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THE DANCE TO DEATH.
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With objects most familiar. Look again,
And where thou sawst the steel-blue flicker glint.
Thou findst a black, wet leaf.
PAGE.
No, no! God!
Your sword, sir ! Treason !
[Four armed masked men leap from oid the bush, seize, bind, and overmaster, after a brief but violent resistance, the Prince and his servant,
PRINCE WILLIAM.
Who are ye, villains ? lying
In murderous ambush for the Prince of Meissen ?
If you be knights, speak honorably your names,
And I will combat you in knightly wise.
If ye be robbers, name forthwith your ransom.
Let me but speed upon my journey now.
By Christ's blood ! I beseech you, let me go I
Ho ! treason ! murder ! help !
[He is dragged off struggling. Exeunt omnes,
SCENE III.
Nordhausen. A room in Susskind's house, T<tebhaid and Glaibb.
LIEBHAID.
Say on, poor girl, if but to speak these horrors
Revive not too intense a pang.
