I am hungry.—Give me bread.—We are hungry.—Bread.—Bread.

Another Voice

Let us have the keys.

Voices

Yes.—Give us the keys.—Open the storehouses.

The Doorkeeper

[Pushing back the foremost among the mob] Away with you! The king’s orders are that everyone shall have a loaf at daybreak. Then the storehouses are to be closed.

A Voice

I got no loaf.

Other Voices