Rhadamandaspes: 

We ask your pardon, Queen.

King of Four Countries: 

We ask your pardon.

Duke of Ethiopia: 

Indeed we erred.

Zophernes:  [rising]

We have eaten your fruits and drunk your wine; and we have asked your pardon.  Let us now depart in amity.

Queen: 

No, no!  No, no!  You must not go!  I shall say...  “They are my enemies still,” and I shall not sleep.  I that cannot bear to have enemies.

Zophernes: 

Let us depart in all amity.

Queen: 

O will you not feast with me?

Zophernes: 

We have feasted.

Rhadamandaspes: 

No, no, Zophernes.  Do you not see?  The Queen takes it to heart.

    [Zophernes sits down.]

Queen: 

O feast with me a little longer and make merry, and be my enemies no more.  Rhadamandaspes, there is some country eastwards towards Assyria, is there not?  I do not know its name—­a country which your dynasty claims of me...

Zophernes: 

Ha!

Rhadamandaspes:  [resignedly]

We have lost it.

Queen: 

...and for whose sake you are my enemy and your fierce uncle, Prince Zophernes.

Rhadamandaspes: 

We fought somewhat with your armies, Queen.  But indeed it was but to practise the military art.

Queen: 

I will call my Captains to me.  I will call them down from their high places and reprove them and bid them give the country back to you that lies eastwards towards Assyria.  Only you shall tarry here at the feast and forget you ever were my enemies... forget...

Rhadamandaspes: 

Queen...!  Queen...!  It was my mother’s country as a child.

Queen: 

You will not leave me alone then here to-night.

Rhadamandaspes: 

No, most royal lady.

Queen:  [to King of Four Countries who appears about to depart]

And in the matter of the merchant men that trade amongst the isles, they shall offer spices at your feet, not at mine, and the men of the isles shall offer goats to your gods.

King of Four Countries: 

Most generous Queen... indeed...

Queen: 

But you will not leave my banquet and go unfriendly away.

King of Four Countries: 

No, Queen... [He drinks.]

Queen:  [she looks at the Twin Dukes amiably]

All Ethiopia shall be yours, down to the unknown kingdoms of the beasts.

1st Duke of Ethiopia: 

Queen.

2nd Duke of Ethiopia: 

Queen.  We drink to the glory of your throne.

Queen: 

Stay then and feast with me.  For not to have enemies is the beggar’s joy; and I have looked from windows long and long, envying those that go their way in rags.  Stay with me, dukes and princes.