Sardou's Cleopatra — page 249: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

934 - SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA, but as. Evergetes, your sister goddess. Oh, divine | ones, if but for a moment acknowledge me as one of ye—for a single hour lend me the eternal crown! Isis, hear me! Osiris, hear me! Horus, hear me! Lend me the armaments of heaven to drive the insulting hosts from off my shores! Send Typhon, the ruler of the tempest, with his invincible weapons, the lightning and the thun- der, to strike this bastard Cesar and his legions forever from the face of the earth! Hurl against them your thunderbolts! Strike them with your flaming lightning! Crush them! Slay them! Annihilate them! Let the waters overwhelm them! Letthe sands of the desert be their wind- ing sheet! Ye gods, hear my voice! Grant the petition of your sister, Evergetes! Isis, Osiris, Horus! Horus! Isis! Osiris! Osiris! Horus! Isis !”” Her passion-fraught pleadings died away in silence. With her arms still raised she stood, magnificent, superb, before the awed and breath- less people. _ Then suddenly, as if indeed the gods had heard _ and answered her invocation, there was a blinding flash of lightning, followed by a terrific peal of thunder, One great shriek went up, and then comicbooks.co