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