Oh! Caleb, cannot you put me out of your mind?
Are there not many fairer women who would be glad to love you?
Why do you waste your life upon me?
Take your path and suffer me to take mine.

Yet all this talk is foolishness, for both are likely to be short." "Yours, and that of Marcus the Roman, and my own are all one path, Miriam, and I seek no other.

As a lad, I swore that I would never take you, except by your own wish, and to that oath I hold.

Also, I swore that if I could I would kill my rival, and to that oath I hold.

If he kills me, you may wed him.