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The trick was manifest, and many refused now to sign. Piccolomini, who had seen through the whole cheat, and had been present at this scene merely with the view of giving information of the whole to the court, forgot himself so far in his cups as to drink the Emperor's health. But Count Terzky now rose, and declared that all were perjured villains who should recede from their engagement.
Old Peter Ernest felt that the long-expected, long-deferred assault was to be made that morning in full force, and that it was necessary for the royalists, on both bridge and dyke, to hold their own. Piccolomini now drew up three hundred of his Italians, picked veterans all, and led them in marching order to Mansfeld.
The whole yellow regiment, the finest o£ all that distinguished themselves in this dreadful day, lay dead on the field, covering the ground almost in the same excellent order which, when alive, they maintained with such unyielding courage. The same fate befell another regiment of Blues, which Count Piccolomini attacked with the imperial cavalry and cut down after a desperate contest.
Ignorance Alone can keep alive the cheerful air, The unembarrassed sense and light free spirit, That makes the duke secure. My honored friend! most highly do I deem Of Colonel Piccolomini yet if Reflect a little OCTAVIO. I must venture it. Hush! There he comes! MAX. Ha! there he is himself. Welcome, my father!
Already hast thou lost the best. They're giving At yonder table ducal crowns in shares; There Sternberg's lands and chattels are put up, With Eggenberg's, Stawata's, Lichtenstein's, And all the great Bohemian feudalities. Be nimble, lad! and something may turn up For thee, who knows? off to thy place! quick! march! Count Piccolomini! TERZKY. Stop, ye shall have him in an instant.
Being then summoned to Siena by the General of the Monks of Monte Oliveto, Liberale illuminated many books for that Order; and in these he succeeded so well, that he was commissioned in consequence to illuminate some that had been left unfinished that is to say, only written in the library of the Piccolomini.
He saw the man, in an effort to recover his balance, put his own weight on the bridle-reins. And he saw the horse, half-rearing, half-tottering and stumbling, overthrow the last shred of the man's balance so that he followed the dog to the ground. "And then they are like two dogs, like two beasts," Piccolomini was wont to tell in after-years over a glass of wine in his little hotel in Glen Ellen.
The whole yellow regiment, the finest of all that distinguished themselves in this dreadful day, lay dead on the field, covering the ground almost in the same excellent order which, when alive, they maintained with such unyielding courage. The same fate befel another regiment of Blues, which Count Piccolomini attacked with the imperial cavalry, and cut down after a desperate contest.
"He's a regular black sheep," said the count, "and his wife's no better than he." It seemed that they had already won a reputation in the town. After the play I went back to the hotel by myself, and the head-waiter told me that Piccolomini had set out hot-foot with his servant, his only luggage being a light portmanteau.
Germain; His Flight Manon Baletti Proves Faithless to Me; Her Letter Announcing Her Marriage: My Despair Esther Spends a Day With Me My Portrait and My Letters to Manon Get Into Esther's Hands I Pass a Day with Her We Talk of Marrying Each Other The so-called Countess Piccolomini was a fine example of the adventurers.
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