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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 75
TUE TEMPLARS IS CYPRUS.
[ACT II.
SCENE III.
Prison : on the right a large iron door, on the left, more in the
background, a smaller door. The EX-PRIOR OF MOXTFAUCOX (on one side of the front),
NOFFO OF NOFFODKI (on the other side, sitting at a table,
upon which lies a guitar).
PRIOR.
Noffodci !
NOFFO. Well, ex-Prior !
PRIOR. No insults, knave !
NOFFO.
Ho ! I'm as good a knight as yon. We both Are thrust together in one equal cell, Savo that you sit on that side, I on this.
PRIOR.
Thou wretched man ! Must I ten times repeat That 'twixt a villanous criminal and me, Mere victim to an infamous cabal, The distance is as great as earth from heaven ?
NOFFO.
Ah, yes ! You're here, because you'll not believe
A maid could bo a mother ; I, because
A fortress to tho Sultan I betrayed
For twenty beggarly purses. 'Tis all one
And if betwixt us there be ought to choose,
Pcvengc steps in and makes us comrades sworn.
PRIOR (starting up). Yes, yes, revenge, revenge ! Forgive this once,
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