Dated, etc.
OMAR.
Correct?
MULLAH. Correct.
[Enter Pehr—Grand Vizier and Royal Historian having entered just before him. Ameer jumps up from the floor with the genealogical chart; Royal Historian stands quietly and jots down in a book what he hears.]
VIZIER. Will it please Your Highness to scan this ancestral chart, which our—and the Kingdom's Ameer has made of Your Highness' illustrious old family tree.
PEHR. My ancestral chart? I have never known of any relative but my father, the old sexton.
VIZIER. [Pretends not to hear.] It begins with a great and glorious name—Caliph Omar—
PEHR. Caliph Omar! What kind of fish is that?
VIZIER. [Sternly.] That is no fish. He was a great and honorable ruler.
PEHR. Be that as it may, but I was born in wedlock and not between satin sheets, good gentlemen!