THE WORKS

OF

FREDERICK SCHILLER



Translated from the German



Illustrated


HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR IN GERMANY.






BOOK IV.



The weak bond of union, by which Gustavus Adolphus contrived to hold
together the Protestant members of the empire, was dissolved by his
death: the allies were now again at liberty, and their alliance, to
last, must be formed anew. By the former event, if unremedied, they