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There is heard from behind the scene a loud, wild, long-continued cry, Vivat Ferdinandus! accompanied by warlike instruments. MAX. and THEKLA remain without motion in each other's embraces. To the above enter TERZKY. What meant that cry? What was it? TERZKY. All is lost! COUNTESS. What! they regarded not his countenance? TERZKY. 'Twas all in vain. DUCHESS. They shouted Vivat!
I hear They mean to send a deputation to you. WALLENSTEIN. If I'm in aught to bind myself to them They too must bind themselves to me. ILLO. Of course. WALLENSTEIN. Their words of honor they must give, their oaths, Give them in writing to me, promising Devotion to my service unconditional. ILLO. Why not? TERZKY. Devotion unconditional?
In brief, 'tis signed and sealed that this Octavio Is my good angel and now no word more. TERZKY. This is my comfort Max. remains our hostage. ILLO. And he shall never stir from here alive. Are ye not like the women, who forever Only recur to their first word, although One had been talking reason by the hour!
Believe me this was more than their intent. Then be our loves like some blest relic kept Within the deep recesses of the heart. From heaven alone the love has been bestowed, To heaven alone our gratitude is due; It can work wonders for us still. To them enters the COUNTESS TERZKY. Come, come! My husband sends me for you. Part you! THEKLA. Oh, not yet! It has been scarce a moment. COUNTESS. Ay!
A measure such as this Ought to be thought of. WRANGEL. Ay! but think of this too, That sudden action only can procure it. Success think first of this, your highness. ILLO. Is't all right? TERZKY. Are you compromised? ILLO. This Swede Went smiling from you. Yes! you're compromised. TERZKY. How? What is that? WALLENSTEIN. Come on me what will come, The doing evil to avoid an evil Cannot be good!
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.
The main body of his infantry he formed into four massive brigades, which were flanked on both sides by musketeers intermixed with cavalry. Count Coloredo commanded on the left, Holk on the right, Terzky in the centre.
The first group consists of historical personages, mainly officers, whom he had bound to him by one or another tie of selfish interest. Foremost among these are Illo, the Count and Countess Terzky, and General Butler, who turns against his chief and becomes the agent of his taking-off.
The right wing fell into the same confusion, with the exception of a few regiments, which the bravery of their colonels Gotz, Terzky, Colloredo, and Piccolomini, compelled to keep their ground. The Swedish infantry, with prompt determination, profited by the enemy's confusion.
Secret instructions were therefore issued to the principal officers, on whose fidelity reliance could be placed, to seize the persons of the Duke of Friedland and of his two associates, Illo and Terzky, and keep them in close confinement, till they should have an opportunity of being heard, and of answering for their conduct; but if this could not be accomplished quietly, the public danger required that they should be taken dead or live.
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