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Updated: May 11, 2025
WALLENSTEIN. Is not that Seni! and beside himself, If one can trust his looks? What brings thee hither At this late hour, Baptista? SENI. Terror, duke! On thy account. WALLENSTEIN. What now? SENI. Flee ere the day break! Trust not thy person to the Swedes! WALLENSTEIN. What now Is in thy thoughts? Trust not thy person to the Swedes. WALLENSTEIN. What is it, then?
To-day he went round with his little bag, and begged, with his kind good eyes, for alms. Paaker has given us a good piece of arable land, and thinks, perhaps with reason, that he has done his part. When Seni addressed him, he told him to go; but the old man did not give up asking him, he followed him persistently to the grave of his father, and a great many people with him.
While these three officers were thus deciding upon his fate in the castle of Egra, Wallenstein was occupied in reading the stars with Seni. "The danger is not yet over," said the astrologer with prophetic spirit. "IT IS," replied the Duke, who would give the law even to heaven.
"But," he continued with equally prophetic spirit, "that thou friend Seni thyself shall soon be thrown into prison, that also is written in the stars."
There's some one knocking there. See who it is. Open, and let me in. WALLENSTEIN. Ay 'tis Terzky. What is there of such urgence? We are busy. Lay all aside at present, I entreat you; It suffers no delaying. WALLENSTEIN. Open, Seni! Hast thou already heard it? He is taken. Gallas has given him up to the emperor. Who has been taken? Who is given up?
Oh, wait not the arrival of these Swedes! An evil near at hand is threatening thee From false friends. All the signs stand full of horror! Near, near at hand the net-work of perdition Yea, even now 'tis being cast around thee! WALLENSTEIN. Baptista, thou art dreaming! fear befools thee. SENI. Believe not that an empty fear deludes me.
While these three officers were thus deciding upon his fate in the castle of Egra, Wallenstein was occupied in reading the stars with Seni. "The danger is not yet over," said the astrologer with prophetic spirit. "IT IS," replied the Duke, who would give the law even to heaven.
"But," he continued with equally prophetic spirit, "that thou friend Seni thyself shall soon be thrown into prison, that also is written in the stars."
May't please you Take care that they awake me not too early. SENI follows, GORDON remains on the darkened stage, following the DUKE with his eye, till he disappears at the further end of the gallery: then by his gestures the old man expresses the depth of his anguish, and stands leaning against a pillar. Here stand in silence till I give the signal. 'Tis he! he has already brought the murderers.
If Wallenstein was not the boon companion of the mercenaries, he was their divinity, and he was himself essentially one of them even his superstition was theirs, and filled the same void of faith in his as in their hearts; though, while the common soldier raised the fiend to charm bullets, or bought spells and amulets of a quack at Nuremburg or Augsburg, Seni, the first astrologer of the age, explored the sympathizing stars for the august destiny of the Duke of Friedland.
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