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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 106
THE TEUTLAKa IK CTPSFI.
[A TrSlKUS PRIVATEER (frùh klarfsiSaf ëhimll.i) ù brmtjht in by a Ksi HT ; behind, a TE"' UU-tK tritk a *•"/, AluI.BI KT Of Avjol, ami two other PEI-OXKK» if th Tuminamt).
MoLAT (ti the Tl'MSlAX).
W'h it ixro you ?
TISISIAN. I ? A "-allant officer
Of Turku, confessing moat unwillingly Unto a Chriiitian dog.
MOLAT. The abusive term II it docs mo honour—Who are theso with you ?
TUNISIAN.
A couplo o' hounds of no account, unless To be spiked up upon tho walls of Tunis.
MOLAT.
How came they in thy hands ?
TUNISIAN.
At Cadiz, I
Had come across a Spanish frigate, laden
With a whole cargo of such knaves ns thee.
Tho Captain yielded like a caitiff slave,
Albeit his forco was thrico the strength of mine,
So took 1 them ; but soon that ballast proved
Too heavy a load, therefore at Trijxilis
I trafficked all tho worthless trash away,
Reserving theso four to amuse myself
And win diversion from their foolish ways.
Thus towards Aleppo I had turned my course,
Intending them as gifts for tho Pasha !
Rut then I thought I'd also take with me
A few white hides of theso your Templar dogs.
I climliod to land ; but there my e\il star
Launched on me quite the best of thy sleuth-hounds ;
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