Judge. What did you do in your lifetime?
Anthony. I wrote books, and I fought and fell at Zutphen.
Judge. On which action of your past life can you look back with most pleasure?
Anthony. Giving a cup of cold water to a dying soldier on the field of battle.
Judge. You may go without a forfeit. Now, Semiramis, what have you to say for yourself?
Mary. I was very ambitious, and have no good to say of myself.
Judge. Where did you live?
Mary. In Nineveh and Babylon. I built Babylon chiefly myself.
Judge. Relate your story as well as you can.
Mary. I showed King Ninus how to take a city, but he must have been very stupid not to think of such an easy plan himself. He married me. I asked him to let me be Queen for a day, and the first use I made of my power was to cut off his head. I fought a great deal when I became Queen all alone, but at last I was killed.