Act 5 — SCENE I.
C. (Conrad) Lüdger translation
Enter Aulic Counsellor Reissman, bringing in two bottles of wine, which he puts on the table.
Reiss. The doctor is dead,--good night to him! The lawyer will soon follow; he is an old man! Old people are subject to many accidents; death has them constantly at his nod, such is the course of nature!