Sputtering blasphemy — who then would shrink
From holy vengeance? who would offer leas
Heroic wrath and filial zeal to God
Than to a murdered father ?
PRINCESS
But my son
Will die with her be loves.
PRIOR
Better to perish
In time than in eternity. No question
Penda here of individual life ; our sight
Must broaden to embrace the scope sublime
Of this trans-earthly theme. The Jew survives
Sword, plague, fire, cataclysm — and must, since Christ
Cursed him to live till doomsday, still to be
A scarecrow to the nations. None the less
Are we beholden in Christ's name at whites,
When maggot-wise Jews breed, infest, infect
Communities of Christians, to wash clean
The Church's vesture, shaking off the filth
That gathers round her skirts. A perilous
Enow you not, all the welts, the very air
The Jews have poisoned? — Through their arta alone
The Black Death scourges Christendom.
