The Works of Frederick Schiller Novel Chapters
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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Works of Frederich Schiller in English.by Frederich Schiller.PREFACE TO THE SIXTH ED
The Works of Frederich Schiller in English.by Frederich Schiller.PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.The present is the best collected edition of the important works of Schiller which is accessible to readers in the English language.Detached poems or dramas have
- 259 STAUFFACHER (to Tell).Oh, why did you provoke the tyrant's rage?TELL.Let him be calm who feels the pangs I felt.STAUFFACHER.Alas! alas! Our every hope is gone.With you we all are fettered and enchained.COUNTRY PEOPLE (surrounding Tell).Our last remai
- 258 BERTHA.Worthy father!Pray you compose yourself. The boy's alive!WALTER (runs in with the apple).Here is the apple, father! Well I knew You would not harm your boy.[TELL stands with his body bent forwards, as though he would follow the arrow. His bow
- 257 G.o.d pardon those who counselled the delay!GESSLER (to TELL).Now, to thy task! Men bear not arms for naught.'Tis dangerous to carry deadly weapons, And on the archer oft his shaft recoils.This right these haughty peasant-churls a.s.sume Trenches upo
- 256 TELL.What monstrous thing, my lord, is this you ask?That I, from the head of mine own child!--No, no!It cannot be, kind sir, you meant not that-- G.o.d in His grace forbid! You could not ask A father seriously to do that thing!GESSLER.Thou art to shoot an
- 255 OTHER THREE PEASANTS (running in).We'll help you. What's the matter? Down with them![HILDEGARD, MECHTHILD, and ELSBETH return.TELL.Go, go, good people, I can help myself.Think you, had I a mind to use my strength, These pikes of theirs should da
- 254 The neighbor there dare not his neighbor trust. WALTER. I should want breathing room in such a land, Id rather dwell beneath the avalanches. TELL. Tis better, child, to have these glacier peaks Behind ones back than evil-minded men! [They are about to pa.
- 253 We keep our watch in vain. There's not a soul Will pa.s.s and do obeisance to the cap.But yesterday the place swarmed like a fair; Now the whole green looks like a very desert, Since yonder scarecrow hung upon the pole.LEUTHHOLD.Only the vilest rabbl
- 252 Bondage, rather!You would drive freedom from the last stronghold That yet remains for her upon the earth.The people know their own true interests better: Their simple natures are not warped by show, But round your head a tangling net is wound.RUDENZ.Berth
- 251 So I pa.s.sed on, and sent his train to seek him.HEDWIG.He trembled then before you? Woe the while You saw his weakness; that he'll not forgive.TELL.I shun him, therefore, and he'll not seek me.HEDWIG.But stay away to day. Go hunting rather!TELL
- 250 And now, methinks, the door will hold awhile.The axe at home oft saves the carpenter.HEDWIG.Whither away![Takes his cap.TELL.To Altdorf, to your father.HEDWIG.You have some dangerous enterprise in view? Confess!TELL.Why think you so?HEDWIG.Some scheme
- 249 And even expelled he'd still be terrible.'Tis hard, indeed 'tis dangerous, to spare him.BAUMGARTEN.Place me where'er a life is to be lost; I owe my life to Tell, and cheerfully Will pledge it for my country. I have cleared My honor, an
- 248 No other course is left us. Now, advise What plan most likely to insure success.FURST.To shake a thraldom off that we abhor, To keep our ancient rights inviolate, As we received them from our forefathers--this, Not lawless innovation, is our aim.Let Caesa
