FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN.
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SCENE V.
Wallenstein and Wrangel.
WALLENSTEIN. (after having fixed a searching
look on him,)
Your name is Wrangel?
look on him,)
Your name is Wrangel?
WRANGEL.
Gustave Wrangel, General
Of the Sudermanian Blues.
Gustave Wrangel, General
Of the Sudermanian Blues.
WALLENSTEIN.
It was a Wrangel
Who injur'd me materially at Stralsund,
And by his brave resistance was the cause
Of th' opposition which that sea-port made.
It was a Wrangel
Who injur'd me materially at Stralsund,
And by his brave resistance was the cause
Of th' opposition which that sea-port made.
WRANGEL.
It was the doing of the element
With which you fought, my Lord! and not my merit.
The Baltic Neptune did assert his freedom,
The sea and land, it seem'd, were not to serve
One and the same.
It was the doing of the element
With which you fought, my Lord! and not my merit.
The Baltic Neptune did assert his freedom,
The sea and land, it seem'd, were not to serve
One and the same.
WALLENSTEIN. (makes the motion for him
to take a seat, and seats himself.)
And where are your credentials?
Come you provided with full powers, Sir General?
to take a seat, and seats himself.)
And where are your credentials?
Come you provided with full powers, Sir General?
WRANGEL.
There are so many scruples yet to solve———
There are so many scruples yet to solve———
WALLENSTEIN. (having read the credentials.)
An able letter!—Ay—he is a prudent
An able letter!—Ay—he is a prudent
Intelligent