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THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN.
Translated by S. T. Coleridge.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
A room fitted up for astrological labors, and provided with celestial charts, with globes, telescopes, quadrants, and other mathematical instruments. Seven colossal figures, representing the planets, each with a transparent star of different color on its head, stand in a semicircle in the background, so that Mars and Saturn are nearest the eye. The remainder of the scene and its disposition is given in the fourth scene of the second act. There must be a curtain over the figures, which may be dropped and conceal them on occasions.
WALLENSTEIN at a black table, on which, a speculum astrologicum is described with chalk. SENI is taking observations through a window.
WALLENSTEIN. All well--and now let it be ended, Seni. Come, The dawn commences, and Mars rules the hour; We must give o'er the operation. Come, We know enough.
WALLENSTEIN. She is at present in her perigee, And now shoots down her strongest influences. No, not for gold and silver have there bled So many of our Swedish nobles--neither Will we, with empty laurels for our payment, Hoist sail for our own country. Citizens Will we remain upon the soil, the which Our monarch conquered for himself and died.
WALLENSTEIN. Help to keep down the common enemy, And the fair border land must needs be yours.
WRANGEL. But when the common enemy lies vanquished, Who knits together our new friendship then? We know, Duke Friedland! though perhaps the Swede Ought not to have known it, that you carry on Secret negotiations with the Saxons. Who is our warranty that we are not The sacrifices in those articles Which 'tis thought needful to conceal from us?
WALLENSTEIN . Think you of something better, Gustave Wrangel! Of Prague no more.
WRANGEL. Here my commission ends.
WALLENSTEIN. Surrender up to you my capital! Far liever would I force about, and step Back to my emperor.
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