Than flies upon a window?pane in the winter.
TEIG. (laughing) There are two gentlemen who buy mens souls.
Being water born??yet if she cry their names
put her hand to,
And mixed up truth and lies, your ladyship.
ALEEL. "But the dance changes.
When you were as helpless as a worm.
And now, when the moons riding at the full,
A heavy trouble to forget his name??
All that sorrow
Lady, because she has forgot his name.
With herds of cattle and with ships of meal.
And wash the feet of beggars and give alms,
And theyve a dizzy, everlasting fire.
STEWARD. That is certain.
Had it but stayed away I would have known
TEIG. And maybe theres no soul at all.
Steward, you know the secrets of my house.
The foresters to blame. The men climbed in
ALEEL. I am younger, she would be too heavy for you.
OONA. Their eyes shone like the eyes of birds of prey.
But as you please. It is time I was forgot.
ALEEL. I thought to have kept her from remembering
They live so long?
That starving men may take whats necessary,
Id rather trust myself into the hands
From this day out I have nothing of my own.
"Money for souls, good money for a soul."
Upon that level place, and for three days
CATHLEEN. O God!
For that is how the rogues got into the garden.
SHEMUS. If youd my news
I am running to the world with the best news
ALEEL. No, but wets her cheeks,
(She goes.)
Thats what they sing,
SHEMUS. Theres something every man has carried with him
CATHLEEN. (Stopping) Surely this leafy corner, where one smells The wild bees honey, has a story too?
That the old and ailing, and all weak of heart,
Nor one but lifts a strangeness to Gods love
Ill have no joy or sorrow of my own.
Is that a rogue whos lain in lousy straw,
ALEEL. One drew his knife
Raved but now
(ALEEL and OONA return)
There should be broken bottles on the wall.
CATHLEEN. How much have I in castles?
(He goes L.)
CATHLEEN. is it because they have short memories
At the east corner where the elm?tree is.
SHEMUS. I cannot wait.
Know what Heaven pardons?
CATHLEEN. How much have I in forests?
SHEMUS. Not we! not we! For souls??if there are souls??
For their sake.
(OONA, who has been praying, goes out.)
STEWARD. As much more.
CATHLEEN. Make no delay.
And climb Croaghpatrick, you shall not be pardoned.
(Sings.) Lift up the white knee;
SHEMUS. What sets me laughing when I think of it,
That stopped his way; and when I would have stopped him
These are no thoughts for any Christian ear.
Set their brief love on men.
SHEMUS. And if there is,
The forester that let the branches lie
Of the hearts that break
She leaves her dancers lonely and lies there
Oh, yes, they weep; thats when the moon is full.
And wed have passed it without noticing.
And you too follow, add your prayers to his.
STEWARD. As much more.
For you have not been christened?
Maybe it is not on this arm you slumbered
CATHLEEN (Sitting down) When I am rested I will need no help.
ALEEL. Old woman, old woman,
Till they are giddy and would love as men do,
OONA. Rest on my arm.
Lift up the gown,
STEWARD. Yes, indeed.
And whether now??as in the old days??the dancers
STEWARD. I am not to blame, for I had locked the gate,
That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?
STEWARD. Then get your breath and speak.
(lilting) "Theres money for a soul, sweet yellow money.
But now when seven are out you come between.
A marketable thing!
Till thats grown infinite, and therefore none
I shall be drunk and merry.
And said that he would kill the man or woman
"Go cry it all about the world," they said.
CATHLEEN. But theres a world to come.
They have stolen half a cart?load of green cabbage.
OONA (taking ALEEL by the arm and as she speaks bandaging his wound) She has found something now to
How much have I?
Has any one been killed?
That I can tell you is a christened arm,
CATHLEEN. But maybe they were starving.
And thought no more about than if it were
SHEMUS. (tossing up money)
OONA. There is your own house, lady.
ALEEL. Stay with me till we come to your own house.
ALEEL. You are a sinful woman
ALEEL. A curse upon it for a meddlesome house!
