SCENE: A large room t to an inner room. A desk and a c near tool near it. Some bencting at his desk.
ISE MAN [turning over t passage I am to explain to my pupils to?day?
is, and t it ten by a beggar on t;tries, t is er is summer in t country; andime t; I ands at t . sounds to me like foolis t cannot be, for ter of t it by itself on t had been foolishness.
FOOL. Give me a penny.
ISE MAN. [turns to anotten: quot;times forgot try.quot; t I understand, but I augter.
FOOL. ont you give me a penny?
ISE MAN. do you ? t teach you much.
FOOL. Suc eac refuse a penny to a Fool.
ISE MAN. do you kno wisdom?
FOOL. O I have seen.
ISE MAN. is it you have seen?
FOOL. by Kilcluan t t by tubbervanaco be climbing to tting at t by Carrigoras ing and serving t misfortune all t une, but it eaching.
ISE MAN. Run round to tco eat.
FOOL. t is fooliso give.
ISE MAN. hy, Fool?
FOOL. is eaten is gone. I pennies for my bag. I must buy bacon in ts in t, and strong drink for time o catcs and t to cook them in.
ISE MAN. Go ahan giving you pennies.
FOOL. Give me a penny and I s me sleep among ts in in ter?time because ime tures let me sleep near ts and t is lucky even to look at me or to touc it is muco give me a penny. [ lucky, Id starve.
ISE MAN. the shears for?
FOOL. I tell you. If I told you, you hem away.
ISE MAN. hom would I drive away?
FOOL. I tell you.
ISE MAN. Not if I give you a penny?
FOOL. No.
ISE MAN. Not if I give you two pennies.
FOOL. You I tell you.
ISE MAN. three pennies?
FOOL. Four, and I ell you!
ISE MAN. Very I call you teigue the Fool any longer.
FOOL. Let me come close to you you must promise you drive t dressed in black and spread great black nets over t black nets.
ISE MAN. ?
FOOL. t tc of t every morning, just before t and cut ts he angels fly away.
ISE MAN. A you are teigue told me t I am wise, and I have never seen an angel.
FOOL. I y of angels.
ISE MAN. Do you bring luck to too.
FOOL. O. But t one; the blades of grass.
ISE MAN. hem?
FOOL. s quiet; t like tars??not like t move, but like tars. [s upward.]
ISE MAN. And w hen?
FOOL. te one smells summer floall people go by, he color of burning sods.
ISE MAN. Is it long since you eigue the Fool?
FOOL. Not long, glory be to God! I sa laug it its head.
ISE MAN. ell, t;Glory be to God,quot; but before I came t. Run a ring the bell for my scholars.
FOOL. Four pennies! t means a great deal of luck. Great teac you plenty of luck! [ she bag.]
ISE MAN. teigue t more fooliso be, I ouc ar, I augo forget tecture, I s of ts daug is ter, I to tions of battle ic t ts of o t. But, Roric and Dialectic, t of t star and out of tar, you apult! O ing arguments, it is because of you t I s of foolis ands upon tuffed a angels t came and stood upon mens t I o urned t consider t tries. My moto say somet s are snatc t t be different, for only fools and ; ts ten upon the walls of Babylon.
[ are you? is t I h dreams.
ANGEL. I am t high God.
ISE MAN. o me?
ANGEL. I you a message.
ISE MAN. message for me?
ANGEL. You grains urns the hour?glass.]
ISE MAN. My time to die come. I I cannot leave. I die?
ANGEL. You must die because no souls o try. tes are rusty, and t keep chere are lonely.
ISE MAN. o?
ANGEL. t open to you, for you ence of ory open to you, for you ence of purgatory.
ISE MAN. But I ence of hell!
ANGEL. hose who deny.
ISE MAN [kneeling]. I augo deny. I old me. But, oiful Angel, forgive me, forgive me!
ANGEL. You should have asked forgiveness long ago.
ISE MAN. noo doubt. Storm, deatting, many sicknesses, t came to me. O? You carry t to me! I he hem of your dress!
ANGEL. You let go undying oo ago to take hem now.
ISE MAN. You cannot understand. You live in t country people only see in try t . Maybe it is as o understand o believe. O ime to undo w I I may undo w I have done!
ANGEL. You cannot undo o er tory. For, from one fiery seed, c sent me, t can come again to no of time.
ISE MAN. Blessed be t, blessed be t!
ANGEL [at ting at ttle y.
[Goes out.]
ISE MAN. Everyt. [Pulls the bell.]
t. I outside on t to please me; tend t too old to be overcome all in a minute. Besides, I can prove w I once disproved.
[Anot to my desk. I ly, as if nothing had happened.
[ands at th a fixed look in his eyes.]
[Enter PUPILS and the FOOL.]
FOOL. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. pulling at my bag? Kings son, do not pull at my bag.
A YOUNG MAN. Did your friends t bag? they fill your bag for you?
FOOL. Give me pennies! Give me some pennies!
A YOUNG MAN. Let go is coming to pieces. do you pennies for, great bag at your ?
FOOL. I to buy bacon in ts in t, and strong drink for time cs and t steal ts, and pot to cook them in.
A YOUNG MAN. your friends tell you wreasures are?
ANOt t treasures? If one dreams times, treasure.
FOOL [ ]. Give me pennies! Give me pennies!
[to . anding close to t to each newcomer.]