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Salome - Oscar Wilde · Oscar Wilde Audiobooks

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  Speaker 1: Part one of Salome by Oscar Wilde. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Narrator read by Tricia g.
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  Speaker 2: The Young Syrian Captain of the Guard read by Kim Stish.
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  Speaker 3: Depays of Herodias read by om want To Tree.
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  Speaker 4: First Soldier read by Levi Throckmorton.
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  Speaker 5: Second Soldier read by Joshua Logan.
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  Speaker 6: The Cappadocian read by Tim.
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  Speaker 7: Ferreira Olivian played by Degara Yokanan read by Bruce Pirie.
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  Speaker 8: Salome, Daughter of Herodius read by R. L. Lipshaw.
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  Speaker 9: De Slage by Anna Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Judea read
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  Speaker 9: by Mark Penfold.
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  Speaker 10: Rhodius read by Robin in Battner's Louisiana.
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  Speaker 11: Tigerlinus a Young Roman read by Matthew Reyese.
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  Speaker 12: First Jew read by Frank Booker.
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  Speaker 13: Second Jew read by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 14: A Third Jew read by Dennis Sayers, Fourth.
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  Speaker 13: Jew read by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 15: Fifth Jew read by David Lawrence.
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  Speaker 14: The First Nazarene read by Denny Sayers.
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  Speaker 13: Second Nazarene read by al g pug A Sadisi read
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  Speaker 13: by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 3: A Pharisee read by M. B.
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  Speaker 1: Scene. A great terrace in the Palace of herod set
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  Speaker 1: above the banqueting hall. Some soldiers are leaning over the balcony.
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  Speaker 1: To the right. There is a gigantic staircase. To the left.
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  Speaker 1: At the back an old sistern surrounded by a wall
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  Speaker 1: of green bronze. The moon is shining very brightly.
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  Speaker 2: The young Syrian, How beautiful is the princess Salome.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight the page of Herodius.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems. Sea
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  Speaker 3: is like a woman arising from a tomb, sees like
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  Speaker 3: a dead Oman. One might fancy she us looking for
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  Speaker 3: dead things.
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  Speaker 2: She has a strange look. She is like a little
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  Speaker 2: princess who wears a yellow veil, and whose feet are
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  Speaker 2: of silver. She is like a princess who has little
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  Speaker 2: white doves for feet. One might fancy she was dancing.
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  Speaker 3: Seees like a ooman who is dead. Simoves very slowly.
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  Speaker 1: Noise in the banqueting ha first soldier.
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  Speaker 4: Ough, what an uproar? Who are those wild beasts? Howling?
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  Speaker 5: Second soldier The Jews they are always like that, They
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  Speaker 5: are disputing about their religion.
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  Speaker 4: Why do they dispute their religion?
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  Speaker 5: I cannot tell. They are always doing it. The Pharisees,
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  Speaker 5: for instance, said that there are angels, and the Sadducees
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  Speaker 5: declare that angels do not exist.
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  Speaker 4: I think it is ridiculous to dispute about such things.
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  Speaker 2: How beautiful is the Princess Salome tonight?
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  Speaker 3: You are always looking at her. You look at her
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  Speaker 3: too much. It is dangerous to look at people in
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  Speaker 3: such facion. Something terrible may happen.
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  Speaker 2: She is very beautiful tonight.
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  Speaker 4: The tet shark has a somber aspect.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he has a somber aspect.
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  Speaker 4: He is looking at something.
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  Speaker 5: He is looking at someone.
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  Speaker 4: At whom is he looking?
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  Speaker 5: I cannot tell.
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  Speaker 2: How pale the princess is. Never have I seen her
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  Speaker 2: so pale. She is like the shadow of a white
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  Speaker 2: rose in a mirror of silver.
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  Speaker 3: You must not look at her. He look too much
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  Speaker 3: at her.
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  Speaker 4: Herodius has filled the cup of the teche.
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  Speaker 1: A Cappadocian is.
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  Speaker 6: That the queen Herodias, she who wears a black miter
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  Speaker 6: sowed with pearls, and whose hair is powdered with blue dust.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that is Herodias, the tet Shark's wife.
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  Speaker 5: The Tetark is very fond of wine. He has wine
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  Speaker 5: of three sorts, one which is brought from the island
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  Speaker 5: of Samothrace and is purple like the cloak of Caesar.
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  Speaker 6: I have never seen Caesar.
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  Speaker 5: Another that comes from a town called Cypress and is
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  Speaker 5: as yellow as gold.
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  Speaker 6: I love gold.
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  Speaker 5: And the third is a wine of Sicily. That wine
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  Speaker 5: is as red as blood.
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  Speaker 1: A Nubian.
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  Speaker 7: The gods of my country are very fond of blood.
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  Speaker 7: Twice a year we sacrifice to them young men maidens,
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  Speaker 7: fifty young men and one hundred maidens. But I'm afraid
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  Speaker 7: that we never give them quite enough, for they are
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  Speaker 7: very harsh to us.
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  Speaker 6: In my country, there are no gods left. The Romans
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  Speaker 6: have driven them out. There are some who say they
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  Speaker 6: have hidden themselves in the mountains, but I do not
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  Speaker 6: believe it. Three nights I have been on the mountains
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  Speaker 6: seeking them everywhere. I did not find them. And at
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  Speaker 6: last I called them by their names, and they did
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  Speaker 6: not come. I think they are dead.
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  Speaker 4: The Jews worship a god that one cannot see.
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  Speaker 6: I cannot understand that.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, they only believe in things that one cannot see.
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  Speaker 6: That seems to me altogether ridiculous.
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  Speaker 16: Yo, canon after me shall come another mightier than I. I
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  Speaker 16: am not worthy so much as to unloose the latchet
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  Speaker 16: of his shoes. When he cometh, the solitary places shall
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  Speaker 16: be glad, they shall blossom like the rose. The eyes
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  Speaker 16: of the blind shall see the day, and the ears
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  Speaker 16: of the death shall be opened. The sucking child shall
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  Speaker 16: put his hand upon the dragon's lair. He shall lead
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  Speaker 16: the lions by their means.
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  Speaker 5: Make him be silent. He is always saying ridiculous things.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, he is a holy man. He is very
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  Speaker 4: gentle too. Every day when I give him to eat,
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  Speaker 4: he thanks me.
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  Speaker 6: Who is he a prophet? What is his name? Whence
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  Speaker 6: comes he.
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  Speaker 4: From the desert where he fed on locusts and wild honey.
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  Speaker 4: He was clothed in camel's hair, and round his loins
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  Speaker 4: he had a leathern belt. He was very terrible to
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  Speaker 4: look upon. A great multitude used to follow him. He
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  Speaker 4: even had disciples.
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  Speaker 6: What is he talking of?
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  Speaker 4: We can never tell. Sometimes he says things that a
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  Speaker 4: fright one, but it is impossible to understand what he says.
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  Speaker 6: May one see him?
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  Speaker 4: No, the ted ark has forbidden it.
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  Speaker 2: The princess has hidden her face behind her fan. Her
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  Speaker 2: little white hands are fluttering, like doves that fly to
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  Speaker 2: their dove cuts. They are like white butterflies. They are
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  Speaker 2: just like white butterflies.
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  Speaker 3: What is dad to you? Why do you look at her?
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  Speaker 3: You must not look at her. Something terrible may happen.
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  Speaker 1: Pointing to the cistern.
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  Speaker 6: What a strange prison.
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  Speaker 5: It is an old cistern, an.
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  Speaker 6: Old cistern that must be a poisonous place in which
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  Speaker 6: to dwell.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no. For instance, the Tetrarch's brother, his elder brother,
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  Speaker 5: the first husband of Herodius the queen, was in prison
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  Speaker 5: there for twelve years. It did not kill him. At
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  Speaker 5: the end of the twelve years, he had to be strangled, strangled.
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  Speaker 6: Who dared to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Pointing to the executioner, A huge negro, that.
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  Speaker 5: Man yonder naman.
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  Speaker 6: He was not afraid.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, The tetrarch sent him the ring?
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  Speaker 6: What ring?
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  Speaker 5: The death ring? So he was not afraid.
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  Speaker 6: Yet. It is a terrible thing to strangle a king.
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  Speaker 4: Why kings have but one neck like other folk?
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  Speaker 6: I think it terrible.
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  Speaker 2: The princess is getting up, She is leaving the table.
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  Speaker 2: She looks very troubled. Ah, she is coming this way, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: she is coming towards us. How pale she is. Never
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  Speaker 2: have I seen her so pale.
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  Speaker 3: Do not look at her. I pray you not to
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  Speaker 3: look at her.
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  Speaker 2: She is like a dove that has She is like
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  Speaker 2: a narcissus trembling in the wind. She is like a silver.
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  Speaker 1: Flower, enters Salome.
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  Speaker 8: I will not stay. I cannot stay. Why does the
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  Speaker 8: tetrarch look at me all the while with his mole's
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  Speaker 8: eyes under his shaking eyelids. It is strange that the
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  Speaker 8: husband of my mother looks at me like that. I
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  Speaker 8: know not what it means of a truth, I know
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  Speaker 8: it too well.
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  Speaker 2: You have left the feast, princess.
