[The Servants and Men go out.
Enter Micaiah (from in front).
Micaiah.
She was too good a woman to be Queen
In such a land as this, at such a time.
Would she had gone! Her women have escaped.
And I am freed from prison by the rabble.
Wisdom is gone from the city,
The killer alone is obeyed,
A man without law, without pity,
Who was fed by the King he betrayed.
The debt that was owing is paid,
By a new deed of murder that cries
To the gods who are Kings in the skies.
Though the ways of the gods are most wise,
They are dark, they make me afraid.
Curtain.
Transcriber’s Notes
Simple typographical errors were corrected.
Some eReaders cannot display small-cap text, and all of the character’s names are printed in small-caps, so all small-caps words are (also) shown in boldface (with eReaders that support boldface).
Page [52]: Transcriber added “are” to “But there are other laws which do persist”, as its omission seems to be a typographical error, and it was found in other books containing this play.