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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Volume 3 of 8. The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The Unicorn from the Stars
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Because I do not serve him.
FIRST MERCHANT
More of this
When we have eaten, for we love right well
A merry meal, a warm and leaping fire
And easy hearts.
SHEMUS
Come, Maire, and cook the wolf.
MAIRE
I will not cook for you.
SHEMUS
Maire is mad.
[TEIG and SHEMUS stand up and stagger about.
SHEMUS
That wine is the suddenest wine man ever tasted.
MAIRE
I will not cook for you: you are not human:
Before you came two horned owls looked at us;
The dog bayed, and the tongue of Shemus maddened.
When you came in the Virgin’s blessed shrine
Fell from its nail, and when you sat down here
You poured out wine as the wood sidheogs do
When they’d entice a soul out of the world.
Why did you come to us? Was not death near?
FIRST MERCHANT
We are two merchants.
MAIRE
If you be not demons,
Go and give alms among the starving poor,
You seem more rich than any under the moon.
FIRST MERCHANT
If we knew where to find deserving poor,
We would give alms.
MAIRE
Then ask of Father John.
FIRST MERCHANT
We know the evils of mere charity,
And have been planning out a wiser way.
Let each man bring one piece of merchandise.
MAIRE
And have the starving any merchandise?
FIRST MERCHANT
We do but ask what each man has.
MAIRE
Merchants,
Their swine and cattle, fields and implements,
Are sold and gone.
FIRST MERCHANT
They have not sold all yet.
MAIRE
What have they?
FIRST MERCHANT
They have still their souls.
[MAIRE shrieks. He beckons to TEIG and SHEMUS.
Come hither.
See you these little golden heaps? Each one
Is payment for a soul. From charity
We give so great a price for those poor flames.
Say to all men we buy men’s souls – away.
[They do not stir.
This pile is for you and this one here for you.
FIRST MERCHANT
More of this
When we have eaten, for we love right well
A merry meal, a warm and leaping fire
And easy hearts.
SHEMUS
Come, Maire, and cook the wolf.
MAIRE
I will not cook for you.
SHEMUS
Maire is mad.
[TEIG and SHEMUS stand up and stagger about.
SHEMUS
That wine is the suddenest wine man ever tasted.
MAIRE
I will not cook for you: you are not human:
Before you came two horned owls looked at us;
The dog bayed, and the tongue of Shemus maddened.
When you came in the Virgin’s blessed shrine
Fell from its nail, and when you sat down here
You poured out wine as the wood sidheogs do
When they’d entice a soul out of the world.
Why did you come to us? Was not death near?
FIRST MERCHANT
We are two merchants.
MAIRE
If you be not demons,
Go and give alms among the starving poor,
You seem more rich than any under the moon.
FIRST MERCHANT
If we knew where to find deserving poor,
We would give alms.
MAIRE
Then ask of Father John.
FIRST MERCHANT
We know the evils of mere charity,
And have been planning out a wiser way.
Let each man bring one piece of merchandise.
MAIRE
And have the starving any merchandise?
FIRST MERCHANT
We do but ask what each man has.
MAIRE
Merchants,
Their swine and cattle, fields and implements,
Are sold and gone.
FIRST MERCHANT
They have not sold all yet.
MAIRE
What have they?
FIRST MERCHANT
They have still their souls.
[MAIRE shrieks. He beckons to TEIG and SHEMUS.
Come hither.
See you these little golden heaps? Each one
Is payment for a soul. From charity
We give so great a price for those poor flames.
Say to all men we buy men’s souls – away.
[They do not stir.
This pile is for you and this one here for you.
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