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, 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?