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| PEOPLE
Quelle pitié ses pleurs font naître... |
PEOPLE
His tears rouse our pity... |
| HERALD
Ceci est l’ estoc de ce traître
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HERALD
(Holding up Gaston’s sword.) This is the blade of this traitorous, disloyal knight! |
| GASTON
Tu mens! Tu mens! |
GASTON
You’re lying! You’re lying! |
| KNIGHTS
Au traître point de merci... |
KNIGHTS
No mercy for the traitor... |
| [The executioner breaks the sword.] | |
| PENITENTS
Et di lexit maledictionem et veniat ei e longabitur ad eo ab eo. |
PENITENTS
Et di lexit maledictionem et veniat ei e longabitur ad eo ab eo. |
| GASTON
Oh calice d’amertune! M’assasiner ainsi! Seigneur... Seigneur! |
GASTON
Oh bitter cup! To be executed in this way! Lord... Lord! |
| PEOPLE
Dans ta bonté, Seigneur, accorde-lui merci. |
PEOPLE
In your goodness. Lord, grant him forgiveness. |
| LEGATE
Que le bras séculier à le punir s’apprête. Le soleil de demain verra tomber sa tête. |
LEGATE
Let the secular power prepare the punishment. Tomorrow ‘s sun will see his head fall. |
| GASTON
Tuez-moi, tuez-moi! Allons! Qui vous
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GASTON
(Coming down from the scaffold.) Kill me then, kill me! Come on! Who’s stopping you? Strike, executioner! I’ve regained my pride. My only crime was to shed blood for you. And before God the victim will charge you with your iniquity. |
| LEGATE and KNIGHTS
Traître! Félon! Ton arrêt est porté! Ton sang versé vengera ta victime. Tu porteras ton opprobre et ton crime aux pieds de Dieu, qui voit l’iniquité! |
LEGATE and KNIGHTS
Traitor! Criminal! Your sentence has been passed! Your blood will avenge your victim. You will carry your disgrace and your crime to the feet of God, who sees iniquity! |
| RAYMOND and PEOPLE
Ô Dieu puissant! Son arrêt est porté! Prends en pitié, Dieu du ciel, la victime. Toi qui connais l’innocence et le crime, Fais luire un jour ta sublime équité... |
RAYMOND and PEOPLE
Almighty God! His sentence has been passed! Take the victime to you in pity. God of heaven, You who know the innocent and the crime, will brighten the day through your sublime justice... |
| ACT FOUR | |
| [On the outskirts of the crusader’s camp in the Valley of Josaphat. Soldiers stand guard around one tent.] | |
| ROGER
Voici de Josaphat, la lugubre vallée... Jérusalem! Où vont flatter nos étendards. Que je trouve, ô mon Dieu, la mort sur ses ramparts, et reçois dans ton sein mon âme désolée. |
ROGER (alone)
Here is Josaphat, the doleful valley... Jerusalem! Where our banners will soon wave. Might I find, oh my God, death on her ramparts and may my desolate soul be received into your keeping. |
| CHRISTIANS
Jérusalem la sainte! La divine cité! Accueille en ton enceinte un Dieu de liberté. |
CHRISTIANS (offstage)
Holy Jerusalem! The divine city! Receive within your walls a liberating God. |
| ROGER
Les chrétiens en prière... Prêts à combattre, invoquent la faveur du Seigneur. |
ROGER
The Christians are praying... Prepared for battle, they invoke the Lord’s blessing. |
| [Crusaders appear followed by pilgrims and women, among whom is Helene.] | |
| WOMEN
Que nos larmes baignent la poussière du céleste tombeau. Laisse notre âme à l’heure dernière fêter un jour si beau. |
WOMEN
Let our tears wash the dust from the holy tomb. Let our souls at their final hour rejoice in a glorious day. |
| HELENE
Il est là... |
HELENE
[Stealing toward the guarded tent.] There he is... |
| PILGRIMS
C’est là qu’apparut, portant le calice, un ange au fils de Dieu... c’est ici qu’il pleura. Et son supplice, ces lieux l’ont vu, c’est là. |
PILGRIMS
It is here that the angel bearing the chalice appeared to the Son of God... it is here where he wept. And this very place witnessed his supplication. |
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