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BY J. M. SYNGE
Copyright 1904
By J. M. Synge
PREFACE.
VI
VII
J. M. S.
PERSONS
ACT I.
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PRIEST -- <i>with astonishment.</i> -- Is it mar-
ry you for nothing at all?
SARAH. It is, your reverence; and we
were thinking maybe you'd give us a little
small bit of silver to pay for the ring.
PRIEST -- <i>loudly.</i> -- Let you hold your
tongue; let you be quiet, Sarah Casey. I've
no silver at all for the like of you; and if you
want to be married, let you pay your pound.
I'd do it for a pound only, and that's making
it a sight cheaper than I'd make it for one
of my own pairs is living here in the place.
SARAH. Where would the like of us get
a pound, your reverence?
PRIEST. Wouldn't you easy get it with
your selling asses, and making cans, and your
stealing east and west in Wicklow and Wex-
ford and the county Meath? <i>(He tries to
pass her.)</i> Let you leave the road, and not
be plaguing me more.
SARAH -- <i>pleadingly, taking money from
her pocket.</i> -- Wouldn't you have a little mercy
on us, your reverence? <i>(Holding out money.)</i>
Wouldn't you marry us for a half a sovereign,
and it a nice shiny one with a view on it of
the living king's mamma?
PRIEST. If it's ten shillings you have,
let you get ten more the same way, and I'll
marry you then.
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ACT II.
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MICHAEL. What would he care for an
oath?
MARY. Don't you know his like do live
in terror of the wrath of God? <i>(Putting her
mouth to the Priest's ear in the sacking.)</i>
Would you swear an oath, holy father, to
leave us in our freedom, and not talk at all?
<i>(Priest nods in sacking.)</i> Didn't I tell you?
Look at the poor fellow nodding his head off
in the bias of the sacks. Strip them off from
him, and he'll be easy now.
MICHAEL -- <i>as if speaking to a horse.</i> --
Hold up, holy father.
[<i>He pulls the sacking off, and shows the
priest with his hair on end. They free
his mouth.</i>
MARY. Hold him till he swears.
PRIEST -- <i>in a faint voice.</i> -- I swear
surely. If you let me go in peace, I'll not
inform against you or say a thing at all, and
may God forgive me for giving heed unto
your like to-day.
SARAH -- <i>puts the ring on his finger.</i> --
There's the ring, holy father, to keep you
minding of your oath until the end of time;
for my heart's scalded with your fooling; and
it'll be a long day till I go making talk of
marriage or the like of that.
MARY -- <i>complacently, standing up slow-</i>
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