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FIRST PEASANT. Its beautiful.

SIXTH SPIRIT. Thats why we groan and why our lids are wet.

END OF SCENE 4

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SECOND SPIRIT. Are all the thousand years of dancing done?

(They go out. The two MERCHANTS follow silently.)

FIRST PEASANT. Theyve bags and bags of it.

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FIFTH SPIRIT. To think of all the things that we forget.

So high??so high, its shining like the sun,

Told me when I was but a little boy??

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FOURTH PEASANT. I would not say that its so beautiful.

A wood near the Castle, as in Scene 2. The SPIRITS pass one by one carrying bags.

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FIRST SPIRIT. Ill never dance another step, not one.

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(The SPIRITS go out. A group Of PEASANTS Pass.)