[After 25] [_Pauses and remains in deep thought._ 1800, 1828, 1829. [39] _not_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [48] _dumb_ 1800. [50] _rent_ 1800. [After 50] [_Pauses again._ 1800, 1828, 1829. [53] _orders_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [55] many] may 1800, 1828, 1829. [56] Grasps] Grasp 1800, 1828, 1829. [After 62] [_Paces in agitation through the chamber, then pauses, and, after the pause, breaks out again into audible soliloquy._ 1800, 1828, 1829. SCENE V _WALLENSTEIN and WRANGEL._ _Wallenstein._ Your name is Wrangel? _Wrangel._ Gustave Wrangel, General Of the Sudermanian Blues. _Wallenstein._ It was a Wrangel Who injured me materially at Stralsund, And by his brave resistance was the cause Of the opposition which that sea-port made. 5 _Wrangel._ It was the doing of the element With which you fought, my Lord! and not my merit. The Baltic Neptune did assert his freedom, The sea and land, it seemed, were not to serve One and the same. _Wallenstein (makes a motion for him to take a seat, and seats himself)._ And where are your credentials? 10 Come you provided with full powers, Sir General? _Wrangel._ There are so many scruples yet to solve---- _Wallenstein (having read the credentials)._ An able letter!--Ay--he is a prudent, Intelligent master, whom you serve, Sir General! The Chancellor writes me, that he but fulfils 15 His late departed Sovereign's own idea In helping me to the Bohemian crown. _Wrangel._ He says the truth. Our great King, now in heaven, Did ever deem most highly of your Grace's Pre-eminent sense and military genius; 20 And always the commanding Intellect, He said, should have command, and be the King. _Wallenstein._ Yes, he might say it safely.--General Wrangel, [_Taking his hand._ Come, fair and open--Trust me, I was always A Swede at heart. Ey! that did you experience 25 Both in Silesia and at Nuremburg; I had you often in my power, and let you Always slip out by some back door or other. 'Tis this for which the Court can ne'er forgive me, Which drives me to this present step: and since 30 Our interests so run in one direction, E'en let us have a thorough confidence Each in the other. _Wrangel._ Confidence will come Has each but only first security. _Wallenstein._ The Chancellor still, I see, does not quite trust me; 35 And, I confess--the gain does not wholly lie To my advantage--Without doubt he thinks If I can play false with the Emperor, Who is my Sov'reign, I can do the like With the enemy, and that the one too were 40 Sooner to be forgiven me than the other. Is not this your opinion too, Sir General?