WALLENSTEIN.
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WALLENSTEIN.
What now
Is in thy thoughts?
What now
Is in thy thoughts?
SENI. (with louder voice.)
Trust not thy person to these Swedes.
Trust not thy person to these Swedes.
WALLENSTEIN.
What is it then?
What is it then?
SENI. (still more urgently.)
O wait not the arrival of these Swedes!
An evil near at hand is threatening thee
From false friends. All the signs stand full of horror!
Near, near at hand the net-work of perdition—
Yea, even now 'tis being cast around thee!
O wait not the arrival of these Swedes!
An evil near at hand is threatening thee
From false friends. All the signs stand full of horror!
Near, near at hand the net-work of perdition—
Yea, even now 'tis being cast around thee!
WALLENSTEIN.
Baptista, thou art dreaming!—Fear befools thee.
Baptista, thou art dreaming!—Fear befools thee.
SENI.
Believe not that an empty fear deludes me.
Come, read it in the planetaty aspects;
Read it thyself, that ruin threatens thee
From false friends!
Believe not that an empty fear deludes me.
Come, read it in the planetaty aspects;
Read it thyself, that ruin threatens thee
From false friends!
WALLENSTEIN.
From the falseness of my friends
Has risen the whole of my unprosperous fortunes.
The warning should have come before! At present
I need no revelation from the stars
To know that.
From the falseness of my friends
Has risen the whole of my unprosperous fortunes.
The warning should have come before! At present
I need no revelation from the stars
To know that.
SENI.
Come and see! trust thine own eyes!
A fearful sign stands in the house of life
An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind
Come and see! trust thine own eyes!
A fearful sign stands in the house of life
An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind
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