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[In a loud voice.] 'Tis the spirits awaking!

Hail to Lady Inger Gyldenlöve!

[To ] Have you told them what is afoot?

I have told them all they need to know.

[To the ] Ay, now, my faithful house-folk and peasants, now must ye arm you as best you can and will. That which earlier to-night I forbade you, ye have now my fullest leave to do. And here I present to you the young Count Sture, the coming ruler of Sweden—and Norway too, if God will it so.

Hail to him! Hail to Count Sture!