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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 28
nu Tt MILAN» IN • UM.
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So dire a drubbing ' How lu- carried on With Iodic*, too, at tho liurgundinn court' True, tin* ho did not *ay, but th«n he gives You all to understand. A pretty lad, Keduentnl liko a Sultan, young and rich, And lively, irresistible 1 Watch well Vour KUio, good friend Chaplain! for le «uro He'll track her out, more quickly e'en than 1.
CHAI'I.AIX.
Peace! miscreant! jicaco. Thi* Judith slander not !
C HARLOT.
Who holds lier Holofernes' ]iondcrou* head Lipped in her apron !—Come, let all 1» well ! Wii*h down your wrath in Cyprus wino with mo ! Now must I to tho Master bring rc|iort Of tho Tunisian pirate.
CHAPLAIN. No, it shall •W all bo well ! I excommunicato You, trebly, miscreant !
CHAKLOT. • Trebly, in return, We'll crown you, Klsie and Poitou and I.
CHULVIX.
I put jon under ban!
C HARLOT. Hut ban me not From Elsie's paradise, is all I ask.
GOTTFRIED.
HUSH, Sirs ! Behold what yonder, tottering, comes ! CHAKLOT.
Oh sorrow !—Here's tho old head-shaker come !
[ ( 'ommamifr LIT GO, mjtporteil by a crutch, ciime* out of the Church.
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