The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE SCORPION REP. OF K. OF JERUSALEM. Enough. BISHOP [to RINALDO]. And you, Grand Master? RINALDO. More than enough. BISHOP. My beloved daughter! God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should repent and be saved. It is therefore the most merciful provision of our just and merciful law that none be condemned without confession. Let the urge you to make peace with God and man. LAYLAH. Peace, peace! when there is no peace, BISHOP. There spoke a lost soul. Confess, my dear daughter. Break the bonds of Satan at the last. LAYI.AH [draining a! her handmfls]. They hold fast. BISHOP. We are not moved by insult from our most merciful purpose, Summon the executioners. [A CLERK goes with the order. ΕΜ!” toi/iurem with their implements. Also a Physician. LAYLAH. Your steel against my will. It is a fair bout. BISHOP. Apply the thumbscrews. [The fortia/ers bimi LAYLAH and apply the [prim/e. [To G. M. !2/ 5ί|0}ιπ] My cook is a great knave, you must know. I bade him prepare me a pasty of quails toward to-night, and the varlet swears there are no quails on the market. Now this morning riding I saw quails with these eyes. The air was as thick with them as when the Children of Israel were miraculously fed. G. M. OF ST [. A new miracle if the knave escape. But will not your lordship sup with me to-night? BISHOP. Thanks, good Grand Master. FIRST TORTURER. My lord, I think I heard a sigh. PHYSICIAN. Only a natural motion of the body, by your 101