SE??A room ed fire, and a door into trees of a rees sed in flat colour upon a gold or diapered sky. t of missal Painting. MARY, a y years or so, is grinding a quern.

        MARY.     ter so?

        (tEIG, a boy of fourteen, is ing in urf, wh.)

        tEIG. t noruck

        the graves are walking.

        MARY. t the hen hears.

        tEIG. And t is not t; at tubber?vanach

        A    a man ,

        And ts wing.

        MARY.        your fathis while?

        tEIG. two nig Carrick?orus churchyard,

        A    a man wh,

        Nor eyes, nor ears; his face a wall of flesh;

        of the moon.

        MARY. Look out, and tell me if your fathers ing.

        (tEIG goes to door.)

        tEIG. Mother!

        MARY.    is it?

        tEIG. In the bush beyond,

        them birds??

        I could not see tly for the leaves.

        But the shape and colour of horned owls

        And Im ain theyve a human face.

        MARY. Mother of God, defend us!

        tEIG. t me.

        is ther says.

        God and ther of God have dropped asleep.

        do the whole land

        Squeal like a rabbit under a ooth?

        MARY. Youll bring misfortune h your blasphemies

        Upon your father, or yourself, or me.

        I o God here he is.

        (ShEMUS es in.)

        kept you in the wood? You know

        I ot get all sorts of acts

        Out of my mind till you are home again.

        So listen to your clatter.

        Altramped the woods for half a day,

        Ive taken nots,

        Badgers, and o ,

        And the parched leaves.

        tEIG. t no dinner.

        Ser t

        I sat among t the cross?roads,

        And hers.

        MARY. , did you beg?

        So beg,

        For w

        t heir alms,

        And ed me aicks and stones.

        tEIG. You said t you would bring us food or money.

        Ss in the house?

        tEIG. A bit of mouldy bread.

        MARY. to make another loaf.

        tEIG. And ws gone?

        MARY. the coop.

        Shem!

        tEIG. And t penny gone.

        She hens gone,

        live on sorrel and dock)

        And dandelion, till our mouths are green?

        MARY. God, t to t and sup,

        ill cater for us still.

        Ss bare.

        t I looked this day

        And sa a soul to hem.

        MARY. Maybe hed have us die because he knows,

        opped and wopped,

        t every wicked sighe eye,

        And all fool talk from the ear.

        Shere?

        And mog us h music?

        (A stringed instrument .)

        tEIG. A young man plays it,

        th him.

        S is trouble of to her?

        Not all or a harsh radishy sauce

        For t.

        MARY. Gods pity on the rich,

        hrough as many doors, and seen

        tanding on the polished wood

        In t, wed be as hard,

        And t the end of all,

        She rich.

        tEIG. theyre ing here.

        S stool, down quick, I say,

        And call up a whey fad a whining voice,

        A your head be bowed upon your knees,

        MARY.    time to put thts.

        (CAter.)

        CAtain house,

        An old grey castle    garden,

        A cider orc for flowers,

        Somewhese woods.

        MARY. e kno, lady.

        A place ts set among impassable walls

        As trouble could not find it out.

        CAt may be t    trouble, for we??

        Althis hour??

        it too, yet I should know my way,

        For I lived all my c house.

        MARY. tess Cathleen?

        CAthis woman,

        Oona, my nurse, s,

        For here.

        OONA. ts now,

        Or else some c.

        CAt s heir border

        but now,

        andering and singing like a he sea??

        Is so errors to e

        t he    give no help.

        MARY. You ill some way,

        But I    put you on trodden path

        Your servants take wing.

        But first sit do yourself awhile,

        For my old fathers, lady,

        Loell??and it range

        If you and yours s be wele here.

        CAt raill eful

        For suc I must be gone,

        For ts gathering in.

        S is a long while

        Since Ive set eyes on bread or on .

        CAtarving even in this wood,

        I hing ged.

        But ts a dream, for the world

        eat its o    pleases.

        (She gives money.)

        tEIG. Beautiful lady, give me sometoo;

        I fell but no,

        And lay upon threshold like a log.

        CAt was all I had.

        Look, my purse is empty. I have passed

        By starving men and his day,

        And t; but take the purse,

        t may be rifle.

        But if youll e to?morroo my house

        You she sum.

        (ALEEL begins to play.)

        Stering). , music, music!

        CAt blame tring;

        tors bid me fly times

        And find distra for my ts, or else

        Pio my grave.

        Shing, lady.

        he like of us plain?

        OONA.    s read of in a book

        eighey had been her own.

        (OONA, MARY, and CAt. ALEEL looks defiantly at

        ShEMUS.)

        ALEEL. (Singing) Impetuous , be still, be still,

        Your sorroold,

        Cover it up une,

        could bend all to his will

        e fold

        itars and the wandering moon.

        (akes a step tourns again.)

        S to t has fallen,

        For w walks, or in e

        Some devilisure flies in t now

        two grey?ed above our heads.

        (, ing the money.)

        tEIG. t it may be

        t to fall upon their heads.

        MARY. You hanked her ladyship.

        Shank her,

        For seven ?

        tEIG. But for ty purse?

        Ss t for thanks,

        Or    t she promised?

        it of food

        Up to a prian he like of

        And rising every day.

        MARY. e have all she had;

        Sied out the purse before our eyes.

        So MARY, he door)

        Leave t door open.

        MARY.    have read books,

        Ahe world,

        Fear he ground,

        Its time t poverty s the door.

        Ss, for t a thing

        t

        I    rato this house

        than any more of mankind, rich or poor.

        tEIG. So t t us money.

