Friar Cuthbert (gesticulating and cracking a postilion's whip)

What ho! good people! do you not hear?

Dashing along at the top of his speed,

Booted and spurred, on his jaded steed,

A courier comes with words of cheer.

Courier! what is the news, I pray?

"Christ is arisen!" Whence come you? "From court."

Then I do not believe it; you say it in sport.

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Cracks his whip again.