Page:Wallenstein, a drama in 2 parts - Schiller (tr. Coleridge) (1800).djvu/86

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
64
THE PICCOLOMINI, OR THE

Our joint remonstrances.—Nay, calmer! Friends!
I hope all may yet be set right again.

TERTSKY.

Away! let us away! in th' antichamber

Find we the others.[They go.

BUTLER. (to Questenberg.)

If good counsel gain

Due audience from your wisdom, my Lord Envoy!
You will be cautious how you shew yourself
In public for some hours to come—or hardly
Will that gold key protect you from mal-treatment.
(Commotions heard from without.)

WALLENSTEIN.

A salutary counsel———Thou, Octavio!

Wilt answer for the safety of our guest.
Farewell, Von Questenberg!
(Questenburg is about to speak.)
Nay, not a word.
Not one word more of that detested subject!
You have perform'd your duty.—We know how
To separate the office from the man.

(As Questenberg is going off with Octavio, Goetz,
Tiefenbach, Kollatto, press in, several other
generals following them
.)


GOETZ.

Where's he, who means to rob us of our general?


TIEFENBACH. (at the same time.)

What are we forc'd to hear? That thou wilt leave us?


KOL-