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  Speaker 8: How sweet is the air here I can breathe? Here
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  Speaker 8: within there are Jews from Jerusalem who are tearing each
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  Speaker 8: other in pieces over their foolish ceremonies, and Barbarians who
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  Speaker 8: drink and drink and spill their wine on the pavement.
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  Speaker 8: And Greeks from Smyrna with painted eyes and painted cheeks
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  Speaker 8: and frizzed hair curled in columns, and Egyptians silent and
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  Speaker 8: subtle with long nails of jade and russet cloaks and Romans,
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  Speaker 8: brutal and coarse with their uncouth jargon. Ah, how I
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  Speaker 8: loathe the Romans. They are rough and common, and they
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  Speaker 8: give themselves the airs of noble lords.
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  Speaker 2: Will you be seated, princess?
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  Speaker 3: Why do you speak to her? Oh, something terrible will happen.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you look at her?
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  Speaker 8: How good to see the moon? She is like a
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  Speaker 8: little piece of money, a little silver flower. She is
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  Speaker 8: cold and chaste. I am sure she is a virgin.
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  Speaker 8: She has the beauty of a virgin. Yes, she is
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  Speaker 8: a virgin. She has never defiled herself. She has never
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  Speaker 8: abandoned herself to men, like the other goddesses.
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  Speaker 16: Behold, the Lord hath come. The son of Man is
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  Speaker 16: at hand. The centaurs have hidden themselves in the rivers,
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  Speaker 16: and the nymphs have left the rivers and are lying
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  Speaker 16: beneath the leaves in the forests.
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  Speaker 5: Who was that who cried out the prophet princess, Ah.
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  Speaker 8: The prophet, he of whom the tetrarch is afraid.
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  Speaker 5: We know nothing of that princess. It was the prophet
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  Speaker 5: Yocanan who cried out, Is.
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  Speaker 2: It your pleasure that I bid them bring your litter, princess?
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  Speaker 2: The night is fair in the garden.
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  Speaker 8: He says terrible things about my mother, does he not?
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  Speaker 5: We never understand what he says, Princess, Yes.
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  Speaker 8: He says terrible things about her.
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  Speaker 1: Enter a slave, Princess.
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  Speaker 3: The Teta praise you to return to the feast.
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  Speaker 8: I will not return.
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  Speaker 2: Pardon me, Princess. But if you return not, some misfortune
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  Speaker 2: may happen.
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  Speaker 8: Is he an old man, this prophet.
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  Speaker 2: Princess, it were better to return, Suffer me to.
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  Speaker 8: Lead you in this prophet? Is he an old man?
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  Speaker 4: No, Princess, he is quite young.
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  Speaker 5: One cannot be sure. There are those who say that
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  Speaker 5: he is Elias?
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  Speaker 8: Who is Elias?
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  Speaker 5: A prophet of this country? In Baigo? Princess?
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  Speaker 17: What answer may I give the tetra from the princess?
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  Speaker 16: Rejoice not o land of Palestine, because the rod of
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  Speaker 16: him who smote thee is broken. For from the seed
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  Speaker 16: of the serpent shall come a bathilisk, and that which
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  Speaker 16: is born of it shall devour the birds.
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  Speaker 8: What a strange voice I would speak with him?
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  Speaker 4: I fear it may not be, Princess. The tetrarch does
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  Speaker 4: not suffer anyone to speak with him. He has even
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  Speaker 4: forbidden the high priest to speak with him.
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  Speaker 8: I desire to speak with him.
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  Speaker 4: It is impossible, Princess, I will speak with him.
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  Speaker 2: Would it not be better to return to the banquet,
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  Speaker 2: Bring forth this prophet?
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  Speaker 1: Exit the slave?
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  Speaker 4: We dare not, Princess.
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  Speaker 1: Approaching the cistern and looking down into it.
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  Speaker 8: How black it is down there. It must be terrible
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  Speaker 8: to be in so black a hole.
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  Speaker 1: It is like a tomb to the soldiers.
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  Speaker 8: Did you not hear me? Bring out the prophet?
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  Speaker 5: I would look on him, Princess, I beg, you do
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  Speaker 5: not require this of us.
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  Speaker 8: You are making me wait upon your pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: Princess, Our lives belong to you. But we cannot do
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  Speaker 4: what you have asked of us. And indeed it is
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  Speaker 4: none of us that you should ask this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at the young Syrian.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, oh, what is going to happen? I am sure
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  Speaker 3: that something terrible will happen.
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  Speaker 1: Going up to the young Syrian.
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  Speaker 8: Thou wilt do this thing for me? Wilt thou not n'erobath?
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  Speaker 8: Thou wilt do this thing for me? I have ever
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  Speaker 8: been kind towards thee, Thou wilt do it for me?
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  Speaker 8: I would, but look at him, this strange prophet. Men
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  Speaker 8: have talked so much of him. Often I have heard
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  Speaker 8: the Tetrarch talk of him. I think he is afraid
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  Speaker 8: of him. The Tetrarch art thou even thou also afraid
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  Speaker 8: of him.
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  Speaker 2: Narabath, I fear him, not, Princess. There is no man
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  Speaker 2: I fear. But the Tetrarch has formally forbidden that any
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  Speaker 2: man should raise the cover of this well.
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  Speaker 8: Thou wilt do this thing for me, Narabath. And tomorrow,
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  Speaker 8: when I pass in my litter beneath the gateway of
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  Speaker 8: the idol sellers, I will let fall for thee a
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  Speaker 8: little flower, a little green flower.
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  Speaker 2: Princess, I cannot, I cannot smiling.
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  Speaker 8: Thou wilt do this thing for me, Narabath. Thou knowest
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  Speaker 8: that thou wilt do this thing for me. And on
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  Speaker 8: the morrow, when I shall pass in my litter by
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  Speaker 8: the bridge of the idle buyers, I will look at
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  Speaker 8: THEE through the muslin veils. I will look at thee, Narrabath.
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  Speaker 8: It may be I will smile at thee. Look at me, Narabath,
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  Speaker 8: look at me. Ah, Thou knowest that thou wilt do
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  Speaker 8: what I am ask of THEE. Thou knowest it, I
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  Speaker 8: know that thou wilt do this.
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  Speaker 1: Thing, signing to the third soldier.
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  Speaker 2: Let the prophet come forth. The princess Salome desires to
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  Speaker 2: see him.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Oh, how strange demure looks like the hands of
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  Speaker 3: a dead omen who is seeking to cover herself with
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  Speaker 3: a chalut.
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  Speaker 2: She has a strange aspect. She is like a little
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  Speaker 2: princess whose eyes are eyes of amber through the clouds
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  Speaker 2: of muslin. She is smiling, like a little princess.
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  Speaker 1: The prophet comes out of the cistern. Salome looks at
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  Speaker 1: him and steps slowly back.
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  Speaker 16: Where is he whose cup of abominations is now full?
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  Speaker 16: Where is he, who, in a robe of silver, shall
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  Speaker 16: one day die in the face of all the people?
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  Speaker 16: Bid him come forth, that he may hear the voice
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  Speaker 16: of him who hath cried in the waste places and
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  Speaker 16: in the houses of kings.
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  Speaker 8: Of whom is he speaking?
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  Speaker 2: No one can tell.
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  Speaker 16: Princess, where is she who saw the images of men
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  Speaker 16: painted on the walls, even the images of the Kaldeans
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  Speaker 16: painted with colors, and gave herself up unto the lust
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  Speaker 16: of her eyes, and sent ambassadors into the land of
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  Speaker 16: the Kaldea.
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  Speaker 8: It is of my mother that he is speaking. Oh, No, Princess, yes,
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  Speaker 8: it is of my mother that he is speaking.
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  Speaker 16: Where is she who gave herself unto the captains of Assyria,
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  Speaker 16: who have baldrics on their loins and crowns of many
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  Speaker 16: colors on their heads. Where is she who hath given
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  Speaker 16: herself to the young men of the Egyptians, who are
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  Speaker 16: clothed in fine linen and hyacinth, whose shields are of gold,
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  Speaker 16: whose helmets are of silver, whose bodies are mighty. Go
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  Speaker 16: bid her rise up from the bed of her abominations,
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  Speaker 16: from the bed of her incestuousness, that she may hear
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  Speaker 16: the words of him who prepareth the way of the Lord,
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  Speaker 16: that she may repent of her iniquities, though she will
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  Speaker 16: not repent, but will stick fast in her abominations. Go
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  Speaker 16: bid her come, For the fan of the Lord is
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  Speaker 16: in his hand.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, but he is terrible, He is terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Do not stay here, Princess. I beseech you.
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  Speaker 8: It is his eyes above all that are terrible. They
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  Speaker 8: are like black holes burned by torches in the tapestry
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  Speaker 8: of tear. They are like the black cavern where the
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  Speaker 8: dragons live, the black caverns of Egypt, in which the
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  Speaker 8: dragons make their lairs. They are like black lakes troubled
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  Speaker 8: by fantastic moons? Do you think he will speak again?
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  Speaker 2: Do not stay here, Princess. I pray you do not
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  Speaker 2: stay here.
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  Speaker 8: How wasted he is. He is like a thin ivory statue.
