177 --> 00:11:08.378 Right now, this moment; I was getting up from bed. 00:11:08.452 --> 00:11:10.898 I had the dawn song on my lips, 00:11:10.978 --> 00:11:13.845 When, crash! I stumbled right into the dawn, 00:11:13.912 --> 00:11:16.592 And I'd not yet begun my daily course 00:11:16.852 --> 00:11:20.039 Before God made me dislocate my foot. 00:11:20.119 --> 00:11:22.761 No doubt it was the left, to boot? 00:11:23.530 --> 00:11:24.272 The left one? 00:11:24.337 --> 00:11:26.726 That finds as it is the way of sin so hard? 00:11:27.869 --> 00:11:30.926 The foot, heavy? 00:11:30.950 --> 00:11:31.705 Why? 00:11:32.015 --> 00:11:33.551 The clubfoot? 00:11:33.996 --> 00:11:34.495 Clubfoot! 00:11:35.190 --> 00:11:37.517 One foot is just as clubby as another. 00:11:37.542 --> 00:11:40.142 Not so, my friend! You do your right a wrong. 00:11:40.167 --> 00:11:45.387 The right one cannot boast of such a - weight, And it might sooner try the slippery. 00:11:45.616 --> 00:11:48.608 Bosh! Where one foot ventures out, the other follows. 00:11:49.622 --> 00:11:52.589 And what has given your face such a defacement? 00:11:52.802 --> 00:11:55.242 My face, you say? 00:11:55.428 --> 00:11:56.921 What, you've not faced that yet? 00:11:57.290 --> 00:11:59.865 Unless I'm lying, no - how does it look? 00:11:59.896 --> 00:12:01.523 - What, how it looks? - Yes, friend. 00:12:01.610 --> 00:12:02.670 Why, horrible. 00:12:02.695 --> 00:12:04.823 Explain yourself more plainly. 00:12:04.941 --> 00:12:06.828 Well, it's flayed. 00:12:07.048 --> 00:12:07.941 It's flayed? 00:12:08.009 --> 00:12:09.921 A gruesome sight. 00:12:10.195 --> 00:12:11.782 A piece out of your cheek, 00:12:11.849 --> 00:12:12.689 Out of my cheek? 00:12:12.736 --> 00:12:15.081 How big? I cannot judge without the scales. 00:12:15.535 --> 00:12:18.793 Here, look! Convince yourself. 00:12:23.880 --> 00:12:25.811 Hm! Yes! That's so. 00:12:28.157 --> 00:12:30.201 It doesn't look so nice. 00:12:31.871 --> 00:12:33.378 I see my nose has suffered. 00:12:33.418 --> 00:12:34.570 And your eye. 00:12:35.736 --> 00:12:36.799 Oh, not my eye, good friend. 00:12:36.854 --> 00:12:38.020 Why yes, here lies 00:12:38.060 --> 00:12:41.188 Crosswise a welt, bloodstained, God is my judge, 00:12:41.213 --> 00:12:43.562 A raging farmhand might have dealt the like. 00:12:43.690 --> 00:12:45.476 That's just the eyebone there. 00:12:46.791 --> 00:12:48.094 Well, think of that. 00:12:48.118 --> 00:12:50.951 And all that happened and I never knew it. 00:12:51.257 --> 00:12:54.197 Yes, sir! It's like that on the fighting line. 00:12:55.384 --> 00:12:56.807 What? Fighting! 00:12:57.676 --> 00:12:58.736 Yes. Yes! 00:12:59.163 --> 00:13:03.209 With that cursed billy goat Upon my stove I fought, 00:13:03.717 --> 00:13:05.561 I guess. That's it. 00:13:05.943 --> 00:13:09.025 When I had lost my balance, drunk with sleep, 00:13:09.496 --> 00:13:11.870 And, hands outstretched, was clawing at the air, 00:13:12.479 --> 00:13:18.103 I got hold of the trousers that last night I'd hung all wet to dry upon the stove. 00:13:18.136 --> 00:13:21.675 I caught at them, you see, fool that I was, And thought they'd hold me up, 00:13:22.208 --> 00:13:25.432 But now the belt gave way, and belt and I and trousers fell, 00:13:25.493 --> 00:13:29.692 And head first with my forehead down I crashed upon the stove, 00:13:29.939 --> 00:13:33.140 Just where that billy goat sticks out His nose right on the corner there. 00:13:33.356 --> 00:13:37.731 The firstest fall of Adam You ever took in falling out of bed. 00:14:08.041 --> 00:14:08.861 Yes... 00:14:10.476 --> 00:14:12.172 What I wanted to say... 00:14:15.316 --> 00:14:16.956 But by the way, what is the news? 00:14:17.049 --> 00:14:19.540 Oh yes, there's news, all right! 00:14:19.564 --> 00:14:21.849 May I be hanged, I almost had forgot it. 00:14:22.282 --> 00:14:22.966 Well? 00:14:23.266 --> 00:14:26.133 Make ready for an unexpected visit From Utrecht. 00:14:26.555 --> 00:14:27.215 Oh? 00:14:27.588 --> 00:14:29.762 The circuit judge is coming. 00:14:30.601 --> 00:14:31.541 Who's coming? 00:14:31.601 --> 00:14:33.894 Justice Walter, district judge, from Utrecht. 00:14:34.207 --> 00:14:37.950 He's out inspecting all the district courts, And here he will arrive today. 00:14:38.937 --> 00:14:41.213 Today? Have you your wits? 00:14:41.390 --> 00:14:42.918 As true as I live. 00:14:42.943 --> 00:14:46.625 He was in Holla yesterday, reviewed The court of justice in that border town. 00:14:47.010 --> 00:14:51.016 A peasant saw the horses being hitched To bring his carriage on to Huysum here. 00:14:51.297 --> 00:14:54.815 Today, from Utrecht, he, the district judge? 00:14:55.548 --> 00:14:59.105 Inspecting, eh? The worthy man, who fleeces His lambs aright and hates such fooleries. 00:14:59.130 --> 00:15:01.524 He comes to Huysum just to harry us! 00:15:01.711 --> 00:15:04.823 If he reached Holla, he'll reach Huysum too. You'd best beware. 00:15:04.903 --> 00:15:05.747 Go on! 00:15:05.823 --> 00:15:06.637 I'm telling you. 00:15:06.709 --> 00:15:08.505 Go on there with your fairy tales, I say. 00:15:08.530 --> 00:15:10.505 The peasant says he saw him, what the devil. 00:15:10.536 --> 00:15:13.279 Who knows who 'twas that blear-eyed scoundrel saw. 00:15:13.893 --> 00:15:18.142 Those fellows can't distinguish back from front; A skull's a face to them, 00:15:19.564 --> 00:15:21.104 Just so it's bald. 00:15:21.174 --> 00:15:25.945 Well, go on doubting, in the devil's name, Till he comes in that door. 00:15:26.152 --> 00:15:27.621 What, he, and enter! - 00:15:27.645 --> 00:15:30.045 Without his having breathed a hint to us. 00:15:30.778 --> 00:15:32.531 What foolishness! 00:15:32.782 --> 00:15:36.062 As if 'twas still the same Inspector as before, Judge Juniper! 00:15:36.475 --> 00:15:38.888 It's Walter now who will inspect our court. 00:15:39.449 --> 00:15:41.569 Well, I assure you, yesterday Judge Walter Appeared in Holla wholly unexpected, 00:15:41.802 --> 00:15:43.943 Inspected cashbox and the records kept, 00:15:44.037 --> 00:15:46.943 And then suspended both the judge and clerk; 00:15:47.384 --> 00:15:49.013 Why? I don't know, 00:15:49.541 --> 00:15:50.825 but they are out of office. 00:15:52.097 --> 00:15:53.587 Well, I'll be damned! 00:15:54.503 --> 00:15:56.331 Was that the peasant's tale? 00:15:56.356 --> 00:15:57.309 That and some more. 00:15:57.362 --> 00:15:57.936 Eh? 00:15:58.549 --> 00:15:59.743 If you want to know. 00:16:00.521 --> 00:16:02.862 For on this very day they seek the judge, 00:16:03.161 --> 00:16:04.955 Who's held as prisoner in his own house, 00:16:04.988 --> 00:16:09.409 And find him in the granary behind Strung up there from a rafter of the roof. 00:16:11.662 --> 00:16:12.476 What do you say? 00:16:12.589 --> 00:16:16.644 Meanwhile some help is brought, They cut him down, they rub him and they drench him, 00:16:16.753 --> 00:16:18.573 And barely into life they bring him back. 00:16:19.278 --> 00:16:20.921 They bring him back, eh? 00:16:21.170 --> 00:16:24.730 Now his house is sealed, With depositions sworn and things locked up, 00:16:25.157 --> 00:16:27.595 As if he was a corpse before his time, 00:16:28.719 --> 00:16:31.046 And now his judgeship is inherited. 00:16:31.893 --> 00:16:33.441 Well, damn my eyes! 00:16:34.153 --> 00:16:36.429 He was a low-lived cur! 00:16:39.382 --> 00:16:43.767 Yet honest, for the rest, upon my life; A chap with whom one could have pleasant hours; 00:16:43.899 --> 00:16:46.761 But cursed low-lived, yes, I must admit. 00:16:47.542 --> 00:16:52.955 And if today Judge Walter was in Holla, Poor chap, he got it roundly, never fear. 00:16:53.276 --> 00:16:55.508 And only this affair, the peasant said, 00:16:55.532 --> 00:16:57.732 Has kept the judge till now from reaching us; 00:16:58.529 --> 00:17:00.992 But without fail by noon he would be here. 00:17:02.643 --> 00:17:03.633 At noon! 00:17:06.908 --> 00:17:10.665 Good, partner! Now your friendship tells. 00:17:11.125 --> 00:17:13.744 You know just how two hands can wash each other. 00:17:13.838 --> 00:17:16.877 I know you'd like well to be village judge, 00:17:17.824 --> 00:17:19.886 And you deserve it, too, as well as any. 00:17:20.216 --> 00:17:22.368 But this is not your opportunity, 00:17:22.393 --> 00:17:25.326 Today I think you'll let that cup pass by. 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:29.252 I, village judge! What must you think of me! 00:17:29.419 --> 00:17:31.412 We two good comrades! 00:17:31.436 --> 00:17:33.849 Get along with you. 00:17:34.416 --> 00:17:36.195 Well then, come on, good friend, 00:17:36.219 --> 00:17:38.030 And follow me into the registry; 00:17:38.064 --> 00:17:42.197 I'll stack the documents a bit, for they, They lie there like the fallen tower of Babel. 00:17:45.163 --> 00:17:46.676 God save you, Judge! 00:17:47.260 --> 00:17:47.993 Yes? 00:17:48.520 --> 00:17:49.360 What is it? 00:17:49.461 --> 00:17:50.954 Inspector Justice Walter 00:17:50.979 --> 00:17:53.413 Sends his respects and says he'll soon be here. 00:17:53.848 --> 00:17:54.928 Well, righteous heavens! 00:17:57.041 --> 00:17:59.031 Is he done with Holla So early? 00:17:59.191 --> 00:18:01.054 Yes, he's here in Huysum now. 00:18:01.161 --> 00:18:02.661 He's here in Huysum now? 00:18:04.142 --> 00:18:06.042 Hi! Lisa! Greta! 00:18:06.129 --> 00:18:07.619 Quiet there, be calm. 00:18:07.896 --> 00:18:08.484 I beg you! 00:18:08.509 --> 00:18:09.874 Send him back respectful thanks. 00:18:10.223 --> 00:18:12.526 Tomorrow we continue on to Huzzah. 00:18:13.644 --> 00:18:15.350 Tomorrow we continue on to Huzzah? 00:18:16.358 --> 00:18:19.382 Tomorrow we continue on to Huzzah? 00:18:20.273 --> 00:18:23.197 What shall I do? What shun? 00:18:23.582 --> 00:18:25.617 Put on those trousers, will you? Are you mad? 00:18:25.642 --> 00:18:26.911 I'm here, sir. 00:18:26.936 --> 00:18:29.724 - Is that the District Judge? - No! Just the maid. 00:18:29.812 --> 00:18:34.092 My cuffs! My coat! My collar! 00:18:34.236 --> 00:18:35.882 First the vest! 00:18:35.987 --> 00:18:40.093 What? My vest? Coat off! Coat off! Coat off! 00:18:40.255 --> 00:18:42.268 My vest, my vest, my vest, my vest, my vest! 00:18:42.361 --> 00:18:44.661 My coat, my coat, my coat, my coat, my coat! Quick! 00:18:45.227 --> 00:18:47.469 The District Judge will be Most welcome here. 00:18:47.494 --> 00:18:50.020 We shall at once be ready To have him visit us. You tell him that. 00:18:50.088 --> 00:18:50.998 In the devil's name! 00:18:51.022 --> 00:18:53.080 Judge Adam begs to be excused. 00:18:53.275 --> 00:18:54.228 You say excused? 00:18:54.315 --> 00:18:56.010 I say excused. 00:18:56.321 --> 00:18:58.864 You see, it is a fright, the way I look; 00:18:58.888 --> 00:19:01.876 And every fright affects me like a purge. 00:19:02.420 --> 00:19:04.013 Say I am sick. 00:19:08.606 --> 00:19:09.980 Have you your wits about you? 00:19:11.290 --> 00:19:13.281 You tell the judge we shall be glad to see him. 00:19:14.970 --> 00:19:17.463 Hi, Margareta! Bag of bones! Hi Lisa! 00:19:17.488 --> 00:19:19.672 Why, here we are. What is it? 00:19:20.022 --> 00:19:26.738 Go, get out! Fetch cheese and ham, and sausage, Butter, beer, from out the registry! 00:19:26.792 --> 00:19:29.539 And make it quick! Not you. The other. 00:19:30.045 --> 00:19:35.007 Booby! I mean you! God's lightning, Margret! Lisa, you, the cowgirl, go, get it! 00:19:35.054 --> 00:19:36.936 Speak, if you'd be understood! 00:19:36.961 --> 00:19:39.623 Shut up now, you! Get out! Get me my wig! 00:19:39.743 --> 00:19:40.345 Where? 