Why Zeresh, are
You ill again? Send for the leech. Her blood
Is over wrought with too much happiness.
[Curtain.]
ACT II
Scene I
Place—The palace of the king. Outer room of banquet hall. Curtain back.
[Enter Meheuman, Biztha, and Smerdis.]
Meheuman
Ahafid has become most deaf of late;
Advancing age has wrought a piteous change
In him. He can not understand our king.
Smerdis