Zabra:
The Siroc will swallow him.
Chamberlain:
What—if it were the King!
Zabra:
Why, if it were the King we should starve for a year.
[One year elapses between the first and second acts.]
Act II
[The same scene.]
[The King, wrapped in a camel-driver's cloak, sits by Eznarza, a gypsy of the desert.]