- 247 STAUFFACHER.For the most free have still some feudal lord.There must be still a chief, a judge supreme, To whom appeal may lie in case of strife.And therefore was it that our sires allowed For what they had recovered from the waste, This honor to the empe
- 246 Then let us hold the Diet, as of old, And as we're wont in peaceful times to do.The time's necessity be our excuse If there be aught informal in this meeting.Still, wheresoe'er men strike for justice, there Is G.o.d, and now beneath his hea
- 245 STAUFFACHER.Speak not of vengeance. We are here to meet The threatened evil, not to avenge the past.Now tell me what you've done, and what secured, To aid the common cause in Unterwald.How stands the peasantry disposed, and how Yourself escaped the w
- 244 A meadow surrounded by high rocks and wooded ground. On the rocks are tracks, with rails and ladders, by which the peasants are afterwards seen descending. In the background the lake is observed, and over it a moon rainbow in the early part of the scene.T
- 243 They'll have the Caesar for their lord, forsooth, That is to say, they'll have no lord at all.ATTINGHAUSEN.Must I hear this, and from thy lips, rash boy!RUDENZ.You urged me to this answer. Hear me out.What, uncle, is the character you've st
- 242 Let me go.I know each forest track and mountain pa.s.s; Friends too I'll find, be sure, on every hand, To give me willing shelter from the foe.STAUFFACHER.Nay, let him go; no traitors harbor there: For tyranny is so abhorred in Unterwald No minions c
- 241 FURST.Be calm, be calm; and bear it like a man!MELCHTHAL.And all for me--for my mad wilful folly!Blind, did you say? Quite blind--and both his eyes?STAUFFACHER.Even so. The fountain of his sight's dried up.He ne'er will see the blessed suns.h.i.
- 240 A valued guest, indeed. No man e'er set His foot across this threshold more esteemed.Welcome! thrice welcome, Werner, to my roof!What brings you here? What seek you here in Uri?STAUFFACHER (shakes FURST by the hand).The olden times and olden Switzerl
- 239 STAUFFACHER.Nay, even the weak grow strong by union.TELL.But the strong man is the strongest when alone.STAUFFACHER.Your country, then, cannot rely on you If in despair she rise against her foes.TELL.Tell rescues the lost sheep from yawning gulfs: Is he a
- 238 TELL.Hands can destroy whatever hands have reared.[Pointing to the mountains.That house of freedom G.o.d hath built for us.[A drum is heard. People enter bearing a cap upon a pole, followed by a crier. Women and children thronging tumultuously after them.
- 237 What are the hosts of emperors to him!Gertrude, farewell! I will to Uri straight.There lives my worthy comrade, Walter Furst, His thoughts and mine upon these times are one.There, too, resides the n.o.ble Banneret Of Attinghaus. High though of blood he be
- 236 [STAUFEACHER sits down sorrowfully upon a bench under the lime tree. Gertrude, his wife, enters, and finds him in this posture. She places herself near him, and looks at him for some time in silence.GERTRUDE.So sad, my love! I scarcely know thee now.For m
- 235 Thats like a gallant huntsman! BAUMGARTEN. You are my angel, my preserver, Tell. TELL. I may preserve you from the viceroys power But from the tempests rage another must. Yet you had better fall into G.o.ds hands, Than into those of men. [To the herdsman.
