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 Are the sheep-folds in Dothan forgotten?

Nay, for then I were less happy.

Rede me that riddle.

I am of a race which never forgets. With us the ties of blood are stronger than death.

Stronger than love?

[Smiling] Is there no such tie between us? Art thou not the mother of my children? Art thou happy, Asenath?

Ay—save when I remember Zuleika.

What is Zuleika to us?

I fear her. They say she fareth every night yonder [Pointing to the Pyramids] to Cheops' tomb; and there she weaveth spells and breweth philters. They say many men have come to a miserable end by her craft. Oh, remember how she hateth thee, and beware!

Be comforted. She shall hurt neither thee nor me. [To who enters L.] What now?

Great lord, here be certain nobles of the land, humbly crave speech of thee.

[To leading her towards the entrance of the house] Go in, beloved, and be of good cheer. Drink courage in the eyes of our sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

I have drunk courage in thine. But beware!

[To the ] Well—have the nobles hither. Wait. How fareth our guest: Simeon, the son of Jacob?

He hath his freedom, to go and come, as my lord bade.