Herod.

Amazed that I——? I’ll make no false front, Joseph!

My counsel’s good, is good for you; what need

Of further words? yet, to be frank, I give it

Not for your sake alone—Here’s the bluff truth!

That she should with some other—I can’t bear it—

That would be bitterer than—I grant she’s proud—

But after death—and then, Antony—

And first and worst of all that mother of hers

Who’ll harry on the dead against the dead—