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  Speaker 8: He is like an image of silver. I am sure
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  Speaker 8: he is chaste as the moon is. He is like
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  Speaker 8: a moonbeam, like a shaft of silver. His flesh must
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  Speaker 8: be very cold, cold as ivory. I would look closer
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  Speaker 8: at him.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, Princess.
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  Speaker 8: I must look at him closer, Princess, Princess.
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  Speaker 16: Who is this woman who is looking at me? I
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  Speaker 16: will not have her look at me. Wherefore doth she
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  Speaker 16: look at me with her golden eyes under her gilded eyelids.
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  Speaker 16: I know not who she is. I do not desire
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  Speaker 16: to know who she is. Bitter begone. It is not
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  Speaker 16: to her that I would speak.
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  Speaker 8: I am Salome, daughter of Herodius, Princess of Judea back.
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  Speaker 16: Daughter of Babylon. Come not near the chosen of the Lord.
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  Speaker 16: Thy mother hath filled the earth with the wine of
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  Speaker 16: her iniquities, and the cry of her sinning. Hath come
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  Speaker 16: up even to the ears of God.
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  Speaker 8: Speak again, yo, canan. Thy voice is as music to mine.
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  Speaker 2: Ear, Princess.
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  Speaker 8: Princess Princess, speak again, Speak again, yo Canan, and tell
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  Speaker 8: me what.
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  Speaker 16: I must do, Daughter of Sodom. Come not near me,
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  Speaker 16: but cover thy face with a veil, and scatter ashes
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  Speaker 16: upon thine head. And get thee to the desert, and
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  Speaker 16: seek out the son of Man.
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  Speaker 8: Who is he the son of Man? Is he as
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  Speaker 8: beautiful as thou art, Yo Canan.
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  Speaker 16: Get thee behind me. I hear in the palace the
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  Speaker 16: beating of the wings of the Angel of Death.
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  Speaker 2: Princess. I beseech thee to go within.
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  Speaker 16: Angel of the Lord God. What dost thou here with
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  Speaker 16: thy sword? Whom seekest thou in the palace? The day
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  Speaker 16: of him who shall die in a row robe of
• 19:00
  Speaker 16: silver has not yet come, Yocanan, who speaketh?
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: I am amorous of thy body, Yokanan, Thy body is
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: white like the lilies of the fields that the mower
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: hath never mowed. Thy body is white like the snows
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: that lie on the mountains of Judea and come down
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: into the valleys. The roses in the gardens of the
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: Queen of Arabia are not so white as thy body.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: Neither the roses in the garden of the Queen of Arabia,
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: the garden of spices of the Queen of Arabia, nor
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: the feet of the dawn when they light on the leaves,
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: nor the breast of the moon, when she lies on
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: the breast of the sea. There is nothing in this
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: world so white is thy body. Suffer me to touch
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: thy body.
• 19:50
  Speaker 16: Back, Daughter of Babylon. By woman came evil into the world.
• 19:55
  Speaker 16: Speak not to me. I will not listen to thee
• 19:57
  Speaker 16: I listen but to the voice of the Lord God.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: Thy body is hideous. It is like the body of
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: a leper. It is like a plastered wall where vipers
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: have crawled, like a plastered wall where the scorpions have
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: made their nest. It is like a whited sepulchler full
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: of loathsome things. It is horrible. Thy body is horrible.
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: It is of thy hair. I am enamored, Yokanan. Thy
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: hair is like clusters of grapes, like the clusters of
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: black grapes that hang from the vine trees of edom
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: in the land of the Edomites. Thy hair is like
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: the cedars of Lebanon, like the great cedars of Lebanon
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: that give their shade to the lions and to the
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: robbers who would hide them by day. The long black nights,
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid,
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: are not so black as thy hair. The silence that
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: dwells in the forest is not so black. There is
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: nothing in the world that is so black as thy hair.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: Suffer me to touch thy hair.
• 21:06
  Speaker 16: Back, Daughter of Sodom, Touch me, not profane, not the
• 21:10
  Speaker 16: temple of the Lord God.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Thy hair is horrible. It is covered with mire and dust.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: It is like a crown of thorns placed on thy head.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: It is like a knot of serpents coiled around thy neck.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: I love not thy hair. It is thy mouth that
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: I desire, Yo cannot. Thy mouth is like a band
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: of scarlet on a tower of ivory. It is like
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: a pomegranate cut in Twain with a knife of ivory.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: The pomegranate flowers that blossom in the gardens of tyr
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: and are redder than roses, are not so red. The
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: red blasts of trumpets that herald the approach of kings
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: and make afraid the enemy, are not so red. Thy
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: mouth is redder than the feet of those who tread
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: the wine and the wine press. It is redder than
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: the feet of the doves who inhabit the temples and
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: are fed by the priests. It is redder than the
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: feet of him who cometh from a forest where he
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: hath slain a lion and seen gilded tigers. Thy mouth
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: is like a branch of coral that fishers have found
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: in the twilight of the sea, the coral that they
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: keep for the kings. It is like the vermilion that
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: the Moabites find in the minds of Moab, the vermilion
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: that the kings take from them. It is like the
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: bow of the King of the Persians, that is tinted
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: with vermilion, and is tipped with coral. There is nothing
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: in the world so red as thy mouth. Suffer me
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: to kiss thy mouth.
• 22:48
  Speaker 16: Never, daughter of Babilon, daughter of Sodom.
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: Never, I will.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: Kiss thy mouth, Yo, Canon, I will kiss thy mouth.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Princess, Princess, who art like a garden of mer Now,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: who art the dove of all doves. Look not at
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: this man, looked not at him. Do not speak such
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: words to him. I cannot endure it. Princess, do not
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: speak these things.
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: I will kiss thy mouth, yo Cannan.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, he kills himself and falls between Salome and jo Kanan.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: The young Syrian has slain himself. The young Captain has
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: slain himself. He has slain himself. Who was my friend?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I gave him a little box of perfumes and ear
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: rings rotten silver, And now he has killed himself. Ah
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: did he not say that some misfortune would happen? I
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: too said it, and it has come to pass.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I knew that the moon was seeking a dead thing,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: but I knew not that he was he whom he saw. Ah,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Why did I not hide him from the moon? If
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: I had hidden him in a cavil, seould not have
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: seen him.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Princess, the young Captain has just slain himself.
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: Suffer me to kiss thy mouth, you cannon art thou
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: not afraid?
• 24:18
  Speaker 16: Daughter of Herodius? Did I not tell thee that I
• 24:22
  Speaker 16: heard in the palace the beating of the wings of
• 24:25
  Speaker 16: the Angel of death? And hath he not come the
• 24:28
  Speaker 16: Angel of death?
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: Suffer me to kiss thy mouth.
• 24:32
  Speaker 16: Daughter of Adultery. There is but one who can save thee.
• 24:37
  Speaker 16: It is he of whom I spake. Go seek him.
• 24:41
  Speaker 16: He is in a boat on the sea of Galilee,
• 24:44
  Speaker 16: and he talketh with his disciples kneel down on the
• 24:48
  Speaker 16: shore of the sea, and call unto him by his name.
• 24:52
  Speaker 16: When he cometh to thee, and to all who call
• 24:55
  Speaker 16: on him he cometh, bow thyself at his feet, and
• 24:59
  Speaker 16: ask of him the remission of thy sins.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: Suffer me to kiss thy mouth.
• 25:06
  Speaker 16: Cursed, be thou daughter of an incestuous mother. Be thou
• 25:11
  Speaker 16: a cursed.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: I will kiss thy mouth, yoknan.
• 25:15
  Speaker 16: I will not look at thee. Thou art accursed, Salome,
• 25:19
  Speaker 16: Thou art a cursed.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: He goes down into the cistern.
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: I will kiss thy mouth, yo canan, I will kiss
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: thy mouth.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: We must bear the body away to another place. The
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: tet Tark does not care to see dead bodies, save
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: the bodies of those whom he himself has slain.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: He was my brother, and nearer to me than a brother.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I gave him a little box of fol feels and
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: a ring of edgade that he wore always on his hand.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: In the evening, we will want to walk by the
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: river and among the almond trees. And he used to
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: tell me of the things of his country. Speak very low.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: The sound of his voice was like the sound of
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: the flute of one who played up on the flute. Also,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: he had much joy to gaze at himself in the river.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: How is to approach him?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: For that?
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: You're right. We must hide the body. The tetrark must
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: not see it.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: The tech trark will not come to this place. He
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: never comes on the terrace. He is too much afraid of.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: The prophet and of Part one Part two of Salome
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: by Oscar Wilde. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 26:38
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• 26:42
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  Speaker 1: and all the court.
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: Where is Salome? Where is the princess? Why did she
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: not return to the banquet as I commanded her? Ah,
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: there she is.
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: You must not look at her. You are always looking
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: at her.
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: The moon has a strange look tonight? Has she not
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: a strange look? She is like a mad woman, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: a mad woman who is seeking everywhere for lovers. She
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: is naked too, She is quite naked. The clouds are
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: seeking to clothe her nakedness, but she will not let them.
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: She shows herself naked in the sky. She reels through
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: the clouds like a drunken woman. I am sure she
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: is looking for lovers. Does she not reel like a
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: drunken woman? She is like a mad woman, is she not?
