[Exit Elizabeth.]
A messenger! How far off are they, then?
Serv. Some two days' journey, sir.
Bishop. Two days' journey, and nought prepared?
Here, chaplain--Brother Hippodamas! Chaplain, I say! [Hippodamas
enters.] Call the apparitor--ride off with him, right and left--
Don't wait even to take your hawk--Tell my knights to be with me,
with all their men-at-arms, at noon on the second day. Let all be
of the best, say--the brightest of arms and the newest of garments.
Mass! we must show our smartest before these crusaders--they'll be
full of new fashions, I warrant 'em--the monkeys that have seen the
world. And here, boy [to a page], set me a stoup of wine in the
oriel-room, and another for this good monk.
Con. Pardon me, blessedness--but holy rule--
Bishop. Oh! I forgot.--A pail of water and a peck of beans for the
holy man!--Order up my equerry, and bid my armourer--vestryman, I
mean--look out my newest robes.--Plague on this gout.
[Exeunt, following the Bishop.]
SCENE IV
The Nave of Bamberg Cathedral. A procession entering the West Door,
headed by Elizabeth and the Bishop, Nobles, etc.
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