Excerpt from Herod and Mariamne: A Tragedy There are so many queens in Herod' s palace, We needs must name them when we speak of them. By Moses' beard. The wild bees have more wisdom They have one queen, where Herod houses four. There is his mother Cypros, and his sister My wife Salome: they do hate most violently His consort Mariamne, and her mother, The Old king's daughter, Alexandra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.