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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 89
8G
TIÎE TEMPLARS IX CYPRUS.
[ACT II.
And have yon driven your coach well up the hill ? CHAPLAIX.
I must confess—
NOFFO.
That, with tho best of wills, Your thick skull fails you in tho accomplishment ? But fear you nothing.—Only set us free, Forth of this place, and ship mo off to France, I'll answer for the Prior. His prido secures Him to us. Thou can'st write 'r1
CnAPLAIX (Offended).
I writo !—I can
Engross, forsooth !
NOFFO.
Then writo on thine own heart, In characters engrossed, this short wise dictum : " When as tho Devil on easy terms can't get us, Ho sends concupiscence and pride to fret ns, To tho Devil, the Devil's power long since had flown, Had he not set these scouts around his throne."
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