Ye're moved--I see 135 A noble rage flash from your eyes, ye warriors! Oh that my spirit might possess you now Daring as once it led you to the battle! Ye would stand by me with your veteran arms, Protect me in my rights; and this is noble! 140 But think not that you can accomplish it, Your scanty number! to no purpose will you Have sacrificed you for your General. No! let us tread securely, seek for friends; The Swedes have proffered us assistance, let us 145 Wear for a while the appearance of good will, And use them for your profit, till we both Carry the fate of Europe in our hands, And from our camp to the glad jubilant world Lead Peace forth with the garland on her head! 150 _Anspessade._ 'Tis then but mere appearances which thou Dost put on with the Swede? Thou'lt not betray The Emperor? Wilt not turn us into Swedes? This is the only thing which we desire To learn from thee. _Wallenstein._ What care I for the Swedes? 155 I hate them as I hate the pit of hell, And under Providence I trust right soon To chase them to their homes across their Baltic. My cares are only for the whole: I have A heart--it bleeds within me for the miseries 160 And piteous groaning of my fellow-Germans. Ye are but common men, but yet ye think With minds not common; ye appear to me Worthy before all others, that I whisper ye A little word or two in confidence! 165 See now! already for full fifteen years The war-torch has continued burning, yet No rest, no pause of conflict. Swede and German, Papist and Lutheran! neither will give way To the other, every hand's against the other. 170 Each one is party and no one a judge. Where shall this end? Where's he that will unravel This tangle, ever tangling more and more. It must be cut asunder. I feel that I am the man of destiny, 175 And trust, with your assistance, to accomplish it. FOOTNOTES: [745:1] Anspessade, in German, _Gefreiter_, a soldier inferior to a corporal, but above the centinels. The German name implies that he is exempt from mounting guard. LINENOTES: [21] _whom_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [36] _Wallenstein (interrupting him)._ Who chose you? 1800, 1828, 1829. [46] Toscana] Toscano 1828, 1829. [After 50] (_With warmth._) 1800, 1828, 1829. [141] _you_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [After 143] [_Confidentially._ 1800, 1828, 1829. [147] your] our 1800, 1828, 1829. SCENE IV _To these enter BUTLER._ _Butler (passionately)._ General! This is not right! _Wallenstein._ What is not right? _Butler._ It must needs injure us with all honest men. _Wallenstein._ But what? _Butler._ It is an open proclamation Of insurrection.