What is this?
It is the Imperial Seal.
[He reads the address, and delivers the letter to OCTAVIO with a look of reproach, and with an emphasis on the word.]
To the Prince Piccolomini.
[OCTAVIO, with his whole frame expressive of sudden anguish, raises his eyes to heaven.]
[The Curtain drops.]
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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 22: Thomas: The Life and Works of Schiller, p. 330.]
[Footnote 23: Permission The Macmillan Co., New York, and G. Bell &
Sons, London.]
[Footnote 24: A great stone near Lützen, since called the Swede's Stone, the body of their great king having been found at the foot of it, after the battle in which he lost his life.]