CHACHO [
raising her eyes
]. Would that I had died long ago, so that I had not lived to see this unfortunate day!
CURTAIN.
FOOTNOTES
From the sense and according to the time in which the action takes place, Nineveh must be understood here; and instead of an Arabian caliph, the Assyrian king Sennacherib. There is an anachronism here, as the reader will see, for a king living 800 years before Christ is called an Arabian caliph, though the caliphs first took up their residence in Bagdad in the year 755.