Disarm me; and those fearful eyes that roll

Like red stars in the darkness, fill my soul

With awe that stays my hand. Master of the world,

The conqueror of my people hast thou been!

I know thee as a Fate! I cannot harm thee.

Marius.  Go to thy senders, and from Marius, say,

That, if they bare the weapon for my breast,

Let them send hither one who has not yet

Looked in a master’s eye. ’Tis not decreed

That I shall perish yet, or by such hands