The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2)Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
English poetry -- 19th century
Made manifest, in which the soul abode.
(_ILLO and TERTSKY enter._)
Courage, friends! Courage! We are still unvanquished;
I feel my footing firm; five regiments, Tertsky,
Are still our own, and Butler's gallant troops; 40
And a host of sixteen thousand Swedes to-morrow.
I was not stronger, when nine years ago
I marched forth, with glad heart and high of hope,
To conquer Germany for the Emperor.
LINENOTES:
[11] sank] sunk 1800, 1828, 1829.
SCENE II
_WALLENSTEIN, ILLO, TERTSKY. (To them enter NEUMANN, who leads TERTSKY
aside, and talks with him.)_
_Tertsky._ What do they want?
_Wallenstein._ What now?
_Tertsky._ Ten Cuirassiers
From Pappenheim request leave to address you
In the name of the regiment.
_Wallenstein (hastily to Neumann)._ Let them enter.
[_Exit NEUMANN._
This
May end in something. Mark you. They are still
Doubtful, and may be won. 5
SCENE III
_WALLENSTEIN, TERTSKY, ILLO, Ten_ Cuirassiers _(led by an_
Anspessade,[745:1] _march up and arrange themselves, after the word of
command, in one front before the DUKE, and make their obeisance. He
takes his hat off, and immediately covers himself again)._
_Anspessade._ Halt! Front! Present!
_Wallenstein (after he has run through them with his eye, to the
Anspessade)._ I know thee well. Thou art out of Brüggin in Flanders:
Thy name is Mercy.
_Anspessade._ Henry Mercy.
_Wallenstein._ Thou wert cut off on the march, surrounded
by the Hessians, and didst fight thy way with a hundred and 5
eighty men through their thousand.
_Anspessade._ 'Twas even so, General!
_Wallenstein._ What reward hadst thou for this gallant exploit?
_Anspessade._ That which I asked for: the honour to serve
in this corps. 10
_Wallenstein (turning to a second)._ Thou wert among the
volunteers that seized and made booty of the Swedish battery
at Altenburg.
_Second Cuirassier._ Yes, General!
_Wallenstein._ I forget no one with whom I have exchanged 15
words. (_A pause_). Who sends you?
_Anspessade._ Your noble regiment, the Cuirassiers of
Piccolomini.
_Wallenstein._ Why does not your colonel deliver in your
request, according to the custom of service? 20
_Anspessade._ Because we would first know whom we serve.
_Wallenstein._ Begin your address.
_Anspessade (giving the word of command)._ Shoulder your arms!
_Wallenstein (turning to a third)._ Thy name is Risbeck, Cologne
is thy birthplace. 25
_Third Cuirassier._ Risbeck of Cologne.
_Wallenstein._ It was thou that broughtest in the Swedish
colonel, Diebald, prisoner, in the camp at Nuremberg.
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