00:19:40.370 --> 00:19:42.361 March! From the bookcase. Lively! Go! 00:19:47.186 --> 00:19:48.719 I think this man is mad. 00:19:51.936 --> 00:19:53.927 Tell the District Judge he's welcome. 00:19:58.501 --> 00:20:01.162 Old fool, old fool. 00:20:03.976 --> 00:20:06.440 - You give yourself away. - How so? 00:20:06.883 --> 00:20:09.243 - You are embarrassed. - Me, embarrassed? 00:20:09.529 --> 00:20:10.414 Yes, embarrassed. 00:20:10.627 --> 00:20:13.896 Hey! Lisa! Lisa! What's that you've got? 00:20:13.935 --> 00:20:15.750 Why, Brunswick sausage, sir. 00:20:19.547 --> 00:20:21.255 No, that's my guardian stuff. 00:20:21.715 --> 00:20:24.635 They should be brought back to the registry. 00:20:24.725 --> 00:20:26.018 The sausage? 00:20:26.043 --> 00:20:29.229 Sausage! Bosh! These wrappers here. 00:20:29.569 --> 00:20:32.655 Not in the bookcase, sir. Your wig? 00:20:33.250 --> 00:20:34.203 Why not? 00:20:34.436 --> 00:20:39.620 Hm! Since you... Why, at eleven, last night... 00:20:39.645 --> 00:20:40.529 Well? Will you speak? 00:20:40.554 --> 00:20:43.547 You came, you know, Without your wig into the house, remember. 00:20:44.672 --> 00:20:47.672 What, I, without my wig? 00:20:47.770 --> 00:20:51.089 Indeed you did. And here is Liz, to testify the same. 00:20:51.222 --> 00:20:53.362 The other one's at Utrecht in the wig shop. 00:20:53.436 --> 00:20:54.015 You say?.. 00:20:54.040 --> 00:20:56.392 Yes, on my honor, sir, Judge Adam! 00:20:56.698 --> 00:20:58.831 You were bald-headed, sir, when you returned; 00:20:59.003 --> 00:21:01.102 You said that you had fallen, don't you know? 00:21:01.136 --> 00:21:03.676 I had to wash the blood stains off your head. 00:21:03.707 --> 00:21:07.413 - Impertinent thing! - As I'm an honest girl. 00:21:07.451 --> 00:21:11.438 Shut up, I say, there is no truth in it. 00:21:11.466 --> 00:21:13.401 What, yesterday you got that wound? 00:21:13.509 --> 00:21:18.214 Today. The wound today and yesterday the wig. 00:21:18.239 --> 00:21:21.978 I wore it, powdered white, upon my head, And with my hat I took it off, my word, 00:21:22.022 --> 00:21:25.424 By error when I stepped into the house. No telling what it was she may have washed. 00:21:25.449 --> 00:21:27.922 Go to the devil, that's where you belong! Go to the registry! 00:21:28.063 --> 00:21:32.062 You, Margret, go And ask the Verger if he'll lend me his; 00:21:32.089 --> 00:21:34.923 Tell him the cat, the dirty pig, had littered This morning in my wig. 00:21:34.954 --> 00:21:38.829 All filthied up It lay beneath my bed, I now recall. 00:21:38.854 --> 00:21:41.167 The cat? What say? Are you? 00:21:41.294 --> 00:21:42.921 True as I live. 00:21:43.447 --> 00:21:47.770 Five kittens, black and yellow; 00:21:47.794 --> 00:21:49.066 one is white. 00:21:49.453 --> 00:21:51.315 The black ones, I shall drown them in the river. 00:21:51.339 --> 00:21:53.070 What can one do? Would you like one to keep? 00:21:53.095 --> 00:21:56.148 - What, in your wig? - The devil take me else. 00:21:56.254 --> 00:21:58.840 For I had hung the wig, as usual, Upon a chair, 00:21:59.267 --> 00:22:01.652 When I got into bed, 00:22:01.676 --> 00:22:04.496 But in the night I hit the chair, it falls... 00:22:04.528 --> 00:22:06.756 The cat then takes it in her jaws... 00:22:06.782 --> 00:22:09.962 And bears it under the bed to bear her young. 00:22:10.950 --> 00:22:12.327 These wretched beasts! 00:22:12.351 --> 00:22:15.575 They copulate and litter where there's room. 00:22:16.561 --> 00:22:18.249 Curse my abdomen. 00:22:18.274 --> 00:22:20.361 Come, come now Greta. 00:22:27.815 --> 00:22:28.928 Then shall I go? 00:22:28.953 --> 00:22:32.193 Yes, do, and take my greeting To cousin Bombazine, the Verger's wife. 00:22:32.553 --> 00:22:36.619 I'll send the wig undamaged back to her This very day - to him you need say nothing. 00:22:36.813 --> 00:22:37.761 You understand? 00:22:37.786 --> 00:22:39.286 I'll carry out your wish. 00:22:42.596 --> 00:22:46.292 You'll replace my jug. If I can demonstrate my right, replace it. 00:22:46.317 --> 00:22:50.323 Why revile? If one of us it was that broke the jug, 00:22:50.370 --> 00:22:51.594 You shall be compensated. 00:22:51.619 --> 00:22:56.398 Me? Compensated? As if one of my horned beasts was talking. 00:22:56.630 --> 00:22:58.439 You mean justice is a potter? 00:22:58.464 --> 00:23:02.042 It's not the broken pitcher gets her sore, It is the wedding that's been broken up, 00:23:02.316 --> 00:23:04.145 And by main force she thinks it can be patched, 00:23:04.169 --> 00:23:06.028 I will be damned if ever I wed the slut. 00:23:06.053 --> 00:23:07.693 Conceited ass! I patch the wedding up! 00:23:07.786 --> 00:23:12.261 That wedding isn't worth the patching-wire, Not worth a single fragment of the jug. 00:23:12.292 --> 00:23:16.380 And if the wedding stood here all ashine, As yesterday my jug stood on the shelf, I'd take it by the handle even now. 00:23:16.405 --> 00:23:18.385 And yelling smash it on his silly head! 00:23:18.410 --> 00:23:21.402 Just you be quiet, Dame Martha! All that shall be settled here. 00:23:22.103 --> 00:23:23.130 - Ruprecht! - Go, you! 00:23:23.156 --> 00:23:24.778 - Dearest Ruprecht! - Out of my sight! 00:23:24.803 --> 00:23:29.210 - Oh listen, I implore you. - O dissolute! I won't say what you are. 00:23:29.336 --> 00:23:31.863 - O let me whisper just a word. - No, nothing! 00:23:32.776 --> 00:23:35.302 You're going to join your regiment now, Ruprecht: 00:23:35.356 --> 00:23:37.617 Who knows, when once you start to bear a musket, 00:23:37.642 --> 00:23:39.265 If ever again I'll see you in my life. 00:23:39.296 --> 00:23:43.263 It's war, remember, war to which you go: 00:23:43.449 --> 00:23:46.042 Will you then part from me with such a grudge? 00:23:47.250 --> 00:23:50.242 Grudge? No, may God forbid, that's not my will. 00:23:50.483 --> 00:23:53.727 God grant you so much happiness as He Can spare. 00:23:54.307 --> 00:23:57.047 But if I should return from war In health, and with a body strong as steel, 00:23:57.072 --> 00:24:00.001 And lived in Huysum to be eighty years, Then to my dying day I'd say: you slut! 00:24:00.027 --> 00:24:02.768 Away! Will you even Hear such abuse besides? 00:24:04.662 --> 00:24:06.761 That dragon! 00:24:09.246 --> 00:24:10.641 - Dear friend! - Yes? 00:24:10.930 --> 00:24:12.921 The plaintiffs are already at the door. 00:24:13.073 --> 00:24:15.441 My life is all askew today. And isn't this a court day? 00:24:15.579 --> 00:24:16.757 Yes, it is. 00:24:35.536 --> 00:24:37.788 I foresee nothing good at all, friend Light. 00:24:38.195 --> 00:24:39.171 Why that? 00:24:39.258 --> 00:24:44.956 I dreamt a plaintiff had laid hold of me And dragged me to the judge's seat; 00:24:45.316 --> 00:24:48.636 And I, I sat there all the same upon the bench, 00:24:48.830 --> 00:24:51.904 And scolded, skinned and ruffianed me down, 00:24:51.991 --> 00:24:55.231 And sentenced my own neck into the irons. 00:24:55.290 --> 00:24:56.948 Well? And the dream, you think? 00:24:56.973 --> 00:25:00.664 The devil take it. And if it's not the dream, some deviltry, 00:25:00.730 --> 00:25:02.451 I don't know what, is in the wind for me! 00:25:02.551 --> 00:25:06.412 - The Inspector comes! - A plague on your throat! 00:25:12.770 --> 00:25:14.414 God save you, Justice Adam. 00:25:14.452 --> 00:25:18.055 Well, how welcome! Most welcome, worthy Sir, here in our Huysum! 00:25:18.890 --> 00:25:23.287 Who could have, righteous God, who could have thought That we should have such joyous visitation. 00:25:23.312 --> 00:25:25.538 I'm somewhat overprompt, I know, and must 00:25:27.050 --> 00:25:30.543 Upon this journey, in our public service, Be satisfied, if my good hosts dismiss 00:25:31.043 --> 00:25:34.069 Me in the end with well-disposed salute. 00:25:34.585 --> 00:25:35.692 Meanwhile... 00:25:37.238 --> 00:25:39.480 The high tribunal of our land at Utrecht 00:25:39.504 --> 00:25:41.778 Seeks to improve law practice in the country, 00:25:41.838 --> 00:25:43.081 Which does appear in many ways defective; 00:25:43.863 --> 00:25:46.944 But my concern upon this trip is not 00:25:47.104 --> 00:25:50.671 So stern as yet; I am to see, not punish, 00:25:50.770 --> 00:25:55.961 And though I find things not as they should be, 00:25:56.577 --> 00:25:58.824 then I shall be satisfied if at least they are not unendurable. 00:25:58.923 --> 00:26:00.936 I shall be glad to find them bearable. 00:26:01.203 --> 00:26:03.167 In truth, such noble thinking must be praised. 00:26:03.427 --> 00:26:07.082 Your Honor will at times, I have no doubt, 00:26:07.491 --> 00:26:10.459 Find fault with our time-honored legal use; 00:26:10.484 --> 00:26:15.349 Give kind instruction to our justice here And be assured, Your Grace, you will have scarce 00:26:15.374 --> 00:26:17.785 So much as turned your back on it again. 00:26:17.918 --> 00:26:19.731 And you're the Clerk of Court? 00:26:19.783 --> 00:26:22.496 I am Clerk Light, At service of Your Honor. It is now 00:26:22.956 --> 00:26:26.105 Nine years that I have been here in this court. 00:26:28.705 --> 00:26:29.852 Be seated. 00:26:32.130 --> 00:26:34.878 You've come from Holla. 00:26:35.263 --> 00:26:36.788 How is that known to you? 00:26:36.970 --> 00:26:38.496 What, how? 00:26:38.762 --> 00:26:39.995 Your Honor's man... 00:26:40.075 --> 00:26:42.425 A peasant told us. Who just this minute came to town from Holla. 00:26:42.450 --> 00:26:44.930 - A peasant? - An old peasant. 00:26:46.175 --> 00:26:49.203 A quite unhappy incident took place, 00:26:49.257 --> 00:26:51.677 Which has disturbed in me the cheerfulness 00:26:51.725 --> 00:26:54.551 That should go with us when on duty bound. 00:26:54.576 --> 00:26:56.275 No doubt you have had news of this affair? 00:26:56.322 --> 00:26:58.908 And is it true, Your Honor, that Judge Pfaul On suffering arrest in his own house, 00:26:58.936 --> 00:27:03.561 Surrendered to the folly of despair And hanged himself? 00:27:04.336 --> 00:27:06.327 Making it all infinitely worse. 00:27:07.009 --> 00:27:09.651 What only seemed disorder and confusion 00:27:10.178 --> 00:27:12.851 Now gets the aspect of embezzlement, 00:27:12.876 --> 00:27:15.610 Which Holland's law, you know, no longer spares. 00:27:15.990 --> 00:27:18.686 Tell me, is this the day for holding court? 00:27:20.286 --> 00:27:22.913 - You mean? - Yes, the first day in the week. 00:27:23.058 --> 00:27:27.031 So then that little crowd I saw just now Outside your door, were they?.. 00:27:27.069 --> 00:27:28.636 They probably... 00:27:28.660 --> 00:27:30.490 They are the plaintiffs who've already gathered. 00:27:30.723 --> 00:27:34.469 Yes, the plaintiffs. 00:27:34.596 --> 00:27:36.998 Good. That's a circumstance much to my liking. 00:27:37.123 --> 00:27:40.625 I beg that you'll admit these people now. I will attend your session; thus I'll see 00:27:40.797 --> 00:27:43.411 What usages are practised here in Huysum. 00:27:43.436 --> 00:27:46.911 We'll do the registry, the several funds Hereafter, when the matter is concluded. 00:27:46.971 --> 00:27:51.796 As you command. The bailiff! Hey! Hanfriede! 00:27:52.764 --> 00:27:54.792 A greeting from the Verger's wife, Judge Adam; 00:27:54.817 --> 00:27:56.658 Glad as she'd be to lend the wig. 00:27:57.531 --> 00:27:59.451 What? Not? 00:27:59.476 --> 00:28:01.937 She says they're having morning prayers today; 00:28:01.970 --> 00:28:04.325 The Verger has one wig upon his head, The other one she finds unfit to use, 00:28:04.399 --> 00:28:06.075 And it must go to the shop this very day. 00:28:06.100 --> 00:28:07.521 Oh hell! 00:28:07.569 --> 00:28:10.829 As soon as he comes back again, The Verger, she will send his wig at once. 00:28:22.303 --> 00:28:24.294 Upon my honor, please Your Grace... 