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FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN.
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QUESTENBERG.

When his Majesty

The Emperor to his courageous armies
Presented in the person of Duke Friedland
A most experienc'd and renown'd commander,
He did it in glad hope and confidence
To give thereby to the fortune of the war
A rapid and auspicious change. The onset
Was favourable to his royal wishes.
Bohemia was deliver'd from the Saxons,
The Swede's career of conquest checked! These lands
Began to draw breath freely, as Duke Friedland
From all the streams of Germany forc'd hither
The scatter'd armies of the enemy;
Hither invok'd as round one magic circle
The Rhinegrave, Bernhard, Banner, Oxenstirn,
Yea, and the never-conquer'd King himself;
Here finally, before the eye of Nürnberg,
The fearful game of battle to decide.

WALLENSTEIN.

May't please you, to the point.


QUESTENBERG.

In Nürnberg's camp the Swedish monarch left

His fame—in Lützen's plains his life. But who
Stood not astounded, when victorious Friedland
After this day of triumph, this proud day,
March'd toward Bohemia with the speed of flight,
And vanish'd from the theatre of war?
While the young Weimar hero forc'd his way
Into Franconia, to the Danube, like

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