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WALLENSTEIN.
I find we must not give implicit credence
To every warning voice that makes itself
Be listen'd to in th' heart. To hold us back,
Oft does the lying spirit counterfeit
The voice of Truth and inward Revelation,
Scatt'ring false oracles. And thus have I
To intreat forgiveness for that secretly
I've wrong'd this honourable gallant man,
This Butler: for a feeling, of the which
I am not master, (fear I would not call it)
Creeps o'er me instantly, with sense of shudd'ring,
At his approach, and stops love's joyous motion.
And this same man, against whom I am warn'd,
This honest man is he who reaches to me
The first pledge of my fortune.

ILLO.
And doubt not
That his example will win over to you
The best men in the army.

WALLENSTEIN.
Go and send
Isolani hither. Send him immediately.
He is under recent obligations to me.
With him will I commence the trial. Go.
[ILLO. Exit. 

WALLENSTEIN. (turns himself round to the females)
Lo, there the mother with the darling daughter,
For once we'll have an interval of rest—
Come! my heart yearns to live a cloudless hour
In the beloved circle of my family.

COUNTESS.