Excerpt from Berenice: A Tragedy Adapted From the French of Jean Racine

Antiochus.

Let us stay here a moment. I can see

That all this stately palace is unknown

To you, Arsaces.

This lonely room is where the Emperor comes

To find some quiet from the cares of Court.

Here sometimes, too, he comes to see the Queen:

The Queen's apartments lie beyond that door.

And now, Arsaces, go to see the Queen,

And tell her that I beg that she will grant

What I dare ask, some secret words with me.

Say I regret to be importunate.

Arsaces.

You, Lord, importunate? You, her faithful friend;

You, generously careful of her interests;

You, that Antiochus who loved her once,

One of the greatest Kings in all the East!

Even if she be about to marry Titus,

Does that put such a distance 'twixt you two?

Antiochus.

No. Go, my friend.

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