00:28:24.703 --> 00:28:26.216 What is it? 00:28:26.490 --> 00:28:30.629 An accident, most cursed, has deprived Me of both wigs I own. And now a third, 00:28:30.656 --> 00:28:34.419 That I had hoped to borrow, fails me too: 00:28:34.444 --> 00:28:36.544 Bald-headed I shall have to hold my court. 00:28:36.568 --> 00:28:37.804 Bald-headed! 00:28:37.829 --> 00:28:39.440 Yes, as God is good! And though... 00:28:39.554 --> 00:28:43.940 Without my wig's assistance I am much Embarrassed to retain my dignity, 00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:47.659 Or else I'd have to try out on the farm, And ask my tenant there? 00:28:47.873 --> 00:28:49.401 How far is that from here? 00:28:49.657 --> 00:28:52.858 - Oh well, perhaps not half an hour. - What, half an hour to wait? 00:28:52.883 --> 00:28:55.332 And yet it's past the time for court to start. 00:28:55.357 --> 00:28:58.744 - Get on! For I must reach Huzzah today. - Get on! Oh... 00:28:58.769 --> 00:29:00.655 Well, put powder on your head! 00:29:00.982 --> 00:29:03.807 In the devil's name, where did you leave your wigs? 00:29:03.832 --> 00:29:05.887 Come, do as best you can. I am in haste. 00:29:05.912 --> 00:29:07.625 That too. That too. 00:29:09.663 --> 00:29:11.654 Here is the bailiff! 00:29:18.099 --> 00:29:21.159 Can I offer A tasty bite to eat, 00:29:21.563 --> 00:29:25.116 with Brunswick sausage, A glass of cordial too, perhaps... 00:29:25.170 --> 00:29:27.981 - No thanks. - No trouble! 00:29:28.006 --> 00:29:30.156 Thanks, I said, I've had some food. 00:29:30.703 --> 00:29:34.883 You go and use the time, I need it too To jot some things down in my little book. 00:29:40.643 --> 00:29:43.503 You've had a nasty injury, Judge Adam. 00:29:45.303 --> 00:29:46.896 What, did you fall? 00:29:47.250 --> 00:29:48.382 Yes. 00:29:49.435 --> 00:29:52.095 A truly murderous fall 00:29:52.390 --> 00:29:54.718 I took this morning, getting out of bed: You see, Your Honor, 'twas a wretched crash 00:29:54.750 --> 00:29:58.356 Into the room; I thought, into my grave. 00:29:59.462 --> 00:30:03.877 I'm sorry for it. Surely it will not Have consequences? 00:30:04.055 --> 00:30:05.747 No, I think not. Nor 00:30:05.820 --> 00:30:09.088 Shall it impede me in my duty's course. Your leave! 00:30:09.343 --> 00:30:10.592 Go, go! 00:30:10.968 --> 00:30:13.425 Call in the plaintiffs - March! 00:30:20.116 --> 00:30:23.905 Just you be quiet, Dame Martha! All that shall be settled here. 00:30:23.930 --> 00:30:27.465 Oh surely. Settled. See him. The smart talker. 00:30:27.492 --> 00:30:29.438 Who'll settle here for me my settled jug? 00:30:29.463 --> 00:30:32.798 If you can demonstrate your right, I've said I will replace it. 00:30:32.841 --> 00:30:34.870 What, do you think that justice is a potter? 00:30:34.894 --> 00:30:37.755 And if these mighty judges came and tied 00:30:37.896 --> 00:30:40.242 An apron on and took it to the kiln, They might put something other in the jug 00:30:40.267 --> 00:30:43.379 Than compensation. Nonsense, compensation! 00:30:43.404 --> 00:30:45.490 That dragon! 00:30:45.515 --> 00:30:49.625 Forget the jug! Let me go see in town If there's a skillful handicraftsman there 00:30:49.650 --> 00:30:51.641 To glue the pieces to your satisfaction. 00:30:51.890 --> 00:30:55.431 But if the jug is gone, then take my bank, My savings bank, and buy yourself another. 00:30:55.456 --> 00:30:59.360 Who would, just for a jug of earthenware, And if it was as old as Herod's time, 00:30:59.387 --> 00:31:02.218 Make such a fuss, cause such unhappiness. 00:31:02.243 --> 00:31:04.234 You show how much you know. How would you like 00:31:04.657 --> 00:31:06.780 Your good repute was in this very jug, 00:31:06.820 --> 00:31:09.133 And with it that was, smashed in sight of all. 00:31:09.329 --> 00:31:11.509 What we need is executioner, with block and whiplash, 00:31:11.534 --> 00:31:13.584 To burn our honor back to spotless white. 00:31:23.088 --> 00:31:24.869 It's Evie! Well! 00:31:26.250 --> 00:31:29.242 And that square-built young Scamp, That Ruprecht! 00:31:29.490 --> 00:31:31.481 What the deuce! The whole caboodle! 00:31:32.316 --> 00:31:34.855 They won't accuse me to my very self? 00:31:42.636 --> 00:31:45.478 Say, clerk! What have these people on their mind? 00:31:46.002 --> 00:31:48.207 How should I know? Much noise and little worth. 00:31:48.314 --> 00:31:50.274 A pitcher has been broken, I am told. 00:31:50.416 --> 00:31:55.439 A pitcher! Hm! Well! Well, who broke the pitcher? 00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:57.991 - Who broke the pitcher? - Yes, I'd like to know. 00:31:58.016 --> 00:32:00.468 My soul, sit down: No doubt you will be told. 00:32:12.328 --> 00:32:14.516 No, friend, now listen, this I cannot take. 00:32:14.541 --> 00:32:16.710 My wounded shin is making me feel sick; 00:32:16.735 --> 00:32:20.151 You take the case, I want to go to bed. 00:32:20.176 --> 00:32:22.347 To bed? You would? I think you've lost your mind. 00:32:22.372 --> 00:32:24.357 No, hang it all. I know I'll have to vomit. 00:32:24.598 --> 00:32:26.931 All right then. Tell Judge Walter your intent. 00:32:27.243 --> 00:32:29.234 He may permit. 00:32:36.296 --> 00:32:38.744 Evie! What is this case you bring? 00:32:38.769 --> 00:32:40.157 You'll soon find out. 00:32:40.304 --> 00:32:41.158 Evechen. 00:32:41.429 --> 00:32:45.089 By my wounds! What's happening here? 00:32:45.114 --> 00:32:46.478 You'll hear soon. 00:32:46.503 --> 00:32:48.616 Is it the jug there that your mother holds, Which I, as far? 00:32:48.641 --> 00:32:50.303 Yes, just that broken jug. 00:32:50.656 --> 00:32:52.377 - And that is all? - That's all. 00:32:52.483 --> 00:32:55.269 - All? Surely, all? - I tell you, go away. Leave me in peace. 00:32:55.300 --> 00:32:57.317 Look out, by God, be wise, I caution you. 00:32:57.355 --> 00:32:58.735 O impudence! 00:32:58.760 --> 00:33:04.583 In the certificate the name in full Is written, Ruprecht Timpel. 00:33:04.608 --> 00:33:07.798 You hear it crackle, Evie? This you can, Upon my word, next year come back and get, 00:33:07.836 --> 00:33:10.333 When you have heard: your Ruprecht in Batavia Has croaked - I don't know of what fever, 00:33:10.358 --> 00:33:12.665 Say yellow, scarlet; maybe something fishy. 00:33:12.696 --> 00:33:16.264 Don't talk so with the parties, Justice Adam, before the session! 00:33:16.764 --> 00:33:18.425 Sit here, question them. 00:33:18.589 --> 00:33:20.580 What does he say? 00:33:21.222 --> 00:33:21.956 What? 00:33:28.250 --> 00:33:29.635 What does Your Grace command? 00:33:29.682 --> 00:33:34.104 Don't speak in secret thus before the session In words of double meaning with the parties. 00:33:34.629 --> 00:33:37.248 This is the seat that now befits your office; 00:33:37.273 --> 00:33:40.265 An open hearing is what I expect. 00:33:40.290 --> 00:33:43.522 - Curses! - Well, Judge! Are you deaf? 00:33:43.547 --> 00:33:45.908 His Honor yonder called your name just now. 00:33:45.932 --> 00:33:46.513 Who calls? 00:33:46.538 --> 00:33:49.287 - The court inspector there. - The court inspector. 00:33:49.591 --> 00:33:52.841 What would Your Grace? 00:33:52.887 --> 00:33:55.361 Shall I begin the trial now? 00:33:55.890 --> 00:33:59.998 It's strange you're so distracted, Judge. What ails you? 00:34:01.458 --> 00:34:03.264 My word! Forgive. 00:34:03.550 --> 00:34:06.016 A guinea hen of mine I bought of one 00:34:06.041 --> 00:34:08.849 Who sailed from India has got the pip: 00:34:08.916 --> 00:34:11.448 I don't know how to cram it, 00:34:11.807 --> 00:34:13.975 And merely asked the girl for her advice. 00:34:14.576 --> 00:34:16.762 I am a fool, you see, in things like this, 00:34:16.818 --> 00:34:19.624 And I am used to call my chicks my children. 00:34:19.957 --> 00:34:22.802 Here. Sit. Now call the plaintiff, ask him questions. 00:34:23.330 --> 00:34:25.321 You, Mr. Clerk, will write the record down. 00:34:57.949 --> 00:35:00.892 And does Your Honor wish the trial held According to the set formalities, 00:35:00.917 --> 00:35:03.930 Or as it has been usual in Huysum? 00:35:03.955 --> 00:35:08.857 According to the law's formalities, As usual in Huysum, nothing else. 00:35:08.882 --> 00:35:12.397 Good, good. I shall contrive to serve you well. 00:35:12.597 --> 00:35:15.589 - All ready, Mr. Clerk? - I'm at your service. 00:35:16.410 --> 00:35:19.572 O well then, Justice, take your fated course! 00:35:29.450 --> 00:35:31.865 The plaintiff may step up. 00:35:31.890 --> 00:35:33.460 Here, Village Judge! 00:35:34.457 --> 00:35:36.448 - Who are you? - Who? 00:35:36.643 --> 00:35:37.523 You. 00:35:37.916 --> 00:35:40.558 - Who I? - Who you are! 00:35:40.829 --> 00:35:43.752 Your name and rank, your dwelling, and so forth. 00:35:43.983 --> 00:35:46.283 I think you're jesting, Judge. 00:35:46.496 --> 00:35:48.487 I jesting? Bosh! 00:35:48.666 --> 00:35:51.658 I'm sitting here in Justice' name, Dame Martha, 00:35:51.690 --> 00:35:53.663 And Justice has to know just who you are. 00:35:53.688 --> 00:35:56.385 You look Into my windows every Sunday morning, 00:35:56.410 --> 00:35:59.196 - When going to your farm. - You know the woman? 00:35:59.350 --> 00:35:59.923 Yes. 00:35:59.970 --> 00:36:01.961 She lives here round the corner, please Your Grace, 00:36:01.986 --> 00:36:05.088 Just where the footpath leads one through the hedges; 00:36:05.363 --> 00:36:09.645 A castellan's widow, now a midwife here. 00:36:10.533 --> 00:36:13.508 But honest, for the rest, and well reputed. 00:36:13.533 --> 00:36:15.514 Well, Judge, if you're so well informed of her, 00:36:15.538 --> 00:36:17.204 Then questions such as these are not required. 00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:19.150 Just put her name down in the record book 00:36:19.174 --> 00:36:21.249 And write beside it: well known to the Court. 00:36:21.422 --> 00:36:25.513 Ah ha. You shun too much formality. 00:36:25.926 --> 00:36:28.001 Clerk, do exactly as His Grace commands. 00:36:28.530 --> 00:36:31.103 Now ask about the matter of complaint. 00:36:31.974 --> 00:36:33.090 Oh, now I should-? 00:36:33.489 --> 00:36:36.369 Yes, find the matter out! 00:36:37.702 --> 00:36:40.505 That, please you, is likewise a jug. 00:36:40.557 --> 00:36:41.918 What? Likewise! 00:36:41.943 --> 00:36:43.934 A jug. A jug, no more. 00:36:44.702 --> 00:36:49.934 Put down a jug, and write beside it: Well known to the Court. 00:36:50.002 --> 00:36:51.617 What, Judge, upon my random supposition... 00:36:51.641 --> 00:36:53.292 If I bid you, on my soul, then write it. 00:36:53.316 --> 00:36:56.830 - Is it not a jug, Dame Martha? - Why yes, this jug! 00:36:56.988 --> 00:36:58.402 You see! 00:36:58.758 --> 00:36:59.658 And then... 00:37:00.256 --> 00:37:04.065 Who broke the jug? No doubt that rascal? 00:37:04.096 --> 00:37:06.087 Indeed, there is the rascal! 00:37:06.650 --> 00:37:09.070 - Yes, he, that rascal there. - That is not true, Your Honor! 00:37:09.095 --> 00:37:10.571 She's lying in her throat. 00:37:10.596 --> 00:37:12.853 Be silent, dolt! 00:37:13.133 --> 00:37:15.922 You'll put your own throat soon enough in irons. 00:37:16.370 --> 00:37:19.154 Put down a jug, then, Clerk, as I have said, 00:37:19.282 --> 00:37:21.526 Together with the name of him who broke it. 00:37:21.587 --> 00:37:23.392 This matter will be cleared up right away. 00:37:23.417 --> 00:37:27.717 What, Judge! Why, what a violent procedure. 