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 But talking as men still talk when their cause is bad. To cover an ugly truth he uses a pretty phrase As even the Gods have done in the good old days. He knows that the woman who toils for some one else to be rich Is no more a queen than the man who digs a ditch. He knows that the wife at home, whom he does, as he says, revere, Is not a goddess, or else he would seek her counsel here. He knows her merely a woman, and he wants no woman to share His power—

Cleopatra: Why does he not say so?

Pallas: Because he does not dare.

Cleopatra: Dares not? Is he a coward?