Take it, man, and set it on your head, and as King of Kesh ask the hand of Egypt's Queen in marriage.

Then who would say you nay--not Egypt's Queen, I think, or the people of Egypt who hunger for the rich Southern Land which they have lost." So she spoke, and as these high words passed her lips she looked so splendid and so royal that, dazzled by the greatness of her majesty.
Rames bowed himself before her as before the presence of a god.

Then, aware that she was trying him in the balance of her judgment, he straightened himself and spoke to her as prince speaks to prince.
"Star of Amen," he said, "it is true that though here we are but your humble subjects, the blood of my father and of myself is as high as yours, and perhaps more ancient, and it is true that now yonder Amathel is dead, after my father, in virtue of those who went before us I have more right than any other to the inheritance of Kesh.

Queen, I hear your words, I will take it if I can, not for its own sake, but to win you, and if I fail you will know that I died doing my best.

Queen, we part and this is a far journey.