Illo. Unless they can slip out by a proviso.—What of the
proviso? The devil take this proviso!
Max. What is there here then of such perilous import?
You make me curious—I must look closer at it.
Tertsky (in a low voice to Illo). What are you doing, Illo? 60
You are ruining us.
Tiefenbach (to Kolatto). Ay, ay! I observed, that before we
sat down to supper, it was read differently.
Goetz. Why, I seemed to think so too.
Isolani. What do I care for that? Where there stand other [65]
names, mine can stand too.
Tiefenbach. Before supper there was a certain proviso therein,
or short clause concerning our duties to the Emperor.
Butler (to one of the commanders). For shame, for shame!
Bethink you. What is the main business here? The question 70
now is, whether we shall keep our General, or let him retire.
One must not take these things too nicely and
over-scrupulously.
Isolani (to one of the Generals). Did the Duke make any of
these provisos when he gave you your regiment? 75
Tertsky (to Goetz). Or when he gave you the office of
army-purveyancer, which brings you in yearly a thousand pistoles!