As she had power to pardon and to suffer.

I have beheld her very innermost,

Who more demands should quarrel not with her,

Should quarrel only with the elements

Which, willed or not, had been so mixed in her

That she could go no further. Yes, but let him

Show me a woman further gone than she!

[Herod makes a gesture.

She wished to have her death from you, and called

The unshapen dream-child of your jealousy