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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 110
Till 11 MM AM IS Ctl i -.
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For thin they'd fun liave hung me, so I fled To Calais in n little Ixirk, and thence TramjK d on until at Cadiz 1 arrived, And put to sea in that same hapless frigate Sci/cd hy this (pointing t • lb 11 XMAN) Jew-like trafficker in men.
TLSIMAX.
Cobble ho would the shoo political,
The corporato Stato-cobblcrs then seized him.—
There's nought but cobbling 'mongst you Christian dogs;
And what all cobble at, )ou call a State.
M.I.AV (to the TllIKIi PIIISOSCR).
And thou ?
THIRD PRISOXTR. I am a man experienced much In tapestry and divers rarities. 'Twos said that in tlio Egyptian pyramids (This earnestly 1 beg you'll not reveal !) A picco of Jacob's famous ladder, might He seen worked up in some material rare ; And thither I was going (for no exjwnso I grntlgo that takes mo to tho beautiful !)— 1 w ished also to measure by initio own ears Whither tlio ancient Sphinx (as privately Was told me, and I beg you'll keep it dark) Uns veritably ears so long that they Aro longer still than mine. And finally. The mummies of old Pharaohs I would see, Which still must much of their old savour reek. (
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