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As I have learnt, should at this hour assemble,
To join together in religious rites
Of solemn preparation for to-morrow,
Which they regard as their last day of life,
And this as their last act of social brotherhood.

MAHOMET.

Brave men! do they so meet?(Pausing.)

But it must be.
Why should it move me? Heaven decrees their doom:
I act by high commission, tho' for instruments
I have but these dumb slaves, (Exeunt.

SCENE II. A pillared aisle or open space in the church of St Sophia, with other parts of the church seen in perspective. The great bell heard.

Enter Heugho, met by an inferior Priest.

PRIEST.

Thou com'st before thy master and his friends;

How far are they behind?

HEUGHO.

Not many paces. (Bell sounds again.)

PRIEST.

Werefore didst thou start?