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: No, the moon is like the moon. That is all.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: Let us go with him. We have nothing to do here.
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: I will stay here. Nassa, lay carpets there, light torches,
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: Bring forth the ivory tables and the tables of Jasper.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: The air here is sweet. I will drink more wine
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: with my guests. We must show all honor to the
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: ambassadors of Caesar.
• 27:52
  Speaker 10: It is not because of them that you remain.
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: Yes, the air is very sweet. Come, Herodius, our guests
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: await us ah, I have slipped in blood. It is
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: an ill omen. It is a very ill omen. Wherefore
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: is their blood here? And this body? What does this
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: body here? Think you? I am like the king of Egypt,
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: who gives no feast to his guests, but that he
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: shows them a corpse. Whose is it? I will not
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: look on it.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: It is our captain, sire. It is the young Syrian
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: whom you made captain of the guard. But three days gone.
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: I issued no order that he should be slain.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: He slew himself, Sire, for.
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: What reason I had made him captain of my guard?
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: We do not know, Sire, But with his own hand
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: he slew himself.
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: That seems strange to me. I had thought it was
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: but the Roman philosophers who slew themselves. Is it not true, Tigerlinus,
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: that the philosophers at Rome slay themselves?
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: There be some who slay themselves, Sire. They are the Stoics.
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: The Stoics are people of no cultivation. They are ridiculous people.
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: I myself regard them as being perfectly ridiculous.
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: Also, it is ridiculous to kill oneself.
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: Everybody at Rome laughs at them. The emperor has written
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: a satire against them. It is recited everywhere.
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: Ah, he has written a satire against them. Caesar is wonderful.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: He can do everything. It is strange that the young
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: Syrian has slain himself. I am sorry he has slain himself.
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: I am very sorry. For he was fair to look upon.
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: He was even very fair. He had very languorous eyes.
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: I remember that. I saw that he looked languorously at Salome. Truly,
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: I thought he looked too much at her.
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: There are others who looked too much at her.
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: His father was a king. I drove him from his
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: kingdom and of his mother, who was a queen. You
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: made a slave Herodius. So he was here as my guest,
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: as it were, and for that reason I made him
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: my captain. I am sorry he is dead. Ho Why
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: have you left the body here? It must be taken
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: to some other place. I will not look at it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Away with it, they take away the body.
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: It is cold here. There is a wind blowing. Is
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: there not a wind blowing?
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: No, there is no wind.
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: I tell you there is a wind that blows. And
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: I hear in the air something that is like the
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: beating of wings, like the beating of fast wings. Do
• 30:14
  Speaker 9: you not hear it?
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: I hear nothing.
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: I hear it no longer, but I heard it. It
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: was the blowing of the wind. It has passed away.
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: But no I hear it again. Do you not hear it?
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: It is just like a beating of wings.
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: I tell you there's nothing. You're ill. Let us go within.
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: I am not ill. It is your daughter who is
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: sick to death. Never have I seen her so.
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: Pale, I have told you not to look at her.
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: Pour me forth.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Wine wine is brought.
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: Salome, Come drink a little wine with me. I have
• 30:47
  Speaker 9: here a wine that is exquisite Caesar himself sent it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: Me.
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: Dip into it thy little red lips, that I may
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: drain the cup. I am not thirsty, Tetrark, you hear
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: how she answers me, This daughter of yours.
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: She does right. Why are you always gazing at her?
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: Bring me ripe fruits.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Fruits are brought.
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: Salome, Come and eat fruits with me. I love to
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: see in a fruit the mark of thy little teeth.
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: Bite but a little of this fruit, that I may
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: eat what is left.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I am not hungry, Tetrock to Herodius, you.
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: See how you have brought up this daughter of yours.
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: My daughter and I come of a royal race. As
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: for thee, thy father was a camel driver. He was
• 31:33
  Speaker 10: a thief and a robber to boot thou liest thou
• 31:37
  Speaker 10: knowst well that it is true.
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: Salome, Come and sit next to me. I will give
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: THEE the throne of thy mother.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: I am not tired, Tetrock.
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: You see in what regard she holds.
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: You Bring me what is it that I desire? I forget?
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: Ah Ah, I remember.
• 31:55
  Speaker 16: Behold, the time has come that which I foretold has
• 31:59
  Speaker 16: to pass. The day that I spake of is at hand.
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: It did him be silent. I will not listen to
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: his voice. This man is forever hurling insults against me.
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: He has said nothing against you. Besides, he is a
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: very great prophet.
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: I do not believe in prophets. Can a man tell
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: what will come to pass? No man knows it. Also,
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: he is forever insulting me. But I think you are
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: afraid of him. I know well that you are afraid
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: of him.
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: I am not afraid of him. I am afraid of
• 32:31
  Speaker 9: no man.
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: I tell you are afraid of him. If you are
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: not afraid of him, why do you not deliver him
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: to the Jews, who, for these six months past have
• 32:39
  Speaker 10: been clamoring for him a Jew?
• 32:42
  Speaker 12: Truly, my Lord, it were better to deliver him into
• 32:45
  Speaker 12: our hands.
• 32:47
  Speaker 9: Enough on this subject, I have already given you my answer.
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: I will not deliver him into your hands. He is
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: a holy man. He is a man who has seen God.
• 32:56
  Speaker 12: That cannot be. It is no man who hath seen
• 32:59
  Speaker 12: God since the prophet Elias. He is the last man
• 33:03
  Speaker 12: who saw God face to face. In these days, God
• 33:07
  Speaker 12: doth not show himself. God hideth himself. Therefore great evils
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: have come upon the land another Jew.
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: Verily, no man knoweth. If Elias the prophet did indeed
• 33:20
  Speaker 13: see God peradventure, it was but the shadow of God
• 33:24
  Speaker 13: that he saw, Sir Jew.
• 33:26
  Speaker 14: God is at no time hidden. He showeth himself at
• 33:31
  Speaker 14: all times and in all places. God is in what
• 33:36
  Speaker 14: is evil, even as he is in what is good.
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: Fourth Jew, Thou shouldst not say that it is a
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: very dangerous doctrine. It is a doctrine that cometh from Alexandria,
• 33:49
  Speaker 13: where men teach the philosophy of the Greeks, and the
• 33:52
  Speaker 13: Greeks are gentiles. They are not even circumcised.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Fifth Jew.
• 33:58
  Speaker 15: No man can tell how God worketh.
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: His ways are very dark. It may be that the.
• 34:04
  Speaker 15: Things which we call evil are good, and the things
• 34:08
  Speaker 15: which we call good are evil. There is no knowledge
• 34:11
  Speaker 15: of anything. We can but bow our heads to his will.
• 34:15
  Speaker 15: For God is very strong. He breaketh in peaces the strong,
• 34:19
  Speaker 15: together with the weak, For He regardeth not any man.
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: Thou speakest truly. Verily, God is terrible.
• 34:28
  Speaker 12: He breaketh in peaces the strong and the weak, as
• 34:31
  Speaker 12: men break corn in a mortar. But as for this man,
• 34:35
  Speaker 12: he hath never seen God. No man hath seen God.
• 34:39
  Speaker 12: Since the prophet Elias.
• 34:41
  Speaker 10: Make them be silent. They weary me.
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: But I have heard it said that Eo Khan is
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: in very truth your prophet Elias.
• 34:49
  Speaker 12: That cannot be. It is more than three hundred years
• 34:52
  Speaker 12: since the days of the prophet Elias.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: There be some who say that this man is Elias
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: the prophet.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: First Nazarene.
• 35:01
  Speaker 14: I am sure that he is Elias the prophet.
• 35:06
  Speaker 12: Nay, he is not Elias the Prophet.
• 35:09
  Speaker 16: Behold, the day is at hand, the day of the Lord.
• 35:13
  Speaker 16: And I hear upon the mountains the feet of him
• 35:16
  Speaker 16: who shall be the savior of the world.
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: What does that mean? The savior of the world.
• 35:22
  Speaker 11: It is a title that Caesar adopts.
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: But Caesar is not coming into Judea. Only yesterday I
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: received letters from Rome. They contained nothing concerning this matter.
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: And you Teitelinus, who were at Rome during the winter,
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: You heard nothing concerning this matter, did.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: You, sire?
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: I heard nothing concerning the matter. I was but explaining
• 35:41
  Speaker 11: the title. It is one of Caesar's titles.
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: But Caesar cannot come. He is too gouty. They say
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: that his feet are like the feet of an elephant.
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: Also there are reasons of state. He who leaves Rome
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: loses Rome. He will not come. Howbeit Caesar is Lord,
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: he will come if such be his pleasure. Nevertheless, I
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: think he will not come.
• 36:02
  Speaker 14: It was not concerning Caesar that the prophets spake these words, Sire.
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: How it was not concerning Caesar, No, my Lord, concerning
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: whom then did he.
• 36:13
  Speaker 14: Speak concerning Messias?
• 36:17
  Speaker 16: Who hath come?
• 36:18
  Speaker 12: Messias hath not come?
• 36:20
  Speaker 14: He hath come. And everywhere he worketh miracles miracles.
