Wallenstein/The Piccolomini/A4S6

by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

SCENE VI.

Wallenstein, Tertsky, and Illo (re-enter.)

ILLO.
Is't all right?

TERTSKY.
Are you compromis'd?

ILLO.
This Swede
Went smiling from you. Yes! you're compromised.

WALLENSTEIN.
As yet is nothing settled: and (well weigh'd)
I feel myself inclin'd to leave it so.

TERTSKY.
How? What is that?

WALLENSTEIN.
Come on me what will come,
The doing evil to avoid an evil
Cannot be good!

TERTSKY.
Nay, but bethink you, Duke?

WALLENSTEIN.
To live upon the mercy of these Swedes!
Of these proud-hearted Swedes! I could not bear it.

ILLO.
Goest thou as fugitive, as mendicant?
Bring'st thou not more to them than thou receiv'st?

 

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