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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 187
FRANK and ADALBERT.
No.
MOLAT (to the Assembly). You Lnvo heard them. Speak then, elder Knights ! Remains there anything to ask them ?
THE ANCIENT KNIGHTS.
No.
MOLAY (to the Acolytes). Dear brethren, I conjure you both once more, Beware ye tell us nothing but the truth !
FRANK.
A Knight I am.
ADALBERT. Am I not Anjou's son ?
MOLAY (to CHARLOT, who has come in again during the fore-going scene). So be it then ! Now let the priests come in !
[CHARLOT opens the door to the Acolytes, whilst he and all the Knights stand up. But ye, mark well what I shall say to you !
[Tiro Choir boys, each carrying a cushion on rchich lie the insignia of the Order, namely, the Mantle, the Cross of red cloth, and the Girdle of white linen, which they deposit on the two tabourets standing opposite the seat of the GRAND MASTER. Two CHAPLAINS of the Order and the PRESBYTER of the Order in mass vestments come in.
[The PRESBYTER and the two CHAPLAINS go to the Altar, and place themselves before it, their faces towards the as-sembly. MOLAY pastes in front of
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THE TEMfLARS IK CYPRV*
[ACT V.
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