You have seen the King seldom.

Zabra: 

I have often seen the King.

Bel-Narb: 

Yes, we have often met, often and often.

Chamberlain: 

If some one could recognize your Majesty, some one besides this man who came with you, then we should all be certain.

Bel-Narb: 

There is no need of it.  I am the King.

    [The King rises and stretches out his hand palm downwards.]

King: 

In holy Mecca, in green-roofed Mecca of the many gates, we knew him for the King.

Bel-Narb: 

Yes, that is true.  I saw this man in Mecca.

Chamberlain:  [Bowing low.]

Pardon, your Majesty.  The desert had altered you.

Zabra: 

I knew your Majesty.

Aoob: 

As well as I do.

Bel-Narb:  [Pointing to the King.]

Let this man be rewarded suitably.  Give him some post in the palace.

Chamberlain: 

Yes, your Majesty.

King: 

I am a camel-driver and we go back to our camels.

Chamberlain: 

As you wish.

    [Exeunt Bel-Narb, Aoob, Chamberlain and Zabra through door.]

Eznarza: 

You have done wisely, wisely, and the reward of wisdom is happiness.

King: 

They have their king now.  But we will turn again to the tents of the
Arabs.

Eznarza: 

They are foolish people.

King: 

They have found a foolish King.

Eznarza: 

It is a foolish man that would choose to dwell among walls.

King: 

Some are born kings, but this man has chosen to be one.

Eznarza: 

Come, let us leave them.

King: 

We will go back again.

Eznarza: 

Come back to the tents of my people.

King: 

We will dwell a little apart in a dear brown tent of our own.

Eznarza: 

We shall hear the sand again, whispering low to the dawn wind.

King: 

We shall hear the nomads stirring in their camps far off because it is dawn.

Eznarza: 

The jackals will patter past us slipping back to the hills.

King: 

When at evening the sun is set we shall weep for no day that is gone.

Eznarza: 

I will raise up my head of a night time against the sky, and the old, old, unbought stars shall twinkle through my hair, and we shall not envy any of the diademmed queens of the world.

CURTAIN

A Night at an Inn

Dramatis Personae

A. E. Scott-Fortescue (the Toff, dilapidated gentleman)
William Jones (Bill)
Albert Thomas
Jacob Smith (Sniggers) (All Merchant Sailors.)
1st Priest of Klesh
2nd Priest of Klesh
3rd Priest of Klesh
Klesh