Wallenstein/The Piccolomini/A4S6
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SCENE VI.
Wallenstein, Tertsky, and Illo (re-enter.)
ILLO.
Is't all right?
Is't all right?
TERTSKY.
Are you compromis'd?
Are you compromis'd?
ILLO.
This Swede
Went smiling from you. Yes! you're compromised.
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.
As yet is nothing settled: and (well weigh'd)
I feel myself inclin'd to leave it so.
TERTSKY.
How? What is that?
How? What is that?
WALLENSTEIN.
Come on me what will come,
The doing evil to avoid an evil
Cannot be good!
Come on me what will come,
The doing evil to avoid an evil
Cannot be good!
TERTSKY.
Nay, but bethink you, Duke?
Nay, but bethink you, Duke?
WALLENSTEIN.
To live upon the mercy of these Swedes!
Of these proud-hearted Swedes! I could not bear it.
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?
Goest thou as fugitive, as mendicant?
Bring'st thou not more to them than thou receiv'st?