(Servant enters and moves down to Gadias down L.)
(He goes up the stairs.)
Hippo, Samaria and Gadara,
And high-walled Joppa, and Anthedon’s shore,
And Gaza unto these, and Straton’s towers.
Servant. (Aside to Gadias.) O sir, the queen is dead!
Gadias. (Aside to Pheroras, Cypros, and Salome.) The queen is dead!
Herod. Mariamne, hear you this? Mariamne, see you?
(Repeating the words, and going up steps.)
Hippo, Samaria and Gadara,