WALLENSTEIN. And sun and moon, too, in the Sextile aspect, And both the mighty Lumina by no The empire of Saturnus is gone by; And his are all things that eschew the light. The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight; For the heavens journey still, and sojourn not. [There are knocks at the door. There's some one knocking there. See who it is. TERTSKY (from without). Open, and let me in. WALLENSTEIN. Aye-'tis Tertsky. What is there of such urgence? We are busy. Lay all aside at present, I entreat you. It suffers no delaying. WALLENSTEIN. Open, Seni! [While Seni opens the doors for Tertsky, Wallenstein draws the curtain over the figures. TERTSKY (enters). Hast thou already heard it? He is taken. [Seni draws off the black table, and exit. SCENE II. WALLENSTEIN, COUNT TERTSKY. WALLENSTEIN (to Tertsky). Who has been taken ?-Who is given up? TERTSKY. The man who knows our secrets, who knows every Negociation with the Swede and Saxon, Through whose hands all and every thing has passed WALLENSTEIN (drawing back). Nay, not Sesina?-Say, No! I entreat thee. All on his road for Regenspurg to the Swede Has he heard it? SCENE III. To them enters ILLO. TERTSKY. He has heard it. ILLO (to Wallenstein). Thinkest thou still To make thy peace with the Emperor, to regain To abandon all thy plans, yet still they know What thou hast wished; then forwards thou must press; Retreat is now no longer in thy power. TERTSKY. They have documents against us, and in hands, Of my hand-writing-no iota. Thee I punish for thy lies. ILLO. And thou believest, That what this man, that what thy sister's husband, In writing thou gav'st nothing-But bethink thee, ILLO. Thyself dost not conceive it possible; And since they now have evidence authentic VOL. III. N Lies my security. The army will not Abandon me. Whatever they may know, The power is mine, and they must gulp it down- They must be satisfied, at least appear so. ILLO. The army, Duke, is thine now-for this moment— One after the other WALLENSTEIN. "Tis a cursed accident! ILLO. o I will call it a most blessed one, Hurry thee on to action-to decision- WALLENSTEIN. What his commission is He's arrived! Know'st thou |