Salome.

Conduct them in.

[Exit Servant.

I’ll tell him this at once.

So long as they’re with him he will not think

On her; and all is over soon with her.

[She goes after Herod.

[The Servant conducts in the Three Kings From the East. They are dressed in strange and curious raiment in such a way that they differ from each other in every particular. A rich retinue follows them, of like characteristics. Gold, incense, and myrrh. Enter Herod, and Salome shortly after him.

First King.

O King, all hail!