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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 86
•C. III.]
TUB TIMPtAM IX CYlhT».
Will send to Hell thy devilish embassy And thee! What, Hcribert! Haut thou then sunk So low that tin* accurst, thin shamclcaa priest Dare couio to tine with meaaagea like thcao ?
CIIAI-I.AI.\. Yit thou dost hato the Master?
PIIIOR.
Abject worm ' Hato hint I do, more bitterly than Hell, Hit am not by my hatred made a villain. Theso overtures are mado mo by tho man Whom James do Molay lifted from the mire, And made for him tho road to fortuno free ! Hi 1 'tis tho first time that I do not grudgo Tho Master's mantle to thee, James do Molay, Since snakes liko tbeso are warmed in it for thee 1
ClMI'LAIX.
Do but consider—
Pitioit. Speak, accursed slavo ! Wherefore would'st thou betray thy Lord and Master ? Ho's been as father to thee—that I know. Wherefore bctray'st thou him ?
CIIAILAIX.
Tho Lord hath said, " Thou shalt obey thy God rather than men ! " Tis truo that Molay has in temporal things Dealt with mo liberally, with sundry gifts, Hut I am subject to the Church ; if sho Demand his blood, I, faithful, with one hand Bless him, and with the other immolate.
PaiOK (•«•*•», ritlwut henling the ClIAPLAIx's last speech, has
bfn standing lost in thought, after a j»iuse). Grnvo is tho situation ; yet I must,— Kovenge must yield to honour's high demands, 1 must disclose this treachery to the Order.
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