Dost thou approve, Mighty Legate?
VITELLIUS
Dear friend, this is the most enjoyable entertainment that has ever been provided for me at meat. Let them come! Let them come!
HEROD
[Signs.]
GAOLER
[Retires behind curtain of door and beckons.]
SCENE VIII
The same. Manassa. Amarja.
[They seem at first as if they would rush to John, but overcome by shyness stand still.]