Rudolf v. Habsburg of Basel.

(Plan gathered from the 24th to the 28th of Winter month)

First Act.

Saint’s lamp

Hall in the Bishop’s castle, long table with benches. In the background a half-open door to an illuminated festival room, roar of many guests.

1.

Walter v. Strassburg.
b. whether there is nothing to be earned for a minnesinger.
Explains why the lords are together.

1 the Bishop’s cellar master with Young, cleaning up after the meal. a. Walter v. d. Strasburg the b. explains why the lords are together. b whether there is nothing to be earned for a minnesinger. Waiter, he has a little more wine in his head, the poor man wants to leave him,

2.

• the b. says you are also a nobleman
• and learn to scream like the citizen
• throw away the coat and put on the citizen’s smock
  he says the h. [lords] will eat him up entirely
• b. confesses that he would like the Rudolf
• He wants to withdraw the castle from him

2 Bishop and Buttenheim.. a) charges the b with all sorts of crimes, highway robbery of citizens, seduction of wives. still has penance to do. B. the Bishop wants to take his coat off. b) he has performed true service just as loyally and honestly as Rudolf. he wants to take the castle away from the Bishop as a fief, fight loyally for him, it would not suit certain faces in there a scoundrel if he flees, a marksman risky to him and the church, that is already enough for him. a. therefore I build upon you, pay. the others are so difficult, he wants to probe their attitude today. Especially those of Stern + . it would have been brave, if one had left him such a wife as ab? but the Epting had snatched it away from before his mouth. he warns him, to put the h. so on their laps. would b should she be bride-rest. b) and these and those?

3.

3 a. Hug the Marshal, citizen, b) Bishop. b) He wants to use this opportunity to settle something quite friendly. a) Speaks as a citizen. he is accustomed as a "German" to express his need and thoughts and believes the father not to his best

4.

4 Sternein, Monk b after the Stern the h. Yes Sittich, whose horse [is] quite bad to the poor. Marshal, Buttenheim, Bishop.
f.) Greets everyone and bids them sit. where the Eptingen is staying. e) he is sitting with his wife and dallying like a bridegroom. A musician is inside, to whom the citizens and the women are all listening. f.) that is good, that they do not disturb us. e) the Marshal may well speak in the name of his son-in-law, this one will surely be satisfied with everything. f) Tells of the confused the taking of his castle Wert, and of that which Rud. has done to hurt him and the city. a) demands wine, without wine nothing proper can be settled. f. asks for communal help and admonishes the Sterns, Sittichs, and citizens to discard all enmity toward one another. a) Now the Lord Bishop can beg so beautifully, on this and that occasion he spoke differently. b) Takes the side of the Bishop and the city. a) You parrots, easy to talk, with all official haste you have all the citizens in your hands through debt notes, are always the first hits on the robber-nobles, as Rudolf is one too. a) You carrion-crows! b) Admonishes for unity, he has therefore given a Stern to his daughter. How cities are such a beautiful thing, Rhenish League he has seen Italy. a) Hit on the citizens. They seduced our own people. I can never see the Baritenbrand, without resentment who [is] my cousin’s own-man and now he says as a citizen in there next to me! e) Pious Partiniſarius profit-sharer of the Bishop and the Mayor, although the daughter not given to him, he declares himself loyal devotion to the Church, Swan, and the city. a) the Stern mocks and scolds him.

5.

5 the messenger. Eptingen leads the singer out, he has sung such a beautiful song, the Emperor Friedrich... he must also sing it to them. f. he does not want to hear it, longing of the singer-scorn g) Praises it. e) And even of the Emperor Friedrich, the enemy of the church, the heretic, who died under the ban. f) Honor to such is also the Habsburg, he is also still under the ban, a robber. b) Excuses Rudolf, he has only done crusade against the Prussians. he is no bad friend to the city as Mr. Swan says the Eptinger the Buttenh. in between; one knows what he has done for them f. hits again on the citizen the Swan says the city, he is their refuge. demands they help again. e) had declared him to the Bishop’s Swan. all n. g. embittered against him. A parrot insults Walter. g scolds him, scream against the insulter. Brawl breaks out, a scolds him, that he as a noble lord [should act] so toward the citizen. Several citizens come.