- 234 [It begins to thunder.KUONI.Quick, ferrymen, and set the good man over.RUODI.Impossible! a storm is close at hand, Wait till it pa.s.s! You must.BAUMGARTEN.Almighty heavens!I cannot wait; the least delay is death.KUONI (to the fisherman).Push out. G.o.d w
- 233 Youre joking now. A beast devoid of reason. WERNI. Thats easy said. But beasts have reason too-- And that we know, we men that hunt the chamois. They never turn to feed--sagacious creatures! Till they have placed a sentinel ahead, Who p.r.i.c.ks his ears
- 232 KUNZ OF GERSAU.JENNI, Fisherman's Son.SEPPI, Herdsman's Son.GERTRUDE, Stauffacher's Wife.HEDWIG, Wife of Tell, daughter of Furst.BERTHA OF BRUNECK, a rich heiress.ARMGART, | MECHTHILD, | Peasant women.ELSBETH, | HILDEGARD, | WALTER, | Tell&
- 231 What is this It is the imperial seal.[He reads the address, and delivers the letter to OCTAVIO with a look of reproach, and with an emphasis on the word.To the Prince Piccolomini.[OCTAVIO, with his whole frame expressive of sudden anguish, raises his eyes
- 230 To these enter OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI with all his train. At the same time DEVEREUX and MACDONALD enter from out the corridor with the Halberdiers. WALLENSTEIN's dead body is carried over the back part of the stage, wrapped in a piece of crimson tapestr
- 229 SCENE IX. COUNTESS, GORDON. GORDON (rushes in out of breath) Tis a mistake! Tis not the Swedes; ye must proceed no further-- Butler! Oh, G.o.d! where is he? [Observing the COUNTESS. Countess! Say---- COUNTESS. Youre come then from the castle? Wheres my hu
- 228 He shall not peris.h.!.+ Not through you! The heaven Refuses your arm. See--'tis wounded!BUTLER.There is no need of my arm.GORDON.The most guilty Have perished, and enough is given to justice.[The GROOM OF THE CHAMBER advances from the gallery with h
- 227 They sought this junction with me--'tis their interest.GORDON (with difficulty suppressing his emotion).But what if the arrival of these Swedes-- What if this were the very thing that winged The ruin that is flying to your temples?[Flings himself at
- 226 [GROOM OF THE CHAMBER retires with the vestments. WALLENSTEIN rises, takes a stride across the room, and stands at last before GORDON in a posture of meditation.How the old time returns upon me! I Behold myself once more at Burgau, where We two were pages
- 225 WALLENSTEIN.Fear! Wherefore?COUNTESS.Shouldst thou depart this night, and we at waking Never more find thee!WALLENSTEIN.Fancies!COUNTESS.Ob, my soul Has long been weighed down by these dark forebodings, And if I combat and repel them waking, They still cr
- 224 BUTLER.It were his certain destiny.DEVEREUX.Well! Well! Come then, Macdonald, he shall not Lie long in pain.[Exeunt BUTLER through one door, MACDONALD and DEVEREUX through the other.SCENE III.A saloon, terminated by a gallery, which extends far into the b
- 223 DEVEREUX.Danger! The devil! What do you think me, general, 'Tis the duke's eye, and not his sword, I fear.BUTLER.What can his eye do to thee?DEVEREUX.Death and h.e.l.l!Thou knowest that I'm no milksop, general!But 'tis not eight days s
- 222 To whom we swore a soldiers oath---- BUTLER. The oath Is null, for Friedland is a traitor. DEVEREUX. No, no! it is too bad! MACDONALD. Yes, by my soul! It is too bad. One has a conscience too---- DEVEREUX. If it were not our chieftain, who so long Has iss
- 221 You are our general, and give out the orders; We follow you, though the track lead to h.e.l.l. BUTLER (appeased). Good, then! we know each other. MACDONALD. I should hope so. DEVEREUX. Soldiers of fortune are we--who bids most He has us. MACDONALD. Tis ee
- 220 THEKLA. I am so, mother; let me only now Retire to rest, and Neubrunn here be with me. I want repose. d.u.c.h.eSS. My Thekla, thou shalt have it. I leave thee now consoled, since I can calm Thy fathers heart. THEKLA. Good night, beloved mother! (Falling o
