WALLENSTEIN.
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SCENE IX.
To them enter the Countess.
COUNTESS.
This suspense,
This horrid fear—I can no longer bear it.
For heaven's sake, tell me, what has taken place.
This suspense,
This horrid fear—I can no longer bear it.
For heaven's sake, tell me, what has taken place.
ILLO.
The regiments are all falling off from us.
The regiments are all falling off from us.
TERTSKY.
Octavio Piccolomini is a traitor.
Octavio Piccolomini is a traitor.
COUNTESS.
O my foreboding! (rushes out of the room.)
O my foreboding! (rushes out of the room.)
TERTSKY.
Hadst thou but believ'd me!
Now seest thou how the stars have lied to thee.
Hadst thou but believ'd me!
Now seest thou how the stars have lied to thee.
WALLENSTEIN.
The stars lie not; but we have here a work
Wrought counter to the stars and destiny.
The science is still honest: this false heart
Forces a lie on the truth-telling heaven.
On a divine law divination rests
Where nature deviates from that law, and stumbles
Out of her limits, there all science errs.
True, I did not suspect! Were it superstition
Never by such suspicion t' have affronted
The human form, O may that time ne'er come
In which I shame me of th' infirmity.
The wildest savage drinks not with the victim,
The stars lie not; but we have here a work
Wrought counter to the stars and destiny.
The science is still honest: this false heart
Forces a lie on the truth-telling heaven.
On a divine law divination rests
Where nature deviates from that law, and stumbles
Out of her limits, there all science errs.
True, I did not suspect! Were it superstition
Never by such suspicion t' have affronted
The human form, O may that time ne'er come
In which I shame me of th' infirmity.
The wildest savage drinks not with the victim,
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