rn here;
Your post is near our person.
[_Exeunt_ ZAMES, ALTADA, _and all save_ MYRRHA.

_Enter_ SFERO _and others with the King's Arms, etc._

_Sfe._ King! your armour.

_Sar._ (_arming himself_). Give me the cuirass--so: my baldric; now
My sword: I had forgot the helm--where is it?
That's well--no, 'tis too heavy; you mistake, too--
It was not this I meant, but that which bears 130
A diadem around it.

_Sfe._ Sire, I deemed
That too conspicuous from the precious stones
To risk your sacred brow beneath--and trust me,
This is of better metal, though less rich.

_Sar._ You deemed! Are you too turned a rebel? Fellow!
Your part is to obey: return, and--no--
It is too late--I will go forth without it.

_Sfe._ At least, wear this.

_Sar._ Wear Caucasus! why, 'tis
A mountain on my temples.

_Sfe._ Sire, the meanest
Soldier goes not forth thus exposed to battle. 140
All men will recognise you--for the storm
Has ceased, and the moon breaks forth in her brightness.

_Sar._ I go forth to be recognised, and thus
Shall be so sooner. Now--my spear! I'm armed.
[_In going stops short, and turns to_ SFERO.
Sfero--I had forgotten--bring the mirror[19].

_Sfe._ The mirror, Sire?

_Sar._ Yes, sir, of polished brass,
Brought from the spoils of India--but be speedy.
[_Exit_ SFERO.

_Sar._ Myrrha, retire unto a place of safety.
Why went you not forth with the other damsels?

_Myr._ Because my place is here.

_Sar._ And when I am gone---- 150

_Myr._ I follow.

_Sar._ _You!_ to battle?

_Myr._ If it were so,
'Twere not the first Greek girl had trod the path.
I will await here your _return_.

_Sar._ The place
Is spacious, and the first to be sought out,
If they prevail; and, if it be so,
And I return not----

_Myr._ Still we meet again.

_Sar._ How?

_Myr._ In the spot where all must meet at last--
In Hades! if there be, as I believe,
A shore beyond the Styx; and if