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Updated: May 18, 2025
QUESTENBERG. In Nuernberg's camp the Swedish monarch left His fame in Luetzen's plains his life. But who Stood not astounded, when victorious Friedland After this day of triumph, this proud day, Marched toward Bohemia with the speed of flight, And vanished from the theatre of war?
QUESTENBERG. Thank Heaven! that means have been found out to hide Some little from the fingers of the Croats. ILLO. There!
But at Vienna, brother! here's the grievance, What politic schemes do they not lay to shorten His arm, and where they can to clip his pinions. Then these new dainty requisitions! these Which this same Questenberg brings hither! BUTLER. Ay! Those requisitions of the emperor I too have heard about them; but I hope The duke will not draw back a single inch!
WALLENSTEIN Motions QUESTENBERG, who in consequence takes the chair directly opposite to him; the others follow, arranging themselves according to their rank. There reigns a momentary silence. WALLENSTEIN. I have understood, 'Tis true, the sum and import, Questenberg, Of your instructions.
Thou hast seen Questenberg with me. As yet Thou knowest but his ostensible commission: He brought with him a private one, my son! And that was for me only. MAX. May I know it? Max! The empire's welfare and thy father's life. Dear to thy inmost heart is Wallenstein A powerful tie of love, of veneration, Hath knit thee to him from thy earliest youth.
No Compelled alike by prudence, and that duty Which we all owe our country and our sovereign, To hide my genuine feelings from him, yet Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits! QUESTENBERG. It is the visible ordinance of heaven. OCTAVIO. I know not what it is that so attracts And links him both to me and to my son.
QUESTENBERG. When his majesty The emperor to his courageous armies Presented in the person of Duke Friedland A most experienced and renowned commander, He did it in glad hope and confidence To give thereby to the fortune of the war A rapid and auspicious change. The onset Was favorable to his royal wishes. Bohemia was delivered from the Saxons, The Swede's career of conquest checked!
And were this spirit universal OCTAVIO. Hm! You're now acquainted with three-fourths of the army. QUESTENBERG. Where must we seek, then, for a second host To have the custody of this? That Illo Thinks worse, I fear me, than he speaks. And then This Butler, too he cannot even conceal The passionate workings of his ill intentions. OCTAVIO. Quickness of temper irritated pride; 'Twas nothing more.
Hast thou taken heed that Questenberg was watched? Had he no means of secret intercourse? ILLO. I have watched him closely and he spoke with none But with Octavio. WALLENSTRIN, TERZKY, ILLO. To them enter QUESTENBERG, OCTAVIO, and MAX. PICCOLOMINI, BUTLER, ISOLANI, MARADAS, and three other Generals.
ILLO. The sentries are saluting them: this signal Announces the arrival of the duchess. Then my son Max., too, has returned. 'Twas he Fetched and attended them from Caernthen hither. Shall we not go in company to greet them? ILLO. Well, let us go Ho! QUESTENBERG and OCTAVIO. What have I not been forced to hear, Octavio! What sentiments! what fierce, uncurbed defiance!
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