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THAHN When I drink Woldery wine I am afraid of nothing. THIEF They are making a pleasant banquet ready for us; they are killing lambs, and girls are there with fruits, and there is to be much Woldery wine. MLAN Never had beggars such a time. AGMAR Do any doubt us now? THIEF I do not know. MLAN When will the banquet be? THIEF When the stars come out. OOGNO Ah. It is sunset already.
SLAG He will find a wise plan yet. THIEF It is too late. AGMAR It is too late? THIEF The dromedary men are here. OOGNO We are lost. AGMAR Be silent! I must think. Citizens enter and prostrate themselves. AGMAR They left us here and went to find the gods. A fish once took a journey into a far country to find the sea.
THAHN I have seen the comet o' nights. ULF The gods are drowsy. OOGNO If they awake not soon and make this city worthy again of our order, I for one shall forsake the calling and buy a shop and sit at ease in the shade and barter for gain. THAHN You will keep a shop? Agmar, though poorly dressed, is tall, imperious, and older than Ulf. AGMAR Is this a beggar who speaks?
ILLANAUN Most reverend Deity, their piety is so great that they have gone to worship even your shrines. AGMAR I know these men that have great piety. Such men have often prayed to me before, but their prayers are not acceptable. They little love the gods, their only care is their piety. I know these pious ones. They will say that the seven gods were still at Marma.
AGMAR There have been doubters of late. Are they satisfied? MAN Master, they are terrified. Spare us, Master. AGMAR It is wrong to doubt. Go, and be faithful. SLAG What have they seen, Master? AGMAR They have seen their own fears dancing in the desert. They have seen something green after the light was gone, and some child has told them a tale that it was us. I do not know what they have seen.
THAHN I do not like to hear their heavy tread; those that would dance to us must be light of foot. AGMAR I shall not smile at them if they are not airy. MLAN They are coming very slowly. They should come nimbly to us. THAHN They should dance as they come. But the footfall is like the footfall of heavy crabs.
AGMAR Do you that never thwarted your child in his play ask this of the gods? AGMAR Weep not. For all the houses that men have builded are the play-fields of this child of the gods. AGMAR A man, a man, and until just now a hungry one. Same room. A few days have elapsed. Seven thrones shaped like mountain-crags stand along the back of the stage. On these the beggars are lounging.
There have been too many beggars here, and we must decline alms for the good of the town. Exit Illanaun. AGMAR We shall need fine raiment, let the thief start at once. Let it rather be green raiment. BEGGAR I will go and fetch the thief. ULF We will dress ourselves as lords and impose upon the city. OOGNO Yes, yes; we will say we are ambassadors from a far land. ULF And there will be good eating.
ULF Also it were well not to anger the gods. AGMAR Is not all life a beggary to the gods? Do they not see all men always begging of them and asking alms with incense, and bells, and subtle devices? OOGNO Yes, all men indeed are beggars before the gods. AGMAR Does not the mighty Soldan often sit by the agate altar in his royal temple as we sit at a street corner or by a palace gate?
AGMAR We to whom all things are coming now at last. THIEF I fear lest my art forsake me now that good things come without stealing. AGMAR You will need your art no longer. SLAG The wisdom of my Master shall suffice us all our days. MAN Master, we implore you, the people beseech you. MAN Master, it is terrible. It is terrible on the edge of the desert in the evening. Children die when they see you.
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