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: I do not believe in miracles. I have seen too many.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: To the page, my fan.
• 36:35
  Speaker 14: This man worketh true miracles. Thus, at a marriage which
• 36:40
  Speaker 14: took place in a little town of Galilee, a town
• 36:43
  Speaker 14: of some importance, he changed water into wine. Certain persons
• 36:50
  Speaker 14: who were present related it to me. Also he healed
• 36:54
  Speaker 14: two lepers that were seated before the gate of Capernaum,
• 36:58
  Speaker 14: simply by touching them.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Second, Nazarene Nay, there.
• 37:04
  Speaker 17: Was two blind men that he healed at kapanaun.
• 37:07
  Speaker 14: Nay they were leopards. But he hath healed blind people also.
• 37:14
  Speaker 14: And he was seen on a mountain talking with angels.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: A sadducee angels do not exist. A pharisee angels exist.
• 37:25
  Speaker 15: But I do not believe that this man has talked
• 37:28
  Speaker 15: with them.
• 37:29
  Speaker 14: He was seen by a great multitude of people talking
• 37:33
  Speaker 14: with angels.
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: How these men weary me. They are ridiculous. They are
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: all together ridiculous.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: To the page, well, my fan, the page gives her
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: the fan.
• 37:46
  Speaker 10: You have a dreamer's look. You must not dream. It
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: is only sick people who dream.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: She strikes the page with her fan.
• 37:55
  Speaker 17: There's also the miracle of the daughter of Jeris.
• 37:58
  Speaker 14: Yay, that is sure. No man can gainsay it.
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: Those men are mad. They have looked too long on
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: the moon. Command him to be silent.
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: What is this miracle of the daughter of Jayris?
• 38:10
  Speaker 14: The daughter of Jayrus was dead. This man raised her
• 38:15
  Speaker 14: from the dead.
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: How he raises people from the dead.
• 38:20
  Speaker 14: Yes, sire, he raiseth the dead.
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: I do not wish him to do that. I forbid
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: him to do that. I suffer no man to raise
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: the dead. This man must be found and told that
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: I forbid him to raise the dead. Where is this
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: man at present?
• 38:35
  Speaker 17: He is in every place, my lord, but it is
• 38:38
  Speaker 17: hard to find him.
• 38:40
  Speaker 14: It is said that he is now in Samaria.
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: It is easy to see that this is not Messias.
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: If he is in Samaria, it is not to Samaritans.
• 38:49
  Speaker 12: That Messias shall come. The Samaritans are accursed. They bring
• 38:53
  Speaker 12: no offerings to the temple.
• 38:56
  Speaker 17: He lived Samaria a few days since I think that
• 39:00
  Speaker 17: he is in the neighborhood of Jerusalem.
• 39:02
  Speaker 14: No, he is not there. I have just come from Jerusalem.
• 39:07
  Speaker 14: For two months. They have had no tidings of him.
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: No matter, but let them find him and tell him.
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: Thus saith Herod the King. I will not suffer thee
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: to raise the dead, to change water into wine, to
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: heal the lepers and the blind. He may do these
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: things if he will. I say nothing against these things.
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: In truth, I hold it a kindly deed to heal
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: a leper. But no man shall raise the dead. It
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: would be terrible if the dead came back.
• 39:33
  Speaker 16: Ah, the wanton one, the harlot Ah, the daughter of Babylon,
• 39:38
  Speaker 16: with her golden eyes and her gilded eyelids. Thus saith
• 39:44
  Speaker 16: the Lord God. Let there come up against her a
• 39:47
  Speaker 16: multitude of men. Let the people take stones and stone her.
• 39:53
  Speaker 10: Command him to be silent.
• 39:55
  Speaker 16: Let the captains of the hosts pierce her with their swords,
• 39:59
  Speaker 16: let them crush her beneath their shields.
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: Nay, but it is infamous.
• 40:04
  Speaker 16: It is thus that I will wipe out all wickedness
• 40:07
  Speaker 16: from the earth, and that all women shall learn not
• 40:10
  Speaker 16: to imitate her abominations.
• 40:14
  Speaker 10: You hear what he says against me. You saw him
• 40:17
  Speaker 10: to revile her? Who is your wife?
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: He did not speak your name?
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: What does it matter? You know well that it is
• 40:23
  Speaker 10: I whom he seeks to revile. And I am your wife?
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: Am I not of a truth? Dear and noble Herodias.
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: You are my wife, and before that you were the
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: wife of my brother.
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: It was thou didst snatch me from his arms?
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: Of a truth. I was stronger than he was. But
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: let us not talk of that matter. I do not
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: desire to talk of it. It is the cause of
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: the terrible words that the prophet has spoken peradventure. On
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: account of it, a misfortune will come. Let us not
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: speak of this matter, Noble Herodias, we are not mindful
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: of our guests. Phil Thou, my cup, my well beloved, Oh,
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: with wine, the great goblets of silver and the great
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: goblets of glass, I will drink to Caesar. There are
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: romans here. We must drink to Caesar.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Sea.
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: Do you not see your daughter, how.
• 41:14
  Speaker 17: Pale she is?
• 41:15
  Speaker 10: What is it to you? If she be pale or.
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: Not, Never have I seen her so pale.
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: You must not look at her.
• 41:22
  Speaker 16: In that day the sun shall become black like sackcloth
• 41:26
  Speaker 16: of hair, and the moon shall become like blood, and
• 41:31
  Speaker 16: the stars of the heaven shall fall upon the earth
• 41:34
  Speaker 16: like unripe figs that fall from the fig tree, and
• 41:38
  Speaker 16: the kings of the earth shall be afraid.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
• 41:43
  Speaker 10: I should like to see that day when she speaks,
• 41:46
  Speaker 10: when the moon shall become like blood, and the stars
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: shall fall from the earth like unripe figs. This prophet
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: talks like a drugn man. But I cannot suffer the
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: sound of his voice. I hate his voice. Come to
• 42:00
  Speaker 10: be silent, I will not.
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: I cannot understand what it is that he saith. But
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: it may be an omen.
• 42:06
  Speaker 10: I do not believe in omens. He speaks like a
• 42:09
  Speaker 10: drunken man.
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: It may be he is drunk with the wine of God.
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: What wine is that? The wine of God? For what
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: vineyards is it gathered? And what wine present? They want
• 42:20
  Speaker 10: to find it?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: From this point he looks all the while at Salome.
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: Tiger Linus, when you were at Rome of late, did
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: the Emperor speak with you on the subject.
• 42:29
  Speaker 11: Of On what subject?
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: My lord, on what subject? Ah? I ask you a question?
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: Did I not? I have forgotten what I would have
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: asked you.
• 42:39
  Speaker 10: You are looking again at my daughter. You must not
• 42:42
  Speaker 10: look at her.
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: I have already said so you say nothing else.
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: I say it again.
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: And that restoration of the temple about which they have
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: talked so much, will anything be done? They say that
• 42:54
  Speaker 9: the veil of the sanctuary has disappeared?
• 42:56
  Speaker 10: Do they not it was thyself did steal it? Thus biggest,
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: at random and without wit. I will not stay here.
• 43:03
  Speaker 10: Let's go within.
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: Dance for me, Salome.
• 43:06
  Speaker 10: I will not have her dance.
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: I have no desire to dance.
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: Tatrock Salome, daughter of Herodius, dance for me?
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: Please let her alone.
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: I command thee to dance. Salome.
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: I will not dance tatrck.
• 43:22
  Speaker 10: Ha. You see how she obeys you.
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: What is it to me whether she dance or not?
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: It is not to me. Tonight I am happy. I
• 43:30
  Speaker 9: am exceeding happy. Never have I been so happy.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: The tet truck has a somber look. Has he not
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: a somber look?
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, he has a somber look.
• 43:40
  Speaker 9: Wherefore should I not be happy? Caesar, who is Lord
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: of the world, Caesar, who was Lord of all things,
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: loves me well. He has just sent me most precious gifts. Also,
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: he has promised me to summon to Rome, the King
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: of Cappadocia, who is mine enemy. It may be that
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: at Rome he will crucify him, for he is able
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: to do all things that he has a mind to
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: do verily. Caesar is Lord. Therefore I do well to
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: be happy. I am very happy. Never have I been
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: so happy. There is nothing in the world that can
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: mar my happiness.
• 44:13
  Speaker 16: He shall be seated on his throne. He shall be
• 44:17
  Speaker 16: clothed in scarlet and purple. In his hand he shall
• 44:21
  Speaker 16: bear a golden cup full of his blasphemies. And the
• 44:27
  Speaker 16: Angel of the Lord shall smite him. He shall be
• 44:31
  Speaker 16: eaten of worms.
• 44:34
  Speaker 10: You hear what he says about you. He says that
• 44:36
  Speaker 10: you should be eaten of worms.
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: It is not of me that he speaks. He speaks
• 44:41
  Speaker 9: never against me. It is of the King of Cappadocia
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: that he speaks. The King of Cappadocia, who is mine enemy.
• 44:48
  Speaker 9: It is he who shall be eaten of worms. It
• 44:51
  Speaker 9: is not I. Never has he spoken word against me,
• 44:55
  Speaker 9: this prophet, save that I sinned in taking to wife,
• 44:58
  Speaker 9: the wife of my brother. It may be he is right,
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: For of truth, you are sterile.
