EMPEROR.  Then strike off the traitor’s head, and be it presented
    as an offering to the shade of the princess!  Let a fit banquet be
    got ready for the envoy, preparatory to his return. [Recites these
    verses.

At the fall of the leaf, when the wild-fowl’s cry was heard
      in the recesses of the palace. 
Sad dreams returned to our lonely pillow; we thought of
      her through the night: 
Her verdant tomb remains—­but where shall we seek her
      self? 
The perfidious painter’s head shall atone for the beauty
      which he wronged.

[Footnote 1:  There is nothing in this more extravagant than the similar vision in the tragedy of Richard III.]

[Footnote 2:  Yengo, a species of wild goose, is the emblem in China of intersexual attachment and fidelity, being said never to pair again after the loss of its mate.  An image of it is worshipped by newly married couples.]

[Footnote 3:  Literally, “dragon person.”  The emperor’s throne is often called the “dragon seat.”]