Deceived him; but these things I have not done,

And can bring solid proof. Salome, speak!

Herod.

I found her as she says. She does not need

To look about for other witnesses.

But I had never, never had such thought.

Mar.

Ne’er had such thought? Yet feigned and had the headsman

Set close upon my back? That cannot be.

As I at parting stood before his spirit