It was the doing of the element
With which you fought, my Lord! and not my merit.
The Baltic Neptune did assert his freedom:
The sea and land, it seem'd, were not to serve
One and the same.
[WALLENST.
You pluck'd the Admiral's hat from off my head.
WRANGEL.
I come to place a diadem thereon.]
WALLENSTEIN (makes the motion for him to take a seat, and seats himself).
And where are your credentials?
Come you provided with full powers, Sir General?
WRANGEL.
There are so many scruples yet to solve—
WALLENSTEIN (having read the credentials).