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Then Well for the whole, if there be found a man Who makes himself what nature destined him, The pause, the central point, to thousand thousands Stands fixed and stately, like a firm-built column, Where all may press with joy and confidence Now such a man is Wallenstein; and if Another better suits the court no other But such a one as he can serve the army. QUESTENBERG. The army? Doubtless!
VON QUESTENBERG, the War Commissioner, Imperial Envoy. BAPTISTA SENI, an Astrologer. DUCHESS OF FRIEDLAND, Wife of Wallenstein. THEKLA, her Daughter, Princess of Friedland. THE COUNTESS TERZRY, Sister of the Duchess. ATTENDANTS and HOBOISTS belonging to Terzky. VALET DE CHAMBRE of Count Piccolomini.
Every power Seems as it were redoubled by his presence He draws forth every latent energy, Showing to each his own peculiar talent, Yet leaving all to be what nature made them, And watching only that they be naught else In the right place and time; and he has skill To mould the power's of all to his own end. QUESTENBERG. But who denies his knowledge of mankind, And skill to use it?
QUESTENBERG. Oh, hear your father, noble youth! hear him Who is at once the hero and the man. OCTAVIO. My son, the nursling of the camp spoke in thee! A war of fifteen years Hath been thy education and thy school. Peace hast thou never witnessed! There exists An higher than the warrior's excellence.
QUESTENBERG. I am ready To obey you; but will first entreat your highness, And all these noble chieftains, to consider, The imperial dignity and sovereign right Speaks from my mouth, and not my own presumption. WALLENSTEIN. We excuse all preface.
ILLO. Expect to find a restive steed in us. QUESTENBERG. A better rider may be found to rule it. ILLO. He only brooks the rider who has tamed him. QUESTENBERG. Ay, tame him once, and then a child may lead him. ILLO. The child, we know, is found for him already. QUESTENBERG. Be duty, sir, your study, not a name.
From the emperor, doubtless, I received this staff, But now I hold it as the empire's general, For the common weal, the universal interest, And no more for that one man's aggrandizement! But to the point. What is it that's desired of me? WALLENSTEIN. In this season? And to what quarter wills the emperor That we direct our course? QUESTENBERG. To the enemy.
This that he was the monarch in his army! A monarch, one who is indeed a monarch, Was never yet subdued but by his equal. But to the point! The best is yet to come, Attend now, generals! QUESTENBERG. The Prince Cardinal Begins his route at the approach of spring From the Milanese; and leads a Spanish army Through Germany into the Netherlands.
Love or hate one another as you will, I leave to each man his own moods and likings; Yet know the worth of each of you to me. ILLO. Von Questenberg, while he was here, was always Lurking about with this Octavio. WALLENSTEIN. It happened with my knowledge and permission. ILLO. I know that secret messengers came to him From Gallas WALLENSTEIN. That's not true.
I might have lost the battle, lost it too With infamy, and still retained your graces But, to have cheated them of a spectacle, Oh! that the good folks of Vienna never, No, never can forgive me! QUESTENBERG. So Silesia Was freed, and all things loudly called the duke Into Bavaria, now pressed hard on all sides.
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