- 219 THEKLA. There a divinity will prompt my soul. NEUBRUNN. Your heart, dear lady, is disquieted! And this is not the way that leads to quiet. THEKLA. To a deep quiet, such as he has found, It draws me on, I know not what to name it, Resistless does it draw m
- 218 NEUBRUNN. That place of death---- THEKLA. Is now the only place Where life yet dwells for me: detain me not! Come and make preparations; let us think Of means to fly from hence. NEUBRUNN. Your fathers rage THEKLA. That time is past-- And now I fear no hum
- 217 [THEKLA betrays agitation in her gestures. The officer pauses till she makes a sign to him to proceed.CAPTAIN.Both in van and flanks With our whole cavalry we now received them; Back to the trenches drove them, where the foot Stretched out a solid ridge o
- 216 COUNTESS.'Tis not advisable--a.s.sent not to it.WALLENSTEIN.Hus.h.!.+ Wherefore wouldst thou speak with him, my daughter?THEKLA.Knowing the whole, I shall be more collected; I will not be deceived. My mother wishes Only to spare me. I will not be spa
- 215 We all do stamp our value on ourselves: The price we challenge for ourselves is given us.There does not live on earth the man so stationed That I despise myself compared with him.Man is made great or little by his own will; Because I am true to mine there
- 214 The emperor has soldiers, no commander, For this King Ferdinand of Hungary Is but a tyro. Gallas? He's no luck, And was of old the ruiner of armies.And then this viper, this Octavio, Is excellent at stabbing in the back, But ne'er meets Friedlan
- 213 BUTLER.And no brave man loses His color at a daring enterprise.GORDON.A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.BUTLER.What then? Shall he go forth anew to kindle The unextinguishable flame of war?GORDON.Seize him, and hold him prisoner--do not kil
- 212 She is dying! [Hurries off the stage, when WALLENSTEIN and TERZKY follow her. SCENE VI. BUTLER and GORDON. GORDON. Whats this? BUTLER. She has lost the man she loved-- Young Piccolomini, who fell in the battle. GORDON. Unfortunate lady! BUTLER. You have h
- 211 Distinctly. The wind brought it from the south.BUTLER.It seemed to come from Weiden or from Neustadt.WALLENSTEIN.'Tis likely. That's the route the Swedes are taking.How strong is the garrison?GORDON.Not quite two hundred Competent men, the rest
- 210 O that I had not lived to see this day!From his hand I received this dignity, He did himself intrust this stronghold to me, Which I am now required to make his dungeon.We subalterns have no will of our own: The free, the mighty man alone may listen To the
- 209 [MAX. attempts to take his hand, but is repelled: he turns to the COUNTESS.Is there no eye that has a look of pity for me?[The COUNTESS turns away from him; he turns to the d.u.c.h.eSS.My mother!d.u.c.h.eSS.Go where duty calls you. Haply The time may come
- 208 The human, not the great part, would I act.Even from my childhood to this present hour, Think what the duke has done for me, how loved me And think, too, how my father has repaid him.Oh likewise the free lovely impulses Of hospitality, the pious friend�
- 207 [Two reports of cannon. ILLO and TERZKY hurry to the window.WALLENSTEIN.What's that?TERZBY.He falls.WALLENSTEIN.Falls! Who?ILLO.Tiefenbach's corps Discharged the ordnance.WALLENSTEIN.Upon whom?ILLO.On--Neumann, Your messenger.WALLENSTEIN (starti
- 206 Go hence, forsake me, serve thy emperor; He will reward thee with a pretty chain Of gold; with his ram's fleece will he reward thee; For that the friend, the father of thy youth, For that the holiest feeling of humanity, Was nothing worth to thee.MAX
- 205 Hear'st thou the uproar?The whole corps of the Pappenheimers is Drawn out: the younger Piccolomini, Their colonel, they require: for they affirm, That he is in the palace here, a prisoner; And if thou dost not instantly deliver him, They will find me
