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(to Max). Remunerate your trouble! For his joy

       He makes you recompense. ‘Tis not unfitting

       For you, Count Piccolomini, to feel

       So tenderly — my brother it beseems

       To shew himself for ever great and princely. 25

      Thekla. Then I too must have scruples of his love:

       For his munificent hands did ornament me

       Ere yet the father’s heart had spoken to me.

      Max. Yes; ‘tis his nature ever to be giving

       And making happy.

       How my heart pours out 30

       Its all of thanks to him: O! how I seem

       To utter all things in the dear name Friedland.

       While I shall live, so long will I remain

       The captive of this name: in it shall bloom

       My every fortune, every lovely hope. 35

       Inextricably as in some magic ring

       In this name hath my destiny charm-bound me!

      Countess. My brother wishes us to leave him. Come.

      Wallenstein (turns himself round quick, collects himself, and

       speaks with cheerfulness to the Duchess). Once more I

       bid thee welcome to the camp,

       Thou art the hostess of this court. You, Max, 40

       Will now again administer your old office,

       While we perform the sovereign’s business here.

      [MAX PICCOLOMINI offers the DUCHESS his arm, the

       COUNTESS accompanies the PRINCESS.

      Tertsky (calling after him). Max, we depend on seeing you at the

       meeting.

      And making happy. [He grasps the hand of the DUCHESS with still

       increasing warmth.

      1800, 1828, 1829.

      [Before 38] Countess (who during this time has been anxiously watching

       the Duke, and remarks that he is lost in thought over the letters).

       1800, 1828, 1829.

       Table of Contents

      WALLENSTEIN, COUNT TERTSKY.

      Wallenstein (to himself). She hath seen all things as they are — It

       is so

       And squares completely with my other notices.

       They have determined finally in Vienna,

       Have given me my successor already;

       It is the king of Hungary, Ferdinand, 5

       The Emperor’s delicate son! he’s now their saviour,

       He’s the new star that’s rising now! Of us

       They think themselves already fairly rid,

       And as we were deceased, the heir already

       Is entering on possession — Therefore — dispatch! 10

      [As he turns round he observes TERTSKY, and gives him

       a letter.

      Count Altringer will have himself excused,

       And Galas too — I like not this!

      Tertsky. And if

       Thou loiterest longer, all will fall away,

       One following the other.

      Wallenstein. Altringer

       Is master of the Tyrole passes. I must forthwith 15

       Send some one to him, that he let not in

       The Spaniards on me from the Milanese.

       —— Well, and the old Sesin, that ancient trader

       In contraband negotiations, he

       Has shewn himself again of late. What brings he 20

       From the Count Thur?

      Tertsky. The Count communicates,

       He has found out the Swedish chancellor

       At Halberstadt, where the convention’s held,

       Who says, you’ve tired him out, and that he’ll have

       No further dealings with you.

      Wallenstein. And why so? 25

       speeches,

       That you decoy the Swedes — to make fools of them,

       Will league yourself with Saxony against them,

       And at last make yourself a riddance of them

       With a paltry sum of money.

      Wallenstein. So then, doubtless, 30

       Yes, doubtless, this same modest Swede expects

       That I shall yield him some fair German tract

       For his prey and booty, that ourselves at last

       On our own soil and native territory,

       May be no longer our own lords and masters! 35

       An excellent scheme! No, no! They must be off,

       Off, off! away! we want no such neighbours.

      Tertsky. 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? 40

      Wallenstein. Off with them, off! Thou understand’st not this.

       Never shall it be said of me, I parcelled

       My native land away, dismembered Germany,

       Betrayed it to a foreigner, in order

       To come with stealthy tread, and filch away 45

       My own share of the plunder — Never! never! —

       No foreign power shall strike root in the empire,

       And least of all, these Goths! these hunger-wolves!

       Who send such envious, hot and greedy glances

       T’wards the rich blessings of our German lands! 50

       I’ll have their aid to cast and draw my nets,

       But not a single fish of all the draught

       Shall they come in for.

      Tertsky. You will deal, however,

       More fairly with the Saxons? They lose patience

       While you shift ground and make so many curves. 55

       Say, to what purpose all these masks? Your friends

       Are plunged in doubts, baffled, and led astray in you.

       There’s Oxenstirn, there’s Arnheim — neither knows

       What he should think of your procrastinations.

       And in the end I prove the liar: all 60

       Passes through me. I have not even your handwriting.

      Wallenstein. I never give my handwriting; thou knowest it.

      Tertsky. But how can it be known that you’re in earnest,

       If the act follows not upon the word?

       You must yourself acknowledge, that in all 65

       Your intercourses hitherto with the enemy