Assyria's idols! Let him be released—

Give him his sword.

Sal.‍My Lord, and King, and Brother,

I pray ye pause.

Sar.‍Yes, and be sermonised,

And dinned, and deafened with dead men and Baal,250

And all Chaldea's starry mysteries.

Bel. Monarch! respect them.

Sar.‍Oh! for that—I love them;

I love to watch them in the deep blue vault,