- 204 ANSPESSADE.'Tis then but mere appearances which thou Dost put on with the Swede! Thou'lt not betray The emperor? Wilt not turn us into Swedes?This is the only thing which we desire To learn from thee.WALLENSTEIN.What care I for the Swedes?I hate
- 203 WALLENSTEIN (turning to a second). Thou wert among the volunteers that seized and made booty of the Swedish battery at Altenburg.SECOND CUIRa.s.sIER. Yes, general!WALLENSTEIN. I forget no one with whom I have exchanged words.(A pause.) Who sends you?ANSPE
- 202 COUNTESS, d.u.c.h.eSS, THEKLA.THEKLA (endeavoring to hold back the d.u.c.h.eSS) Dear mother, do stay here!d.u.c.h.eSS.No! Here is yet Some frightful mystery that is hidden from me.Why does my sister shun me? Don't I see her Full of suspense and angui
- 201 [ILLO is going. BUTLER (detaining him). My general, whom expect you then? WALLENSTEIN. The courier Who brings me word of the event at Prague. BUTLER (hesitating). Hem! WALLENSTEIN. And what now? BUTLER. You do not know it? WALLENSTEIN. Well? BUTLER. From
- 200 They refused obedience to them.TERZKY.Fire on them instantly! Give out the order.WALLENSTEIN.Gently! what cause did they a.s.sign?ILLO.No other, They said, had right to issue orders but Lieutenant-General Piccolomini.WALLENSTEIN (in a convulsion of agony)
- 199 d.u.c.h.eSS (clinging to him).Gracious Heaven! What is it?WALLENSTEIN.Be tranquil! leave me, sister! dearest wife!We are in camp, and this is naught unusual; Here storm and suns.h.i.+ne follow one another With rapid interchanges. These fierce spirits Cham
- 198 SCENE V. To them enter COUNT TERZKY. COUNTESS. Terzky! What ails him? What an image of affright! He looks as he had seen a ghost. TERZKY (leading WALLENSTEIN aside). Is it thy command that all the Croats---- WALLENSTEIN. Mine! TERZKY. We are betrayed. WAL
- 197 Hopes to win her!Is the boy mad?COUNTESS.Well--hear it from themselves.WALLENSTEIN.He thinks to carry off Duke Friedland's daughter!Ay? The thought pleases me.The young man has no groveling spirit.COUNTESS.Since Such and such constant favor you have
- 196 ILLO.At his own bidding, unsolicited, He came to offer you himself and regiment.WALLENSTEIN, I find we must not give implicit credence To every warning voice that makes itself Be listened to in the heart. To hold us back, Oft does the lying spirit counter
- 195 Nay! there was no one.d.u.c.h.eSS.I am growing so timorous, every trifling noise Scatters my spirits, and announces to me The footstep of some messenger of evil.And you can tell me, sister, what the event is?Will he agree to do the emperor's pleasure
- 194 THEKLA.I?What need of me for that? And is he not Already linked to him?COUNTESS.He was.THEKLA.And wherefore Should he not be so now--not be so always?COUNTESS.He cleaves to the emperor too.THEKLA.Not more than duty And honor may demand of him.COUNTESS.We
- 193 Rely on this, I either leave my life In the struggle, or conduct them out of Pilsen. OCTAVIO. Farewell, my son! MAX. Farewell! OCTAVIO. How! not one look Of filial love? No grasp of the hand at parting? It is a b.l.o.o.d.y war to which we are going, And t
- 192 OCTAVIO (advances to him).I am going off, my son.[Receiving no answer, he takes his hands My son, farewell.MAX.Farewell.OCTAVIO.Thou wilt soon follow me?MAX.I follow thee?Thy way is crooked--it is not my way.[OCTAVIO drops his hand and starts back.Oh, had
- 191 I fear me, Colonel Butler, An infamous game have they been playing with you.The duke, you say, impelled you to this measure?Now, in this letter, talks he in contempt Concerning you; counsels the minister To give sound chastis.e.m.e.nt to your conceit, For
- 190 BUTLER (rises).His lot is mine.OCTAVIO.Is that your last resolve?BUTLER.It is.OCTAVIO.Nay, but bethink you, Colonel Butler.As yet you have time. Within my faithful breast That rashly uttered word remains interred.Recall it, Butler! choose a better party;
