_Countess._ But he will miss you, will ask after you. _Duchess._ What now? Why is she going? 70 _Countess._ She's not well. _Duchess._ What ails then my beloved child? [_Both follow the PRINCESS, and endeavour to detain her. During this WALLENSTEIN appears, engaged in conversation with ILLO._ LINENOTES: [Between 14, 15] [_THEKLA, in extreme agitation, throws herself, &c._ 1800, 1828, 1829. [28] _fate_ 1800. [40] _flame_ 1800. [53] _your_ 1800. [56] be soon] soon be 1828, 1829. [57] _her_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [65] _Thekla (to the Countess, with marks of great oppression of spirits)._ 1800, 1828, 1829. [Before 72] _Duchess (anxiously)._ 1800, 1828, 1829. SCENE IV _WALLENSTEIN, ILLO, COUNTESS, DUCHESS, THEKLA._ _Wallenstein._ All quiet in the camp? _Illo._ It is all quiet. _Wallenstein._ In a few hours may couriers come from Prague With tidings, that this capital is ours. Then we may drop the mask, and to the troops Assembled in this town make known the measure 5 And its result together. In such cases Example does the whole. Whoever is foremost Still leads the herd. An imitative creature Is man. The troops at Prague conceive no other, Than that the Pilsen army has gone through 10 The forms of homage to us; and in Pilsen They shall swear fealty to us, because The example has been given them by Prague. Butler, you tell me, has declared himself. _Illo._ At his own bidding, unsolicited, 15 He came to offer you himself and regiment. _Wallenstein._ I find we must not give implicit credence To every warning voice that makes itself Be listened to in the heart. To hold us back, Oft does the lying spirit counterfeit 20 The voice of Truth and inward Revelation, Scattering false oracles. And thus have I To intreat forgiveness, for that secretly I've wrong'd this honourable gallant man, This Butler: for a feeling, of the which 25 I am not master (fear I would not call it), Creeps o'er me instantly, with sense of shuddering, At his approach, and stops love's joyous motion. And this same man, against whom I am warned, This honest man is he, who reaches to me 30 The first pledge of my fortune. _Illo._ And doubt not That his example will win over to you The best men in the army. _Wallenstein._ Go and send Isolani hither. Send him immediately. He is under recent obligations to me. 35 With him will I commence the trial. Go. [_ILLO exit._