THE RITES OF ELEUSIS
MAGISTER TEMPLI. Brethren! let us humbly seek for help
behind the veil l
[He throws veil oflen, showing [he?!!!”!לטshrine.
BRO.
CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS must have well dissimulat/ed
himself 50 that he is
not
discovered.
MAGISTER
?ןיט/}ץמdraws wil again.
CAPRICORNUS puls out
light]
MAGISTER TEMPLL Alas! there is no God!
[Returns to hi: ihrone.
All move confusedlyabout wailing
aloud]
MAGISTER TEMPLI, I. Silence.
[All resume παῖς.
Behold, I declared it unto you and ye believed me not!
[A pause.
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