The wizards stop each avenue? Keep close!)

[To the Druses.] As if one came to a son's house, I say,

So did I come—no guard with me—to find ...

Alas—alas!

A Druse. Who is the old man?

Another. Oh, ye are to shout!

Children, he styles you.

Druses. Ay, the Prefect's slain!

Glory to the Khalif, our Father!

Nuncio. Even so!