down in his coffin, bound and living and with open eyes.

CALIPH
(In horror) Bound and living, with open eyes! Thou devil!

MASRUR
Is that all the story?

JAFAR
Will you tear up the Empire for the honour of a girl?

CALIPH
(In fury) And set your worthless passion in scale against
the splendour of Islam!

RAFI
Is this Haroun the splendour of Islam? Is the prosperity
of these people, a rosy slave in his serai, or their happiness,
a fish in his silver fountain?

JAFAR
God will frustrate thee.

RAFI
If he will. Farewell, my guests. I go to avenge Pervaneh,
and to wash Bagdad in blood.

JAFAR
And what of us?