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On the house-top at Endor. Night. A lighted lantern on a table.
SIMON. / Swift are the blessed Immortals to the mortal / That perseveres! So doth it stand recorded / In the divine Chaldaean Oracles / Of Zoroaster, once Ezekiel's slave, / Who in his native East betook himself / To lonely meditation, and the writing / On the dried skins of oxen the Twelve Books / Of the Avesta and the Oracles! / Therefore I persevere; and I have brought thee / From the great city of Tyre, where men deride / The things they comprehend not, to this plain / Of Esdraelon, in the Hebrew tongue / Called Armageddon, and this town of Endor, / Where men believe; where all the air is full / Of marvellous traditions, and the Enchantress / That summoned up the ghost of Samuel / Is still remembered. Thou hast seen the land; / Is it not fair to look on?