        ShEMUS. I heard say

        t appears like a we bird,

        A pigeon or a seagull or the like,

        But if you    it one or a stick

        It gs as t had been made of brass;

        And t if you dig dog

        Youll find a crock of gold.

        tEIG. But dream of gold

        For ts running, and theres always gold.

        S be starved before youve dug it out.

        tEIG. But maybe if you called, something would e,

        te.

        MARY. Is it call devils?

        Call devils from them in here?

        Sand up against me, and youd say

        I am to wele here.

        (s her.)

        t is to ser.

        tEIG. Call them in.

        MARY. God help us all!

        So.

        its little t the sleepy ears above

        Care for your    Ill call w I please.

        tEIG. them.

        S door)

        ever you are t    night,

        So be it t you    shouldered up

        Out of a grave??for Ill hing human??

        And rick of speech,

        I    beside the fire.

        matter if your heads below your arms

        Or youve a ail to whip your flank,

        Featead of s but a straw,

        e, s bread a is in the house,

        And stretche ashes.

        And after t, lets share and share alike

        And curse all men and women. e in, e in.

        , is there?

        (turning from door)

        Ahey say

        the grass, and ride

        Even upon ts hand.

        (tEIG lifts one arm slos tourns, he

        also sees somethe same. A man dressed as an

        Eastern meres in carrying a small carpet.    and sits cross?legged at one end of it.

        Anots at tely.

        ed take money out of embroidered purses at t on the

        carpet.

        tEIG. You speak to them.

        ShEMUS. No, you.

        tEIG. t called them.

        ShEMUS. (ing nearer)

        Id make so bold, if you ,

        to ask if thing youd have of us.

        Alt poor people, if there is,

        here is??

        FIRSt MERC. eve travelled a long road,

        For    must tramp the world,

        And now we look for supper and a fire

        And a safe er to t money in.

        S you    ts no matter now??

        tween my wife and me

        Because I said I er here,

        And ask in w I pleased or who I pleased

        And so. . . . but t is noto t,

        Because its certain t you are but mercs.

        FIRSt MERC. e travel for ter of all mercs.

        S if you    I    but now

        Id wele you no less. Be w you please

        And youll    t rate,

        t means t    a penny

        Is noy.

        (MERCS begin putting money on carpet.)

        FIRSt MERaster bids us pay

        So good a price, t all wh us

        S, drink, and be merry.

        So MARY) Bestir yourself,

        Go kill and draeig and I

        Lay out tes and make a better fire.

        MARY. I    cook for you.

        S cook! not cook!

        Do not be angry. Ss to pay me back

        Because I struck    argument.

        But s sense again. Sih came

        e rattle one on anothough we were

        Ko a basket to be ed.

        MARY. I    cook for you, because I know

        In    now

        Outside this door.

        tEIG. Its this, your honours:

        Because of some her said

        S of t a shadow.

        She wood

        ele, if to eat and drink;

        But it is certain t you are men like us.

        FIRSt MERC.

        Its stra s no shadow,

        For the world

        ts more substantial ts are

        t buy and sell you.

        MARY. If you are not demons,

        And seeing     there,

        Give food or mo poor.

        FIRSt MERC. If we knew o find deserving poor

        ed do our share.

        MARY. But seek tiently.

        FIRSt MERC. e knoy.

        MARY. t a on time.

        I    to and fro,

        At times like t overset the scale

        And trampled measure down.

        FIRSt MERC. But if already

        ed t of a more prudent ?

        SEERC. If eaerdise,

        ell give    of.

        MARY. arving e at merdise?

        FIRSt MERC. e    w all men have.

        MARY. ttle, fields and implements

        Are sold and gone.

        FIRSt MERC. t sold all yet.

        For t may be nothing,

        But ts the buyers risk??a sed self,

        tal for a storys sake.

        So buy our souls?

        tEIG. Ill barter mine.

        arve for    nothing?

        MARY. teig and Shemus??

        S    it be but nothing?

        of    famine?

        Satan gives money.

        tEIG. Yet no tirs.

        FIRSt MERC. there is a heap for each.

        (So take money.)

        But no, not yet,

        For to set you to.

        Sful as t,

        And all t talk of buying    a vapour

        Is fancy bred. I might have known as much,

        Because ts rick?o?talks.

        FIRSt MERC. ts for ts separate price; But ill the works

        done.

        tEIG. the same for me.

        MARY. Oill?

        FIRSt MERC. Youve but to cry aloud at every cross?road, At every    we buy mens

        souls,

        And give so good a price t all may live

        In mirt till the famines done,

        Because we are    men.

        Ss away.

        tREIG> I sill Ive earhe price.

        SEERC. (wowards fire)

        Stop, for er,

        t able men.

        Aai on the road.

        (tRIG and Sopped. tEIG takes t.)

        MARY. Destroyers of souls, God roy you quickly.

        You s last dry like dry leaves and hang

        Nailed like dead vermin to the doors of God.

        SEERC.

        Curse to your fill, for saints will heir dreams.

        FIRSt MERCm t vermin t our Master sent to overrun t the end

        S the moon

        And quencars in tral night.

        MARY., God is all powerful.

        SEERC. Pray, you shall need him.

        You s dod grass, and dandelion,

        till t lohere bees a wall,

        And when your hands    scarcely drag your body

        e shall be near you.

        (MARY faints.) (t MERC takes up t, spreads it before tands in front of

        it warming his hands.)

        FIRSt MERC. Our faces go unscratched,

        For sed. ring t fowl,

        Scatter the shelves for bread.

        ell turn t and roast it,

        Ao,

        No t, praise our master,

        And stretche ashes.

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