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Zarabardes is King! Zarabardes is King! Rejoice! Rejoice! Zarabardes is
King! Zarabardes! Zarabardes! Zarabardes!
CURTAIN.
THE FLIGHT OF THE QUEEN
_DRAMATIS PERSONAE_
THE PRINCE OF ZOON.
PRINCE MELIFLOR.
QUEEN ZOOMZOOMARMA.
LADY OOZIZI.
OOMUZ, _a Common Soldier._
THE GLORY OF XIMENUNG.
THE OVERLORD OF MOOMOOMON.
PRINCE HUZ.
SCENE I
_Time: June._
_Scene: In the Palace of Zoorm; the Hall of the Hundred Princes._
_The Princes sit at plain oaken tables with pewter mugs before them.
They wear bright grass-green cloaks of silk; they might wear circlets of
narrow silver with one large hyacinth petal rising from it at intervals
of an inch._
OOMUZ, _a Common Soldier, huge and squat, with brown skin and dense
black beard, stands just inside the doorway, holding a pike, guarding
the golden treasure._
_The golden treasure lies in a heap three or four feet high near the
right back corner._
SENTRIES, _also brown-skinned and bearded, carrying pikes, pass and
repass outside the great doorway._
THE GLORY OF XIMENUNG: Heigho, Moomoomon.
THE OVERLORD OF MOOMOOMON: Heigho, Glory of Ximenung.
XIMENUNG: Weary?
MOOMOOMON: Aye, weary.
ANOTHER: Heigho.
PRINCE MELIFLOR (_sympathetically_): What wearies you?
MOOMOOMON: The idle hours and the idle days.
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