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What hast thou done? WALLENSTEIN. And now comes this beside. COUNTESS. Forgive me, brother! It was not in my power They know all. DUCHESS. What hast thou done? Is there no hope? Is all lost utterly? TERZKY. All lost. No hope. Prague in the emperor's hands, The soldiery have taken their oaths anew. COUNTESS. That lurking hypocrite, Octavio! Count Max. is off too. TERZKY. Where can he be?
With regard to him, therefore, their plan must be again changed; but they resolved to execute their design against the others. The three Colonels, Illo, Terzky, and William Kinsky, came in with careless confidence, and with them Captain Neumann, an officer of ability, whose advice Terzky sought in every intricate affair.
NEUBRUNN. Help! Help! What now? NEUBRUNN. The princess! WALLENSTEIN and TERZKY. Does she know it? She is dying! BUTLER and GORDON. GORDON. What's this? BUTLER. She has lost the man she loved Young Piccolomini, who fell in the battle. GORDON. Unfortunate lady! BUTLER. You have heard what Illo Reporteth, that the Swedes are conquerers, And marching hitherward. GORDON. Too well I heard it.
SERGEANT. Our regiment, and the other four Which Terzky leads the bravest corps Throughout the camp, are the General's own, And have been trained to the trade by himself alone The officers hold their command of him, And are all his own, or for life or limb. Enter Croat with a necklace. Sharpshooter following him. The above. SHARPSHOOTER. Croat, where stole you that necklace, say?
Terzky arrived on the following morning, and the same afternoon Wallenstein with the whole of the troops at Pilsen marched towards Egra. Among the officers attached to Wallenstein's person was a Scotchman named Leslie, to whom and a few other confidants Wallenstein had confided his designs. Wallenstein had at once introduced Malcolm to him, and the two rode in company during the march to Egra.
MAJOR GERALDIN. CAPTAIN DEVEREUX. CAPTAIN MACDONALD. AN ADJUTANT. NEUMANN, Captain of Cavalry, Aide-de-Camp to TERZKY. COLONEL WRANGEL, Envoy from the Swedes. ROSENBURG, Master of Horse. SWEDISH CAPTAIN. SENI. BURGOMASTER of Egra. ANSPESSADE of the Cuirassiers. Cuirassiers, Dragoons, and Servants.
TERZKY. Nay, yield them up that dot, that speck of land It goes not from your portion. If you win The game, what matters it to you who pays it? WALLENSTEIN. Off with them, off! Thou understand'st not this.
Enter the Countess TERZKY, leading in her hand the Princess THEKLA, richly adorned with brilliants. COUNTESS. How sister? The first Moment belongs to joy. Here, Friedland! father! This is thy daughter. He receives her in his arms, and remains standing for some time lost in the feeling of her presence.
COUNT TERZKY, the Commander of several Regiments, and Brother-in-law of Wallenstein. ILLO, Field-Marshal, Wallenstein's Confidant. ISOLANI, General of the Croats. BUTLER, an Irishman, Commander of a Regiment of Dragoons. TIEFENBACH, | DON MARADAS, | Generals under Wallenstein. GOETZ, | KOLATTO, | NEUMANN, Captain of Cavalry, Aide-de-Camp to Terzky.
Translated by S. T. Coleridge. WALLENSTEIN, Duke of Friedland, Generalissimo of the Imperial Forces in the Thirty Years' War. DUCHESS OF FREIDLAND, Wife of Wallenstein. THEKLA, her Daughter, Princess of Friedland. THE COUNTESS TERZKY, Sister of the Duchess. LADY NEUBRUNN. OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI, Lieutenant-General. MAX. PICCOLOMINI, his Son, Colonel of a Regiment of Cuirassiers.
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