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The Death of Wallenstein by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
page 53 of 268 (19%)
Ye are whimsical.

ILLO.
O but for this time, duke,
Yield to our warning! Let him not depart.

WALLENSTEIN.
And why should I not trust him only this time,
Who have always trusted him? What, then, has happened
That I should lose my good opinion of him?
In complaisance to your whims, not my own,
I must, forsooth, give up a rooted judgment.
Think not I am a woman. Having trusted him
E'en till to-day, to-day too will I trust him.

TERZKY.
Must it be he--he only? Send another.

WALLENSTEIN.
It must be he, whom I myself have chosen;
He is well fitted for the business.
Therefore I gave it him.

ILLO.
Because he's an Italian--
Therefore is he well fitted for the business!

WALLENSTEIN.
I know you love them not, nor sire nor son,
Because that I esteem them, love them, visibly
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