CHIEF OF POLICE
(Drawing his sword and whirling it about) Thou melon head,
thou, thou dung pig, thou brother of disaster, get thee hence
with thy knock-kneed band of fatherless brigands, ere I have thee
arrested for unnatural crime.

CAPTAIN OF MILITARY
Out with thy sword, thou big-bellied snatcher up of burglars,
thou manacler of little boys, thou terror of the peaceful market,
I will teach thee to insult the slaughterers of the infidel host.

ISHAK
(Interrupting the COMBATANTS) Is this a time for indecent brawling?
Quick, where are the ladders?

A SOLDIER
(Pompously) In the rear, Sir, in the rear.

(The ladders are brought along.)

CHIEF OF POLICE
(To POLICEMAN) Place a ladder.

CAPTAIN OF MILITARY
(To SOLDIERS) Place a ladder.

(Each goes up his ladder at the same time: bang at wall and are answered:
shout for levers which are procured, and assistance which speedily arrives.
The iron wall is lifted up, and CALIPH and the REST disclosed seated