KING ARGIMENES (grimly)
Show me the place that I digged for three years. (The King's Overseer shows it with trembling hands; the parchment shakes visibly) Let there be built there a temple to an Unknown Warrior. And let this sword be laid on its altar evermore, that the ghost of that Warrior wandering by night (if men do walk by night from across the grave) may see his sword again. And let slaves be allowed to pray there and those that are oppressed; nevertheless the noble and the mighty shall not fail to repair there too, that the Unknown Warrior shall not lack due reverence.
[Enter, running, a Man of the household of King Darniak. He starts and stares aghast on seeing King Argimenes.
KING ARGIMENES
Who are you?
MAN
I am the servant of the King's dog.
KING ARGIMENES
Why do you come here?
MAN