Enter: King Ecbert. He falls to his knees in front of the figure of Christ. “Lord, you know me for a sinner, and I think you have already decided to cast me out into the darkness—like a fallen angel, to suffer in Purgatory or the fires of Hell for all eternity. Think you, Lord, that I could look upon such scenes with equanimity? That I do not dream in the dead of night of returning to your light and the promises of Heaven? Am I not a man, like other men?” He stretches his arms out as if nailed to
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