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FRIEDERICH WERNER The Templars in Cyprus

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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 22



tin TKMI-LMM IX • xnvt. But, if I rightly ptthi-red anything, The Order and the Clergy were concro- 1. GUTTIBIEO. Oh, Holy Father, tell ' Ciurtjuv. 1' faith 'til all 1 c«n recall to mind. GOTTFRIED. And yet you wrote it ! fairy RI Look yon, good Gottfried mino ! Whon ono of u A Literate, write*, tho letters buzz and swarm Hy thousands in his head ; ho scnrcely marks What things aro written by his crafty pen. For instance: if " God greet you" BO tho words-Two G's aro writ, you think, as soon as spoke. No, Gottfried, by no means : for each G must Wind cunningly like spiral of a snail ; And this voluto must also delicate bo As finest cobwob. In such subtlo wise Tho U must terminate, that should need be, You might without much troublo call it X— And only so the text can suit tho reader; It must bo seemly orcn though it kill ; Tho writer,—well,—can always writo again,— And so provides himself, whate'er befall. Is not this so ? GOTTFRIED. Yes, that tho mind can grasp— ClUI XAI.V. So grasp it then ! GOTTFRIED. Xo easy thing With all those crooks and twists !


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