Circled the picture. With a laugh they said,
Changing with Antony the double glance,
“Say yes! If e’er you took the dead man’s largess,
Hap or mishap, you’ll see his death avenged.”
But I replied I knew no jot of it,
For never else but draped in veils had I
Beheld the Queen: and that’s the very truth.
Herod (aside).
Ha, Mariamne! But—I laugh at that,
I’ll know the trick to shield me from that danger,