• 45:04
  Speaker 10: I am sterell I you say that, you that are
• 45:08
  Speaker 10: looking at my daughter, you that would have her dance
• 45:11
  Speaker 10: for your pleasure. You speak as a fool. I have
• 45:15
  Speaker 10: borne a child. You have gotten no child, no, not
• 45:19
  Speaker 10: one on all of your slaves. It is you who
• 45:21
  Speaker 10: are sterile, not I.
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: Peace woman, I say that you are sterile. You have
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: borne me no child. And the prophet says that our
• 45:29
  Speaker 9: marriage is not a true marriage. He says that it
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: is a marriage of incest, a marriage that will bring evils.
• 45:36
  Speaker 9: I fear he is right. I am sure that he
• 45:38
  Speaker 9: is right. But it is not the hour to speak
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: of these things. I would be happy at this moment
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: of a truth. I am happy. There is nothing I lack.
• 45:48
  Speaker 10: I am glad you are so fair a humor tonight
• 45:52
  Speaker 10: it is not your custom. But it is late. Let
• 45:54
  Speaker 10: us go within. Do not forget that we hunt at sunrise?
• 45:58
  Speaker 10: All ours must be shown to Caesar, said, must they not?
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: The tet truck has a somber look. Yes, he has
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: a somber look.
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: Salome, Salome, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me.
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: I am sad tonight. Yes, I am passing sad tonight.
• 46:16
  Speaker 9: When I came hither, I slipped in blood, which is
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: an ill omen. Also I heard in the era beating
• 46:22
  Speaker 9: of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: you what that may mean. I am sad tonight. Therefore,
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: dance for me. Dance for me, Salome. I beseech THEE.
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: If thou dancest for me, thou mayst ask of me
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: what thou wilt, and I will give it THEE.
• 46:39
  Speaker 17: Yes.
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: Dance for me, Salome, And whatsoever thou shalt ask of me,
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: I will give it THEE, even unto the half of
• 46:46
  Speaker 9: my kingdom.
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: Will you indeed give me whatsoever I shall ask of you.
• 46:52
  Speaker 10: Tet Trock, do not dance, my daughter.
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, even unto the half
• 46:59
  Speaker 9: of my kingdom.
• 47:00
  Speaker 8: You swear it, tet Rack, I swear it, Salome.
• 47:04
  Speaker 10: Do not dance my daughter?
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: By what will you swear this thing?
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: Tet Rock, By my life, by my crown, by my gods.
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: Whatsoever thou shalt desire, I will give it THEE, even
• 47:17
  Speaker 9: to the half of my kingdom. If thou wilt, but
• 47:20
  Speaker 9: dance for me, Oh, Salome, Salome, dance for me.
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: You have sworn an oath taut rock.
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: I have sworn an oath, my daughter, do not dance.
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: Even to the half of my kingdom. Thou wilt be
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: passing fair as a queen Salome? If it please THEE
• 47:38
  Speaker 9: to ask for the half of my kingdom? Will she
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: not be fair as a queen? Ah? It is cold here.
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: There is an icy wind, and I hear wherefore do
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: I hear in the air this beating of wings?
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Ah?
• 47:52
  Speaker 9: One might fancy a huge black bird that hovers over
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: the terrace. Why can I not see it? This bird?
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: The beat of its wings is terrible. The breath of
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: the wind of its wings is terrible. It is a
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: chill wind. Nay, but it is not cold. It is hot.
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: I am choking. Pour water on my hands, Give me
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: snow to eat. Loosen my mantle, quick, quick, loosen my mantle. Nay,
• 48:17
  Speaker 9: but leave it. It is my garland that hurts me,
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: My garland of roses. The flowers are like fire. They
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: have burned my forehead.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: He tears the wreath from his head and throws it
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: on the table.
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: Ah, I can breathe now, how red those petals are
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: they are like stains of blood on the cloth. That
• 48:38
  Speaker 9: does not matter. It is not wise to find symbols
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: and everything that one sees. It makes life too full
• 48:44
  Speaker 9: of terrors. It were better to say that stains of
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: blood are as lovely as rose petals. It were better
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: far to say that. But we will not speak of
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: this now. I am happy, I am passing happy. Have
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: I not the right to be happy? Your daughter is
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: going to dance for me. Wilt thou not dance for me, Salime?
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: Thou hast promised to dance for me, I will not
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: have her dance.
• 49:08
  Speaker 8: I will dance for you, Tetrarch.
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: You hear what your daughter says, she is going to
• 49:13
  Speaker 9: dance for me. Thou doest well to dance for me, Salome.
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: And when thou hast danced for me, forget not to
• 49:19
  Speaker 9: ask of me whatsoever thou hast a mind to ask?
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: Whatsoever thou shalt desire. I will give it thee, even
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: to the half of my kingdom. I have sworn it,
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: Have I.
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: Not thou hast sworn it, Tetrarch?
• 49:32
  Speaker 9: And I have never failed of my word. I am
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: not of those who break their oaths. I know not
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: how to lie. I am the slave of my word,
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: and my word is the word of a king. The
• 49:43
  Speaker 9: king of Cappadocia had ever a lying tongue, But he
• 49:46
  Speaker 9: is no true king. He is a coward. Also, he
• 49:49
  Speaker 9: owes me money that he will not repay. He has
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: even insulted my ambassadors. He has spoken words that were wounding.
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: But Caesar will crucify him when he comes to Rome.
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: I know that Caesar will crucify him. And if he
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: crucify him, not yet will he die being eaten of worms.
• 50:08
  Speaker 9: The prophet has prophesied it well. Wherefore dost thou tarry Salome?
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: I am waiting until my slaves bring perfumes to me
• 50:16
  Speaker 8: and the seven veils, and take from off my feet
• 50:20
  Speaker 8: my sandals.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Slaves bring perfumes and the seven veils, and take off
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the sandals of Salome.
• 50:27
  Speaker 9: Ah, thou art to dance with naked feet, tis well?
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: Tis well, Thy little feet will be like white doves.
• 50:35
  Speaker 9: They will be little white flowers that dance upon the trees. No, no,
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: she is going to dance on blood. There is blood
• 50:43
  Speaker 9: spilt on the ground. She must not dance on blood.
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: It were an evil omen.
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: What is it to thee if she dance on blood,
• 50:50
  Speaker 10: thou hast waited deep enough in it?
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: What is it to me? Ah? Look at the moon.
• 50:55
  Speaker 9: She has become red. She has become red as blood. Ah,
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: thet pphesided, Truly he prophesied that the moon would become
• 51:03
  Speaker 9: as blood? Did he not prophesy it?
• 51:06
  Speaker 8: All?
• 51:06
  Speaker 9: Have ye heard him prophesying it? And now the moon
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: has become as blood? Do ye not see it?
• 51:12
  Speaker 10: Oh? Yes, I see it well. And the stars are
• 51:14
  Speaker 10: falling on right figs, are they not? And the sun
• 51:17
  Speaker 10: is becoming black like sackloth of hair. And the kings
• 51:20
  Speaker 10: of the earth are afraid that at least one can see.
• 51:24
  Speaker 10: The prophet is justified of his words in that, at least,
• 51:27
  Speaker 10: For truly, the kings of the earth are afraid. Let
• 51:30
  Speaker 10: us go within. You are sick, They will say it
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: rome that you are mad. Let us go within. I
• 51:35
  Speaker 10: tell you, who.
• 51:36
  Speaker 16: Is this who cometh from Edom? Who is this who
• 51:39
  Speaker 16: cometh from Basra, whose raiment is dyed with purple, who
• 51:44
  Speaker 16: shineth in the beauty of his garments, who walketh mighty
• 51:48
  Speaker 16: in his greatness? Wherefore is thy raiment stained with scarlet?
• 51:54
  Speaker 10: Let us go within, the voice of that man maddens me.
• 51:58
  Speaker 10: I will not have my daughter dead while he's continually
• 52:01
  Speaker 10: crying out. I will not have her dance while you
• 52:03
  Speaker 10: look at her in this fashion. In a word, I
• 52:06
  Speaker 10: will not have her dance.
• 52:08
  Speaker 9: Do not rise, my wife, my queen. It will avail
• 52:11
  Speaker 9: THEE nothing. I will not go within till she haf danced. Dance. Salome,
• 52:17
  Speaker 9: dance for me.
• 52:18
  Speaker 10: Do not dance, my daughter.
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: I am ready tetch rock.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Salome dances the dance of the seven Veils.
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: Ah, wonderful, wonderful, you see that she has danced for me,
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: your daughter, Come near, Salome, come near that I may
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: give THEE thy fee. Ah, I pay a royal price
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: to those who dance for my pleasure. I will pay
• 52:40
  Speaker 9: THEE royally. I will give THEE whatsoever thy soul desireth
• 52:45
  Speaker 9: What wouldst thou have?
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: Speak kneeling, I would that they presently bring me in
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: a silver charger.
• 52:55
  Speaker 9: In a silver charger, surely, yes, in a silver charger.
