High Priest. Beware lest your people hear.
The Pharaoh. I would be master, in truth. And more, I refuse to submit to the humiliation that again you put on me a while ago.
High Priest. How should that humiliate you? Before you, the highest bow down.
The Pharaoh. Yes. And straightway, then, I must bow me down before you.
High Priest. You salute, not me, but the god whom I represent.
The Pharaoh. I pay homage to the god, it is the priest who receives it.
High Priest [faintly smiling] Rest assured! I pass it on to him.
The Pharaoh. And you mock me, besides! Oh! if I but dared to kill you, hypocrite!
High Priest. Vain man!
The Pharaoh. You tremble at sight of a sword, coward!