00:37:28.604 --> 00:37:30.811 - How so? - Will you not formally? 00:37:30.836 --> 00:37:34.224 Not I! Your honor doesn't like formalities. 00:37:34.918 --> 00:37:37.364 Judge Adam, if you do not know the way 00:37:37.426 --> 00:37:39.081 To introduce a well conducted trial, 00:37:39.106 --> 00:37:41.251 This is no time nor place to teach you that. 00:37:41.276 --> 00:37:43.988 If you've no other way to deal out justice, 00:37:44.028 --> 00:37:45.716 Then step aside: perhaps your Clerk knows how. 00:37:45.741 --> 00:37:48.627 Pardon! I followed custom here in Huysum; 00:37:48.652 --> 00:37:50.512 For thus Your Grace commanded me to act. 00:37:50.542 --> 00:37:52.533 - What, I? - Upon my word! 00:37:52.784 --> 00:37:55.785 I ordered you To deal out justice here as law prescribes; 00:37:56.010 --> 00:38:00.001 And laws in Huysum, so I thought, must be As elsewhere in the United Netherlands. 00:38:01.382 --> 00:38:03.345 For here we do possess, with your permission, 00:38:03.846 --> 00:38:06.672 Peculiar statutes of our own in Huysum, 00:38:07.553 --> 00:38:11.216 Not written down, I must confess, and yet 00:38:11.241 --> 00:38:14.623 To us transmitted by approved tradition. 00:38:14.654 --> 00:38:17.007 And from these forms, I'm bold enough to hope, 00:38:17.032 --> 00:38:19.314 I've not diverged today by jot or tittle. 00:38:19.339 --> 00:38:23.058 However, in your other form I am At home, as it is practised through the land. 00:38:23.083 --> 00:38:25.897 Do you demand the proof, well then, command me! I can dispense the law now so, now so. 00:38:26.043 --> 00:38:29.595 You put a bad construction on my words. 00:38:30.009 --> 00:38:32.465 So be it. Start the case from the beginning. 00:38:32.490 --> 00:38:35.505 'Pon honor. Mark, you shall be well content. 00:38:40.836 --> 00:38:44.291 Dame Martha Rull! Present now your complaint. 00:38:44.330 --> 00:38:47.171 You know the cause of my complaint, this jug; 00:38:47.243 --> 00:38:51.170 Yet grant me grace, before I make report What happened to the jug, that I describe 00:38:51.195 --> 00:38:53.142 What once it was to me. 00:38:53.168 --> 00:38:54.870 You have the floor. 00:38:54.895 --> 00:38:58.429 You see this jug here, worthy gentlemen? You see this jug? 00:38:58.650 --> 00:38:59.821 Oh, yes indeed, we see it. 00:38:59.845 --> 00:39:02.405 No, all you see, beg pardon, is the pieces; 00:39:02.430 --> 00:39:04.890 The fairest of all jugs is smashed to bits. 00:39:05.570 --> 00:39:09.298 Right here upon this hole, where now there's nothing, 00:39:09.323 --> 00:39:13.395 The states of the United Netherlands Were handed over to the Spanish Philip. 00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:16.218 Here in his robes stood Emperor Charles the Fifth; 00:39:16.278 --> 00:39:18.566 Of him all you see standing is his legs. 00:39:18.591 --> 00:39:21.425 Here knelt King Philip, and received the crown: 00:39:21.450 --> 00:39:25.720 He's in the jug now, all but his backside, And even that has got a sorry blow. 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:30.364 Here in the center, with his holy mitre, There stood once an Archbishop, he of Arras; 00:39:30.389 --> 00:39:32.393 But him the devil's got with hide and hair, His shadow only falls long on the pavement. 00:39:32.474 --> 00:39:36.767 And houses, see, on Brussels' market place. 00:39:36.903 --> 00:39:39.056 Here peeps a curious head out of the window: 00:39:39.081 --> 00:39:41.224 But what he sees there now, I do not know. 00:39:41.269 --> 00:39:45.199 Dame Martha! Let the shattered treaty go, If it is lacking meaning here. 00:39:45.763 --> 00:39:50.056 The hole concerns us - not the provinces That were transferred where yonder hole is now. 00:39:50.081 --> 00:39:54.810 Not so! The beauty of the jug does have some meaning. 00:39:54.835 --> 00:39:57.670 A Spaniard there had filled the jug with wine 00:39:57.695 --> 00:40:01.249 And had it at his lips when Childerich Came from behind and struck the Spaniard down, 00:40:01.274 --> 00:40:02.994 Took up the jug and drained it, and went on. 00:40:03.027 --> 00:40:05.620 The jug then came Into the hands of Feargod, the grave digger; 00:40:05.645 --> 00:40:10.126 He drank but thrice from it, the sober man, And even then the wine was mixed with water. 00:40:10.151 --> 00:40:11.910 The first time was when he at sixty years Wedded a youthful wife; then three years later, 00:40:11.935 --> 00:40:13.282 When she had happily made him a father; 00:40:13.307 --> 00:40:15.312 Third when she died after having borne him fifteen children. 00:40:15.337 --> 00:40:17.988 And after she had borne him fifteen more, 00:40:18.035 --> 00:40:19.785 He drank a third and last time when she died. 00:40:19.810 --> 00:40:22.291 Come to the point, Dame Martha! To the point! 00:40:22.316 --> 00:40:25.581 Then when the fire broke out in sixty-six, My husband owned it then, God rest his soul. 00:40:25.916 --> 00:40:27.674 The devil! Woman! Will you never be done? 00:40:27.705 --> 00:40:29.696 If I've no leave to tell my tale, Judge Adam, 00:40:29.721 --> 00:40:32.905 Then I am useless here, then I will go And seek a court to hear what I would say. 00:40:32.930 --> 00:40:34.661 Yes, you should speak; but not of foreign things, 00:40:34.701 --> 00:40:36.954 Remote from your complaint. 00:40:36.979 --> 00:40:39.534 If you depose That yonder jug was dear to you, we know 00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:41.961 As much as we require to judge the case, 00:40:42.220 --> 00:40:44.125 What happened to the jug? 00:40:44.289 --> 00:40:47.816 Well, look, this jug, This jug was broken by that rascal there. 00:40:47.917 --> 00:40:50.622 - Who? - He, that Ruprecht there. 00:40:50.716 --> 00:40:53.708 - That is a lie, Your Honor. - Silence, till we question you. 00:40:54.076 --> 00:40:56.789 - Have you recorded this, Clerk Light? - Oh, yes. 00:40:57.130 --> 00:41:00.033 Relate the happenings to us, Dame Martha. 00:41:00.283 --> 00:41:03.102 - 'Twas at eleven yesterday. - What time? 00:41:03.563 --> 00:41:05.554 - Eleven. - In the morning? 00:41:05.579 --> 00:41:07.445 - Pardon, evening. - Evening? 00:41:07.470 --> 00:41:11.847 I was in bed, about to quench the light, When noisy words of men, a tumult loud, 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.546 Within the distant chamber of my daughter, 00:41:14.571 --> 00:41:16.460 As if the foe was breaking in, alarmed me. 00:41:16.485 --> 00:41:19.438 I hurried down the stairs, and then I found 00:41:19.463 --> 00:41:22.471 The bedroom door had been burst in by force, 00:41:22.835 --> 00:41:24.826 Abusive speeches raged against my ears, 00:41:25.296 --> 00:41:27.829 And now when I light up the scene before me, 00:41:27.883 --> 00:41:30.892 What do I find, Your Honor, do you think? 00:41:30.917 --> 00:41:34.509 - What? - I find this jug in pieces on the floor, 00:41:35.003 --> 00:41:36.932 My daughter wrings her hands, and he, that lout, 00:41:36.957 --> 00:41:39.658 He storms like mad in the middle of the room. 00:41:39.683 --> 00:41:41.976 - By thunder! - Yes! I felt as if, in such a rage I was, 00:41:42.001 --> 00:41:44.161 I challenged him to tell me by what right He came there late at night, and in a rage 00:41:44.186 --> 00:41:47.125 Was smashing up the pitchers of the house: 00:41:47.409 --> 00:41:49.915 And he, the answer that he made, just guess! 00:41:49.962 --> 00:41:52.691 Such impudence! Such bold rascality! 00:41:52.716 --> 00:41:53.152 What? 00:41:53.219 --> 00:41:55.439 He said it was another man that knocked 00:41:55.476 --> 00:41:57.658 The pitcher off the shelf - another, bless you, 00:41:57.683 --> 00:42:02.165 Who barely had escaped from out the room; And heaped abuse upon my daughter here! 00:42:02.189 --> 00:42:04.981 - Something's rotten. - And then he set to raving at us! 00:42:05.006 --> 00:42:06.844 Rotten, rotten! 00:42:07.169 --> 00:42:08.756 O, artful shifts. 00:42:09.864 --> 00:42:10.423 And then? 00:42:10.448 --> 00:42:14.015 I looked a question at the girl; she stood Just like a corpse, so white, and I said, 'Eve!' 00:42:14.040 --> 00:42:16.706 Then she sat down; 'was it another man?' I asked. 00:42:16.731 --> 00:42:19.157 And "Joseph, Mary," she cried out, "Who else," says she - and who else could it be? 00:42:19.182 --> 00:42:21.173 And swore to me that it was he who did it. 00:42:21.198 --> 00:42:23.971 What did I swear to you? What have I sworn? 00:42:23.996 --> 00:42:25.471 I swore no word, not one! 00:42:25.496 --> 00:42:27.255 - Eve! - No! You're lying! 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:30.272 - You hear that. - Cursed dog, now hold your tongue, 00:42:30.460 --> 00:42:32.673 Unless you want this fist to plug your jaws. 00:42:33.050 --> 00:42:35.041 You'll have a later chance, not now. 00:42:35.836 --> 00:42:38.571 Well, Dame Martha! What behavior! 00:42:38.683 --> 00:42:41.521 How you intimidate this poor young thing! 00:42:41.771 --> 00:42:43.988 Let her think. 00:42:44.421 --> 00:42:47.016 Now when this maiden here will have recalled, 00:42:47.523 --> 00:42:50.522 Remembered calmly just what did take place, 00:42:50.882 --> 00:42:54.556 I say, what took place in her room, and what, Unless she speaks aright, can still take place: 00:42:54.650 --> 00:42:57.560 You watch, she'll testify just as before, No matter whether with an oath or not. 00:42:57.585 --> 00:42:59.193 Let Joseph go unnamed, and Mary too. 00:42:59.218 --> 00:43:01.653 No, no, Judge Adam, no! 00:43:02.330 --> 00:43:05.545 Why, who would give The parties such ambiguous instruction. 00:43:05.575 --> 00:43:08.567 Let her look me in the face and tell me that it wasn't Ruprecht 00:43:08.606 --> 00:43:11.304 If she can tell me to my very face, That anyone but Ruprecht was the one, 00:43:11.329 --> 00:43:14.895 - Now furthermore the maiden wants... - Your Honor! 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.356 Now, out with it! Did you not tell me so? 00:43:17.381 --> 00:43:19.308 Didn't you tell me, yesterday, this thing? 00:43:19.333 --> 00:43:21.665 Well, who denies I said it? 00:43:21.709 --> 00:43:24.375 - The harlot! - Write that down. 00:43:24.636 --> 00:43:26.627 Fie, shame on you. 00:43:27.250 --> 00:43:30.486 Of your behavior here in court, Judge Adam, I don't know what to think. 00:43:30.956 --> 00:43:35.504 If you yourself had smashed Dame Martha's jug, you hardly could 00:43:35.529 --> 00:43:38.112 More zealously attempt to shift suspicion From you to this young man, than you are doing. 00:43:38.137 --> 00:43:42.751 You're putting no more in the record, Clerk, Than just this girl's admission, I should hope, Of yesterday's confession, not the facts. 00:43:43.436 --> 00:43:46.101 Is it the maiden's turn to testify? 00:43:47.621 --> 00:43:49.721 My soul, if it is not her proper turn, 00:43:49.990 --> 00:43:52.578 In such affairs a man can err, Your Grace. 00:43:52.903 --> 00:43:55.022 Whom else should I have questioned? The accused? 00:43:55.069 --> 00:43:57.078 Upon my word, I'm glad to be instructed. 00:43:57.103 --> 00:43:59.416 Yes, question the accused. 00:43:59.636 --> 00:44:02.451 Ask and be done with it, yes, ask, I beg: 00:44:02.917 --> 00:44:05.142 This is the last case you will ever try. 00:44:05.463 --> 00:44:09.318 The last one! What! O surely! The accused! 00:44:10.556 --> 00:44:12.707 For where indeed, old Judge, where were your thoughts? 