Wallenstein/The Piccolomini/A2S09

by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

SCENE IX.

Tertsky, Neumann.

TERTSKY (beckons to Neumann, who is waiting
at the side-table, and steps forward with him
to the edge of the stage.)

Have you the copy with you, Neumann? Give it.

It may be chang'd for the other?

NEUMANN.

I have copied it

Letter by letter, line by line; no eye
Would e'er discover other difference,
Save only the omission of that clause,
According to your Excellency's order.

TERTSKY.

Right! Lay it yonder, and away with this—

It has perform'd its business—to the fire with it—
(Neumann lays the copy on the table, and
steps back again to the side-table.)

 

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