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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!
AGMAR Let none that has known the mystery of roads, or has felt the wind arising new in the morning, or who has called forth out of the souls of men divine benevolence, ever speak any more of any trade or of the miserable gains of shops and the trading men. OOGNO I but spoke hastily, the times being bad. AGMAR I will put right the times. SLAG There is nothing that my Master cannot do.
OOGNO We are saved now. THAHN Aye, we are saved. AGMAR We are saved, but I know not how. OOGNO Never had beggars such a time. THIEF I will go out and watch. ULF Yet I have a fear. OOGNO A fear? Why, we are saved. ULF Last night I dreamed. OOGNO What was your dream? ULF It was nothing. I dreamed that I was thirsty and one gave me Woldery wine; yet there was a fear in my dream.
AGMAR That is not the way that we shall disguise ourselves. OOGNO Not cover our rags? AGMAR No, no. The first who looked closely would say 'These are only beggars. They have disguised themselves. ULF What shall we do? AGMAR Each of the seven shall wear a piece of the green raiment underneath his rags.
Outside a city wall; three beggars seated on the ground. OOGNO These days are bad for beggary. THAHN They are bad. They take no joy any longer in benevolence, but are become sour and miserly at heart. Alas for them! I sometimes sigh for them when I think of this. OOGNO Alas for them. A miserly heart must be a sore affliction. THAHN A sore affliction indeed, and bad for our calling.
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.
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!
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.
What thing has befallen them? THAHN Some evil thing. ULF There has been a comet come near to the earth of late and the earth has been parched and sultry so that the gods are drowsy and all those things that are divine in man, such as benevolence, drunkenness, extravagance and song, have faded and died and have not been replenished by the gods. OOGNO It has indeed been sultry.
THIEF Yes, on dromedaries. AGMAR They should be back to-day. OOGNO We are lost. THAHN We are lost. THIEF They must have seen the green jade idols sitting against the mountains. They will say, 'The gods are still at Marma. And we shall be burnt. SLAG My Master will yet devise a plan. SLAG My Master will devise a plan. OOGNO He has taken us into a trap. THAHN His wisdom is our doom.
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