00:44:13.036 --> 00:44:15.805 O curses on that chicken with the pip! 00:44:15.836 --> 00:44:18.516 Had it but died in India of the plague! 00:44:18.636 --> 00:44:21.625 That noodle dumpling sticks here in my crop. 00:44:21.650 --> 00:44:25.065 What sticks? What sort of dumpling? 00:44:25.090 --> 00:44:28.664 Noodle dumpling, That, by your leave, I am to give the hen. 00:44:28.689 --> 00:44:31.796 If she'll refuse to swallow down the pill, My soul, I don't know how the thing will end. 00:44:31.821 --> 00:44:34.763 In the hangman's name, I tell you, do your duty! 00:44:36.262 --> 00:44:38.560 Accused, step forward. 00:44:41.396 --> 00:44:43.696 Here I am, Your Honor. Ruprecht, 00:44:44.610 --> 00:44:47.766 the son of Veit, the Huysum cotter. 00:44:48.490 --> 00:44:51.346 Well, did you hear the charge before this court 00:44:51.371 --> 00:44:53.190 Dame Martha has preferred just now against you? 00:44:53.215 --> 00:44:55.568 Indeed, Your Honor, yes. 00:44:55.869 --> 00:44:59.442 And will you dare To bring up anything to contradict her? 00:44:59.697 --> 00:45:02.918 Will you confess, or will you be so bold, 00:45:02.943 --> 00:45:05.635 So Godforsaken, and deny the charge? 00:45:06.495 --> 00:45:09.425 You ask what I can say in contradiction, Your Honor? 00:45:09.529 --> 00:45:13.718 Well! I say, with your permission, That she has uttered not a word of truth. 00:45:13.749 --> 00:45:15.740 You do? And you expect to prove it? 00:45:15.782 --> 00:45:16.529 O yes. 00:45:16.554 --> 00:45:19.288 Dame Martha, you, my worthy friend, Be of good cheer. 00:45:19.336 --> 00:45:21.724 All things will come to light. 00:45:21.857 --> 00:45:24.849 What has Dame Martha, Judge, to do with you? 00:45:24.896 --> 00:45:28.237 What she? My Lord! Shall I as Christian? 00:45:28.650 --> 00:45:31.642 Tell Whatever you can say in your defense. 00:45:33.943 --> 00:45:35.934 Why stare like that? 00:45:36.409 --> 00:45:38.400 What have you to bring up? 00:45:38.816 --> 00:45:41.808 Doesn't this donkey stand there like an ox? 00:45:41.906 --> 00:45:44.019 What have you to bring up? 00:45:44.389 --> 00:45:46.380 I to bring up? 00:45:46.756 --> 00:45:50.801 You, yes, you're now to tell us just what happened. 00:45:53.783 --> 00:45:58.153 It may have been at ten o'clock last night, 00:45:58.997 --> 00:46:00.988 That I said to my father, 00:46:01.276 --> 00:46:03.753 'Dad, I think I'll go and talk with Eve a bit.' 00:46:05.769 --> 00:46:08.761 For you must know, I would have married her; 00:46:09.006 --> 00:46:12.472 A sturdy wench she is, at harvest time 00:46:12.502 --> 00:46:15.494 I watched and saw how quick and sure her hand, And how the hay flew like a mousing cat. 00:46:16.542 --> 00:46:19.253 So I said, 'Will you?' 00:46:19.956 --> 00:46:23.539 And she answered, 'Oh! How you do cackle.' 00:46:24.443 --> 00:46:26.434 Later she said, "Yes." 00:46:26.637 --> 00:46:29.228 Stick to the question, you. Cackle! What stuff! 00:46:29.253 --> 00:46:31.297 I asked her, 'Will you?' And she answered, 'Yes.' 00:46:31.322 --> 00:46:33.102 She did in truth. 00:46:33.476 --> 00:46:34.966 Get on, get on! 00:46:35.115 --> 00:46:36.735 Get on, get on! 00:46:36.810 --> 00:46:38.622 And so... 00:46:39.577 --> 00:46:41.871 I said, 'You hear me, Father? 00:46:41.896 --> 00:46:42.697 Let me go. 00:46:42.975 --> 00:46:45.522 We'll have a little chat outside the window.' 00:46:45.933 --> 00:46:47.743 Says he, 'All right; 00:46:48.422 --> 00:46:50.413 You'll stay outside?' says he. 00:46:50.710 --> 00:46:53.516 'Upon my soul,' says I, 'I swear I will.' 00:46:54.102 --> 00:46:56.093 'Then run,' says he, 00:46:57.045 --> 00:46:58.718 'Be back here at eleven.' 00:46:58.843 --> 00:47:00.834 Says he, says you, and cackle, and no end. 00:47:02.392 --> 00:47:04.379 How soon will you have said your say? 00:47:04.777 --> 00:47:07.199 So then I says, 'A bargain,' 00:47:07.716 --> 00:47:10.456 And I put my cap on 00:47:11.316 --> 00:47:12.806 And go; 00:47:12.970 --> 00:47:15.154 And want to cross the bridge, 00:47:15.209 --> 00:47:18.201 And must go through the village, Since the brook's in flood. 00:47:18.390 --> 00:47:21.314 Well now, by thunder, thinks I, Ruprecht, damn! 00:47:21.401 --> 00:47:24.507 By now the gate to Martha's yard is shut: 00:47:24.850 --> 00:47:27.429 For only up to ten Eve leaves it open; 00:47:28.063 --> 00:47:29.656 If I'm not there by ten, Then I'm not earning. 00:47:29.681 --> 00:47:32.673 - Disreputable goings on. - And then? 00:47:32.931 --> 00:47:34.211 And then? 00:47:34.584 --> 00:47:35.898 And then... 00:47:36.357 --> 00:47:38.399 And then - as I come nearer through the limes 00:47:38.424 --> 00:47:40.858 At Martha's, where the rows are closely arched, 00:47:40.883 --> 00:47:43.629 Then Eve is out there still, says I, 00:47:43.654 --> 00:47:45.373 It's Eve herself, And some one else is with her. 00:47:45.414 --> 00:47:47.101 What? Some one else? 00:47:47.629 --> 00:47:49.575 And who, you smarty, you? 00:47:49.600 --> 00:47:50.615 Who? 00:47:51.675 --> 00:47:55.380 - Why? Well, my soul, you have me there... - You see! 00:47:55.703 --> 00:47:57.379 And till he's caught, I guess, he won't be hanged. 00:47:57.404 --> 00:47:59.899 Go on! Complete your tale! Judge, let him be! 00:47:59.946 --> 00:48:02.053 Why do you interrupt so much, Judge Adam? 00:48:02.078 --> 00:48:04.345 I cannot swear it by the Sacrament, 00:48:04.370 --> 00:48:07.230 It was pitch dark, and then all cats are gray. 00:48:07.255 --> 00:48:10.452 But you must know this, that the cobbler Lebrecht, 00:48:10.646 --> 00:48:12.869 Has long since been upon young Eva's trail. 00:48:12.944 --> 00:48:16.680 - Ah? Lebrecht is his name? - Yes, Lebrecht. 00:48:16.798 --> 00:48:19.634 Good. That is a name. We'll get the straight of this. 00:48:19.659 --> 00:48:22.259 You've got that in your record, Mr. Clerk? 00:48:22.284 --> 00:48:24.532 O yes, and all the other things, Your Honor. 00:48:24.557 --> 00:48:27.213 Speak further, Ruprecht, now, my son. 00:48:28.055 --> 00:48:30.982 I squeeze in gently through the garden gate 00:48:31.016 --> 00:48:33.543 And hide myself behind a bush of yew: 00:48:33.613 --> 00:48:37.503 I hear a whispering there, a dalliance, 00:48:37.624 --> 00:48:40.597 A pulling and a tugging back and forth, My soul, I thought desire would... 00:48:40.622 --> 00:48:42.255 - Villain you! - Why, you rascal! 00:48:42.298 --> 00:48:46.726 A quarter hour this thing went on; thinks I, What's going on, this is no wedding day? 00:48:46.805 --> 00:48:48.912 Before the thought was finished in my mind, 00:48:48.937 --> 00:48:51.621 Whish! they were in the house, without a priest. 00:48:51.646 --> 00:48:53.471 Now, Mother, let things happen as they will... 00:48:53.496 --> 00:48:55.989 Be silent now, I counsel you, or thunder 00:48:56.334 --> 00:49:00.010 Will strike you down, you uninvited babbler! Wait till I call you up to testify. 00:49:00.222 --> 00:49:02.864 And bursts a button on my vest: Air now! 00:49:02.929 --> 00:49:06.825 I open up my vest: Air now, I say! 00:49:06.930 --> 00:49:08.989 And go, and push, and kick, and thunder, 00:49:09.014 --> 00:49:13.156 Because I find her chamber door is bolted, And brace myself. and knock the door right in. 00:49:13.181 --> 00:49:14.205 Young devil, you! 00:49:14.230 --> 00:49:17.824 Just as it crashes in, The jug there tumbles from the mantle shelf, 00:49:17.855 --> 00:49:20.388 And whish! a man goes jumping through the window: 00:49:20.416 --> 00:49:22.038 I see his coat tails flying as he leaps. 00:49:22.063 --> 00:49:25.252 - And that was Lebrecht? - Why, who else, Your Honor? 00:49:25.865 --> 00:49:29.424 There stands the girl, I push her to one side, Rush to the window, and I find the fellow 00:49:29.456 --> 00:49:32.516 Impeded by the posts that hold the trellis, 00:49:32.602 --> 00:49:35.202 Where vines go climbing upward to the roof. 00:49:35.423 --> 00:49:39.811 And as I hold the door latch in my hand, From pounding in the door, I land him one, 00:49:39.836 --> 00:49:44.474 Pounds heavy, with the steel across his pate: 00:49:44.781 --> 00:49:47.157 For that, Your Honor, still was in my reach. 00:49:47.544 --> 00:49:50.779 - It was a latch? - Yes, the door latch. 00:49:51.029 --> 00:49:52.526 That's why. 00:49:55.936 --> 00:49:58.928 You see, it was the latch's other end. 00:50:00.270 --> 00:50:03.963 Oh ho, the latch's other end it was! 00:50:03.988 --> 00:50:06.196 - Oh! Oh! - The fellow falls, and I'm about to turn, 00:50:06.221 --> 00:50:09.455 When in the dark I see him struggle up. 00:50:09.650 --> 00:50:12.857 Thinks I, what, still alive? and mount the window. 00:50:12.882 --> 00:50:14.815 To get down there and stop the rascal short: 00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:17.832 But now, good sirs, as I am crouched to leap, 00:50:17.857 --> 00:50:20.783 A mighty handful of coarse sand comes flying 00:50:20.823 --> 00:50:23.176 Like hail and strikes me squarely in the eyes! 00:50:23.247 --> 00:50:26.452 Curses! Well, well! Who did that? 00:50:26.829 --> 00:50:28.777 Who? Why, Lebrecht. 00:50:28.802 --> 00:50:32.699 - Who else? - As if a rain of hail had cast... 00:50:32.724 --> 00:50:36.808 Me down ten fathoms from a mountain slope, Just so I tumbled down into the room: 00:50:37.047 --> 00:50:39.347 I thought I'd certainly break through the floor. 00:50:39.387 --> 00:50:41.993 So up I sat and wiped sand from my eyes. 00:50:42.117 --> 00:50:44.359 She comes, and "O, dear God!" she cries, 00:50:44.383 --> 00:50:46.096 and "Ruprecht! What ails you now?" 00:50:46.149 --> 00:50:47.815 My soul, I raised my foot, 00:50:47.856 --> 00:50:49.734 Good thing I couldn't see where I was kicking. 00:50:49.759 --> 00:50:51.577 That's what the gravel did? 00:50:51.602 --> 00:50:54.484 - The gravel, yes. - By damn! A hit! 00:50:54.509 --> 00:50:55.189 Yes... 00:50:56.796 --> 00:50:58.403 The rest you know yourself. 00:50:58.743 --> 00:51:00.734 I know the rest. 00:51:01.714 --> 00:51:04.302 Dame Martha! What is your reply to this? Speak up. 00:51:04.327 --> 00:51:06.820 I'd say this speech comes like a thieving marten 00:51:06.845 --> 00:51:09.644 And throttles truth as if 'twas a cackling hen. 00:51:09.669 --> 00:51:12.297 Then you must put your statement to the proof. 00:51:12.322 --> 00:51:15.324 Quite willingly. Here is my witness. 00:51:16.160 --> 00:51:17.293 Speak! 00:51:18.242 --> 00:51:22.209 - Your daughter? No, Dame Martha. - No? Why not? 00:51:22.558 --> 00:51:25.192 As witness here, Your Honor? 00:51:25.217 --> 00:51:28.067 Don't the law code Say verbally 00:51:28.210 --> 00:51:31.569 In section quarto, quinto? 00:51:31.629 --> 00:51:34.848 That when a jug or such - how should I know? 00:51:34.873 --> 00:51:38.358 Has been by youthful rascals smashed to bits, Then daughters bear no witness for their mothers? 00:51:38.383 --> 00:51:40.882 The maiden does not witness, she declares. 00:51:40.907 --> 00:51:44.766 Ah ha, declare. Good. That's in section sexto. 00:51:44.791 --> 00:51:46.888 But what she says is not believed. 00:51:47.216 --> 00:51:49.207 Come forward, child. 00:51:51.123 --> 00:51:53.830 Hey, Lisa! By your leave! 00:51:54.963 --> 00:51:57.897 My tongue is drying up. 00:51:58.368 --> 00:52:00.974 - A glass of water, you. - At once! 00:52:01.309 --> 00:52:05.231 Can I? Moselle? Or Rhine wine? What you will. 00:52:05.256 --> 00:52:07.023 No thanks. 00:52:29.537 --> 00:52:31.105 If I may make so bold to speak, Your Grace, 00:52:32.475 --> 00:52:35.419 This case is suited well for settlement. 