I was afraid some other of the servants??

put her hand to,

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

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

But its unlike all others in the world,

OONA. New friends are sweet.

If she had better sense.

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

For you have not been christened?

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

And will tell secrets if I whisper to it.

(They go out.)

With herds of cattle and with ships of meal.

How much have I?

You robbed her of three minutes peace of mind,

As useless as the paring of ones nails.

Has any one been killed?

This hollow box remembers every foot

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

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

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

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

CATHLEEN. Make no delay.

But keep the flesh out of its merriment.

All that sorrow

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

And you too follow, add your prayers to his.

Thats what they sing,

That starving men may take whats necessary,

Those young dancers

(Enter CATHLEENs Steward.)

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

you like;

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

TEIG. And maybe theres no soul at all.

Nor one but lifts a stranwww•9９ｌib•ｎeｔgeness to Gods love

They run up on the land and dance in the moon

Theyve such poor memories, though they weep for it.

When you were as helpless as a worm.

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

Raved but now

Although it were the wickedest in the world.

And wed have passed it without noticing.

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

(She goes.)

She leaves her dancers lonely and lies there

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

ALEEL. Whats memory but the ash

You will have saved the land.

STEWARD. Gods blessing light upon your ladyship.

Till I have changed my house to such a refuge

And you and I are of no more account

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

Against the walls to blame for everything,

OONA. There is your own house, lady.

END OF SCENE 2.

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

That in a ring

STEWARD. As much more.

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

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

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

And now, when the moons riding at the full,

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

STEWARD. Then get your breath and speak.

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Know what Heaven pardons?

Lady, because she has forgot his name.

Ill have no joy or sorrow of my own.

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

For that is how the rogues got into the garden.

I shall be drunk and merry.

And theyve a dizzy, everlasting fire.

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

CATHLEEN. They have not come; speak quickly.

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

Lift up the gown,

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

OONA. There is the house at last.

What Queen Maeve thinks on when the moon is pinched;

That danced upon the level grass of the world,

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

But there is nothing that will stop in their heads,

Being water born??yet if she cry their names

Id rather trust myself into the hands

TEIG. Come, lets away.

Till thats grown infinite, and therefore none

A heavy trouble to forget his name??

Till the walls burst and the roof fall on us.

That I can tell you is a christened arm,

STEWARD. That is certain.

In an old cairn of stones; while her poor women

Upon that level place, and for three days

CATHLEEN. O God!

OONA. Sinless and a thief

A mouthful of the wind; and now its grown

CATHLEEN. But maybe they were starving.

SHEMUS. (tossing up money)

STEWARD. As much more.

And be as patient and as pitiful.

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STEWARD. A hundred kegs of gold.

CATHLEEN. But theres a world to come.

ALEEL. A curse upon it for a meddlesome house!

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

CATHLEEN. How much have I in pasture?

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

They live so long?

ALEEL. I thought to have kept her from remembering

CATHLEEN. is it because they have short memories

OONA. Your own house, lady.

CATHLEEN. Why, thats true,

That can pay money down than to the hands

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

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

STEWARD. Oh, no, not killed.

From this day out I have nothing of my own.

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

And mixed up truth and lies, your ladyship.

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

But now when seven are out you come between.

I am running to the world with the best news

ALEEL. "But the dance changes.

And thought no more about than if it were

That have but shaken famine from the bag.

(He goes.)

OONA. Rest on my arm.

Till they are giddy and would love as men do,

ALEEL. No, but wets her cheeks,

The forester that let the branches lie

There should be broken bottles on the wall.

STEWARD. Theyre drunk or mad.

Loved Maeve the Queen of all the invisible host,

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

(ALEEL and OONA return)

CATHLEEN. I thought to have escaped misfortune here.

CATHLEEN. A learned theologian has laid down

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

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

Steward, you know the secrets of my house.

And climb Croaghpatrick, you shall not be pardoned.

(ALEEL goes.)

(He goes L.)

Youd run as fast and be as out of breath.

And wash the feet of beggars and give alms,

CATHLEEN. So she loves truly.

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

Is trodden down."

(Enter TEIG and SHEMUS.)

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

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

ALEEL. A man, they say,

ALEEL. You are a sinful woman

(He goes Out R.)

SHEMUS. I cannot wait.

And said that he would kill the man or woman

CATHLEEN. How much have I in forests?

For their sake.

That has been brought it for a thousand years.

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

SHEMUS. Theres something every man has carried with him

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

ALEEL. Old woman, old woman,

Long, long ago

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

Had it but stayed away I would have known

CATHLEEN (rising) Has some misfortune happened?

STEWARD. Yes, indeed.

Whose loss were less than irremediable

Do you not see whos there?

Set their brief love on men.

ALEEL. One drew his knife

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

Must lie and jog in the wave if they would sleep

Of the hearts that break

SHEMUS. If youd my news

Than flies upon a window?pane in the winter.

Is that a rogue whos lain in lousy straw,

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

A marketable thing!

(Sings.) Lift up the white knee;

TEIG. And yet it seemed

That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

And though you live unto a hundred years,

Stretches and sighs and wets her long pale cheeks.

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

And yet be sinless.

"Money for souls, good money for a soul."

These are no thoughts for any Christian ear.

At the east corner where the elm?tree is.

The foresters to blame. The men climbed in

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

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

Maybe it is not on this arm you slumbered

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

CATHLEEN. How much have I in castles?

God cannot help but pardon. There is no soul

Go barter where you please, but come again