• 52:59
  Speaker 9: She is charming, is she not? What is it that
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: thou wouldst have in a silver charger? O, sweet and
• 53:05
  Speaker 9: fair Salome, Thou that art fairer than all the daughters
• 53:08
  Speaker 9: of Judea. What wouldst thou have them, bring THEE in
• 53:12
  Speaker 9: a silver charger. Tell me whatsoever it may be, Thou
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: shalt receive it. My treasures belong to THEE. What is
• 53:19
  Speaker 9: that thou wouldst have, Salome.
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: Rising the head of Yokanan.
• 53:25
  Speaker 10: Ah, that is well, said my daughter. No, No, that
• 53:31
  Speaker 10: is well, said my daughter.
• 53:34
  Speaker 9: No, No, Salome, it is not that thou desirest. Do
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: not listen to thy mother's voice. She is ever giving
• 53:41
  Speaker 9: the evil counsel. Do not heed her.
• 53:44
  Speaker 8: It is not my mother's voice that I heed. It
• 53:47
  Speaker 8: is for mine own pleasure that I ask the head
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: of Yokanan in a silver charger. You have sworn an oath, Herod.
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: Forget not that you have sworn an oath.
• 53:59
  Speaker 9: I know it. I have sworn an oath by my gods.
• 54:02
  Speaker 9: I know it well. But I pray THEE. Salome, ask
• 54:06
  Speaker 9: of me something else. Ask of me the half of
• 54:09
  Speaker 9: my kingdom, and I will give it THEE. But ask
• 54:12
  Speaker 9: not of me what thy lips have asked.
• 54:14
  Speaker 8: I ask of you, the head of Yokanan.
• 54:16
  Speaker 9: No, no, I will not give it THEE.
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: You have sworn an oath, Herod.
• 54:22
  Speaker 10: Yes, yes, you have sworn oath. Everyone heard you. You
• 54:25
  Speaker 10: sworn for everybody.
• 54:27
  Speaker 9: Peace woman, It is not to you I speak.
• 54:31
  Speaker 10: My daughter has done well to asked the head of Yokanan.
• 54:33
  Speaker 10: He has covered with insults, he has said unspeakable things
• 54:37
  Speaker 10: against me. One can see that she loves her mother well.
• 54:41
  Speaker 10: Do not yield my honor. He has sworn oath. He
• 54:43
  Speaker 10: has sworn an oath.
• 54:45
  Speaker 9: Peace. Speak not to me, Salome. I pray THEE be
• 54:49
  Speaker 9: not stubborn. I have ever been kind toward THEE. I
• 54:53
  Speaker 9: have ever loved THEE. It may be that I have
• 54:55
  Speaker 9: loved THEE too much. Therefore asked not this thing of me.
• 54:59
  Speaker 9: This is a terrible thing, an awful thing to ask
• 55:02
  Speaker 9: of me. Surely I think thou art jesting. The head
• 55:05
  Speaker 9: of a man that is cut from his body is
• 55:07
  Speaker 9: ill to look upon, is it not? It is not
• 55:10
  Speaker 9: meet that the eyes of a virgin should look upon
• 55:12
  Speaker 9: such a thing. What pleasure couldst thou have in it?
• 55:15
  Speaker 9: There is no pleasure that thou couldst have in it. No, No,
• 55:19
  Speaker 9: it is not that thou desirest hearken to me. I
• 55:23
  Speaker 9: have an emerald, a great emerald, and round that the
• 55:26
  Speaker 9: Minion of Caesar has sent unto me. When thou lookest
• 55:29
  Speaker 9: through this emerald, Thou canst see that which passeth afar off.
• 55:34
  Speaker 9: Caesar himself carries such an emerald when he goes to
• 55:37
  Speaker 9: the circus. But my emerald is the larger. I know
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: well that it is the larger. It is the largest
• 55:43
  Speaker 9: emerald in the whole world. Thou wilt take that? Wilt
• 55:46
  Speaker 9: thou not ask it of me? And I will give
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: it thee?
• 55:50
  Speaker 8: I demand the head of Yokanan.
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: Thou art not listening. Thou art not listening. Suffer me
• 55:56
  Speaker 9: to speak, Salome.
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  Speaker 8: The head of Yokanan.
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  Speaker 9: No, No, thou wouldst not have that. Thou sayest that
• 56:03
  Speaker 9: but to trouble me, because that I have looked at
• 56:05
  Speaker 9: THEE and ceased, not this night. It is true, I
• 56:08
  Speaker 9: have looked at THEE and ceased. Not this night. Thy
• 56:11
  Speaker 9: beauty has troubled me. Thy beauty has grievously troubled me.
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: And I have looked at THEE over much. Nay, but
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: I will look at THEE no more. One should not
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: look at anything, neither at things nor at people. Should
• 56:24
  Speaker 9: one look only in mirrors? Is it well to look
• 56:26
  Speaker 9: for mirrors? Do but show us masks? Oh, ho, bring wine,
• 56:31
  Speaker 9: I thirst Salome, Salome, let us be as friends bethink
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  Speaker 9: thee Ah, What would I say? What wast ah? I
• 56:41
  Speaker 9: remember it, Salome, Nay, but come nearer to me. I
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: fear thou wilt not hear my words. Salome, thou knowest
• 56:49
  Speaker 9: my white peacocks, My beautiful white peacocks that walk in
• 56:53
  Speaker 9: the garden, between the myrtles and the tall cypress trees.
• 56:56
  Speaker 9: Their beaks are gilded with gold, and the grains that
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: they are smeared with gold, and their feet are stained
• 57:02
  Speaker 9: with purple. When they cry out, the rain comes, and
• 57:06
  Speaker 9: the moon shows herself in the heavens. When they spread
• 57:08
  Speaker 9: their tails two by two, they walk between the cypress
• 57:11
  Speaker 9: trees and the black myrtles, and each has a slave
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: to tend it. Sometimes they fly across the trees, and
• 57:18
  Speaker 9: anon they couch in the grass and round the pools
• 57:20
  Speaker 9: of the water. There are not in all the world
• 57:23
  Speaker 9: birds so wonderful. I know that Caesar himself has no
• 57:27
  Speaker 9: birds so fair as my birds. I will give thee
• 57:30
  Speaker 9: fifty of my peacocks. They will follow thee whithersoever thou goest,
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: And in the midst of them thou wilt be like
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: unto the moon, in the midst of a great white cloud.
• 57:40
  Speaker 9: I will give them to thee. All I have but
• 57:43
  Speaker 9: a hundred. And in the whole world there is no
• 57:45
  Speaker 9: king who has peacocks like unto my peacocks. But I
• 57:49
  Speaker 9: will give them all to thee. Only thou must loose
• 57:52
  Speaker 9: me from my oath, and must not ask of me
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: that which thy lips have asked of me.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: He empties the cup of wine, Give.
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: Me the head of Yokanan.
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  Speaker 10: Oh well sped my utter. As for you, you're ridiculous
• 58:06
  Speaker 10: with your peacocks.
• 58:09
  Speaker 9: Peace. You are always crying out. You cry out like
• 58:12
  Speaker 9: a beast of prey. You must not cry in such fashion.
• 58:16
  Speaker 9: Your voice wearies me. Peace, I tell you, Salo. May
• 58:20
  Speaker 9: think on what thou art doing. It may be that
• 58:23
  Speaker 9: this man comes from God. He is a holy man.
• 58:26
  Speaker 9: The finger of God has touched him. God has put
• 58:29
  Speaker 9: terrible words into his mouth in the palace as in
• 58:32
  Speaker 9: the desert. God is ever with him. It may be
• 58:36
  Speaker 9: that he is at least one cannot tell. But it
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: is possible that God is with him and for him.
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: If he die also peradventure, some evil may befall me. Verily.
• 58:46
  Speaker 9: He has said that evil will befall someone on the
• 58:49
  Speaker 9: day whereon he dies. On whom should it fall if
• 58:52
  Speaker 9: it fall not on me? Remember, I slipped in blood
• 58:55
  Speaker 9: when I came hither. Also did I not hear the
• 58:58
  Speaker 9: beating of wings in the air, beating of vast wings?
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: These are ill omens. And there were other things. I
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: am sure there were other things, though I saw them.
• 59:08
  Speaker 9: Not thou wouldst not that some evil should befall me. Selame,
• 59:12
  Speaker 9: listen to me again.
• 59:14
  Speaker 8: Give me the head of yokanan Ah.
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: Thou art not listening to me, Be calm as for me,
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: am I not calm? I am altogether Calm. Listen. I
• 59:25
  Speaker 9: have jewels hidden in this place, Jewels that thy mother
• 59:28
  Speaker 9: even has never seen, Jewels that are marvelous to look at.
• 59:31
  Speaker 9: I have a collar of pearls set in four rows.
• 59:34
  Speaker 9: They are like unto moons chained with rays of silver.
• 59:38
  Speaker 9: They are even as half a hundred moons caught in
• 59:40
  Speaker 9: a golden net on the ivory breast of a queen.
