But
you are wrong; his is not the only army which stands between us
and Vienna. No sooner is old Tilly dead than a greater than Tilly
appears to oppose us. Wallenstein is in the field again. It has
been known that he has for some time been negotiating with the
emperor, who has been imploring him to forgive the slight that was
passed upon him before, and to again take the field.
"Wallenstein, knowing that the game was in his hands, and that the
emperor must finally agree to any terms which he chose to dictate,
has, while he has been negotiating, been collecting an army; and
when the emperor finally agreed to his conditions, that he was at
the conclusion of the peace to be assured a royal title and the
fief of a sovereign state, he had an army ready to his hand, and
is now on the point of entering Bohemia with 40,000 men."
"What his plans may be we cannot yet say, but at any rate it would
not do to be delaying here and leaving Germany open to Wallenstein
to operate as he will. It was a stern day at Leipzig, but, mark
my words, it will be sterner still when we meet Wallenstein; for,
great captain as Tilly undoubtedly was, Wallenstein is far greater,
and Europe will hold its breath when Gustavus and he, the two
greatest captains of the age, meet in a pitched battle."
At Munich the regiments of Munro and Spynie were quartered in the
magnificent Electoral Palace, where they fared sumptuously and
enjoyed not a little their comfortable quarters and the stores of
old wines in the cellar.
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