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There will be good eating. THAHN We shall see the girls come in with baskets upon their heads. OOGNO There will be fruits in the baskets. THAHN All the fruits of the valley. MLAN Ah, how long we have wandered along the ways of the world. SLAG Ah, how hard they were. THAHN And how dusty. OOGNO And how little wine. MLAN How long we have asked and asked, and for how much!
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.
ILLANAUN I do but wish to prove his divinity. I will fetch the Woldery wine. AKMOS He will not drink. Yet if he does, then he will not overwhelm us. Let us offer him the wine. FIRST BEGGAR It is Woldery wine! SECOND BEGGAR It is Woldery! THIRD BEGGAR A goblet of Woldery wine! FOURTH BEGGAR O blessed day! MLAN O happy times! SLAG O my wise Master! Illanaun gives it to Agmar.
AGMAR Let the pestilence not fall at once upon this city, as it had indeed designed to; let not the earthquake swallow it all immediately up amid the howls of the thunder; let not infuriate armies overwhelm those that escape if we be gods. OORANDER Come let us sacrifice. ILLANAUN Bring lambs. AKMOS Quick, quick. THAHN He is no common god. MLAN Indeed he has made us.
THAHN Now we shall see the faces of the girls when they come to the banquet. MLAN Never had beggars such a time. AGMAR Hark! They are coming. I hear footsteps. THAHN The dancing girls. They are coming. THIEF There is no sound of flutes; they said they would come with music. OOGNO What heavy boots they have, they sound like feet of stone.
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.
The Thief is absent. MLAN Never had beggars such a time. OOGNO Ah, the fruits and tender lamb! THAHN The Woldery wine! SLAG It was better to see my Master's wise devices than to have fruit and lamb and Woldery wine. MLAN Ah, when they spied on him to see if he would eat when they went away! OOGNO When they questioned him concerning the gods and Man!
THAHN When they asked him why the gods permitted cancer! SLAG Ah! My wise Master. MLAN How well his scheme has succeeded. OOGNO How far away is hunger! THAHN It is even like to one of last year's dreams, the trouble of a brief night long ago. MLAN Ho, ho, ho, to see them pray to us! Did we not whine as they? Was not our mien beggarly? MLAN We were the pride of our calling.
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