Page:Wallenstein, a drama in 2 parts - Schiller (tr. Coleridge) (1800).djvu/36

14 You'll not forget, that yet ere noon we meet The noble envoy at the General's palace. Exeunt all but Questenberg and Octavio.

What have I not been forc'd to hear, Octavio! What sentiments! what fierce, uncurb'd defiance! And were this spirit universal—

Hm! You are now acquainted with three fourths of the army.

Where must we seek then for a second host To have the custody of this? That Illo Thinks worse, I fear me, than he speaks. And then This Butler too—he cannot even conceal The passionate workings of his ill intentions.

Quickness of temper—irritated pride; 'Twas nothing more. I cannot give up Butler. I know a spell that will soon dispossess The evil spirit in him. Rh