Enter Micaiah.

Micaiah.

Way for their Majesties! It is commanded
That all avoid. Way for their Majesties!
Avoid the room, Ashobal, for the King.

[Exit Ashobal.

Enter Ahab.

Ahab.

Micaiah, put my staff into my hands.
Go, now, desire the Queen to give me audience.

[Exit Micaiah.

Thus does the climber on a pinnacle.
He stands exhausted on the peak and feels
Nothing beneath him but the mist of cloud
Hiding the precipice. I have my foothold;
Around me, the sheer fall into the pit.

Enter Jezebel.