Wallenstein/The Death of Wallenstein/A1S11

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The Death of Wallenstein, Act 1, Scene X

Wallenstein
by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Death of Wallenstein: Act 1, Scene XI

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4332788Wallenstein — The Death of Wallenstein: Act 1, Scene XISamuel Taylor ColeridgeJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

SCENE XI.

Countess Tertsky. (enters from a side room.)I can endure no longer. No!(looks around her.)Where are they?No one is here. They leave me all alone,Alone in this sore anguish of suspense.And I must wear the outward shew of calmnessBefore my sister, and shut in within meThe pangs and agonies of my crowded bosom.It is not to be borne.—If all should fail;If—if he must go over to the Swedes,An empty-handed fugitive, and notAs an ally, a covenanted equal,A proud commander with his army following;If we must wander on from land to land,Like the Count Palatine, of fallen greatness An ignominious monument—But no!That day I will not see! And could himselfEndure to sink so low, I would not bearTo see him so low sunken.