WALLENSTEIN.
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In higher station: your fidelity
Well merits it.
Well merits it.
GORDON.
I am content already,
And wish to climb no higher; where great height is
The fall must needs be great. "Great height,
great depth."
I am content already,
And wish to climb no higher; where great height is
The fall must needs be great. "Great height,
great depth."
ILLO.
Here you have no more business for to-morrow;
The Swedes will take possession of the citadel.
Come, Tertsky, it is supper-time. What think you?
Say, shall we have the State illuminated
In honour of the Swede? And who refuses
To do it is a Spaniard and a traitor.
Here you have no more business for to-morrow;
The Swedes will take possession of the citadel.
Come, Tertsky, it is supper-time. What think you?
Say, shall we have the State illuminated
In honour of the Swede? And who refuses
To do it is a Spaniard and a traitor.
TERTSKY.
Nay Nay! not that, it not will please the Duke—
Nay Nay! not that, it not will please the Duke—
ILLO.
What we are masters here; no soul shall dare
Avow himself imperial where we've the rule.
Gordon! Good night, and, for the last time, take
A fair leave of the place. Send out patroles
To make secure, the watch-word may be alter'd
At the stroke of ten; deliver in the keys
To the Duke himself, and then you're quit for ever
Your wardship of the gates, for on to-morrow
The Swedes will take possession of the citadel.
What we are masters here; no soul shall dare
Avow himself imperial where we've the rule.
Gordon! Good night, and, for the last time, take
A fair leave of the place. Send out patroles
To make secure, the watch-word may be alter'd
At the stroke of ten; deliver in the keys
To the Duke himself, and then you're quit for ever
Your wardship of the gates, for on to-morrow
The Swedes will take possession of the citadel.
TERTSKY. (as he is going, to Butler.)
You come though to the castle.
You come though to the castle.
BUTLER.
At the right time.
(Exeunt Tertsky and Illo.)
At the right time.
(Exeunt Tertsky and Illo.)
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