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\nAct Three <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b> <\/p>\n

\n
\nSCENE I <\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nBassora.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIbn Sawy’s House.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nA room in the outer apartments decorated for a banquet.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nDoonya, Anice-Aljalice, Balkis.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLord, how they pillage! Even the furniture
\nCannot escape these Djinns. Ogre Ghaneem
\nPicks up that costly chain between his teeth
\nAnd off to his castle; devil Ayoob drops
\nThat table of mosaic in his pocket;<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nZeb sweeps off rugs and couches in a whirlwind.
\nWhat purse will long put up with such ill-treatment?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt must be checked.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n‘Tis much that he has kept
\nHis promise to my uncle. Oh, he’s sound!
\nThese villains spoil him. Anice, you are to blame.
\nHowever you complain, yourself are quite
\nAs reckless.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYes, you. Is there a bright
\nUnnecessary jewel you have seen
\nAnd have not bought ? a dress that took your fancy<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nAnd was not in a moment yours <\/b> ? Or have you lost
\nA tiny chance of laughter, song and wine,
\nSince you were with him?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA few rings and chains,
\nSome silks and cottons I have bought at times.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tDOONYA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat did these trifles cost?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI do not know.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf course you do not. Come, it’s gone too far;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nRestrain him, curb yourself.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNext time he calls you
\nTo sing among his wild companions, send
\nCold answers, do not go.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo break the jest,
\nThe flow of good companionship, drive out
\nSweet friendly looks with anger, be a kill-joy
\nAnd frowner in this bright and merry world!
\nOh, all the sins that human brows grow wrinkled
\nWith frowning at, could never equal this!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut if the skies grew darker ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf they should!
\nIt was a bright and merry world. To see him<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nHappy and gay and kind was all I cared for,
\nThere my horizon stopped. But if the skies
\nDid darken! Doonya, it shall cease today.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Azeem.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nWell, Azeem.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMadam, half the creditors,
\nAnd that means half the shops in Bassora,
\nHold session in the outer hall and swear
\nIt shall be permanent till they get money.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhere is your master? Call him here. A moment!
\nHave you the bills ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll of them, long as pillars
\nAnd crammed from head to foot with monstrous sums.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nCall him.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe’s here.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Nureddene.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat, cousin Doonya! Balkis!
\nDid you steal down to see the decorations ?
\nAre they not pretty ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLike a painted tombstone
\nSculptured and arabesqued, but death’s inside
\nAnd bones, my brother, bones.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd there are bones
\nIn this fair pleasing outside called dear Doonya,
\nBut let us only think of rosy cheeks,
\nSweet eyes and laughing lips and not the bones.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou have boned my metaphor and quite disboned it,
\nUntil there’s nothing firm inside; ’tis pulpy.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe creditors besiege you, Nureddene;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou’ll pay them.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSerious, Anice?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTill you do,
\nI will not smile again. Azeem, the bills!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIs this your doing, Doonya ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYours, cousin, yours.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIs’tso? Anice?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI’ve told you.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nShow me the bills.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGo in, you three.<\/font>
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\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAh, he is grieved and angry!
\nHis eyes are clouded; let me speak to him.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNow you’ll spoil all; drag her off, Doonya.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tDOONYA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCome.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit drawing away Anice, Balkis behind.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWell, sir, where are these bills ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou will see the bills ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe sums, the sums!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo tailor Mardouc twenty-four thousand pieces, namely for caftans, robes, shawls, turbans, Damascus silks, \u2014<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLeave the inventory.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo tailor Labkan another twenty thousand; to the baker two
\nthousand; to the confectioner as much; to the Bagdad curio-merchant twenty-four thousand; to the same from Ispahan, sixteen thousand; to the jeweller on account of necklaces, bracelets,
\nwaist-ornaments, anklets, rings, pendents and all manner of trinkets for the slave-girl Anice-Aljalice, ninety thousand only; to the
\nupholsterer\u2014<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHold, hold! why, what are all these monstrous sums?
\nHast thou no word but thousands in thy belly,
\nExorbitant fellow?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>,<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhy, sir, ’tis in the bills; my belly’s empty enough.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nNothing but thousands!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHere’s one for seven hundred, twelve dirhams and some odd
\nfractions from Husayn cook.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe sordid, dingy rogue! Will he dun me so brutally for a base
\nseven hundred ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe fruiterer \u2014<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAway! bring bags.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBags, sir?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf money, fool. Call Harkoos and all the^ slaves. Bring half my
\ntreasury.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit Azeem.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nShe frown on me! look cold! for sums, for debts!
\nFor money, the poor paltry stuff we dig
\nBy shovels from base mire. Grows love so beggarly
\nThat it must think of piastres ? O my heart!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nEnter Azeem, Harkoos and slaves<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nwith bags of money.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nHeap them about the room \u2014 Go, Azeem, call
\nThat hungry pack; they shall be fed.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit Azeem.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nHarkoos,
\nOpen two bags there. Have you broken the seals?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Azeem ushering in the creditors.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nWho asks for money?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tC<\/font>OOK