• 59:43
  Speaker 9: They have rested. Thou shalt be as fair as a
• 59:46
  Speaker 9: queen when thou wearest them. I have amethysts of two kinds,
• 59:50
  Speaker 9: one that is black like wine, and one that is
• 59:53
  Speaker 9: red like wine, that one has colored with water. I
• 59:56
  Speaker 9: have topaz as yellow as are the eyes of tigers,
• 59:59
  Speaker 9: and hopeazes that are pink as the eyes of a woodpigeon,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 9: and green topazes that are as the eyes of cats.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 9: I have opals that burn always, with a flame that
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 9: is cold as ice, opals that make sad men's minds
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 9: and are afraid of the shadows. I have onyxes, like
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 9: the eyeballs of a dead woman. I have moonstones that
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 9: change when the moon changes, and are wand when they
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 9: see the sun. I have sapphires, big like eggs, and
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 9: as blue as blue flowers. The sea wanders within them,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 9: and the moon comes never to trouble the blue of
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: their waves. I have chrysolites and barrels, and chrysoprasies and rubies.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 9: I have sardonyx and hyacinth stones, and stones of calcedony.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 9: And I will give them all unto the all, and
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 9: other things will I add to them. The King of
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 9: the Indies has but even now sent me four fans
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 9: fashioned from the feathers of parrots, and the King of
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 9: Numidia a garment of ostrich feathers. I have a crystal
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 9: into which it is not lawful for a woman to look,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 9: nor may young men behold it until they have been
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 9: beaten with rods. In a coffer of Nacra, I have
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 9: three wondrous turquoises. He who wears them on his forehead
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: can imagine things which are not, And he who carries
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 9: them in his hand can turn the fruitful woman into
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 9: a woman that is barren. These are great treasures, They
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 9: are treasures above all price. But this is not all.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 9: In an ebony coffer, I have two cups of amber
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 9: that are like apples of pure gold. If an enemy
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 9: pour poison into these cups, they become like apples of silver.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 9: In a coffer encrusted with amber, I have sandals encrusted
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 9: with glass. I have mantles that have been brought from
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 9: the land of the Series, and bracelets decked about with
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 9: carbuncles and with jade, that come from the city of Euphrates.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 9: What desirous thou more than this? Salome? Tell me the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 9: thing that thou desirost, and I will give THEE all
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 9: that thou askest. I will give THEE save one thing only.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 9: I will give THEE all that is mine, save only
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 9: the life of one man. I will give THEE the
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 9: mantle of the high priest, Give THEE the veil of
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 9: the sanctuary.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 8: Oh, oh, give me the head of Yokanan.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Sinking back in his seat.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 9: Let her be given what she asks of a truth.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 9: She is her mother's child.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: The first soldier approaches. Heerodius dress from the hand of
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: the tetrarch the ring of death, and gives it to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: the soldier, who straightway bears it to the executioner. The
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: executioner looks scared.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 9: Who has taken my ring? There was a ring on
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 9: my right hand. Who has drunk my wine? There was
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 9: wine in my cup. It was full of wine. Someone
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 9: has drunk it. Oh, surely some evil will befall someone.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: The executioner goes down into the cistern.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 9: Ah, wherefore did I give my oath hereafter? Let no
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 9: kings swear an oath. If he keep it not, it
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 9: is terrible, And if he keep it, it is terrible.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 10: Also, my daughter has done well.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: I am sure that some misfortune will happen.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: She leans over the cistern and listens.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 8: There is no sound. I hear nothing. Why does he
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 8: not cry out? This man?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 10: Ah?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 8: If any man sought to kill me, I would cry out,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 8: I would struggle. I would not suffer. Strike strike naman
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: strike I tell you no, I hear nothing. There is
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: a silence, a terrible silence. Ah, something has fallen upon
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 8: the ground. I heard something fall It was the sword
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 8: of the executioner. He is afraid this slave. He has
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: dropped his sword. He dares not kill him. He is
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 8: a coward, this slave. Let soldiers be sent.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: She sees the page of Herodius and addresses him, Come.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 8: Hither thou wert the friend of him who is dead?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 8: Wert thou not while I tell thee there are not
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: dead men enough. Go to the soldiers and bid them
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 8: go down and bring me the thing I ask, the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: thing the tetrarch has promised me, the thing that is mine.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: The page recoils. She turns to the soldiers.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 8: Hither ye soldiers, get ye down into this cistern, and
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 8: bring me the head of this man, Tetrark. Tetrark, command
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 8: your soldiers that they bring me the head of Yokanan.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: A huge black arm, the arm of the executioner comes
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: forth from the cistern, bearing on a silver shield, the
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: head of Yokanan. Salome seizes it. Herod hides his face
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: with his cloak. Parodius smiles and fans herself. The Nazarenes
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: fall on their knees and begin to pray.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: Ah, thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth?
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: Yo cannot well? I will kiss it now. I will
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 8: bite it with my teeth as one bites a ripe fruit. Yes,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 8: I will kiss thy mouth, Yokanan, I said it? Did
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 8: I not say it? I said it? Ah, I will
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 8: kiss it now. But wherefore dost thou not look at me? Yokanan?
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 8: Thine eyes that were so terrible, so full of rage
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: and scorn, are shut? Now? Wherefore are they shut? Open?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: Thine eyes? Lift up thine eyelids, Yokanan. Wherefore dost thou
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 8: not look at me? Art thou afraid of me? Yokanan?
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: That thou wilt not look at me? And thy tongue
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 8: that was like a red snake darting poison, It moves
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 8: no more, It speaks no words, Yokanan, That scarlet viper
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 8: that spat its venom upon me? It is strange, is
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 8: it not? How is it that the red viper stirs
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 8: no longer? Thou wouldst have none of me? Yokanan? Thou
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 8: rejectedest me? Thou didst evil words against me? Thou didst
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 8: bear thyself toward me as to a harlot, as to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 8: a woman that is a wanton to me, Salome, daughter
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 8: of her Rodious, Princess of Judea. Well, I still live,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 8: but thou art dead, and thy head belongs to me.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 8: I can do with it what I will. I can
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 8: throw it to the dogs and to the birds of
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 8: the air. That which the dogs leave, the birds of
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 8: the air shall devour A Yo cannon, Yo canon. Thou
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 8: wert the man that I loved alone among men. All
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 8: other men were hateful to me, but thou were beautiful.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 8: Thy body was a column of ivory set upon feet
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 8: of silver. It was a garden full of doves and
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 8: lilies of silver. It was a tower of silver, decked
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 8: with shields of ivory. There was nothing in the world
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 8: so white as thy body. There was nothing in the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 8: world so black as thy hair. In the whole world,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 8: there was nothing so red as thy mouth. Thy voice
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 8: was a censer that scattered strange perfumes. And when I
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 8: looked on thee I heard a strange music.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: Ah.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 8: Wherefore didst thou not look at me, Yoganan, with the
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 8: cloak of thine hands and with the cloak of thy blasphemies.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 8: Thou didst hide thy face. Thou didst put upon thine
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 8: eyes the covering of him who would see God? Well,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 8: thou hast seen thy God, Yokanan, But me me thou
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 8: didst never see. If thou hadst seen me, thou hadst
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 8: loved me. I saw THEE, and I loved THEE. Oh
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 8: how I loved THEE. I love thee, yet, Yokanan, I
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 8: love only THEE. I am a thirst for thy beauty.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 8: I am hungry for thy body. And neither wine nor
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 8: apple's and appease my desire. What shall I do now,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 8: you cannon. Neither the floods nor the great waters can
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 8: quench my passion. I was a princess, and thou didst
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 8: scorn me. I was a virgin, and thou didst take
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 8: my virginity from me. I was chased, and thou didst
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 8: fill my veins with fire? Ah ah. Wherefore didst thou
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 8: not look at me? If thou hadst looked at me,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 8: thou hadst loved me. Well, I know that thou wouldst
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 8: have loved me. And the mystery of love is greater
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 8: than the mystery of death.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 9: She is monstrous, thy daughter, I tell THEE she is monstrous.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: In truth. What she has done is a great crime.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 9: I am sure that it is a crime against some
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 9: unknown god.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 10: I am well pleased with my daughter. She has done well,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 10: and I would stay here now rising.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 9: Ah, there speaks my brother's wife. Come, I will not
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 9: stay in this place. Come, I tell THEE. Surely some
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 9: terrible thing will befall manassa isakar ozaias. Put out the torches.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 9: I will not look at things. I will not suffer
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 9: things to look at me. Put out the torches, hide
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 9: the moon, hide the stars. Let us hide ourselves in
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 9: our palace. Herodius, I begin to be afraid the slaves.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: Put out the torches. The stars disappear. A great cloud
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: crosses the moon and conceals it completely. The stage becomes
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: quite dark. The tetrarch begins to climb the staircase.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 8: Ah, I have kissed thy mouth, Yo, Cannon, I have
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 8: kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on my lips.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 8: Was it the taste of blood?
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 17: Nay?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 8: But perchance it was the taste of love. They say
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 8: that love hath a bitter taste. But what matter what?
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 8: Mas I have kissed thy mouth Yokannan, I have kissed
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 8: thy mouth.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: A ray of moonlight falls on Salome and illumines her
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: turning round. And seeing Salome kill that woman, the soldiers
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: rush forward and crush beneath their shields Salome, daughter of Herodius,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Princess of Judea Curtain and of Part two and of
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: Salome by Oscar Wilde