(Enter the Citizen.)
CITIZEN. Ah, honored Burgomaster, poor man that I am, I have
suffered great injustice, which the burgomaster will at once
understand when he has heard about it.
HERMAN. You must put it in writing.
CITIZEN. Here it is, all written out, in four sheets.
HERMAN. Henrich! Some one is knocking again.
HENRICH. Whom do you want to talk to?
ANOTHER CITIZEN (off stage). I have a complaint to lodge before the
burgomaster against the alderman of the hatters' guild.
HERMAN. Who is that, Henrich?
HENRICH. It is this man's adversary.
Herman. Make him hand you his memorial. Both you good men wait in
the anteroom meanwhile.
[Exit the Citizen.