ESS CAt t an oratory eps leading up to it.

        At t a tapestried ing tory, and a great cs back

        against tre are the

        garden. CAt of tar in the

        oratory; ted lamp over tar. ALEEL enters.

        ALEEL. I o bid you leave tle and fly

        Out of these woods.

        CAt evil is there here?

        t is not everyhe sea?

        ALEEL. t me walk invisible.

        CAt is true w I have heard men say,

        t you    ot.

        ALEEL. I was asleep in my bed, and w

        My dream became a fire; and in the fire

        One walked and    his head.

        CAt one of the old gods walked so.

        ALEEL. It may be t he is angelical;

        And, lady, hese woods.

        And you must bring but your old foster?mother,

        And some fehe hills,

        Among t

        Of ers, till the evil days are done.

        For errible deating you,

        Some unimagined evil, some great darkness

        t fable    dreamt of, nor sun nor moon

        Scattered.

        CAt angelical.

        ALEEL. this house

        You are to leave rusty man,

        And bid er all t starve or wander

        here is food and house room.

        CAthLEEN. he bids me go

        al creatures but the swan

        Dabbles, and trees    our door,

        And talk among tling of the reeds,

        ed the foolish sun away

        itillness and pale tapers. No?no?no!

        I ot. Alt weep

        Because t life    happy, and here

        I find no way, no end. Nor do I weep

        Because I o look upon your face,

        But t a night of prayer has made me weary.

        ALEEL (.prostrating himself before her)

        Let    made mankind, the angels and devils

        Ay, mend w he has made,

        For will sees

        breaks in vain.

        CAt quiet end?

        ALEEL.    in healing?

        CAtears

        And I    see your he floor.

        ALEEL. (faltering) I t but of healing. he was angelical.

        CAturning away from him)

        No, not angelical, but of the old gods,

        to

        te, proud ??t all the angels,

        Leaving nine y, o sleep.

        (So g, and ts

        them fall beside him.)

        CAt    to me beseeg hands.

        t sh. I have sworn,

        By    the seven sorroierced,

        to pray before tar until my

        o ree, and there

        Rustled its leaves, till heaven has saved my people.

        ALEEL. (who has risen)

        o one

        So little as I, to deny him love,

        beseeg hands,

        t tly

        they have overdared?

        (oESS CAtakes a feeps towards him.)

        CAtales are true,

        Queens have wed shepherds and kings beggar?maids;

        Gods prot ers flo your mind

        you

        But I am ty pitcher.

        ALEEL. Being silent,

        I    let me stay beside you.

        CAt w is shaken. No,

        But you ser cry,

        And curlews cry, and he peace I longed for.

        ALEEL. Give me your o kiss.

        CAthLEEN. I kiss your forehead.

        A I send you from me. Do not speak;

        t bid men to rob

        Crory?under?ave or apples

        Upon a dragon?guarded hill, and all

        t t sift mens s and wills,

        And trembled as t, as I tremble

        t lay a ask on you, t you go,

        And silently, and do not turn your head;

        Goodbye; but do not turn your head and look;

        Above all else, I    have you look.

        (ALEEL goes.)

        I never spoke to him of his wounded hand,

        And now he is gone.

        (S.)

        I ot see side.

        ould my imagination and my

        ere as little shis holy flame!

        (So the

        cer.)

        FIRSt MERC. Altreasury,

        I find you sitting droionless,

        A you uand t ws full

        S us and so bribe the poor

        t reat Masterll lack his merdise.

        You kno s into this house

        t are pinc

        At sucime and so s cheap.

        Youve seen us sitting in the wood,

        the window?pane

        And t a soul to buy;

        Not even those

        t alk,

        Until ts ear.

        But all ts not drohere

        ith your back hooked, your    upon your knees.

        SEERC. ? For s cross till her

        lover

        urned s to dream.

        FIRSt MERC, ell, o labour.

        treasury door and time runs on.

        (SEERC goes Out. FIRSt MERC sits cross?legged against a pillar, yawns and

        stretches.)

