THE OFFICER
My life belongs to your Majesties, and my sole desire is to be able to sacrifice it in a good cause.
EMPRESS
Keep it for our service.
[A yellow scroll is given to the officer]
I offer to each of you a slight gift in assurance of my protection and as a memento of my accession——
ALL
Ten thousand years, ten thousand times ten thousand years.
[Pages distribute the gifts.]
FAITHFUL PRINCE [Presenting POPLAR]