Let it be offered by the iron door. (To the other Prophets) Fetch hither the altar stone.
[The owl-like whistle is heard off right. The Third Spy runs crouching toward it. Exit.
KING
Will this sacrifice avail to avert the doom?
CHIEF PROPHET
Who knows?
KING
I fear that even yet the doom will fall.
CHIEF PROPHET
It were wise to sacrifice some greater thing.