Wallenstein's Camp: A Play

SCENE X.

     Soldiers dragging in the peasant, bound.

  FIRST YAGER.
  He must hang!

  SHARPSHOOTERS and DRAGOONS.
         To the provost, come on!

  SERGEANT.
  'Tis the latest order that forth has gone.

  SUTLER-WOMAN.
  In an hour I hope to behold him swinging!

  SERGEANT.
  Bad work bad wages will needs be bringing.

  FIRST ARQUEBUSIER (to the others).
  This comes of their desperation. We
  First ruin them out and out, d'ye see;
  Which tempts them to steal, as it seems to me.

  TRUMPETER.
  How now! the rascal's cause would you plead?
  The cur! the devil is in you indeed!

  FIRST ARQUEBUSIER.
  The boor is a man—as a body may say.

  FIRST YAGER (to the Trumpeter).
  Let 'em go! they're of Tiefenbach's corps, the railers,
  A glorious train of glovers and tailors!
  At Brieg, in garrison, long they lay;
  What should they know about camps, I pray?