00:52:36.269 --> 00:52:40.097 For settlement? That is not clear to me. 00:52:40.122 --> 00:52:42.606 People of sense can find a settlement; 00:52:42.631 --> 00:52:45.340 But how you hope to settle matters now, 00:52:45.365 --> 00:52:47.565 Before the case has even been untangled, 00:52:48.009 --> 00:52:50.977 I must confess I'd like to hear you tell. 00:52:52.318 --> 00:52:53.771 My soul! 00:52:53.796 --> 00:52:57.264 If I, because the law forsakes me now, Must take philosophy to be my aid, 00:52:57.289 --> 00:53:00.522 Then it was - Leberecht... 00:53:00.641 --> 00:53:01.842 No, who? 00:53:03.322 --> 00:53:05.930 - Or Ruprecht. - Who? 00:53:07.795 --> 00:53:09.388 Or Lebrecht. 00:53:10.822 --> 00:53:12.122 That broke the jug. 00:53:12.389 --> 00:53:15.381 Who was it then? Was it Lebrecht or Ruprecht? 00:53:15.809 --> 00:53:20.456 I see your judgment blindly grope about, Just like five fingers in a sack of peas. 00:53:20.481 --> 00:53:21.743 I say! 00:53:22.168 --> 00:53:23.806 - Be still, I beg you. - As you will! 00:53:23.923 --> 00:53:26.915 Upon my honor, it would please me well, If both of them had been the guilty ones. 00:53:27.130 --> 00:53:30.625 - Ask her, and you'll find out. - Most willingly. 00:53:30.649 --> 00:53:33.052 But if you find it out, then I'm a scoundrel. 00:53:33.389 --> 00:53:35.718 You have the minute-book in readiness? 00:53:35.743 --> 00:53:39.612 Quite. I'm starting now a special sheet Eager to see what shall be written on it. 00:53:39.825 --> 00:53:41.537 Speak there, my child. 00:53:41.562 --> 00:53:45.384 Speak, Evie, mark you, speak now, maiden Eva! 00:53:45.598 --> 00:53:47.473 Give God, my darling, mark you, give, my soul, 00:53:47.498 --> 00:53:50.461 To God and to the world a bit of truth. 00:53:50.699 --> 00:53:52.606 Think that you're at the judgment seat of God, 00:53:52.631 --> 00:53:54.214 And that you must not with denials vex 00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:57.562 Your judge, and must not babble silly words Beside the point. 00:54:00.249 --> 00:54:03.510 A judge, you know, will always be a judge, 00:54:03.943 --> 00:54:06.625 And one needs him today, and one tomorrow. 00:54:07.236 --> 00:54:11.681 Say then that it was Lebrecht: very good; Or say that it was Ruprecht: also good! 00:54:11.923 --> 00:54:15.713 Say this or that, and I'm no honest man, If things don't then turn out just as you'd like. 00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:18.547 But if you try to babble of another, 00:54:18.572 --> 00:54:21.730 A third perhaps, and mention foolish names: 00:54:21.810 --> 00:54:24.573 Then, child, look out, that's all I have to say. 00:54:24.901 --> 00:54:27.923 In Huysum, what the deuce, none will believe you, 00:54:27.948 --> 00:54:30.551 And no one, Evie, in the Netherlands; 00:54:30.576 --> 00:54:33.653 And then your Ruprecht goes straight to the devil. 00:54:33.678 --> 00:54:35.744 Get on! Too long you have been speaking on this bench. 00:54:35.769 --> 00:54:38.960 Mere chatter, neither fish nor good red herring. 00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:41.738 Your Honor does not follow me? 00:54:42.445 --> 00:54:45.091 If I'm obscure to you who come from Utrecht, 00:54:45.116 --> 00:54:47.522 Among this folk perhaps it's not the same: 00:54:47.656 --> 00:54:50.289 The maiden knows, I'll venture, what I want. 00:54:50.314 --> 00:54:53.044 What is all this? Come, out with it, and speak! 00:54:53.069 --> 00:54:55.603 - O dearest Mother! - You! I'm warning you! 00:54:56.396 --> 00:54:58.038 My soul, it's hard, Dame Martha, to speak out, 00:54:58.063 --> 00:54:59.778 When conscience holds a person by the throat. 00:54:59.803 --> 00:55:02.722 O Jesus! Just as if she was a whore. 00:55:02.773 --> 00:55:06.271 Leave the girl in peace there, can't you? 00:55:06.296 --> 00:55:09.058 Scaring the child so - whore - you mutton-head! 00:55:09.083 --> 00:55:12.111 - She'll know what to say. - O, sure she will. 00:55:12.136 --> 00:55:14.117 You lout here, shut your mouth. 00:55:14.142 --> 00:55:16.489 The cobbler's name will pop up in her mind. 00:55:16.514 --> 00:55:20.346 Now listen, make no scandal here, I say. For I have come to nine-and-forty years. 00:55:20.371 --> 00:55:22.365 In honor, and I'd like to make it fifty. 00:55:22.390 --> 00:55:25.391 My birthday is the third of February; Today's the first. 00:55:25.416 --> 00:55:27.407 Now hurry up. Who was it? 00:55:47.513 --> 00:55:50.461 I grieve for her. Let the jug be, I beg you; 00:55:50.486 --> 00:55:52.579 I only wish 'twas really me that smashed it. 00:55:53.026 --> 00:55:54.513 Ignoble words from you! 00:55:54.538 --> 00:55:58.689 O fie, for shame That you don't say: all right, I broke the jug! 00:55:58.713 --> 00:56:00.884 Fie, Ruprecht, fie, 00:56:01.209 --> 00:56:04.761 O shame on you, that you Cannot have faith in me and what I did. 00:56:05.101 --> 00:56:07.327 And even if you'd seen me, through the keyhole, 00:56:07.354 --> 00:56:09.469 With Leberecht, and drinking from the jug. 00:56:09.494 --> 00:56:12.742 You should have thought, my Eve is good and true, 00:56:12.767 --> 00:56:15.512 And all will be explained to do her credit, 00:56:15.537 --> 00:56:18.177 If not in this life, then beyond the grave. 00:56:18.202 --> 00:56:20.663 And when we rise again there'll still be time. 00:56:20.863 --> 00:56:22.787 My soul, that takes too long for me, my Eve. 00:56:23.481 --> 00:56:25.345 What I can put my hands on, that I'll trust. 00:56:25.370 --> 00:56:27.633 Suppose for once it had been Leberecht, 00:56:27.893 --> 00:56:31.259 Suppose I had some reason to conceal it, 00:56:31.289 --> 00:56:34.302 Then tell me, Ruprecht, speak, why shouldn't I, 00:56:34.327 --> 00:56:36.569 Relying on your faith, say it was you? 00:56:36.594 --> 00:56:37.803 Why shouldn't I do that? 00:56:37.837 --> 00:56:39.537 It was not Ruprecht then? 00:56:39.562 --> 00:56:40.998 No, please Your Honor, 00:56:41.043 --> 00:56:43.229 This earthen pitcher Ruprecht did not break, 00:56:43.254 --> 00:56:44.425 What, Eve! Not Ruprecht? 00:56:44.456 --> 00:56:46.924 No, dear Mother, no! And if I said it yesterday, I lied. 00:56:46.949 --> 00:56:50.465 - I'll break your every bone! - Dame Martha! 00:56:50.490 --> 00:56:51.896 Hey! The bailiff! 00:56:54.176 --> 00:56:56.717 Bailiff! Bailiff! 00:56:56.742 --> 00:57:00.023 Take her and throw her out, the cursed hag! 00:57:00.048 --> 00:57:02.264 Why did it have to be just none but Ruprecht? 00:57:02.305 --> 00:57:04.595 Was it you that held the light for him, I wonder? 00:57:04.620 --> 00:57:07.042 The maiden, I should say, must know the facts: 00:57:07.067 --> 00:57:10.090 I am a rogue if it wasn't Leberecht. 00:57:10.115 --> 00:57:12.575 Now, was it he perhaps? Speak, was it Lebrecht? 00:57:12.618 --> 00:57:17.373 Speak, Eve, was it not Leberecht, my darling? 00:57:18.049 --> 00:57:21.493 You shameless man! You miserable sneak! 00:57:21.518 --> 00:57:24.756 - How can you say that Leberecht... - Young woman! What impudence! 00:57:24.781 --> 00:57:27.254 Is that the due respect That you should pay the judge upon the bench? 00:57:27.279 --> 00:57:32.107 This judge you mean! He well deserves To stand as sinner here before the court! 00:57:32.132 --> 00:57:34.138 He who could better tell who broke the jug! 00:57:34.163 --> 00:57:38.045 Didn't you send Lebrecht to town yourself to Utrecht to the Military Commission 00:57:38.070 --> 00:57:40.103 The list of names, before they choose recruits? 00:57:40.128 --> 00:57:42.289 How can you say that Lebrecht broke the jug, 00:57:42.314 --> 00:57:44.737 When you know well that he was gone to Utrecht? 00:57:44.762 --> 00:57:47.276 Well then, who else? If he did not, deuce take it... 00:57:47.301 --> 00:57:52.839 Not Ruprecht and not Lebrecht... Well, what is it? 00:57:57.221 --> 00:57:59.338 Tell us what happened. 00:57:59.596 --> 00:58:02.617 Most worthy Lord, and dear and gracious sir, 00:58:08.693 --> 00:58:12.125 Do not insist that I should tell you all, 00:58:12.150 --> 00:58:14.412 That Ruprecht didn't touch the jug I will 00:58:14.437 --> 00:58:16.460 Affirm, and with an oath, if you demand it, 00:58:16.485 --> 00:58:18.172 And swear to it before the holy altar. 00:58:19.121 --> 00:58:22.208 I cannot here report who broke the jug, 00:58:22.476 --> 00:58:25.004 Some time or other I'll confide in her, 00:58:25.073 --> 00:58:28.777 But this tribunal here is not the place Where she may claim the right to ask me this. 00:58:29.007 --> 00:58:31.588 No, not by rights. Upon my honor, no. 00:58:31.622 --> 00:58:33.848 If she will take her oath before this court, 00:58:33.882 --> 00:58:36.370 The mother's charge is null and void: 00:58:36.395 --> 00:58:39.505 The point, the point! We're speaking of the jug. 00:58:39.530 --> 00:58:42.350 Brmg on the proof that it was Ruprecht broke it. 00:58:42.375 --> 00:58:44.060 All right, Your Grace. Then first I now will prove 00:58:44.085 --> 00:58:46.288 That Ruprecht broke the jug for me, 00:58:46.313 --> 00:58:48.967 And then I'll go to searching in my house. 00:58:48.992 --> 00:58:51.416 But if you'll call Dame Bridget into court, 00:58:51.441 --> 00:58:52.810 That's Ruprecht's aunt, then she will serve my needs, 00:58:53.063 --> 00:58:56.017 For she, at half past ten there in the garden - 00:58:56.042 --> 00:58:59.138 Mark that, before the pitcher had been broken - 00:58:59.165 --> 00:59:01.187 She came upon him crossing words with Eve; 00:59:01.212 --> 00:59:03.597 - Who saw me? - Sister Briggy? 00:59:03.622 --> 00:59:05.898 Me with Eve? Outside? 00:59:05.938 --> 00:59:08.653 Saw him with Eve, outside, at half past ten, 00:59:08.678 --> 00:59:10.044 Bring in this woman. 00:59:10.069 --> 00:59:12.701 Listen, you cursed scamp, what's this you're doing? 00:59:12.801 --> 00:59:14.703 I'll break your bones in two. 00:59:16.277 --> 00:59:19.198 - You will, and why? - Why did you hide the fact that with the girl 00:59:19.223 --> 00:59:21.624 You flirted in the yard at half past ten? 00:59:21.648 --> 00:59:23.249 Why did you hide that fact? 00:59:23.429 --> 00:59:25.312 Why did I hide it? 00:59:25.499 --> 00:59:28.686 God's thunder, Dad! Because it isn't true! 00:59:29.339 --> 00:59:30.385 Ah yes. 00:59:30.909 --> 00:59:33.402 If that's Aunt Bridget's testimony, hang me. 00:59:33.695 --> 00:59:36.191 And her too by the legs, for all I care. 00:59:36.250 --> 00:59:38.982 Please have Dame Bridget brought to court, Judge Adam. 00:59:40.336 --> 00:59:42.958 Will not Your Honor find yourself worn out With such a case? 00:59:42.983 --> 00:59:44.360 It's getting long drawn out. 00:59:44.385 --> 00:59:47.861 You know you still have my accounts to see, And then the records too - What is the time? 00:59:47.886 --> 00:59:49.127 I'm minded... 00:59:49.151 --> 00:59:50.881 To conclude the hearing? Right! 00:59:50.906 --> 00:59:54.029 Your pardon! I am minded to continue. 00:59:54.883 --> 00:59:56.874 You're minded - Right, as well. 00:59:59.122 --> 01:00:02.124 As you command. Clerk Light, Send out the bailiffs; bid them straight 01:00:02.156 --> 01:00:04.585 To bring Dame Bridget here before the court. 01:00:04.610 --> 01:00:07.805 I beg you, Clerk - to save my precious time Yourself to see this order's carried out. 01:00:18.732 --> 01:00:21.734 Meanwhile I think one might, if that's your pleasure, 01:00:21.787 --> 01:00:24.087 Get up and stretch one's legs a bit? 01:00:26.009 --> 01:00:28.000 Hm! Yes. As I was going to say. 01:00:28.316 --> 01:00:30.707 Give me a glass of wine to pass the time. 01:00:30.842 --> 01:00:34.739 With all my heart I will. Hey! Margaret! Lisa! 01:00:35.120 --> 01:00:37.046 You make me very happy, sir. 01:00:37.827 --> 01:00:39.384 We're here Judge! 