Why Zeresh, are

You ill again? Send for the leech. Her blood

Is over wrought with too much happiness.

[Curtain.]

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ACT II

 Scene I

Scene I

Place—The palace of the king. Outer room of banquet hall. Curtain back.

[Enter Meheuman, Biztha, and Smerdis.]

Meheuman

Ahafid has become most deaf of late;

Advancing age has wrought a piteous change

In him. He can not understand our king.

Smerdis

'Tis not the king but age that makes him groan.

I mean this age, the age in which we live.

[Meheuman and Biztha exeunt on the opposite side of stage, as Ahafid enters more stooped, and singing.]

Ahafid

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