Wallenstein's Camp by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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page 26 of 63 (41%)
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Pish! traffic in matches! who would do't?
CITIZEN. A wine-shop his grandfather leaves, to boot, A cellar with twenty casks of wine. TRUMPETER. These with his comrades he'll surely share. SECOND YAGER. Hark ye, lad--be a camp-brother of mine. CITIZEN. A bride he leaves sitting, in tears, apart. FIRST YAGER. Good--that now's a proof of an iron heart. CITIZEN. His grandmother's sure to die with sorrow. SECOND YAGER. The better--for then he'll inherit to-morrow. SERGEANT (advances gravely, and lays his hand on the Recruit's tin cap). The matter no doubt you have duly weighed, And here a new man of yourself have made; With hanger and helm, sir, you now belong To a nobler and more distinguished throng. |
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