ALEEL. I am younger, she would be too heavy for you.

For that is how the rogues got into the garden.

And not like some, if we are to judge by speech.

All that sorrow

Know what Heaven pardons?

STEWARD. Yes, indeed.

Whose loss were less than irremediable

To rob or starve, that was the choice they had.

Till I have changed my house to such a refuge

Steward, you know the secrets of my house.

ALEEL. I thought to have kept her from remembering

Against the walls to blame for everything,

STEWARD. What are you running for? Pull off your cap,

She leaves her dancers lonely and lies there

SHEMUS. I cannot wait.

(lilting) "Theres money for a soul, sweet yellow money.

And said that he would kill the man or woman

without light and shade and against a diafiered or gold background.

And now, when the moons riding at the full,

STEWARD. That is certain.

CATHLEEN (Sitting down) When I am rested I will need no help.

CATHLEEN. Give twice and thrice and twenty times their money, And get your souls again. I will pay all.

Loved Maeve the Queen of all the invisible host,

Has any one been killed?

What Queen Maeve thinks on when the moon is pinched;

Long, long ago

A wood with perhaps distant view of turreted house at one side, but all in flat colour,

SHEMUS. Not we! not we! For souls??if there are souls??

TEIG. Such news, we shall be carried on mens shoulders.

Bei九-九-藏-書ng water born??yet if she cry their names

Though Ive been on the watch??had been the first

OONA (taking ALEEL by the arm and as she speaks bandaging his wound) She has found something now to

That I can tell you is a christened arm,

And though you live unto a hundred years,

That can pay money down than to the hands

Id rather trust myself into the hands

If he but sell it, may set up his coach.

Although it were the wickedest in the world.

And whether now??as in the old days??the dancers

But its unlike all others in the world,

(Sings.) Lift up the white knee;

Go barter where you please, but come again

(He goes.)

And be as patient and as pitiful.

STEWARD. Theyre drunk or mad.

OONA. Their eyes shone like the eyes of birds of prey.

That in a ring

TEIG. (laughing) There are two gentlemen who buy mens souls.

Had it but stayed away I would have known

CATHLEEN. How much have I in forests?

Is trodden down."

Must lie and jog in the wave if they would sleep

(He goes L.)

Theyve such poor memories, though they weep for it.

That danced upon the level grass of the world,

TEIG. Come, lets away.

CATHLEEN. But maybe they were starving.

(OONA, who has been praying, goes out.)

CATHLEEN. I do not understand you, who has climbed?

TEIG. And yet it seemed

That the old and ailing, and all weak of heart,

If she had better sense.

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They run up on the land and dance in the moon

A mouthful of the wind; and now its grown

ALEEL. Old woman, old woman,

ALEEL. A curse upon it for a meddlesome house!

The foresters to blame. The men climbed in

This hollow box remembers every foot

And climb Croaghpatrick, you shall not be pardoned.

CATHLEEN. I thought to have escaped misfortune here.

Stretches and sighs and wets her long pale cheeks.

And died of his love nine centuries ago.

STEWARD. Oh, no, not killed.

CATHLEEN. How much have I in castles?

STEWARD. As much more.

put her hand to,

Till the walls burst and the roof fall on us.

OONA. There is your own house, lady.

God cannot help but pardon. There is no soul

(ALEEL and OONA return)

He made this stroke at me; but it is nothing.

(He begins taking his lute out of the bag, CATHLEEN, Who has turned towards OONA, turns back to him.)

For you have not been christened?

STEWARD. A hundred kegs of gold.

Thats what they sing,

(Enter TEIG and SHEMUS.)

From this day out I have nothing of my own.

In an old cairn of stones; while her poor women

ALEEL. A man, they say,

But there is nothing that will stop in their heads,

OONA. The empty rattle?pate! Lean on this arm,

OONA. New friends are sweet.

CATHLEEN. So she loves truly.

Till thats grown infinite, and therefore none

And wed have passed it without noticing.

Youd run as fast and be as https://read.99csw.comout of breath.

