FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN.
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It was the urgent business of that time
To snatch Bavaria from her enemy's hand;
And my commission of to-day instructs me
To free her from her good friends and protectors.
ILLO.
We have wrested this Bohemia from the Saxon,
To be swept out of it is all our thanks,
The sole reward of all our hard-won victories.
QUESTENBERG.
Only a change of evils, it must be
Freed from the scourge alike of friend or foe.
ILLO.
Can answer fresh demands already.
QUESTENBERG.
If you discourse of herds and meadow-grounds—
ISOLANI.
The Emperor gains so many more new soldiers.
QUESTENBERG.
ISOLANI.
QUESTENBERG.
With profitable industry the purse,
The others are well skill'd to empty it.
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