[Gutenberg 60330] • A King's Daughter: A Tragedy in Verse

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A King's Daughter

First Act.

Jezebel.

I Am Queen Jezebel, King Ahab's wife.

I was princess in Sidon long ago,

But in an evil day I became Queen

Over these strangers in Samaria.

Here, for these last ten months, we fought the Syrians,

Till hope was gone; then, suddenly, all changed;

The Syrian army fell into our hands.

King Ahab had two choices: one, to kill

All of the Syrians; one, to let them go.

He made a peace with them and let them go.

Now all the people of this city rage

At Ahab, for his peace, and cry aloud

That I, the foreign queen with foreign gods,

Made Ahab make the peace to please my friends.

Four days ago, King Ahab sought to buy

A vineyard from one Naboth, who refused

To sell the vineyard, even to his King.

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