- Gessler: As for you, my fine young patriot, I am anxious to meet your father. Tell him that I have great interest in "the greatest marksman in all of Uri."
- [gives an evil laugh]
- Father First: And now the oath: We, the free men of Uri, do this night solemnly swear to unite as one force to plan and to execute an uprising to shake from our shoulders forever the tyrannical yoke of foreign rule, so help us God.
- Gessler: Tomorrow you will see that a pole is set up in the square of the marketplace. On this pole shall be hung my hat, the emblem of the Emperor's power. A herald shall proclaim to one and all that to fail to bow down to this symbol will be punishable by death.