        FIRSt MERd so I must e of ter and the revelry,

        ts lasted since??shaped as a worm??he bore

        th

        to t woman.

        (SEERC returns h bags.)

        hose dancers gone?

        to carry it on their backs.

        SEERC. I    a moment since, But nohey are gone, being

        unsteadfast things.

        FIRSt MERC. t seems t treat

        Masters name

        As to bear burdens on our backs as men do.

        Ill call to disobey?

        e, all you elemental populace

        From Cruac house.

        e, break up the hill,

        Or if you lie in the sea,

        Leave lohe long h surges, leave

        to clash alone,

        And sangles from your hair

        Gat us.

        (tS gathe arches.)

        SEERC. till a while.

        (SPIRItS dand sing.)

        FIRSt SPIRIt. (singing) Our s are sore, but we e

        Because we have heard you call.

        SED SPIRIt. Sorrow has made me dumb.

        FIRSt SPIRIt.    nightfall

        Lay many a plate and cup

        Dorodden brink,

        t whe dance break up

        e may    and drink.

        ts are sore;

        And though we have heard and e

        Our g filled the shore.

        SED SPIRIt. Sorrow has made me dumb.

        FIRSt MERC.    lies in t to good and evil, a seems t

        these,

        Fetful of tial sea,

        take sides h her.

        SEERC. ill your feet.

        You are not now upon Maeves dang?floor.

        A SPIRIt. O, look w I ring of pearls!

        (taking je of bag.)

        SEERust not touc take up the bags upon your

        backs

        And carry to Shemus Ruas house

        On the woods border.

        SPIRItS. No, no, no, no!

        FIRSt SPIRIt. No, no, let us away;

        From t e

        Cry out to us who may.

        SED SPIRIt. Sorrow has made me dumb.

        (they go.)

        SEERC. ttle do t turn and

        mock,

        But you t disobey.

        FIRSt MERC (rising) these dancers

        Are al troublesome of spirits.

        (age and stands fag ture of and. tS e

        back . taking ub the bags.

        FIRSt SPIRIt. From t well never dance again.

        SED SPIRIt. Never again.

        t. Sorrow has made me dumb.

        SEERC (looking into chapel door)

        Shing; she has fallen asleep.

        Our lord would be well pleased if we could win her.

        No th our kind,

        Mig kill

        Before tir?

        FIRSt MERC. If urquoise for our lord It must go dropping dos free will

        But Ive a plan.

        SEERC. to take o?night?

        FIRSt MERC. Because I am of tiest hell here are all kings, I have a plan.

        (Voices.)

        SEERC. too late;

        For somebody is stirring in the noise

        t tures made as ther,

        ttering,

        he chairs pushed back,

        And many s. All the old men and women

        Sher.

        A VOICE. ( was here.

        ANOther away.

        Aower.

        Aower.

        FIRSt MERC. e still ime??tant rooms.

        SEERC. Brot troubles me.

        (Going to tory and peering t.)

        Upon tar steps tess tosses, murmuring in ernoster.

        FIRSt MERC. Do not fear,

        For whe prayer will cease.

        SEERC. , would you wake her?

        FIRSt MERC. I h her,

        And mix s a t to serve.??

        Lady, s g out for speech.

        (CAto door of the chapel.)

        Cathleen. ho calls?

        FIRSt MERC. e    news.

        CAt are you?

        FIRSt MERC.

        e are mercs, and he world

        Because here

        e matters t much    you;

        And notig tle door stand open,

        Came in to find an ear.

        ds open,

        t no one who is famished or afraid,

        Despair of .

        But you have news, you say.

        FIRSt MERC. e saw a man,

        he bog of Allen,

        tle. Near Fair head

        e saw yrain ships lying all becalmed

        In t; and not less still they,

        Burned all the sea.

        CAto God, to Mary and the angels,

        t I reasury,

        And    buy grain from tored it up

        to prosper on the poor.

        But youve been far and knohings,

        his yelloour no more hang

        And creep about t

        Vaniss green ss?

