AS my lord wills.
OZIAS. Has the watch aught to drink?
FIRST SOLDIER. My lord knows that no drop is left in the gourds.
(Ozias _waves him away, and he retires_.)
OZIAS (_to_ Haggith, _who is busy with the sack_). Woman, has the lady
Judith perchance dreamed a dream?
HAGGITH (_enigmatically_). My mistress has dreamed no dream. Why does
the lord Ozias ask?
OZIAS. It seemed to me--(_stops_)
HAGGITH. Dreams lift up fools. (_Exit into the house_.) (_Exit Ozias,
L_.)
(_The soldier strolls forward. Twilight begins to fall_.)
(_Enter_ Haggith _from the house with more baggage_.)
HAGGITH (_to the soldier; curtly; not looking at him_). So thou hast no
water?
FIRST SOLDIER (_with genial freedom_). Yea, Haggith, we have still a
little.
HAGGITH. Then thou has lied to the governor?
FIRST SOLDIER. _Him_? (_With a jerk of the shoulder_!) _He_ knows! In
truth now, thinkest thou he would expect us soldiers to keep guard
without water? _He_ knows! But he is a great lord, and in seemliness he
asks for a lie, and that which he asks is given to him--in seemliness.
HAGGITH. But the officer raving as thou hast said with thirst?
FIRST SOLDIER.
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