Fer. Their darkness is to me as emptiness.
Sa. By heaven, I would not now unseal my lips,
But I know him I speak to, and my speech
Shall win thee. Hark, I have been for twenty years
Familiar with the king, one of his house;
I have known the princess Almeh from her cradle:
Her father’s only child, she hath been to me
My single joy no less: from the first words
She lisped upon my knee, unto this day,
Her sayings and doings have been still the events