ANTIOCHUS. Then bid them enter. This pleases me, and furthers my designs. The occasion is auspicious. Bid them enter.
SCENE II. — ANTIOCHUS; JASON; THE SAMARITAN AMBASSADORS.
ANTIOCHUS. Approach. Come forward; stand not at the door Wagging your long beards, but demean yourselves As doth become Ambassadors. What seek ye?
AN AMBASSADOR. An audience from the King.
ANTIOCHUS. Speak, and be brief. Waste not the time in useless rhetoric. Words are not things.
AMBASSADOR (reading). "To King Antiochus, The God, Epiphanes; a Memorial From the Sidonians, who live at Sichem."
ANTIOCHUS. Sidonians?
AMBASSADOR. Ay, my Lord.
ANTIOCHUS. Go on, go on! And do not tire thyself and me with bowing!