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Scene VI

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,
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?
Bringest thou not more to them than thou receivest?