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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 229
ROBERT (looking at her in astonishment). Thy name is ?—
ASTRALIS. Astrnlon.
ROBERT.
I had a dream A while ago, a dream that looked like thee !
ASTRALIS.
Thou shalt not dream ! 1 Instc to the harbour, where K'cn now the ship from Scotland waits for thee. "Wake up ! Expect to see me in thy home !
[Exit quickly.
ROBERT (looking after her calmly). "Wake up? I am awake ! A curious note ! (Examining it). The address is Scotch, my mother-tongue. Tho form A pentagon, the wax and letters green ; The seal a quartered field, whereon I sec A lion, a fox, an ape, and—as it seems— A sparrow-hawk the fourth. Astonishing ! 'Tis almost like a fable. Let us see ! " Brave Scot ! who art no Templar Knight, and yet Art guardian of the Temple ! Much that now Shows dimly will be manifest, one day. Go home in peace ; but on the eighteenth day Of the third moon in the twice seventh year, In the century the four and fiftieth,1 Of the Revealing, be at Paris by The Temple-tower," and rescue the red Cross
1 i.e., 14th year of the 14th century, 1314 ; leaving 4,000 years before Christ. Molay died in 1314.
'J The Temple, formerly the head-quarters of the Knight Templars in l'aris, consisted of two buildings—the l'alace, facing the Hue du 'I omple, usually occupied by one of the Princes of the Blood j and the Tower, standing behind the l'nlacc. Tho Tower was a square building, with a round tower at each corner and a small turret on one side, usually called the Tourelle. Louis XVI. and his family were imprisoned in the Tower.—MME. CAMPAN'S Life of Marie Antoinette. Annexe to chap. xL—Trans.
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THE TEMPLARS IS CYPRUS.
[ACT VI.
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