122 TilK TKIIN.ARS W CTI'KCS. [ACT IV. GOTTFRIED. Some news of weighty consequence Must surely have arrived here. CliARLOT. They all say, A Bull has from tho Holy Father come, Wherein ho cites us to him at Poictiers, Safe-conduct guaranteeing. At midnight, Tho Brief, they say, will bo in Chapter read— Also this night Poitou will be received, And yet another, (to Robert) whom indeed you know ! 'Tis he who with the pirato yesterday Was taken. KOBKRT. Tell me not of yesterday ! 0 God ! GOTTFRIED. What? Who? CHARLOT. The stranger, tho French Knight ; He is the son of Anjou's banished Duke. GOTTFRIED. He ?—What, so soon ? CHARLOT. 'Tis so indeed. The Master Gave his consent reluctantly, they say— But tho Knight pleaded with such urgency, Ho yielded to his prayer. Ho and Poitou This coming midnight are to be received, And in the early morning-tide—huzza ! We start for Franco !—Gottfried, thou also com'st With us. GOTTFRIED. I am willing. For a gallant man Is always complaisant. And come also, The Brothers' Cook and Butler?