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THE DANCE TO DEATH.
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PRINCE WILLIAM.
Away!
Deliverance posts on your return. I feel it
For your much comfort thanks. Good-night.
PRIOR.
Gk)od-night
[Exit.
ACT II.
SCENE L
A cell in the Warthurg Monastery. Enter Pbiob Peppeboorn with the casket.
PRIOR.
So ! Glittering shell where douhtless shines concealed
An orient treasure fit to bribe a king,
Bansom a prince and buy him for a son.
I have baptized thee now before the altar.
Effaced the Jew's contaminating touch,
And I am free to claim the Church's tithe
From thy receptacle.
[He is about to unlock the casket, when enters Lay"
Brother, and he hastily conceals it.
LAY-BROTHER.
Peace be thine, &.ther !
PRIOR.
Amen ! and thine. What 's new ?
