KING
Is this a warning or is it a doom?
CHIEF PROPHET
The stars have spoken.
KING
It is, then, a doom?
CHIEF PROPHET
They speak not in jest.
KING
I have been a great King—Let it be said of me "The stars overthrew him, and they sent a god for his doom." For I have not met my equal among kings that man should overthrow me; and I have not oppressed my people that man should rise up against me.