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI, sir, seven hundred denars, twelve dirhams and three fourths of
\na dirham, that is my amount.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTake thy amount, thou dingy-hearted rogue.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThrows a bag towards him.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou there, take yours.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tJ<\/font>EWELLER<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSir, this is not a hundredth part of your debt to me.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGive him two hundred bags.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ARKOOS<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBags, sir?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nDo you grin, rogue, and loiter? Take that!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nStrikes him.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ARKOOS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nExactly. Your peg’s loose, beat Harkoos. Old master or young,
\n’tis all one to Harkoos. Stick or leather! cuff or kick! these are
\nall the houses of my horoscope.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am sorry I struck thee; there’s gold. Give them all the money;<\/font> 
\n<\/font>all, I say. Porter that home, you rascals, and count your sums.
\nWhat’s over, cram your throats with it; or, if you will, throw it
\nin the gutter.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tC<\/font>REDITORS
\n\t<\/font>{scrambling and quarrelling for the bags)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThat’s mine! that’s mine! no, mine! Leave go, you robber.
\nWhom do you call robber, thief?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nCudgel them from the room.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExeunt creditors snatching bags
\nand pursued by the slaves.<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTis madness, sir.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nNureddene motions him way. Exit Azeem.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf she were clothed in rags
\nAnd beggary her price, I’d follow her
\nFrom here to China. She to frown on me
\nFor money!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Anice.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNureddene, what have you done?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou bade me pay the fellows: I have paid them.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou are angry with me ? I did not think you could
\nBe angry with me for so slight a cause.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI did not think that you could frown on me
\nFor money, for a matter of money!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou
\nBelieve that ? Is it so you know me ? Dear,
\nWhile for my sake you ruined yourself, must I
\nLook smiling on? Nay, ruin then yourself
\nAnd try me.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDear Anice, it was with myself
\nI was angry, but the coward in me turned
\nOn you to avenge its pain. Let me forget
\nAll else and only think of you and love.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nShall I sing to you ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDo, Anice.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere’s a song \u2014<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSong<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLove keep terms with tears and sorrow?
\nHe’s too bright.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBorn today, he may tomorrow
\nSay good night.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nLove is gone ere grief can find him;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut his way<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTears that falling lag behind him<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nStill betray.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nI cannot sing.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTears, Anice ? O my love,
\nWhat worst calamity do they portend
\nFor him who caused them ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNone, none, or only showers
\nThe sunlight soon o’ertakes. Away with grief!
\nWhat is it after all but money lost ?
\nBeggars are happier, are they not, my lord ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMuch happier, Anice.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLet us be beggars, then.
\nOh, we shall wander blissfully about
\nIn careless rags. And I shall take my lute
\nAnd buy you honey-crusts with my sweet voice.
\nFor is not my voice sweet, my master ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSweet
\nAs Gabriel’s when he sings before the Lord
\nAnd Heaven listens.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWe shall reach Bagdad
\nSome day and meet the Caliph in the streets,
\nThe mighty Caliph Haroun al Rasheed,
\nDisguised, a beggar too, give him our crusts
\nAnd find ourselves all suddenly the friends
\nOf the world’s master. Shall we not, my lord ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnice, we shall.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLet us be beggars then,
\nRich, happy paupers singing through the world.
\nOh, but you have a father and a mother!
\nCome, sit down there and I will stand before you
\nAnd tell a story.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tNUREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSit by me and tell it.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nNo, no, I’ll stand.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWell, willful. Now, your tale.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI have forgotten it. It was about
\nA man who had a gem earth could not buy.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAs I have <\/b>you.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBe silent, sir. He kept it
\nWith ordinary jewels which he took
\nEach day and threw into the street, and said,
\n"I’ll show this earth that all the gems it has,
\nTogether match not this I’ll solely keep."<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAs I’ll keep you.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAh, but he did not know
\nWhat slender thread bound to a common pearl
\nThat wonder. When he threw that out, alas!<\/font>
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nHis jewel followed, and though he sought earth through,
\nHe never could again get back his gem.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>(after a pause)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTomorrow I will stop this empty life,
\nCut down expense and only live for you.
\nTonight there is the banquet. It must stand,
\nMy word being given. Azeem!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Azeem.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat money still
\nIs in the treasury ? What debts outstand ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMore now than you can meet. But for today’s folly, all would
\nhave been well, \u2014 your lordly folly! Oh, beat me! I must speak.<\/font> 
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRealize all the estate, the house only excepted; satisfy the
\ncreditors. For what’s left, entreat delay.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey will not be entreated. They have smelt the carrion and are
\nall winging up, beak outstretched and talons ready.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tN<\/font>UREDDENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCarrion indeed and vile! Wherefore gave God
\nReason to his best creatures, if they suffer
\nThe rebel blood to o’ercrow that tranquil, wise
\nAnd perfect minister ? Do what thou canst.
\nI have good friends to help me in my need.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGood friends? good bloodsuckers, good thieves! Much help
\nhis need will have out of them!<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

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\n\u2013 641<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThere’s always Ajebe.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ZEEM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWill you trust him? He is the Vizier’s nephew.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExeunt.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

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