Page:Wallenstein, a drama in 2 parts - Schiller (tr. Coleridge) (1800).djvu/31

Rh It was the urgent business of that time To snatch Bavaria from her enemy's hand; And my commission of to-day instructs me To free her from her good friends and protectors.

A worthy office! After with our blood We have wrested this Bohemia from the Saxon, To be swept out of it is all our thanks, The sole reward of all our hard-won victories.

Unless that wretched land be doom'd to suffer Only a change of evils, it must be Freed from the scourge alike of friend or foe.

What? 'Twas a favorable year; the Boors Can answer fresh demands already.

Nay, If you discourse of herds and meadow-grounds—

The war maintains the war. Are the Boors ruin'd The Emperor gains so many more new soldiers.

And is the poorer by even so many subjects.

Poh! we are all his subjects.

Yet with a difference, General! The one fill With profitable industry the purse, The others are well skill'd to empty it. The