eace
and friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends, with
reverence, your imperial decision.

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."]

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