Chapter 76

_WALLENSTEIN, TERTSKY, and ILLO (re-enter)._

_Illo._ Is't all right?

_Tertsky._ Are you compromised?

_Illo._ This Swede Went smiling from you. Yes! you're compromised.

_Wallenstein._ As yet is nothing settled: and (well weighed) I feel myself inclined to leave it so.

_Tertsky._ How? What is that?

_Wallenstein._ Come on me what will come, 5 The doing evil to avoid an evil Cannot be good!

_Tertsky._ Nay, but bethink you, Duke?

_Wallenstein._ To live upon the mercy of these Swedes! Of these proud-hearted Swedes! I could not bear it.

_Illo._ Goest thou as fugitive, as mendicant? 10 Bringest thou not more to them than thou receivest?

LINENOTES:

[10] _Wallenstein (sarcastically)._ 1800, 1828, 1829.

[11] _Countess (to the others)._ 1800, 1828, 1829.