Ahab.
Let me hear it.
Joram.
If I did not bring it as a message, it would be my duty as your officer to bring it as a report.
Jezebel.
The Council sends word by your son that you, the King, should banish the Queen.
Joram.
Madam, do not add to the pain of my mission. The Council is composed of manly and godly men, the best of our country, whose wills are worth the weighing. They bid me say, sir, this, that they deplore that such a King should have for counsellor one who brings peace with Syria, and the death of an upright man whom they esteemed.
Ahab.
By this counsellor they mean your mother, the Queen?