And thought no more about than if it were

CATHLEEN. And if it be a sin, while faiths unbroken

Those young dancers

That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

The forester that let the branches lie

Upon that level place, and for three days

You will have saved the land.

ALEEL. One drew his knife

ALEEL. No, but wets her cheeks,

CATHLEEN. (Stopping) Surely this leafy corner, where one smells The wild bees honey, has a story too?

ALEEL. Whats memory but the ash

(Enter CATHLEENs Steward.)

I shall be drunk and merry.

I was afraid some other of the servants??

STEWARD. Then get your breath and speak.

For their sake.

There should be broken bottles on the wall.

Theres money for mens souls, good money, money."

STEWARD. Gods blessing light upon your ladyship.

Set their brief love on men.

SHEMUS. (tossing up money)

CATHLEEN. Come, follow me, for the earth burns my feet

Maybe it is not on this arm you slumbered

CATHLEEN. You shall be tended. From this day for ever

As useless as the paring of ones nails.

OONA. Sinless and a thief

With herds of cattle and with ships of meal.

May escape from beak and claw; all, all, shall come

OONA. I care no more than if a pig had grunted.

Lift up the gown,

That stopped his way; and when I would have stopped him

STEWARD. As much more.

SHEMUS. Theres something every man has carried with him

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And mixed up truth and lies, your ladyship.

ALEEL. She sleeps high up on wintry Knock?na?rea

A marketable thing!

CATHLEEN. Make no delay.

When you were as helpless as a worm.

And will tell secrets if I whisper to it.

ALEEL. "But the dance changes.

But as you please. It is time I was forgot.

The evil of the times for full ten minutes;

Lady, because she has forgot his name.

(She goes.)

STEWARD. I am not to blame, for I had locked the gate,

CATHLEEN. How much have I in pasture?

At the east corner where the elm?tree is.

END OF SCENE 2.

SHEMUS. And if there is,

That have but shaken famine from the bag.

And yet be sinless.

Nor one but lifts a strangeness to Gods love

How much have I?

They live so long?

(ALEEL goes.)

And theyve a dizzy, everlasting fire.

(They go out.)

CATHLEEN. (to ALEEL) Go call them here again, bring them by force, Beseech them, bribe, do anything

SHEMUS. What sets me laughing when I think of it,

You robbed her of three minutes peace of mind,

But keep the flesh out of its merriment.

OONA. Your own house, lady.

Is that a rogue whos lain in lousy straw,

But now when seven are out you come between.

A heavy trouble to forget his name??

That starving men may take whats necessary,

They have stolen half a cart?load of green cabbage.

Oh, yes, they weep; thats when the moon is full.

Than flie九_九_藏_書s upon a window?pane in the winter.

"Go cry it all about the world," they said.

Of the hearts that break

CATHLEEN. A learned theologian has laid down

(He goes Out R.)

SHEMUS. If youd my news

These are no thoughts for any Christian ear.

CATHLEEN. Shed sleep that trouble away??though it must be

CATHLEEN. is it because they have short memories

TEIG. Look at the price they give. (Showing money.)

TEIG. And maybe theres no soul at all.

And you and I are of no more account

Till they are giddy and would love as men do,

CATHLEEN (rising) Has some misfortune happened?

you like;

ALEEL. You are a sinful woman

And wash the feet of beggars and give alms,

CATHLEEN. Keeping this house alone, sell all I have,

ALEEL. Stay with me till we come to your own house.

Raved but now

OONA. There is the house at last.

CATHLEEN. O God!

That has been brought it for a thousand years.

STEWARD. Then God be thanked, I am the first to tell you.

COUNTESS CATHLEEN comes in leaning UpOn ALEELs arm. OONA follows them.

CATHLEEN. Why, thats true,

And you too follow, add your prayers to his.

CATHLEEN. They have not come; speak quickly.

I am running to the world with the best news

CATHLEEN. But theres a world to come.

STEWARD. As much more.

OONA. How does a man who never was baptized

Ill have no joy or sorrow of my own.

Do you not see whos there?

OONA. Talk on; what does it matter what you say,