A ant vieurreted  one side, but all in flat colour,

    lig a diafiered or gold background.

    COUNtESS CAthem.

    CAtopping) Surely tory too?

    OONA. t last.

    ALEEL. A man, they say,

    Loved Maeve t,

    And died of uries ago.

    And nohe full,

    Shere

    Upon t level place, and for three days

    Stretcs her long pale cheeks.

    CAtruly.

    ALEEL. No, but s her cheeks,

    Lady, because s his name.

    CAt trouble a must be

    A rouble to forget his name??

    If ster sense.

    OONA. Your own house, lady.

    ALEEL. Sry Knock?na?rea

    In an old cairn of stones; while her poor women

    Must lie and jog in they would sleep

    Being er born??yet if sheir names

    the moon

    till they are giddy and would love as men do,

    And be as patient and as pitiful.

    But t op in their heads,

    t.

    Os whe moon is full.

    CAt because t memories

    they live so long?

    ALEEL. s memory but the ash

    t c o sink?

    And ting fire.

    OONA. there is your own house, lady.

    CAts true,

    And  noticing.

    ALEEL. A curse upon it for a meddlesome house!

    but stayed away I would have known

    Queen Maeve the moon is pinched;

    And whe dancers

    Set their brief love on men.

    OONA. Rest on my arm.

    ts for any Cian ear.

    ALEEL. I am younger, soo heavy for you.

    (aking e out of turned tourns back to him.)

    t

    t danced upon the world,

    And ell secrets if I .

    (Sings.) Lift up te knee;

    ts hey sing,

    those young dancers

    t in a ring

    Raved but now

    Of ts t break

    Long, long ago

    For their sake.

    OONA. Ne.

    ALEEL. quot;But the dance changes.

    Lift up the gown,

    All t sorrow

    Is trodden do;

    OONA. ty rattle?pate! Lean on this arm,

    t I can tell you is a cened arm,

    And not like some, if o judge by speech.

    But as you please. It is time I .

    Maybe it is not on this arm you slumbered

    hen you were as helpless as a worm.

    ALEEL. Stay ill o your own house.

    CAtting down) ed I will need no help.

    ALEEL. I t to  her from remembering

    times for full ten minutes;

    But noween.

    OONA. talk on;  matter w you say,

    For you  been cened?

    ALEEL. Old woman, old woman,

    You robbed es peace of mind,

    And to a hundred years,

    And was of beggars and give alms,

    And climb Croagrick, you s be pardoned.

    OONA. ized

    Know w heaven pardons?

    ALEEL. You are a sinful woman

    OONA. I care no more ted.

    (Enter CAteward.)

    StEARD. I am not to blame, for I e,

    ters to blame. the men climbed in

    At t corner wree is.

    CAt understand you, who has climbed?

    StEARD. t to tell you.

    I s??

    tc

    And mixed up truth and lies, your ladyship.

    CAtune happened?

    StEARD. Yes, indeed.

    ter t let the branches lie

    Against to blame for everything,

    For t is  into the garden.

    CAt to une here.

    has any one been killed?

    StEARD. O killed.

    tolen ?load of green cabbage.

    CAt maybe tarving.

    StEARD. t is certain.

    to rob or starve, t hey had.

    CAtheologian has laid down

    t starving men may take ws necessary,

    And yet be sinless.

    OONA. Sinless and a thief

    ttles on the wall.

    CAt be a sin, whs unbroken

    God cannot  pardon. there is no soul

    But its unlike all othe world,

    Nor one but lifts a strangeness to Gods love

    till ts groe, and therefore none

    han irremediable

    Alt  in the world.

    (Enter tEIG and ShEMUS.)

    StEARD.  are you running for? Pull off your cap,

    Do you not see where?

    S .

    I am running to t news

    t  it for a thousand years.

    StEARD. t your breath and speak.

    ShEMUS. If youd my news

    Youd run as fast and be as out of breath.

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

    Sh him

    And t no more about t were

    A mouts grown

    A marketable thing!

    tEIG. And yet it seemed

    As useless as the paring of ones nails.

    S sets me laug,

    Is t a rogue wraw,

    If  sell it, may set up his coach.

    tEIG. (lauglemen who buy mens souls.

    CAthLEEN. O God!

    tEIG. And maybe t all.

    StEARD. theyre drunk or mad.

    tEIG. Look at they give. (Showing money.)

    Sossing up money)

    quot;Go cry it all about t; they said.

    quot;Money for souls, good money for a soul.quot;

    CAty times t your souls again. I will pay all.

    S  here are souls??

    But keep t of its merriment.

    I shall be drunk and merry.

    tEIG. Come, lets away.

    (he goes.)

    CAt to come.

    Shere is,

    Id ratrust myself into the hands

    t can pay money doo the hands

    t  she bag.

    ( R.)

    (lilting) quot;t yellow money.

    t;

    CAto ALEEL) Go call thing

    you like;

    (ALEEL goes.)

    And you too folloo his.

    (OONA, w.)

    Stes of my house.

    how much have I?

    StEARD. A hundred kegs of gold.

    CAtles?

    StEARD. As much more.

    CAture?

    StEARD. As much more.

    CAts?

    StEARD. As much more.

    CAthis house alone, sell all I have,

    Go barter w come again

    ittle and h ships of meal.

    StEARD. Gods blessing light upon your ladyship.

    You will he land.

    CAthLEEN. Make no delay.

    (he goes L.)

    (ALEEL and OONA return)

    CAt come; speak quickly.

    ALEEL. One drew his knife

    And said t he man or woman

    t stopped opped him

    roke at me; but it is nothing.

    CAtended. From this day for ever

    Ill have no joy or sorrow of my own.

    OONA. the eyes of birds of prey.

    CAt

    till I o such a refuge

    t t,

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

    till t and the roof fall on us.

    From t I hing of my own.

    (She goes.)

    OONA (taking ALEEL by to

    put o,

    And you and I are of no more account

    ter.

    (t.)

    END OF SCENE 2.