her.


JOSABET.
     What! Has Eliacin been seen by her?


ZACHARIAH.
     We both of us beheld that cruel queen,
     Who with an equal horror struck our hearts:
     But very soon the priests surrounded us—
     They caused us to withdraw. Of all the rest
     I'm ignorant, and I returned to tell
     You of this woeful uproar.


JOSABET.
     She came, no doubt, to tear him from our arms;
     Her fury came to seek him at the altar!
     Perhaps, the object of so many tears
     Is at this moment—God, who seest my grief,
     Do Thou remember David!


SALOMITH.
     What is the reason of your flooding tears?


ZACHARIAH.
     Ah! Is Eliacin's life in danger?


SALOMITH.
     Has he attracted Athaliah's rage?


ZACHARIAH.
     What! does she fear a child without support,
     And fatherless?


JOSABET.
     Ah! here she is. Come, let us go: we must
     Avoid her.