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Wallenstein's Camp

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2017
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FIRST CUIRASSIER

Peace! what's amiss with the boor, may I crave?

FIRST SHARPSHOOTER

He has cheated at play, the cozening knave!

FIRST CUIRASSIER

But say, has he cheated you, man, of aught?

FIRST SHARPHOOTER

Just cleaned me out – and not left me a groat.

FIRST CUIRASSIER

And can you, who've the rank of a Friedland man,
So shamefully cast yourself away,
As to try your luck with the boor at play?
Let him run off, so that run he can.

[The peasant escapes, the others throng together.

FIRST ARQUEBUSIER

He makes short work – is of resolute mood —
And that with such fellows as these is good.
Who is he? not of Bohemia, that's clear.

SUTLER-WOMAN

He's a Walloon – and respect, I trow,
Is due to the Pappenheim cuirassier!

FIRST DRAGOON (joining)

Young Piccolomini leads them now,
Whom they chose as colonel, of their own free might,
When Pappenheim fell in Luetzen's fight.

FIRST ARQUEBUSIER

Durst they, indeed, presume so far?

FIRST DRAGOON

This regiment is something above the rest.
It has ever been foremost through the war,
And may manage its laws, as it pleases best;
Besides, 'tis by Friedland himself caressed.
FIRST CUIRASSIER (to the Second.)
Is't so in truth, man? Who averred it?

SECOND CUIRASSIER

From the lips of the colonel himself I heard it.

FIRST CUIRASSIER

The devil! we're not their dogs, I weep!

FIRST YAGER

How now, what's wrong? You're swollen with spleen!

SECOND YAGER

Is it anything, comrades, may us concern?

FIRST CUIRASSIER

'Tis what none need be wondrous glad to learn.
The Soldiers press round him.
To the Netherlands they would lend us now —
Cuirassiers, Yagers, and Shooters away,
Eight thousand in all must march, they say.

SUTLER-WOMAN

What! What! again the old wandering way —
I got back from Flanders but yesterday!

SECOND CUIRASSIER (to the Dragoons)

You of Butler's corps must tramp with the rest.

FIRST CUIRASSIER

And we, the Walloons, must doubtless be gone.

SUTLER-WOMAN

Why, of all our squadrons these are the best.

FIRST CUIRASSIER

To march where that Milanese fellow leads on.
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