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NEUMANN. I have copied it Letter by letter, line by line; no eye Would e'er discover other difference, Save only the omission of that clause, According to your excellency's order. TERZKY. Right I lay it yonder and away with this It has performed its business to the fire with it. ILLO. How goes it with young Piccolomini! TERZKY. All right, I think. He has started no object.
WALLENSTEIN. Get but the signatures! ILLO. Think what thou dost, thou canst not execute The emperor's orders, nor reduce thine army, Nor send the regiments to the Spaniards' aid, Unless thou wouldst resign thy power forever.
Only Gallas is wanting still, and Altringer. BUTLER. Expect not Gallas. How so? Do you know Max. Piccolomini here? O bring me to him. The down was scarce upon his chin! I hear He has made good the promise of his youth, And the full hero now is finished in him. ILLO. You'll see him yet ere evening.
The troops at Prague conceive no other, Than that the Pilsen army has gone through The forms of homage to us; and in Pilsen They shall swear fealty to us, because The example has been given them by Prague. Butler, you tell me, has declared himself? ILLO. At his own bidding, unsolicited, He came to offer you himself and regiment.
Colonels Illo and Goetz were ordered by Wallenstein to the Warta, to push forwards into Pomerania, and to the coasts of the Baltic, and actually obtained possession of Landsberg, the key of Pomerania.
ILLO. He is the only one I fear about He and his father. Have an eye on both! TERZKY. How looks it at your table: you forget not To keep them warm and stirring? ILLO. Oh, quite cordial, They are quite cordial in the scheme. We have them And 'tis as I predicted too. Already It is the talk, not merely to maintain The duke in station.
There must have been found on him my whole packet To Thur, to Kinsky, to Oxenstiern, to Arnheim: All this is in their hands; they have now an insight Into the whole our measures and our motives. To them enters ILLO. Has he heard it? TERZKY. He has heard it. Thinkest thou still To make thy peace with the emperor, to regain His confidence?
Having trusted him E'en till to-day, to-day too will I trust him. TERZKY. Must it be he he only? Send another. WALLENSTEIN. It must be he, whom I myself have chosen; He is well fitted for the business. Therefore I gave it him. ILLO. Because he's an Italian Therefore is he well fitted for the business!
COUNTESS. But he will miss you, will ask after you. DUCHESS. What, now? Why is she going? COUNTESS. She's not well. What ails, then, my beloved child? During this WALLENSTEIN appears, engaged in conversation with ILLO. WALLENSTEIN. All quiet in the camp? ILLO. It is all quiet. WALLENSTEIN. In a few hours may couriers come from Prague With tidings that this capital is ours.
Greatness, in and of itself, may excite terror and admiration; but legitimate greatness alone can inspire reverence and submission; and of this decisive advantage he deprived himself, the instant he avowed himself a traitor. Field-Marshal Illo undertook to learn the sentiments of the officers, and to prepare them for the step which was expected of them.
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