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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 128
For, to sick men and prisoners, the ml- •• Permit a cordial drink. Twas Moluy's wi-h To •end it thee: bnt I begged it of him, 11« CHUM- I fain would bring it the myself.
S pur.
Herein I recognize lmth you and him.
COMHAXPER.
Then drink to faithful brotherhood in life Aid death ! Come, drink. (Sod mend it !
RoM UT.
'Tia scarco meet An outcaat man should revel in the juice Of golden grapes ; but since he. sends it me—(A- ilrinks.)
COMUVXKER.
That's right, my lad ! (l'iiuse,—lurititj which he JI:-S •/» vacaney, M tktmght ; thru, li«kinij up, its if recollecting himself.)
Ah, dost thou know ? Wo sail
For Franco to-morrow.
ROBERT.
You were saying so.
COMMAXM R. My poor old head liecomcs a little weak At times.—This journey's strango !—It worries me,— Hut since tho Holy Father so decrees, A Christian man must with good will obey.— And hast thon slept well, through this night, dear youth ?
ROBERT.
As a condemned angel might, who fell
With sudden shoot from his all beauteous heaven.
rwled the island tn Guy do Lu-ignsn, reserved the cxiiusile vineyards of I. inasol, to establish there a I'roocptory. where liberal potations were accredited to them, whence the proverb, Unira comme un Templier !"— Hut. de St. Lomu, by l)e Villeneuve, vol. ii., p. 152.
"The wines known as Commamdma hate alwavs enjoyed a high repu-tation on the Continent."—Ihmd^'kto Cyprus, Col. ami/nd. AAi4 i .. — Tram.
•C. I.] THE TKMILARS IX CYPsUM.
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