        FIRSt MERC. ttle too are

        dead

        Or dying??and on all the vapour hangs,

        And fattens .

        In you is all the land.

        CAthe demons who buy souls?

        FIRSt MERC.

        they have wolves heads,

        And say te flame??

        orms; others, again,

        Say ttle; while a few

        ill    tals are,

        But tall and broravelled??like us??lady,

        Yet all agree a poheir looks

        t makes men boi

        About t all men would go

        And barter t not

        You bribe ty of yold.

        CAto God, to Mary, and the angels

        t I am hey sell?

        FIRSt MERC. As    t door we saw

        Your porter sleeping in his niche??a soul

        too little to be h a hundred pence,

        A for a hundred s.

        But for a soul like yours, I hem say,

        thousand s and more.

        CAthLEEN. how    a heap of s pay for a soul?

        Is terrible a thing?

        FIRSt MERe sell because terror of the grave,

        And some because their neighbours sold before,

        And some because there is a kind of joy

        In casting hope away, in losing joy,

        In ceasing all resistance, in at last

        Opening ones arms to ternal flames,

        In casting all sails out upon the wind;

        to ty of t??

        ould all folk hurry if yold were gone.

        CAt, in your voice

        t makes me fear. elling how

        A man may lose his soul and lose his God

        Your eyes were ligold

        h??

        Mercs five me??seemed to smile.

        FIRSt MERC. Mans sins

        Move us to laughter only; we have seen

        So many lands and seen so many men.

        ra all these people should be swung

        As on a ladys sring,??uhem

        the glowing leagues of never?ending flame.

        CAt I fear;

        A somet of us; but    born

        In some most distant er of the world?

        (t,    the door, es forward, and as he es a sound of

        voices a is heard.)

        SEERC. Ahe passage??hurry,

        For ts

        ith Ave Marys, and burn all our skin

        iter.

        FIRSt MERC. Fare ride

        Many a mile before the m e;

        Our    tiently.

        (t. A number of PEASAer by other door.)

        FIRSt PEASANt. Five us, lady, but we heard a noise.

        SED PEASA by telling vanities.

        FIRSt PEASANt.

        e    the house

        e have found nobody.

        id.

        For noimes.

        t    find you here.

        OOering hurriedly)

        Ocreasure room is broken in,

        tands open, and the gold is gone.

        (PEASANtS raise a lamentable cry.)

        CAt.

        (the cry ceases.)

        have you seen nobody?

        OONA Oe!

        t my good mistress shis money.

        CAt t too old to ride??

        Get ry round,

        Ill give a farm to hieves.

        (A mahe

        porter!")

        PORtER. Demons he door

        In my stone nicwo owls passed me by,

        h human voices.

        OLD PEASANt. God forsakes us.

        CAthLEEN. Old man, old man, he never closed a door

        Unless one opened. I am desolate,

        For a most sad resolve wakes in my

        But I ill my fait

        For surely    forsake the world,

        But stands before it modelling in the clay

        And moulding there his image. Age by age

        th his fingers and pleads hard

        For its old, heavy, dull and shapeless ease;

        But sometimes??t still??

        It moves awry and demon hordes are born.

        (PEASANtS cross themselves.)

        Yet leave me noe,

        I hunder.

        (Sory door.)

        Yet stay an instant.    again

        I may ful. Oona, take

        the dairy keys.

        (to tER.)

        But take you t opens the small room

        Of herbs for medie, of hellebore,

        Of vervain, monksain, and self?heal.

        the upper shelf.

        PORtER. his, lady; did you see

        Your coffin in a dream?

        CAt t.

        A sad resolve wakes in me. I have heard

        A sound of wailing in unnumbered hovels,

        And I must go do where??

        Pray for all men and women mad from famine;

        Pray, you good neighbours.

        (tS all kneel. tESS CAteps to tory, and

        turning round stands there

        motionless for a little, and then cries in a loud voice :)

        Mary, Queen of angels,

        And all you clouds on clouds of saints, farewell!

        END OF SE 3.
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