Doubts were beginning at that time to be circulated concerning the attachment of Geneva to the papacy. Charles and his courtiers had heard something of this; and the desire to keep the city in the fold of Rome for ever had a great share, as we have remarked, in their chivalrous enterprise. The mamelukes and the canons, ashamed of these rumours, had prepared a mystery-play calculated to make the duke and duchess believe that the Genevans thought much more of seeking crosses and other relics than of finding that New Testament so long unknown and about which they were talking so much in Germany. Accordingly, when the procession arrived at the Place du Bourg de Four, they saw a large scaffold, a kind of house, open on the side next the spectators, and divided into several stories. The triumphal car halted, and the people of Geneva who were afterwards to show the world another spectacle, began to perform the ‘Invention of the Cross.’ The first scene represents Jerusalem, where the Emperor Constantine and Helena, his mother, have arrived to make search for the precious relic. CONSTANTINE _to the Jews_. Come tell me, Jews, what did you do With the cross whereon by you Christ was hanged so cruelly? THE JEWS, _trembling_. Dear emperor, assuredly We do not know. CONSTANTINE. You lie. You shall suffer for this by-and-by. (_To his guards._) Shut them in prison instantly. The Jews are put into prison; and this is a lesson to show what ought to be done to those who pay no respect to the wood that Helena had come to worship. A JEW _from the window_. Judas the president am I, And if you will let me go I by signs most clear will show Where my father saw it hid. CONSTANTINE. Out then; we the cross will seek, And they shall linger here the while. The next scene represents Golgotha. The emperor, Helena, and their train follow the Jew. JUDAS. Mighty emperor, here’s the spot Where the cross by stealth was put With other two. CONSTANTINE. Good! Let the earth be dug around, And the cross be quickly found. A LABOURER _digs up three crosses_. This is all. CONSTANTINE, _puzzled to know which is the true cross_. To prove the story true Still remains.... What shall we do? HELENA. My dear son, pray hold your tongue. (_She orders a dead body to be brought._) To this corpse we will apply These three crosses carefully, And, if I be not mistaken, At the touch it will awaken. (_The three crosses are applied, and when the third touches the body it is restored to life._) HELENA. O wonderful! (_Helena takes the true cross in her arms._) CONSTANTINE _kneels and worships it_. O cross of Christ, how great thy power! In this place I thee adore; May my soul be saved by thee! HELENA.