But there is brought to me from your equerry
A splendid richly-plated hunting dress
So to remunerate me for my trouble———
Yes, yes, remunerate me! Since a trouble
It must be, a mere office, not a favour
Which I leapt forward to receive, and which
I came already with full heart to thank you for.
No! 'twas not so intended, that my business
Should be my highest best good fortune!
Duke, which he breaks open hurryingly.)
COUNTESS. (to Max.)
He makes you recompense. 'Tis not unfitting
For you, Count Piccolomini, to feel
So tenderly—my brother it beseems
To shew himself forever great and princely.
THEKLA.
For his munificent hands did ornament me
Ere yet the father's heart had spoken to me.
MAX.
And making happy.
increasing warmth.)
Its all of thanks to him: O! how I seem
To utter all things in the dear name Friedland.
While I shall live, so long will I remain
The captive of this name: in it shall bloom
