FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN.
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ACT IV.
Scene a Room fitted up for astrological Labours, and provided with celestial Charts, with Globes, Telescopes, Quadrants, and other mathematical Instruments.—Seven Colossal Figures, representing the Planets, each with a transparent Star of a different Colour on its Head, stand in a Semi-circle in the Back-ground, so that Mars and Saturn are nearest the Eye.—The Remainder of the Scene, and its Disposition, is given in the Fourth Scene of the Second Act.— There must be a Curtain over the Figures, which may be dropped, and conceal them on Occasions.
[In the Fifth Scene of this Act it must be dropped; but, in the Seventh Scene, it must be again drawn up wholly or in part.]
SCENE I.
Wallenstein at a black Table, on which a Speculum Astrologicum is described with Chalk. Seni is taking Observations through a Window.
WALLENSTEIN.
The dawn commences, and Mars rules the hour.
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