- 189 Sell yourself to the enemy? Say, will you?ISOLANI.What mean you? I--I break my oath, d'ye say, To his imperial majesty?Did I say so! When, when have I said that?OCTAVIO.You have not said it yet--not yet. This instant I wait to hear, count, whether yo
- 188 Say, from what regiment hast thou chosen them?ADJUTANT.From Tiefenbach's.OCTAVIO.That regiment is loyal, Keep them in silence in the inner court, Unseen by all, and when the signal peals Then close the doors, keep watch upon the house.And all ye meet
- 187 TERZKY.Thou wilt not do this! No! I pray thee, no!WALLENSTEIN.Ye are whimsical.ILLO.O but for this time, duke, Yield to our warning! Let him not depart.WALLENSTEIN.And why should I not trust him only this time, Who have always trusted him? What, then, has
- 186 Thy will is chaste, it is thy fancy only Which hath polluted thee--and innocence, It will not let itself be driven away From that world-awing aspect. Thou wilt not, Thou canst not end in this. It would reduce All human creatures to disloyalty Against the
- 185 Who sows the serpent's teeth let him not hope To reap a joyous harvest. Every crime Has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.He can no longer trust me. Then no longer Can I
- 184 COUNTESS.Desirest thou nothing further? Such a way Lies still before thee. Send this Wrangel off.Forget thou thy old hopes, cast far away All thy past life; determine to commence A new one. Virtue hath her heroes too, As well as fame and fortune. To Vienn
- 183 Nay, but bethink you, duke.WALLENSTEIN.To live upon the mercy of these Swedes!Of these proud-hearted Swedes!--I could not bear it.ILLO.Goest thou as fugitive, as mendicant?Bringest thou not more to them than thou receivest?WALLENSTEIN.How fared it with th
- 182 WALLENSTEIN.That is much indeed!Prague!--Egra's granted--but--but Prague! 'Twon't do.I give you every security Which you may ask of me in common reason-- But Prague--Bohemia--these, sir general, I can myself protect.WRANGEL.We doubt it not.
- 181 WRANGEL.He says the truth. Our great king, now in heaven, Did ever deem most highly of your grace's Pre-eminent sense and military genius; And always the commanding intellect, He said, should have command, and be the king.WALLENSTEIN.Yes, he might sa
- 180 ILLO.Believe me, thou wilt find it far more easy To lead them over to the enemy Than to the Spaniard.WALLENSTEIN.I will hear, however, What the Swede has to say to me.ILLO (eagerly to TERZKY).Go, call him, He stands without the door in waiting.WALLENSTEIN
- 179 WALLENSTEIN (to TERZKY).Who has been taken? Who is given up?TERZKY.The man who knows our secrets, who knows every Negotiation with the Swede and Saxon, Through whose hands all and everything has pa.s.sed---- WALLENSTEIN (drawing back).Nay, not Sesina? Say
- 178 DRAMATIS PERSONAE.WALLENSTEIN, Duke of Friedland, Generalissimo of the Imperial Forces in the Thirty Years' War.d.u.c.h.eSS OF FREIDLAND, Wife of Wallenstein.THEKLA, her Daughter, Princess of Friedland.THE COUNTESS TERZKY, Sister of the d.u.c.h.ess.L
- 177 OCTAVIO.Thou wilt.MAX.I will, as sure as this heart beats.OCTAVIO.I have, indeed, miscalculated on thee.I calculated on a prudent son, Who would have blessed the hand beneficent That plucked him back from the abyss--and lo!A fascinated being I discover, W
- 176 CORNET.We have him.OCTAVIO.Whom?CORNET.Sesina, The old negotiator.OCTAVIO (eagerly).And you have him?CORNET.In the Bohemian Forest Captain Mohrbrand Found and secured him yester-morning early.He was proceeding then to Regensburg, And on him were despatche
- 175 But for the present moment, till the King Of Hungary may safely join the army, Is the command a.s.signed to me.MAX.And think'st thou, Dost thou believe, that thou wilt tear it from him?Oh, never hope it! Father! father! father!An inauspicious office
