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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 126
ItOHKkT.
Parasite !
ClUm.llT (to (ioTTFUIKp).
Thou Prince of gormandizer* ! Ay, they como.
(To HUM UT, ]**nting to Comim i ) lie'» found hi* proper niche 1 Come, foolish Hubert, Why fo torment thyself't Thy father own* Wealth, rank, authority.—My God! had I Such iower, «nch proattccts, I'd be very glad To load my mantle. Then, light-hearted I Would ramblo through the world, until at length I il »triko root in some castlo of my own, Take a xoung wife, go hunt tho hnrt and roe, And leave tho Crescent, Cross, and Pnlentino To Coil Almighty's guardianship.
GOTTl'RIEP.
I too!—
Hero's nothing but vexation. Pcoplo say Wo'ro necromancers,1 and I think myself There's something that is not quito orthodox About our ternph-hend.1 tiod help m all ! 'Tis well to keep one's sheep in pastures dry.
ROBF.RT.
A spurious wisdom now you're babbling of, Tho offspring of these frost-numbed latter times, And, were it wisdom truly, oh ! yet there floats High o'er my heart a wholly different aim. Ho this a dream,- (I doubt it bo scarco more)— Yet no'er would I exchange it for your Truth, And for your joyless heaven. Tho Master may Indeed have sacrificed himself for nought; Yet would I sooner burn in that sweet dream Than in tho winter of your Truth I'd freeze.
1 " They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy. I» ! tbty are charged with studying tho accursed cabslittical sccreu'of the Jews and the magic of the l'aynun Saracens."—Ira»hoe, vol. iiL,ch. v.—Trout.
' See note to p. 232, "Act »i.— Tram.
Tilt TlVllla • IS
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