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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 21
IS THE TEMPLARS IN CYPRUS. [ACT I.
CHAPLAIN.
I come from matins, Pronounced is witta est ; and wo go homo.
GOTTFRIED.
And have yon on hand much business, reverend Father ? CHAPLAIN.
For Christendom's well-being, who would not toil ?
GOTTFRIED. Troo—in things temporal and eternal you Aro foremost ! Yesterday, for instance, you Wero writing, so they tell me, all day long, Most urgent and most weighty documents.
CHAPLAIN.
Wisdom and knowledge gave the Lord to me, And theso my gifts aro often in demand.
GOTTFRIED.
Wero not those missives to tho Cardinal sent, And to the Marshal of Brienne ?
CHAPLAIN.
To whom ?—
I could not rightly say.
GOTTFRIED.
But were they not
Dictated by the Master to yourself ?
CHAPLAIN.
Dictated ? Certainly, the phrases were ; But all tho strokes and flourishes wero mine.
GOTTFRIED.
They'd weighty matters in them ; had they not ?
CHAPLAIN. To that I paid no very great regard,
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