BECKET. Profligate pander! FITZURSE. Do you hear that? strike, strike. [_Strikes off the_ ARCHBISHOP'S _mitre, and wounds him in the forehead_. BECKET (_covers his eyes with his hand_). I do commend my cause to God, the Virgin, St. Denis of France and St. Alphege of England, And all the tutelar Saints of Canterbury. [GRIM _wraps his arms about the_ ARCHBISHOP. Spare this defence, dear brother. [TRACY _has arisen, and approaches, hesitatingly, with his sword raised_. FITZURSE. Strike him, Tracy! ROSAMUND (_rushing down steps from the choir)_. No, No, No, No! FlTZURSE. This wanton here. De Morville, Hold her away. DE MORVILLE. I hold her. ROSAMUND (_held back by_ DE MORVILLE, _and stretching out her arms)_. Mercy, mercy, As you would hope for mercy. FlTZURSE. Strike, I say. GRIM. O God, O noble knights, O sacrilege! Strike our Archbishop in his own cathedral! The Pope, the King, will curse you--the whole world Abhor you; ye will die the death of dogs! Nay, nay, good Tracy. [_Lifts his arm_. FlTZURSE. Answer not, but strike. DE TRACY. There is my answer then. [_Sword falls on_ GRIM'S _arm, and glances from it, wounding_ BECKET. GRIM. Mine arm is sever'd. I can no more--fight out the good fight--die Conqueror. [_Staggers into the chapel of St. Benedict_. BECKET (_falling on his knees_). At the right hand of Power-- Power and great glory--for thy Church, O Lord-- Into Thy hands, O Lord--into Thy hands!---- [_Sinks prone_. DE BRITO. This last to rid thee of a world of brawls! (_Kills him_.) The traitor's dead, and will arise no more. FITZURSE. Nay, have we still'd him? What! the great Archbishop! Does he breathe? No? DE TRACY. No, Reginald, he is dead. (_Storm bursts_.) [Footnote: _A tremendous thunderstorm actually broke over the Cathedral as the murderers were leaving it.] DE MORVILLE. Will the earth gape and swallow us? DE BRITO. The deed's done-- Away! [DE BRITO, DE TRACY, FITZURSE. _rush out, crying 'King's men!'_ DE MORVILLE _follows slowly. Flashes of lightning thro' the Cathedral_. ROSAMUND _seen kneeling by the body of_ BECKET. THE CUP A TRAGEDY _DRAMATIS PERSONAE_. GALATIANS. SYNORIX, _an ex-Tetrarch_. SINNATUS, _a Tetrarch_. _Attendant_. _Boy_. _Maid_. PHOEBE. CAMMA, _wife of Sinnatus, afterwards Priestess in the Temple of Artemis_. ROMANS. ANTONIUS, _a Roman General_. PUBLIUS. _Nobleman_. _Messenger_. THE CUP. ACT I. SCENE I.--_Distant View of a City of Galatia_.