Wallenstein/The Death of Wallenstein/A4S06

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The Death of Wallenstein, Act 4, Scene V

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

The Death of Wallenstein: Act 4, Scene VI

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4437503Wallenstein — The Death of Wallenstein: Act 4, Scene VISamuel Taylor ColeridgeJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

SCENE VI.

THEKLA.His spirit 'tis that calls me: 'tis the troopOf his true followers, who offer'd upThemselves t' avenge his death and they accuse meOf an ignoble loitering—they would notForsake their leader even in death—they died for him!And shall I live?———For me too was that laurel-garland twin'dThat decks his bier. Life is an empty casket.I throw it from me. O, my only hope; To die beneath the hoofs of trampling steeds—That is the lot of heroes upon earth![Exit Thekla.^[1] (The curtain drops.)

END OF ACT IV.

↑ The soliloquy of Thekla consists in the original of six and twenty lines, twenty of which are in rhymes of irregular recurrence. I thought it prudent to abridge it. Indeed the whole scene between Thekla and Lady Neubrunn might, perhaps, have been omitted without injury to the play.

[1] The soliloquy of Thekla consists in the original of six and twenty lines, twenty of which are in rhymes of irregular recurrence. I thought it prudent to abridge it. Indeed the whole scene between Thekla and Lady Neubrunn might, perhaps, have been omitted without injury to the play.

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