Michal. Coiling of plot? What mean you?
Merab. Ah! You know
Not it is David offers against Goliath?
Michal. David? (Shrinking.) David?
(A low tumult is heard without. Enter a Captain hurriedly.)
Captain. O King, bid me to speak!
Saul. Then speak!
Captain. Fear is upon the host. There will
Be mutiny unless, Goliath slain,
Courage spring up anew.
David. My lord, then, choose!
Ere longer waiting fester to disaster.
Samuel. Yea, king of Gibeah, and bid him go,
And Michal for his meed! or evermore
Evil be on you and the sear of shame—
And haunting memory beyond the tomb!
Saul. Then let him—let him. And upon the field
Of Ephes-Dammin. But I am not blind!