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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 78
•c. m.J TUK wiiruK» is cntca. ;
).rrv night with » bloody board, Mill haunt* ha thai ruck | and fcaml It the Croat at ho nde* by it, raging and »• Ird.
PRIOU.
" Tlte prieat's tho fault." O, sing it once again,
Pltiou and NoilO (tinging together).
The priral't It the fault thai my tword 1 loti, liât awcol
Kt'DO (itittrt HIM • « by the lattice ami tingt emphatic illj)
It the Croat to tho tom|»»t-to*ted.'— He taught in hit hoard otery night, Hut with trara!—And the Croat gi»ea him light ; While tho night*norm ving» o'er him lit flight.
[Kl'DO goes on further. The sounds gra luallg PRIOR.
What was it ?
(Enter ClIAI'LAIN Cïl'RIANCS.)
Norro.
Ha ! Tho greasy Cyprianus I* making game of us!
[Sjiorticrly rapping the CHAPLAIN on hit bald Thou, rascal, thou !—
CHAPLAIN. What ho ! So jovial, sons of Helial ?
PRIOR.
Ay!
So jovial are wo that, wer't worth our while, We'd strangle theo right off with our own hands.
CHAPLAIN.
Will nothing turn you from your evil ways ?
PRIOR.
First turn thyself, thou cozener of men.
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