CHORUS.
The horse is old, palsied as a willow-bough; it cannot hasten. It is lean and twisted. Not whip or spur can move it. It sticks like a coach in a bog. He follows far behind the rest.
PRIEST (again ruler[85] of Japan, seated on a throne).
Are you there?
ATTENDANT.
I stand before you.
PRIEST.
Have the levies of all the lands arrived?
ATTENDANT.
They are all come.