Than this—to say, “He gets his turn like me!

I grudge it not! And when he mounts his throne

Fresh from a field o’erstrewn with graves in thousands

I’ll praise him for’t: it chokes his covetous mood!”

Ah, but my Herod lives and he will live!

So says my heart to me. Death flings a shadow

And that falls on me here! (pointing to her heart).

Scene 4

The Same. Joseph.

[Enter a Servant.