WALLENSTEIN. Aye 'tis Tertsky. What is there of such urgence? We are busy. Lay all aside at present, I entreat you. It suffers no delaying. WALLENSTEIN. (While Seni opens the door for Tertsky, Wallenstein draws the curtain over the figures.) TERTSKY. (enters.) Hast thou already heard it? He is taken. [Seni draws off the black table, and exit. SCENE II. WALLENSTEIN, COUNT TERTSKY. WALLENSTEIN. (to Tertsky.) Who has been taken ?-Who is given up? TERTSKY. The man who knows our secrets, who knows every Negociation with the Swede and Saxon, Through whose hands all and every thing has passed WALLENSTEIN. (drawing back.) Nay, not Sesina?-Say, No! I entreat thee. All on his road for Regenspurg to the Swede Has he heard it? SCENE III. To them enters ILLO. TERTSKY. He has heard it. ILLO. (to Wallenstein.) Thinkest thou still To make thy peace with the Emperor, to regain What thou hast wished; then forwards thou must press; Retreat is now no longer in thy power. TERTSKY. They have documents against us, and in hands, Of my hand-writing-no iota. Thee I punish for thy lies. ILLO. And thou believest, That what this man, that what thy sister's husband, In writing thou gav'st nothing-But bethink thee, ILLO. Thyself dost not conceive it possible; And since they now have evidence authentic VOL. III. N WALLENSTEIN. In the army Lies my security. The army will not The power is mine, and they must gulp it down- They must be satisfied, at least appear so. The army, Duke, is thine now-for this moment- One after the other WALLENSTEIN. "Tis a cursed accident! ILLO. o I will call it a most blessed one, If it work on thee as it ought to do, Hurry thee on to action-to decision The Swedish General WALLENSTEIN. He's arrived! Know'st thou What his commission is ILLO. To thee alone Will he entrust the purpose of his coming. WALLENSTEIN. A cursed, cursed accident! Yes, yes, He's a Bohemian fugitive and rebel, His neck is forfeit. Can he save himself Their confidence is lost-irreparably! It will no longer help me― ILLO. Ruin thee, That it will do! Not thy fidelity, Thy weakness will be deemed the sole occasion WALLENSTEIN. (pacing up and down in extreme agitation.) What! I must realize it now in earnest, 2 |