01:00:39.543 --> 01:00:41.534 You may go out, you people. 01:00:42.343 --> 01:00:45.814 French? Or Rhine wine? 01:00:45.839 --> 01:00:48.645 - Wine from our Rhine. - From our Rhine. Good. 01:00:48.674 --> 01:00:50.665 Go! March, I say! Go, Margaret! 01:00:50.690 --> 01:00:54.423 Go, get the sealed wine, Margaret. What? To the anteroom. Here. Take the key. 01:00:54.856 --> 01:00:59.243 Out there in the anteroom. Till I call you. March! 01:01:00.205 --> 01:01:02.491 You're sending out the parties, Judge? 01:01:02.664 --> 01:01:05.725 They will withdraw, if you permit. 01:01:05.750 --> 01:01:08.210 But only till Dame Bridget comes. 01:01:08.235 --> 01:01:12.275 Will it, do you consider, take so long To find her in the village? 01:01:12.871 --> 01:01:15.371 It's wood day, Your Honor, 01:01:15.576 --> 01:01:19.750 And the women hereabouts Are mostly in the woods, to gather fagots. 01:01:19.775 --> 01:01:22.790 - It might well be... - No, Auntie is at home. 01:01:22.815 --> 01:01:23.971 She'll be right here. 01:01:23.996 --> 01:01:26.659 - Bring on the wine. - The wine. 01:01:26.684 --> 01:01:30.251 Go then. But serve no food, I beg, Except a slice of bread with salt, no butter. 01:01:30.276 --> 01:01:33.705 What, bread with salt! No butter! Nonsense. 01:01:33.896 --> 01:01:35.887 At least a piece of Limburg cheese. 01:01:35.916 --> 01:01:40.211 For cheese prepares the tongue So it can taste the wine. 01:01:40.236 --> 01:01:42.349 Agreed. A piece of cheese, but nothing more. 01:01:42.383 --> 01:01:43.649 But nothing more. 01:01:44.296 --> 01:01:47.395 Butter, eggs, whole breast, ham. Then go. 01:01:48.053 --> 01:01:52.726 And lay a cloth of damask, white. 01:01:57.716 --> 01:02:00.708 On the table. 01:02:03.976 --> 01:02:06.207 As I was going to say... 01:02:06.996 --> 01:02:10.213 How did you ever get that wound, Your Honor? 01:02:12.209 --> 01:02:16.245 A nasty hole, my word, there in your head! 01:02:17.663 --> 01:02:20.979 - I fell. - You fell. Hm! Well. 01:02:21.579 --> 01:02:23.585 When? Just last night? 01:02:23.610 --> 01:02:26.764 No, pardon me, this morning, at five-thirty, 01:02:26.789 --> 01:02:29.564 And just as I was getting out of bed. 01:02:29.690 --> 01:02:30.977 And over what? 01:02:31.889 --> 01:02:33.880 Why... 01:02:34.923 --> 01:02:37.742 To tell the truth, I fell over myself. 01:02:38.069 --> 01:02:42.082 I plunged head first against the stove, you see, 01:02:42.169 --> 01:02:43.656 Fell backwards? 01:02:44.643 --> 01:02:47.065 - How? Fell backwards? - Or fell forwards? 01:02:47.156 --> 01:02:50.515 You have two wounds, one front and one in back. 01:02:50.656 --> 01:02:54.453 Backwards and forwards. First so, then so. 01:02:54.649 --> 01:02:56.903 First on the iron edge, 01:02:57.762 --> 01:03:01.762 Which knocked my forehead in, then right away 01:03:03.249 --> 01:03:05.473 I backwards fell again upon the ground. 01:03:05.558 --> 01:03:06.633 Dangerous. 01:03:08.194 --> 01:03:09.474 Will you be served? 01:03:15.602 --> 01:03:19.950 Now if you had a wife, Then I could credit most peculiar things, 01:03:19.975 --> 01:03:20.742 Your Honor. 01:03:21.056 --> 01:03:23.982 - How's that? - Yes, by my faith, 01:03:24.007 --> 01:03:26.869 I see you scraped and scratched on every side. 01:03:27.989 --> 01:03:29.065 No, God be praised! 01:03:29.090 --> 01:03:31.798 Those were not women's nails. 01:03:31.823 --> 01:03:35.453 And just today You had to lose your wig so strangely, too. 01:03:35.706 --> 01:03:38.060 That would at least have covered up your wounds. 01:03:38.232 --> 01:03:41.357 You're right. It seems misfortune is a twin. 01:03:42.629 --> 01:03:46.251 Here - of this fat cheese now - can I? 01:03:47.343 --> 01:03:50.285 Straight from Limburg here. 01:03:50.680 --> 01:03:52.163 - Can I? -A morsel. 01:03:52.257 --> 01:03:53.403 A morsel. 01:03:54.235 --> 01:03:54.816 Here. 01:03:55.502 --> 01:03:58.878 - From Limburg? - Straight from Limburg here, Your Grace. 01:03:59.003 --> 01:04:01.318 And some of that fat smoked Pomeranian goose. 01:04:04.170 --> 01:04:05.691 - Like some? - No. 01:04:05.763 --> 01:04:06.463 Good. 01:04:07.718 --> 01:04:10.710 But how the devil, tell me, could that happen? 01:04:11.115 --> 01:04:12.410 - Why, that... - What? 01:04:12.737 --> 01:04:15.301 Why, that you could wholly lose your wig. 01:04:18.876 --> 01:04:19.483 Yes. 01:04:20.736 --> 01:04:24.302 I'll tell you how. Last night I sat and read 01:04:25.182 --> 01:04:28.882 A case at law, and had mislaid my specs, 01:04:29.282 --> 01:04:32.175 And so I got so deep into the case 01:04:32.242 --> 01:04:36.994 That to the lighted candle getting close My wig took fire, and I, at first I thought 01:04:37.049 --> 01:04:40.516 That flames from Heaven had struck my sinful head 01:04:40.541 --> 01:04:44.698 And seized the wig to cast it far from me; Before I'd loosed the ribbons at my neck 01:04:44.823 --> 01:04:47.974 'Twas burning like to Sodom and Gomorrah. 01:04:49.910 --> 01:04:52.536 I barely saved the three hairs I have left. 01:04:55.469 --> 01:04:58.911 Too bad! You say your other one's in town? 01:04:59.116 --> 01:05:01.107 Yes, at the wig shop. 01:05:07.101 --> 01:05:09.378 - Niersteiner? - What? 01:05:09.403 --> 01:05:11.091 Or first-rate Oppenheimer? 01:05:11.603 --> 01:05:15.974 Niersteiner. Or first-rate Oppenheimer. From Nierstein or Oppenheim. 01:05:15.999 --> 01:05:18.616 How did you hit the sinner? On the head? 01:05:18.756 --> 01:05:19.284 Here. 01:05:19.322 --> 01:05:20.775 - Stop. - Give here. 01:05:20.835 --> 01:05:22.417 - It's still half full. - I'll fill it. 01:05:22.442 --> 01:05:24.057 - I beg you. - Nonsense! 01:05:24.082 --> 01:05:26.935 How often did you hit the sinner's head? 01:05:27.009 --> 01:05:30.362 - Me? - You, Ruprecht, I am asking! 01:05:31.609 --> 01:05:34.261 How oft you hit the scapegoat? 01:05:34.462 --> 01:05:37.454 - Out with it! - With the door latch? 01:05:38.696 --> 01:05:41.622 - Two times, good sirs. - The rascal! That he knows! 01:05:41.716 --> 01:05:47.172 Two times! With two such mighty blows you could Have killed him, you know that? 01:05:47.729 --> 01:05:51.184 O, if I had, I'd have him now. And that would suit me well. 01:05:51.209 --> 01:05:53.760 If he lay dead before me, I could say, 01:05:53.784 --> 01:05:56.092 That's him, good sirs, I haven't lied to you. 01:05:56.235 --> 01:05:58.488 Yes, dead! I warrant you. But now... 01:06:00.276 --> 01:06:02.519 Here. To our best beloved, Your Grace! 01:06:02.656 --> 01:06:09.228 I toast what's right and good and true, Judge Adam! 01:06:09.669 --> 01:06:12.236 There! There comes Dame Bridget! 01:06:14.283 --> 01:06:18.595 Well then, let us make haste to end the case. 01:06:28.823 --> 01:06:32.016 Here, Dame Bridget, enter. 01:06:33.983 --> 01:06:36.289 Is this the woman named to us, Judge Adam? 01:06:36.482 --> 01:06:37.941 Is this the woman... 01:06:38.361 --> 01:06:41.181 This is Dame Bridget, yes, so please Your Grace. 01:06:41.848 --> 01:06:45.914 What sort of wig is this Dame Bridget has In hand? 01:06:46.476 --> 01:06:47.965 Your Grace? 01:06:48.432 --> 01:06:49.206 Your Grace... 01:06:49.231 --> 01:06:51.594 I asked what sort of wig The woman has? 01:06:53.354 --> 01:06:55.727 - What? - Beg pardon... 01:06:55.776 --> 01:06:57.767 Will you speak up? 01:06:58.296 --> 01:07:01.984 If you will be so kind As have the Judge put questions to the woman, 01:07:02.009 --> 01:07:07.627 It will appear to whom the wig belongs, And other facts as well, I make no doubt. 01:07:08.147 --> 01:07:11.175 How did she get the wig? Where was it found? 01:07:11.309 --> 01:07:14.755 The woman found the wig upon the trellis 01:07:15.076 --> 01:07:19.135 Near Martha Rull's abode. It hung there speared, Just like a nest, amid the twining vines, 01:07:19.201 --> 01:07:22.148 Beneath the window where the maiden sleeps. 01:07:22.256 --> 01:07:24.247 What? By my house? My trellis? 01:07:32.359 --> 01:07:33.911 Justice Adam, 01:07:34.289 --> 01:07:34.896 Yes? 01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:38.036 If you have something to confide to me, 01:07:38.229 --> 01:07:42.051 I beg you, for the honor of the court, Please be so kind and tell me now. 01:07:42.603 --> 01:07:45.382 - What, I tell you? - Well? Have you not? 01:07:47.041 --> 01:07:48.428 'Pon honor... 01:07:48.453 --> 01:07:50.992 This wig now, does it not belong to you? 01:07:51.462 --> 01:07:53.453 The wig here... 01:07:57.889 --> 01:08:00.951 Gentlemen, is mine indeed! 01:08:01.515 --> 01:08:03.862 It is the very one, by thunder's light, 01:08:03.887 --> 01:08:06.347 That I gave to this lad a week ago 01:08:06.372 --> 01:08:09.004 To take for me to Master Flour in Utrecht. 01:08:09.029 --> 01:08:12.380 - Whom? What? - To Ruprecht? 01:08:12.536 --> 01:08:13.662 Me? 01:08:13.854 --> 01:08:17.661 Did I not give this wig to you to take... 01:08:17.916 --> 01:08:22.888 And have the barber put it back in shape? 01:08:23.495 --> 01:08:25.985 You ask? Well yes. You gave me... 01:08:26.010 --> 01:08:29.814 Speak then, why Did you, you scoundrel, not deliver it? 01:08:29.970 --> 01:08:31.064 Why did I not... 01:08:31.089 --> 01:08:34.122 I did go to the workshop with the wig. And Master Flour, he took it! 01:08:34.968 --> 01:08:37.039 Turned it in? 01:08:37.070 --> 01:08:41.467 And now it's hanging there in Martha's trellis? 01:08:41.553 --> 01:08:44.820 O wait, you scamp! You don't escape like that. 01:08:45.216 --> 01:08:48.729 Behind all this I smell a rank disguise, Some mutiny or the like. 01:08:48.989 --> 01:08:52.489 Your Grace permits Me to interrogate this woman here? 01:08:52.514 --> 01:08:54.920 You say you gave this wig? 01:08:54.967 --> 01:08:57.665 So please Your Grace, When yonder fellow there, on Tuesday last, 01:08:57.690 --> 01:08:59.890 Drove into Utrecht with his father's oxen, 01:08:59.915 --> 01:09:04.518 He came into my office and he said, "Have you an errand to be done in town?" 01:09:04.549 --> 01:09:09.084 'My son,' says I, 'if you will be so good, Then take this wig and have it renovated'. 01:09:09.109 --> 01:09:13.804 I didn't say to him: go now and keep The wig with you, disguise yourself in it 01:09:13.829 --> 01:09:16.847 And leave it hanging in Dame Martha's trellis. 01:09:17.227 --> 01:09:18.807 Good sirs, 01:09:18.832 --> 01:09:21.824 Your pardon, Ruprecht here, I think, Was not the one you want. 01:09:22.370 --> 01:09:27.782 For when last night I went to the farm to see my cousin there, 01:09:28.088 --> 01:09:30.680 She being hard in labor, in the yard, 01:09:31.193 --> 01:09:32.911 I heard the girl say scolding words, but soft, 01:09:32.936 --> 01:09:35.729 For fear and fury seemed to take her voice. 01:09:35.863 --> 01:09:38.686 "Fie, shame on you, you despicable man", 01:09:38.711 --> 01:09:41.022 What is this? Go! 01:09:41.255 --> 01:09:43.314 Or I will call my mother"; 01:09:43.982 --> 01:09:47.492 Then: 'Eva!' through the fence I called her, 'Eva! 01:09:47.517 --> 01:09:50.554 What is it? What's the matter?' 01:09:51.008 --> 01:09:53.331 All is still: 01:09:55.051 --> 01:09:58.194 As I was coming back here from the farm, 01:09:58.787 --> 01:10:01.480 About the hour of midnight, and was just 01:10:01.759 --> 01:10:05.289 Beneath the limes, at Martha's garden there, 01:10:06.223 --> 01:10:08.878 A fellow whisks right past me, 01:10:09.448 --> 01:10:13.622 Bald of pate; He has a horse's hoof, 01:10:14.423 --> 01:10:15.969 And after him 01:10:15.994 --> 01:10:21.610 It stinks like smoke and pitch and hair and sulfur. 