WALLENSTEIN.
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BUTLER.
Set your hearts quite at ease. Ye save for Ferdinand
His Crown and Empire. The reward can be
No small one.
Set your hearts quite at ease. Ye save for Ferdinand
His Crown and Empire. The reward can be
No small one.
DEVEREUX.
And 'tis his purpose to dethrone the Emperor?
And 'tis his purpose to dethrone the Emperor?
BUTLER.
Yes!—Yes!—to rob him of his Crown and Life.
Yes!—Yes!—to rob him of his Crown and Life.
DEVEREUX.
And he must fall by the executioner's hands,
Should we deliver him up to the Emperor
Alive?
And he must fall by the executioner's hands,
Should we deliver him up to the Emperor
Alive?
BUTLER.
It were his certain destiny.
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.]
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.
Scene, a gothic and gloomy Apartment at the Duchess Friedland's. Thekla on a seat, pale, her eyes closed. The Duchess and Lady Neubrunn busied about her. Wallenstein and the Countess in conservation.
WALLENSTEIN.
How knew she it so soon?
How knew she it so soon?
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