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Five Plays - Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
Five Plays
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066460419
Table of Contents
The Gods of the Mountain
The First Act
The Second Act
The Third Act
The Golden Doom
King Argimenes and the - Unknown Warrior
The First Act
The Second Act
The Glittering Gate
The Lost Silk Hat
The Gods of the Mountain
Table of Contents
Persons
Beggars Agmar Slag Ulf Oogno Thahn Mlan A ThiefCitizens Oorander Illanaun Akmos The Dromedary Men Citizens, etc. The Others
Scene
The East
The First Act
Table of Contents
{Outside a city wall. Three beggars are seated upon the ground.}
Oogno These days are bad for beggary.Thahn They are bad.Ulf {an older beggar but not gray} Some evil has befallen the rich ones of this city. 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.Oogno {reflectively} They have been thus for many months. 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.Thahn I have seen the comet o' nights.Ulf The gods are drowsy.Oogno If they awake not soon and make this city worthy again of our order I for one shall forsake the calling and buy a shop and sit at ease in the shade and barter for gain.Thahn You will keep a shop?
{Enter Agmar and Slag. Agmar, though poorly dressed, is tall, imperious, and older than Ulf. Slag follows behind him.}
Agmar Is this a beggar who speaks?Oogno Yes, master, a poor beggar.Agmar How long has the calling of beggary existed?Oogno Since the building of the first city, master.Agmar And when has a beggar ever followed a trade? When has he ever haggled and bartered and sat in a shop?Oogno Why, he has never done so.Agmar Are you he that shall be first to forsake the calling?Oogno Times are bad for the calling here.Thahn They are bad.Agmar So you would forsake the calling?Oogno The city is unworthy of our calling. The gods are drowsy and all that is divine in man is dead. {To third beggar} Are not the gods drowsy?Ulf They are drowsy in their mountains away at Marma. The seven green idols are drowsy. Who is this that rebukes us?Thahn Are you some great merchant, master? Perhaps you will help a poor man that is starving.Slag My master a merchant! No, no. He is no merchant. My master is no merchant.Oogno I perceive that he is some lord in disguise. The gods have woken and sent him to save us.Slag No, no. You do not know my master. You do not know him.Thahn Is he the Soldan's self that has come to rebuke us?Agmar I am a beggar, and an old beggar.Slag {with great pride} There is none like my master. No traveller has met with cunning like to his, not even those that come from AEthiopia.Ulf We make you welcome to our town, upon which an evil has fallen, the days being bad for beggary.Agmar Let none who 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.Agmar {to Slag} Be silent and attend to me. I do not know this city. I have travelled from far, having somewhat exhausted the city of Ackara.Slag My master was three times knocked down and injured by carriages there, once he was killed and seven times he was beaten and robbed, and every time he was generously compensated. He had nine diseases, many of them mortal --Agmar Be silent, Slag. -- Have you any thieves among the calling here?Ulf We have a few that we call thieves here, master, but they would scarcely seem thieves to you. They are not good thieves.Agmar I shall need the best thief you have.
{Enter two citizens richly clad, Illanaun and Oorander.}
Illanaun Therefore we will send galleons to Ardaspes.Oorander Right to Ardaspes through the silver gates.
{Agmar transfers the thick handle of his long staff to his left armpit, he droops on to it and it supports his weight; he is upright no longer. His right arm hangs limp and useless. He hobbles up to the citizens imploring alms.}
Illanaun I am sorry. I cannot help you. There have been too many beggars here and we must decline alms for the good of the town.Agmar {sitting down and weeping} I have come from far.
{Illanaun presently returns and gives Agmar a coin. Exit Illanaun. Agmar, erect again, walks back to the others.}
Agmar We shall need fine raiment; let the thief start at once. Let it