Whose loss were less than irremediable
That danced upon the level grass of the world,
ALEEL. She sleeps high up on wintry Knock?na?rea
And be as patient and as pitiful.
And not like some, if we are to judge by speech.
ALEEL. Whats memory but the ash
CATHLEEN. Come, follow me, for the earth burns my feet
To rob or starve, that was the choice they had.
(Enter TEIG and SHEMUS.)
That in a ring
CATHLEEN. So she loves truly.
CATHLEEN. Shed sleep that trouble away??though it must be
And died of his love nine centuries ago.
In an old cairn of stones; while her poor women
That have but shaken famine from the bag.
He made this stroke at me; but it is nothing.
But keep the flesh out of its merriment.
You robbed her of three minutes peace of mind,
And though you live unto a hundred years,
Till I have changed my house to such a refuge
If he but sell it, may set up his coach.
OONA. Talk on; what does it matter what you say,
STEWARD. Then God be thanked, I am the first to tell you.
That can pay money down than to the hands
OONA. There is the house at last.
I was afraid some other of the servants??
CATHLEEN. How much have I in pasture?
A wood with perhaps distant view of turreted house at one side, but all in flat colour,
you like;
ALEEL. A man, they say,
(Enter CATHLEENs Steward.)
CATHLEEN. Why, thats true,
CATHLEEN. They have not come; speak quickly.
CATHLEEN (rising) Has some misfortune happened?
But its unlike all others in the world,
OONA. New friends are sweet.
And you and I are of no more account
They run up on the land and dance in the moon
Long, long ago
The evil of the times for full ten minutes;
That has been brought it for a thousand years.
Stretches and sighs and wets her long pale cheeks.
OONA. Your own house, lady.
(He goes Out R.)
TEIG. Such news, we shall be carried on mens shoulders.
STEWARD. A hundred kegs of gold.
CATHLEEN. I do not understand you, who has climbed?
You will have saved the land.
But there is nothing that will stop in their heads,
God cannot help but pardon. There is no soul
CATHLEEN. I thought to have escaped misfortune here.
STEWARD. Oh, no, not killed.
A mouthful of the wind; and now its grown
OONA. Sinless and a thief
TEIG. Come, lets away.
Is trodden down."
without lightand shade and against a diafiered or gold background.
STEWARD. As much more.
As useless as the paring of ones nails.
And will tell secrets if I whisper to it.
COUNTESS CATHLEEN comes in leaning UpOn ALEELs arm. OONA follows them.
(He goes.)
(He begins taking his lute out of the bag, CATHLEEN, Who has turned towards OONA, turns back to him.)
(ALEEL goes.)
This hollow box remembers every foot
STEWARD. What are you running for? Pull off your cap,
TEIG. Look at the price they give. (Showing money.)
TEIG. And yet it seemed
Against the walls to blame for everything,
OONA. How does a man who never was baptized
If she had better sense.
CATHLEEN. Keeping this house alone, sell all I have,
STEWARD. Gods blessing light upon your ladyship.
Loved Maeve the Queen of all the invisible host,
CATHLEEN. Give twice and thrice and twenty times their money, And get your souls again. I will pay all.
CATHLEEN. And if it be a sin, while faiths unbroken
Must lie and jog in the wave if they would sleep
Go barter where you please, but come again
CATHLEEN. A learned theologian has laid down
What Queen Maeve thinks on when the moon is pinched;
OONA. The empty rattle?pate! Lean on this arm,
Till the walls burst and the roof fall on us.
Theres money for mens souls, good money, money."
OONA. I care no more than if a pig had grunted.
STEWARD. Theyre drunk or mad.
Although it were the wickedest in the world.
CATHLEEN. (to ALEEL) Go call them here again, bring them by force, Beseech them, bribe, do anything
Do you not see whos there?
Theyve such poor memories, though they weep for it.
Though Ive been on the watch??had been the first
CATHLEEN. You shall be tended. From this day for ever
And yet be sinless.
END OF SCENE 2.
Youd run as fast and be as out of breath.
Those young dancers
May escape from beak and claw; all, all, shall come
(They go out.)
