This page needs to be proofread.
THE DANCE TO DEATH.
119
PRIOR.
Almighty God !
The grave gives up her dead. Thou canst not be —
NORDMANN.
Nordmann of Nordmannstein, the Knight of Treffurt
PRIOR.
He was beheaded years agone.
NORDMANN.
His death
Had been decreed, but in his stead a squire
Clad in his garb and masked, paid bloody forfeit
A loyal wretch on whom the Prince wreaked vengeance,
Bather than publish the true bird had flown.
PRIOR.
Does Frederick know thou art in Eisenach ?
NORDMANN.
Who would divine the Knight of Nordmannstein
In the Flagellants' weeds ? From land to land,
From town to town, we cry, "Death to the Jews !
Hep I hep ! Hierosolyma est perdita ! "
