Part 111 (1/2)

Hold yourselves close!

CLOPIN

Yes

CLAUDE FROLLO

Hide your arms, Not to excite suspicion!

CLOPIN

Master, you shall see!

CLAUDE FROLLO

But hell ood-will, If now this insane creature Refuses still!

Destiny! Oh, fatal stroke!

Friend, I count on thee!

On this my only chance I wait With fierce anxiety

CLOPIN

Fear nothing terrible, my lord, Count faithfully on eously!

[_They go out hurriedly The populace begin to enter the square_

SCENE IV

_The populace; Quasimodo; afterward Esmeralda, and her escort; then Claude Frollo, Phoebus, Clopin Frouillefou, priests, archers, officers of the law_

CHORUS

To Notre Daht!

This gypsy wo's pay

In vain did Heaven Beauty lend her!

Is it possible-- God defend her!-- A soul so black, An eye so tender!

A frightful thing, Human nature is so!

The poor unfortunate!

Co wolooins to appear on the Place du Parvis Rows of black penitents Banners of La Misericorde

Torches, archers, officers of the law and the watch The soldiers disperse the crowd Esmeralda appears She wears a chemise; a rope is around her neck; her feet are bare, and she is covered with a long black veil of crape Following her, co's officers As the prisoner reaches the front of the church, a so from the interior of the church, whose doors are closed_

CHORUS (_in the church_)