nine o'clock
`` And the Duke , '' Albert interrupted him , `` where was he ? '' `` The Duke treated with the Swiss for the last time at Kirchheim ; but they withdrew from him , because he could not pay them . He then came to Blaubeuren , where his infantry was encamped . Yesterday morning it was made known by beat of drum , that all the people should assemble on the field of the convent by nine o'clock . The assembly was numerous ; and but one feeling ran through the whole . Look ye , sir , Duke Ulerich is a severe master ; and does not understand the manner of winning over the peasantry . Taxes are oppressive -- the injury done to our fields by hunting is ruinous and galling -- and the court squanders what is taken from us ; -- but when such a master , though tyrant he be , is in misfortune , it is quite a different thing .