UnScripts:Charles V

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Arrival

Charles V of etc.etc..

Herald

I am here to announce the arrival of my master to your house

Martin Luther

I understand. Who is he?

Herald

Who is he? Only God's annointed!

Martin Luther

Go ahead

Herald

Charles V, by the grace of God, Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King of Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile, Aragon, León, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Cordova, Murcia, Jaén, Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, King of Two Sicilies, of Sardinia, Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the Western and Eastern Indies, Lord of the Islands and Main Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Neopatria, Württemberg, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince of Swabia, Asturia and Catalonia, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Gorizia, Barcelona, Artois, Burgundy Palatine, Hainaut, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette, Kyburg, Namur, Roussillon, Cerdagne, Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Oristano and Gociano, Lord of Frisia, the Wendish March, Pordenone, Biscay, Molin, Salins, Tripoli and Mechelen.

Martin Luther

You missed one.

Herald

Which one?

Martin Luther

Tunis. You took the city and killed everyone inside

Herald

They were Saracens. Enemies of Christendom but allies of France.

Enter Charles V etc. etc.

Charles V

Have we met before? Did I not see you at the Diet of Worms?

Martin Luther

Yes

Charles V

I remember. So you want to remind me about Tunis? I took it for Christ. I still hold it.

Martin Luther

But you killed everyone there.

Charles V

God's work. I was on a crusade. The ends justify the means is that so herald?

Herald

You are God's Holy Instrument your majesty.

Martin Luther

You lost Tripoli

Charles V

The Knights of St. John lost it. I gave them the city.

Martin Luther

You got the wrong house. I am Martin Luther King. Martin Luther lives around the corner