(All except the leaders, kneel.
Tête-d'or: Rise! Rise!
Voice: We kneel before you.
Tête-d'or: Rise! Do not humble yourselves before me.
(They rise.
Voice: Then we will rise and now we stand at our full stature. Hail, O King!
Tête-d'or: I, the King! Ah!
What did you say?
Who am I? What have I said? What have I done?
Voice: Did you not stand before us and did you not....