ONEIZA.
Why do you take it from him Thalaba?...
And look at it so near?... it may have charms
To blind, or poison ... throw it in the grave!...
I would not touch it!
THALABA.
And around its rim
Strange letters,...
ONEIZA.
Bury it.... Oh! bury it!
THALABA.
It is not written as the Koran is;
Some other tongue perchance ... the accursed man
Said he had been a traveller.
MOATH.
coming from the tent.