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KRIEMHILD.
I see you know it well! The second trick Succeeded like the first, and now I have My task twice over!
[_She starts to put the girdle on again._]
SIEGFRIED.
No! For G.o.d's sake, no!
KRIEMHILD.
Art thou in earnest?
SIEGFRIED (_to himself_).
'Twas with that she strove To tie my hands.
KRIEMHILD.
Art laughing?
SIEGFRIED (_to himself_).
Then I raged, And put forth all my strength.
KRIEMHILD.
Nay, thou art not?
SIEGFRIED (_to himself_).
I s.n.a.t.c.hed at something.
KRIEMHILD.
That I'll soon believe.
SIEGFRIED (_to himself_).
I thrust it, when she grasped for it again, Into my bosom, and--Now give it me!
No well is deep enough to hide it in; With a great stone I'll sink it in the Rhine!
KRIEMHILD.
Siegfried!
SIEGFRIED.
I must have lost it--Give it me!
KRIEMHILD.
Where didst thou get this girdle?
SIEGFRIED.
Nay, this is A dark and fearful secret; thou should'st seek To learn no whit about it.
KRIEMHILD.
Yet thou hast Confided one still greater, and I know The place where Death may strike the fatal blow.
SIEGFRIED.
That I alone protect!
KRIEMHILD.
And there are two To guard the other!
SIEGFRIED (_to himself_).
I was far too quick.
KRIEMHILD (_covers her face_).
Thou gav'st thy oath to me! Why didst thou that?
I had not even asked it.
SIEGFRIED.
Still I swear, I ne'er have known a woman!
KRIEMHILD (_holds up the girdle_).
SIEGFRIED.
That was used To bind me.
KRIEMHILD.
If a lion told the tale 'Twere less incredible!
SIEGFRIED.
And yet 'tis true.
KRIEMHILD.
