His holiness be gracious towards me.

ALEXANDER

Speak.
Thy face is death's: let death upon thy lips
Live.

OFFICER

Sire, the humblest hireling knave in Rome -
A waterman that plies his craft all night -
Craves audience even of thee.

ALEXANDER

A Roman?

OFFICER

Nay.
Some outlander--some Greek--they call the knave
George the Slavonian.

ALEXANDER

They?

OFFICER