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THE PICCOLOMINI, OR THE
WALLENSTEIN.
That I had sent for wife and daughter hither
To the camp, in winter time?
DUCHESS.
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.
DUCHESS.
Upon no foreign nor yet Lutheran noble.
WALLENSTEIN.
DUCHESS.
WALLENSTEIN (after a pause).
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.
A cankerworm, my lord, a cankerworm
Has stolen into the bud.
Wallen-