Vig. Get you within.
[Exeunt Barca and Ramunin, left]
Now, sister—
What, do you faint?
Ard. That face! Ramunin's face.
I saw it once, and shuddered many a day
Remembering it. The public crucifier,
Who serves the bloody prince of Antioch.
The same. What does he here upon this day
Of all the days of time?
Vig. 'Tis by your wish
That Kidmir gates are open.
Ard. And by yours.
Vig. Ay, let the world be witness you are made
The honored bride of Suli.
Ard. But Ramunin?
He said the cross was bare. Why such a jest
As horrid as his life? [Looking out] And all the knights
That were to come from Oswald—where are they?
Vig. They drank too deep last night for journeying
Up Kidmir road—or else they dare not cross
This outraged portal.
Ard. Have we not forgiven?
Ah, what is there? Look, Vigard, do you see?
A floating crescent!
Vig. Where?
Ard. O'er Suli tower.
O, this is Oswald's greeting to our house,
Better than any band of armèd knights!
He lifts the Prophet's banner to his towers,
Even as you set the Savior's crucifix
On Kidmir! Now the one eternal God
Lives in his sign when cross and crescent smile
Love-set in the same heaven!