- 174 It cannot be!--cannot be! cannot be!Dost thou not see, it cannot!Thou wouldst of necessity have shown him Such horror, such deep loathing--that or he Had taken thee for his better genius, or Thou stood'st not now a living man before me.OCTAVIO.I have
- 173 OCTAVIO.Patience! Seat Yourself. Much yet Hast thou to hear from me, friend! Hast for years Lived in incomprehensible illusion.Before thine eyes is treason drawing out As black a web as e'er was spun for venom: A power of h.e.l.l o'erclouds thy
- 172 GOETZ. Why, I seemed to think so too.ISOLANI. What do I care for that? Where there stand other names mine can stand too.TIEFENBACH. Before supper there was a certain proviso therein, or short clause, concerning our duties to the emperor.BUTLER (to one of
- 171 ISOLANI (who has been attending to them for some distance steps up).Well done, father! Rout out his baggage! Beat up his quarters! there is something there that should not be.TERZKY (with the paper). Is there none wanting? Have the whole subscribed?OCTAVI
- 170 SCENE VI.OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI enters, in conversation with MARADAS, and both place themselves quite on the edge of the stage on one side of the proscenium. On the side directly opposite, MAX. PICCOLOMINI, by himself, lost in thought, and taking no part in
- 169 MASTER OF THE CELLAR. The best wine! Oh, if my old mistress, his lady mother, could but see these wild goings on she would turn herself round in her grave. Yes, yes, sir officer! 'tis all down the hill with this n.o.ble house! no end, no moderation!
- 168 How goes it with young Piccolomini!TERZKY.All right, I think. He has started no object.ILLO.He is the only one I fear about-- He and his father. Have an eye on both!TERZKY.How looks it at your table: you forget not To keep them warm and stirring?ILLO.Oh,
- 167 What! he has vanquished all impediment, And in the wilful mood of his own daughter Shall a new struggle rise for him? Child! child!As yet thou hast seen thy father's smiles alone; The eye of his rage thou hast not seen. Dear child, I will not frighte
- 166 THEKLA.What then?COUNTESS.That you're the daughter of the Prince Duke Friedland.THEKLA.Well, and what farther?d.u.c.h.eSS.What? A pretty question!THEKLA.He was born that which we have but become.He's of an ancient Lombard family, Son of a reigni
- 165 MAX.O! shall we e'er be happy?THEKLA.Are we not happy now? Art thou not mine?Am I not thine? There lives within my soul A lofty courage--'tis love gives it me!I ought to be less open--ought to hide My heart more from thee--so decorum dictates: B
- 164 COUNTESS.He wished To erect a figure for your horoscope.THEKLA.My hand too he examined, shook his head With much sad meaning, and the lines, methought, Did not square over truly with his wishes.COUNTESS.Well, princess, and what found you in this tower?My
- 163 MAX.'Twas at that hunting-castle, betwixt here And Nepomuck, where you had joined us, and That was the last relay of the whole journey; In a balcony we were standing mute, And gazing out upon the dreary field Before us the dragoons were riding onward
- 162 ILLO (comes back).Where art staying, Terzky?The house is full, and all expecting you.TERZKY.Instantly! instantly![To the COUNTESS.And let him not Stay here too long. It might awake suspicion In the old man---- COUNTESS.A truce with your precautions![Exeun
- 161 TERZKY.Now for this evening's business! How intend you To manage with the generals at the banquet?ILLO.Attend! We frame a formal declaration, Wherein we to the duke consign ourselves Collectively, to be and to remain His, both with life and limb, and
- 160 WALLENSTEIN.I accepted the command but on conditions!And this the first, that to the diminution Of my authority no human being, Not even the emperor's self, should be ent.i.tled To do aught, or to say aught, with the army.If I stand warranter of the