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Abbot ARCHBISHOP ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS BASTARD OF MONTARGIS blood Brother CASSINEL Celestines CHEVREUSE Christ CITIZEN Clement's Eve Council Cousin dare death divine Dragon DUKE OF BERRI DUKE OF BOURBON DUKE OF BURGUNDY DUKE OF ORLEANS Duke's earth Enter Exeunt Exit eyes faith FATHER BETIZAC FATHER BUVULAN fear France gate God's Grace of Burgundy Grace of Orleans gracious GRIS-NEZ hand hast hath hear heard heart Heaven hence hither hold holy House of Valois IOLANDE KING OF SICILY King's kiss LADY ABBESS look Lord maid mercy Monks night o'er PAINTER PASSAC PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE pray Prince PROVOST OF PARIS RAIZ DE VEZELAY RAOUL DE ROUVROY ROBERT THE HERMIT ROCHE-BARON Royal SCENE SECOND NOVICE Seneschal Sirs Sorcerers soul speak swear sweet sword tears tell thee there's thine thou true truth Twas Twere VIERZON whence word ye know
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Page 35 - two planks in figure of a cross, And lash thee to that cross and leap, and lo ! Thou shalt be cast upon the coast of France; Then take thy way to Paris ; on the road, See, hear, and when thou com'st to Paris, speak." " To whom?" quoth I. Was answer made, "The King.
Page 38 - above the rest, the one a pine, An ash the other. Then I knew the doom Of those accursed men who sport with war And tear the body of their mother, France. Trembling though guiltless did I hear that doom, Trembling though guiltless I; for them I quaked Of whom it spake
Page 181 - du noble royaume de France, lui reprochant ses désordres qui avaient attiré la colère céleste. Il demandait à Dieu de lui accorder, avant d'arriver à la vieillesse, les plaisirs de la paix et du retour. D'autres fois, il reprochait à la Fortune d'exercer sur lui une si rude seigneurie, et de faire si fort la renchérie. " ' Dois-je toujours ainsi languir ? Hélas
Page 151 - Enough. Oh lolande, Thy spirit in its weakest hour is strong, And rules us both ; and where thy spirit rules Is sanctity supreme, and Passion's self Is in thy presence purified and purged From earthly stain and ministers to grace. No word nor wish shall henceforth violate That holy precinct. Enter FLOS DE
Page 38 - oh Princes, tremble ye, For ye are they! Oh, hearken to that Voice ! Oh cruel, cruel, cruel Princes, hear! For ye are they that tear your mother's flesh ; Oh, flee the wrath to come
Page 44 - Twas so they rode : Two witches on one broomstick rode beside them ; But riding past an image of Our Lady The hindmost snorted and the broomstick brake. DE CASSINEL. Would I were sure my gout would be as brief As their good fellowship. DE
Page 35 - hither For forty days save one, and on the road I saw and heard, and I am here to speak. THE KING. Good Hermit, by God's mercy we are spared To hear thee, and not only with our ears But with our mind.
Page 36 - the beasts of draft Women and children to the plough were yoked; The very sheep had learnt the ways of war, And soon as from the citadel rang out The larum-peal, flocked to the city gates; And tilth was none by day, for none durst forth, But wronging the night season which God gave To minister sweet forgetfulness and rest, Was labour and a
Page 37 - Were famished peasants, hustling each the other, Half fed by famished nuns: I journeyed on, And 'twixt a hamlet and a church the road Was black with biers, for famine-fever raged : I journeyed on—a trumpet's brazen clang
Page 36 - journeyed on, And near a burning village in a wood Were huddled 'neath a drift of bloodstained snow The houseless villagers : I journeyed on, And as I passed a convent, at the gate Were famished peasants, hustling each the other,