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William Tell was a touchy fellow and became quite vain about his own legend as a folk hero. At the battle of Morgarten a captured officer was brought to him for interrogation. The Austrian did not recognise him and asked, quite innocently, to whom he was speaking. This so incensed the great archer that he seized a halberd from one of the guards and was about to thrust it into his prisoner's ribs.

The sergeant was horrified at this breach of battlefield honour, and shouted out hurriedly "Don't pike him, Tell!"