COUNT LOUIS The King of France! THE CROWD Ah!— COUNT LOUIS Son of Saint Louis! THE CROWD Ah!— COUNT LOUIS Royal Martyr! THE CROWD Ah—h—h. MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI O my father! THIRD JUDGE All titles, terms of honour and of state, Majesty and reverence are forbid, Not to be spoken! They are ci-devants, They are condemned. THE CROWD Condemned! COUNT LOUIS Ha, ci-devants, Titles and symbols, names and attributes, Condemned for splendour and for high estate! Ha, Croix de Saint Louis! Ha, Château-Gui! Thou goest to heaven in famous company: King, Saint, Martyr, Reverence, Majesty.— Best make the company a regiment— Regiment du Roi, in vestments gorgeous! Forbidden words! Who says to me “forbid”? Ye sans-culottes, ye bourgeois, creeping things, Adders and asps that slew a king and queen! I am a courtier of the olden time Who served le Grand Monarque, knew Mazarin, And in a Court shall still be courtier, Croix de Saint Louis, with the _grande entrée_, While ye do prowl in filthy ways of hell, Nor hardly see its red-lit Œil-de-bœuf Where everlasting Terror, groaning, reigns,— But, being lackeys, keep the lackeys’ place! FIRST JUDGE Enough! SECOND JUDGE Death! THE CROWD Death! The Loire! COUNT LOUIS O Kings of France! O sons of Clovis and of Charlemagne! Louis the Pious and the Debonair! Philippe August and Fair, and Charles the Wise! And thou the sainted King, the Blessed Louis! And Charles Bien-Aimé, Victorieux, Crowned by the maiden of Domrémy! And the good King Henri, Henri the Great! Louis the Just, Louis le Grand Monarque! Louis the Loved, and Louis lately dead, The Martyr King, the Martyr, Martyr King!— O Kings of France in that fair land ye be, To your châteaux and to your palaces Prepare to welcome dying loyalty! For knightly faith is marching forth from France. Throne, sceptre, orb, and majesty have passed, Ermine and coronet and spur of gold, Renown and splendid honour, valiant sway, Ancien Régime, noblesse of old France! The oriflamme upon its golden stem, The banner of the lilies waving high!— THE CROWD Ah— COUNT LOUIS The lily banner and the oriflamme! Forgotten yonder stripes of shame and woe! THE CROWD The tricolour! Death! The Loire!