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WALLENSTEIN.

⁠And how was it receiv'd,

That I had sent for wife and daughter hither
To the camp, in winter time?

DUCHESS.

⁠ I did even that

Which you commission'd me to do. I told them,
You had determin'd on our daughter's marriage,
And wish'd, ere yet you went into the field,
To show th' elected husband his betroth'd.

WALLENSTEIN.

And did they guess the choice which I had made?

DUCHESS.

They only hop'd and wish'd it may have fallen

Upon no foreign nor yet Lutheran noble.

WALLENSTEIN.

And you—what do you wish, Elizabeth?

DUCHESS.

Your will, you know, was always mine.

WALLENSTEIN (after a pause).

⁠Well then!

And in all else, of what kind and complexion
Was your reception at the court?
(The Duchess casts her eyes on the ground, and
⁠remains silent.)
Hide nothing from me. How were you receiv'd?

DUCHESS.

O! my dear lord, all is not what it was.

A cankerworm, my lord, a cankerworm
Has stolen into the bud.

Wallen-