HASSAN
(As before) Eywallah! Yallah Akbar! Y'allah kerim! Istagfurallah!
Eywallah! Hassan is ended! Hassan is no more! He is dead!
He is buried! He is a bone! Y'allah kerim!

RAFI
Eyyah Hassan, if that is your name, have my boys not treated you well?
If they have hurt you with their tricks, by the Great Name, I will...

HASSAN
I pray you, I pray you. Thrash no one's life out downwards
from their feet, O master, and above all, not mine.

RAFI
Ah, you heard me! Take courage. All that I require of my guests,
good Hassan, is genteel behaviour.

HASSAN
Ah! Who are all these terrible men?

RAFI
Beggars of Bagdad! Ten thousand more await my signal on the streets.
In a few minutes they will surprise the drowsy Palace Guards,
sack Bagdad, kill the Caliph and make me King.

HASSAN
(Stupefied) What has become of me this night! Just now I was in Hell,
with all the fountains raining fire and blood.