01:10:22.972 --> 01:10:26.568 I speak a hasty prayer to God, and turn 01:10:26.600 --> 01:10:28.551 Around in horror, 01:10:28.576 --> 01:10:31.006 And I see, my soul, 01:10:31.316 --> 01:10:35.695 The bald spot, gentlemen, swiftly disappearing, 01:10:35.720 --> 01:10:37.711 Like rotten wood shine 01:10:37.736 --> 01:10:40.900 Through the linden walk. 01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:43.253 What! Thunder-ation! 01:10:43.293 --> 01:10:47.737 - Are you crazy, Bridget? - You think it was the Devil? 01:10:47.762 --> 01:10:52.033 My soul, I know right well just what I saw and smelled. 01:10:52.129 --> 01:10:55.235 But here Clerk Light can testify for me. 01:10:56.162 --> 01:10:58.815 That 'twas the Devil I would not maintain, 01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:01.799 But as to the horse's hoof, and shiny pate, 01:11:01.824 --> 01:11:05.818 And smoke behind, if I'm not much mistaken, 01:11:05.845 --> 01:11:07.858 All that is quite correct! 01:11:08.329 --> 01:11:09.800 Now then, proceed! 01:11:10.093 --> 01:11:12.787 Now when today I learned with much surprise 01:11:13.020 --> 01:11:15.483 What had occurred at Martha Rull's, and I, 01:11:15.783 --> 01:11:19.527 To ferret out the smasher of the jug, 01:11:19.656 --> 01:11:24.959 Whom I'd encountered by the trellis there, Investigate the spot where out he leaped, 01:11:25.176 --> 01:11:29.089 I found, gentlemen, tracks in the snow. 01:11:29.843 --> 01:11:32.682 I find a track, good sirs, right in the snow! 01:11:33.236 --> 01:11:37.677 The right foot fine and sharp and neatly edged, 01:11:37.702 --> 01:11:39.879 A human foot, as regular as any, 01:11:40.416 --> 01:11:45.500 To left of it, misshapen, coarsely trampled, 01:11:45.922 --> 01:11:50.551 A monstrous thing, a rounded horse's hoof. 01:11:50.576 --> 01:11:52.459 It isn't possible! 01:11:52.484 --> 01:11:56.687 Upon my faith! Right by the trellis, where the leap was made, 01:11:56.712 --> 01:11:59.704 Behold a circle wide, of trampled snow, 01:11:59.729 --> 01:12:03.576 - As if a sow had rolled around in it; - A sow? 01:12:03.884 --> 01:12:08.017 And human foot and horse's hoof, 01:12:08.595 --> 01:12:11.709 And human foot and horse's hoof, 01:12:12.088 --> 01:12:15.170 And human's foot, and horse's foot 01:12:15.682 --> 01:12:21.232 Off through the garden, out into the world. 01:12:28.416 --> 01:12:31.645 My soul, good sirs, this seems a serious thing. 01:12:31.956 --> 01:12:33.947 So I would propose 01:12:34.036 --> 01:12:36.909 We question first the Synod at the Hague, 01:12:36.956 --> 01:12:39.000 Whether our court has warrant to assume 01:12:39.047 --> 01:12:41.604 Beelzebub himself has smashed the jug. 01:12:41.629 --> 01:12:44.354 Such a proposal I'd expect from you. 01:12:44.736 --> 01:12:48.071 Your Grace Need not consult the Synod to decide. 01:12:48.096 --> 01:12:50.649 You there, Dame Bridget, please; 01:12:50.692 --> 01:12:53.531 On this: 'Now, Mr. Clerk,' says I, 'let us 01:12:53.818 --> 01:12:56.755 Follow this track a little way, and see 01:12:57.003 --> 01:13:00.148 To where the Devil may have got away.' 01:13:01.095 --> 01:13:04.834 "'All right," says he, "Dame Bridget, good idea; 01:13:05.429 --> 01:13:11.348 Perhaps we shall not go too far afield, If we should go to Justice Adam's house." 01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:14.213 Well? And you found? 01:13:14.586 --> 01:13:17.826 My faith, directly here to you, 01:13:17.857 --> 01:13:21.986 - To us? And here? - And so, I say, to Justice Adam's house. 01:13:22.011 --> 01:13:25.409 - To Justice Adam's house? - Here to my house? 01:13:25.434 --> 01:13:26.760 That's what I said. 01:13:26.841 --> 01:13:29.777 The Devil surely would Not live here in the court? 01:13:30.610 --> 01:13:35.034 Faith, I don't know If he lives in this house; 01:13:35.460 --> 01:13:38.431 But it was here, As I'm an honest woman, he turned in: 01:13:38.456 --> 01:13:41.448 The track goes to the threshold at the rear. 01:13:41.936 --> 01:13:46.889 Could he perhaps have gone right through? 01:13:47.181 --> 01:13:50.371 Or gone right through, indeed. May be. 01:13:50.527 --> 01:13:53.898 - That's so. - Ah, trampled. Gone right through. 01:13:53.923 --> 01:13:57.850 I am no honest man If nothing's rotten in the registry. 01:13:57.962 --> 01:14:00.156 If my accounts, as now I do not doubt, 01:14:00.216 --> 01:14:04.180 Turn out to be confused and in disorder, Upon my word, I'll vouch for nothing now. 01:14:04.205 --> 01:14:06.494 Nor I. Hm, hm! I wonder, 01:14:06.519 --> 01:14:09.511 Tell me, is there some person in the village Who has misshapen feet? 01:14:09.789 --> 01:14:12.911 Hm! Well, there is indeed a man in Huysum. 01:14:12.936 --> 01:14:16.344 - Oh? Who? - Well, if Your Grace will ask the Judge... 01:14:16.369 --> 01:14:19.580 - You mean Judge Adam? - I've no information. 01:14:19.823 --> 01:14:21.917 And to my knowledge everyone is sound. 01:14:22.155 --> 01:14:24.436 Oh, keep your feet outside! 01:14:24.560 --> 01:14:26.915 Why stick them thus disturbed beneath the table, 01:14:26.940 --> 01:14:29.631 To make one think you'd made that track yourself? 01:14:29.656 --> 01:14:32.384 I? That track? Am I Old Nick? 01:14:33.143 --> 01:14:34.951 Is that a horse's hoof? 01:14:35.063 --> 01:14:39.975 And if the Devil had a foot like this He could go out to balls and dance his fill. 01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:41.884 Make an end at once, I say. 01:14:41.909 --> 01:14:44.628 The only problem left, my worthy sirs, 01:14:44.658 --> 01:14:47.358 Is, as it seems this solemn decoration. 01:14:47.505 --> 01:14:50.831 - What sort of solemn? - Here, this wig I hold! 01:14:51.436 --> 01:14:54.667 Who ever saw such a costume on the Devil? 01:14:55.669 --> 01:14:58.424 We rustic folks have but imperfect knowledge, 01:14:58.569 --> 01:15:01.561 Dame Bridget, of the fashions down in hell. 01:15:01.616 --> 01:15:04.608 They say he wears his own hair commonly. 01:15:04.781 --> 01:15:08.788 But on earth, I am convinced of that, He flings a wig upon his head, in order 01:15:09.003 --> 01:15:11.816 To mingle unobserved with dignitaries. 01:15:11.856 --> 01:15:16.686 O villain! Worthy to be publicly Chased from the bench in shame! 01:15:16.809 --> 01:15:19.370 What saves you here, Is nothing but the honor of the court. 01:15:19.395 --> 01:15:20.565 Conclude the session now! 01:15:20.590 --> 01:15:22.757 - I hope you don't... - Your hope is vain. 01:15:22.824 --> 01:15:24.165 Withdraw as best you can. 01:15:24.190 --> 01:15:26.716 You think that I, the Judge, I, yesterday, 01:15:26.756 --> 01:15:28.771 Forsook my wig among Dame Martha's vines? 01:15:28.796 --> 01:15:31.693 No, God forbid! For yours went up in smoke, 01:15:31.726 --> 01:15:33.753 Like Sodom and Gomorrah, you recall. 01:15:34.456 --> 01:15:38.664 Or rather - pardon me, Your Grace! the cat It was that littered in it yesterday. 01:15:39.599 --> 01:15:42.997 Good sirs, and though appearances condemn me: Don't be too hasty, I beseech. 01:15:43.022 --> 01:15:46.106 I sit here on the judge's bench at Huysum, 01:15:46.209 --> 01:15:48.551 And here I lay this wig upon the table: 01:15:48.576 --> 01:15:53.343 The one who claims this wig belongs to me I'll summon to the highest court in Utrecht. 01:15:53.368 --> 01:15:57.202 Hm! Well, the wig will fit you, on my soul, As if it had grown upon your very pate. 01:15:57.227 --> 01:15:58.520 - A slander! - No? 01:15:58.554 --> 01:16:01.271 Oh, such a thundering rascal! 01:16:01.296 --> 01:16:03.856 You wait! Today I'll reach you. Today you'll throw no sand into my eyes. 01:16:03.888 --> 01:16:06.615 Well, if Your Grace Permits, I will pronounce the sentence now. 01:16:06.640 --> 01:16:08.626 Good. Do. Pronounce it. 01:16:09.787 --> 01:16:10.996 Now the case is clear, 01:16:11.183 --> 01:16:13.478 And Ruprecht there, the scoundrel, is the culprit. 01:16:13.662 --> 01:16:15.364 His neck goes into irons, 01:16:15.389 --> 01:16:18.023 And since he has most disrespectfully Behaved as touching me, his Judge, 01:16:18.048 --> 01:16:21.662 I'll throw him into prison behind bars, For just how long I shall determine later. 01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:23.589 - What, Ruprecht? - Me to prison? 01:16:23.614 --> 01:16:25.628 His neck in irons? Are you judges, you? 01:16:25.655 --> 01:16:27.929 It's he, that shameless one, he sitting there, 01:16:27.954 --> 01:16:31.321 He was the one! Judge Adam was the man who smashed the jug! 01:16:31.346 --> 01:16:32.601 - He? - That man? 01:16:32.848 --> 01:16:34.150 Oh, wait, you! 01:16:37.402 --> 01:16:41.628 Up, Ruprecht! Smash him off the bench! 01:16:43.494 --> 01:16:45.643 Unruly churl! Restore the Court to order. 01:16:45.830 --> 01:16:47.224 Now it's clear! 01:16:52.409 --> 01:16:53.986 Up! Seize him! 01:17:00.336 --> 01:17:02.067 Hell and sulfur! 01:17:02.668 --> 01:17:04.928 Ruprecht, Ruprecht! 01:17:05.262 --> 01:17:06.570 My sacred jug! 01:17:06.656 --> 01:17:07.938 Damn him! 01:17:50.509 --> 01:17:53.211 Run quick, Clerk Light, and bring him back again! 01:17:53.416 --> 01:17:58.980 He is suspended from his office, yes, And I appoint you, pending further word 01:17:59.353 --> 01:18:01.039 Of notice, to administer the same; 01:18:01.836 --> 01:18:04.097 But if his funds are straight, as much I hope, 01:18:04.122 --> 01:18:06.967 I would not then compel him to desertion. 01:18:07.042 --> 01:18:09.367 Go then! Do me this favor, bring him back! 01:18:13.116 --> 01:18:16.495 Sir, if you do not help us, we are lost! 01:18:16.520 --> 01:18:18.000 Why lost? How so? 01:18:18.027 --> 01:18:19.964 O, save my Ruprecht from conscription, sir! 01:18:19.989 --> 01:18:22.238 For see, this levy - and it was Judge Adam Confided this to me as very secret, 01:18:22.265 --> 01:18:23.664 Goes to the Indies; 01:18:23.689 --> 01:18:27.236 And from there, you know, Out of three men but one comes back again! 01:18:27.315 --> 01:18:30.324 What! To the Indies! Are you in your senses? 01:18:30.356 --> 01:18:33.782 The troops recently drafted will serve at home. 01:18:33.807 --> 01:18:36.897 It wouldn't occur to anyone to send them to the East Indies! 01:18:36.922 --> 01:18:39.914 - No, really not, dear sir? - Upon my faith. 01:18:40.136 --> 01:18:42.669 And as a proof of what I say: this Ruprecht, 01:18:42.730 --> 01:18:45.695 If it were as you say: I'll buy him free! 01:18:49.808 --> 01:18:50.828 Come! 01:18:51.676 --> 01:18:54.729 Oh, Evie! How shamefully I injured you today! 01:18:54.996 --> 01:18:57.587 O you my darling girl, love of my heart! 01:18:58.100 --> 01:18:59.762 Will you forgive me ever while you live? 01:18:59.787 --> 01:19:04.224 - O heaven! How the villain lied to me! - Forget the horse's hoof, my darling girl! 01:19:04.364 --> 01:19:06.864 For if a horse had smashed the jug for you, 01:19:06.892 --> 01:19:09.224 I'd be as jealous as I am right now! 01:19:12.761 --> 01:19:15.753 I beg you, Gracious Sir! 01:19:16.122 --> 01:19:17.030 What is it? 01:19:17.055 --> 01:19:19.594 Where shall I find The seat of government in Utrecht town? 01:19:19.619 --> 01:19:21.764 On the great square. And why, Dame Martha? 01:19:21.789 --> 01:19:24.991 Hm! And why? Oh well, Shall then my jug Not find some justice there? 01:19:25.016 --> 01:19:28.244 On Tuesdays and on Fridays court is held. 01:19:28.269 --> 01:19:32.060 That's good! This day week I'll present myself. 01:20:32.496 --> 01:20:34.487 The End.