His holiness be gracious towards me.
ALEXANDER
Speak.
Thy face is death’s: let death upon thy lips
Live.
OFFICER
Sire, the humblest hireling knave in Rome—
A waterman that plies his craft all night—
Craves audience even of thee.
ALEXANDER
A Roman?
OFFICER
Nay.
Some outlander—some Greek—they call the knave
George the Slavonian.
ALEXANDER