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100 Oh that he ne'er were born ! Hola ! Halberdiers ! Yeomen of the Guard ! Enter Chiardsmen, Bear off this prisoner ! Let him sigh out His blasphemous folly in the castle tower, Until his hair be snow, his fingers claws. [They seize and bear away Prince William. Well, what's your counsel ? Briefly this, my lord. The Jews of Nordhausen have brewed the Prince A love-elixir — let them perish all ! [TumtUt ivitKout, Singing of Hymns and Hinging of Church-bells, The Lj^xdqraye and ScHxnsT' ZEN go to the window.

The cruel pestilence arrives, Cnts off a myriad human lives. See the Flagellants' naked skin I They scourge themselves for grievous sin. Trembles the earth beneath God's breath. The Jews shall all be burned to death. Look, foreign pilgrims ! What an endless file !