From the First Part of “Wallenstein,” Act III. Sc. 4.

WALLENSTEIN  (in soliloquy).  Is it possible?
Is ’t so? I can no longer what I would!
No longer draw back at my liking! I
Must do the deed, because I thought of it,
And fed this heart here with a dream! Because
I did not scowl temptation from my presence,
Dallied with thought of...