martyrdom through the dissimulation-and he had rejected it with burst: No!
Who are you tempting with my own desires
Others have come temporal tempters
With pleasure and power at palpable price
What do you offer? What do you ask? Tempter
I offer what you desire
What you have to give. Is it too much
For such vision of eternal grandeur? Thomas
Others offered real goods, worthless
But real. You only offer
Dreams of domination. ( Murder in the Cathedral,39)
After such an extended argumentative dialogue between the fourth tempter and Becket, which begins at the spiritual position of the Archbishop
Who are you tempting with my own desires
Others have come temporal tempters
With pleasure and power at palpable price
What do you offer? What do you ask? Tempter
I offer what you desire
What you have to give. Is it too much
For such vision of eternal grandeur? Thomas
Others offered real goods, worthless
But real. You only offer
Dreams of domination. ( Murder in the Cathedral,39)
After such an extended argumentative dialogue between the fourth tempter and Becket, which begins at the spiritual position of the Archbishop