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The King had now appointed a military establishment to accompany her; and her two younger brothers, John and Peter, had joined her. The faithful John de Metz and Bertrand de Poulangy were also at her side. The King had selected as her esquire John d'Aulon; besides this she was followed by two noble pages, Louis de Contes and Raimond. There were also some men-at-arms and a couple of heralds.
"That man might be something, if he were sufficiently rich." Adrian and Montreal were silent: the first seemed lost in thought, the last was watching the various effects produced upon the audience. "Silence!" proclaimed the officers. "Silence, for my Lord Vicar." At this announcement, every eye turned to Raimond, who, rising with much clerical importance, thus addressed the assembly:
An enemy of the Church is invariably also an enemy of the State; history and experience prove this. In southern France the Albigenses secured the support of Prince Raimond, of Toulouse, a wealthy and mighty, but, at the same time, a most godless and immoral prince of that time. He had several wives; associated with heretics, and even gave his children to be educated by them.
NOBLEMAN. A shepherd youth inquires after your highness, He urgently entreats an interview, He says he cometh from the maiden DUNOIS. Haste! Conduct him hither! He doth come from her! Where is she? Where is the maid? RAIMOND. Hail! noble prince! And blessed am I that I find with you This holy man, the shield of the oppressed, The father of the poor and destitute! DUNOIS. Where is the maiden?
Mine is the helmet it belongs to me! THIBAUT. What whim is this? RAIMOND. Nay, let her have her way! This warlike ornament becomes her well, For in her bosom beats a manly heart. Remember how she once subdued the wolf, The savage monster which destroyed our herds, And filled the neighb'ring shepherds with dismay.
This attempt at a method which should be certain, which should level capacities, which should do its work in a short time, had a special attraction for the imagination of the wild spirits of the South, from Raimond Lulli in the thirteenth century to the audacious Calabrians of the sixteenth. With Bacon it was something much more serious and reasonable and business-like.
In torture I'll expire, and will resign My hopes of everlasting happiness, If she's not guiltless, sir, of every sin! DUNOIS. The sun in heaven is not more pure than she! Where is she? Speak! RAIMOND. If God hath turned your hearts, Oh hasten, I entreat you rescue her She is a prisoner in the English camp. DUNOIS. A prisoner say you? ARCHBISHOP. Poor unfortunate!
If I undertake, at peril of my life, to clear all the avenues to Rome of the robbers who now infest it, shall I have full licence for conduct bold, peremptory, and severe?" "Such conduct the very nature of the charge demands," replied Raimond. "Ay, even though it be exercised against the arch offenders against the supporters of the brigands against the haughtiest of the nobles themselves?"
Howsoe'er This sad perplexity may be resolved, One of two grievous sins we have committed! Either in fight we have availed ourselves Of hellish arms, or banished hence a saint! And both call down upon this wretched land The vengeance and the punishment of heaven. The same, a NOBLEMAN, afterwards RAIMOND.
As Rienzi rose to depart, which he did early, for the banquet took place while yet morning, Raimond, eager to escape and confer with some of his spiritual friends, as to the report he should make to the Pontiff, was beginning his expressions of farewell, when the merciless Tribune said to him gravely "My Lord, we want you on urgent business at the Capitol. Come."
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