Rabbi Hillel: I'm afraid it's a blood disease called anemia. Has the King ever opened his veins then clotted them with wool?
Captain of the Guard: Not to my knowledge.
Herod (the bed still shakes): MARIAMNEEEEEEE!!!!! (the shaking stops)
Rabbi: If Rav Shammai comes to know that Mariamne's deceased body sleeps next to him preserved in honey, Herod's reign will descend into civil war and few will survive. But Herod clearly will kill anyone who means to part him from it. So long as the body stays preserved in honey when not in Herod's chamber, it should be free of any maggoted infection and there is no true harm in Herod taking comfort in her, but he is clearly not of his own mind, so keep a vigilant watch else we all must fear.
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