The Piccolomini (play)

SCENE II.

TERZKY, NEUMANN.

TERZKY (beckons to NEUMANN, who is waiting at the side-table and steps

forward with him to the edge of the stage).

Have you the copy with you, Neumann? Give it.

It may be changed for the other?

NEUMANN.

I have copied it

Letter by letter, line by line; no eye

Would e'er discover other difference,

Save only the omission of that clause,

According to your excellency's order.

TERZKY.

Right I lay it yonder and away with this-

It has performed its business-to the fire with it.

[NEUMANN lays the copy on the table, and steps back again

to the side-table.