Volume 2 / Act 4 — Scene VI
Reading edition
Wallenstein, Tertsky, and Illo (re-enter).
Illo. Is't all right? Tertsky. Are you compromised? Illo. This Swede Went smiling from you. Yes! you're compromised. Wallenstein. As yet is nothing settled: and (well weighed) I feel myself inclined to leave it so. Tertsky. How? What is that? Wallenstein. Come on me what will come, 5 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? 10 Bringest thou not more to them than thou receivest?
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Wallenstein (sarcastically). 1800, 1828, 1829.
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Countess (to the others). 1800, 1828, 1829.