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MISTRESS. TSAI,
TOU TIEN-C:f!l}.NG;_, ,'!:Pi??.!
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OLD CHANG!'
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ACT'!
am
We live
several times for the money;'. bq.t Mr, Tou cannot pay
it.
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be here soon.
(Enter TOU TIEN-CHANG,
TUAN-YUN.)
leading
his
daughter
eaving
die
She
lost her mother when she was three, and now she is
seven.
alone with her son and is fairly well off, and as I had
no money for travelling I borrowed five taels from
her. Now, with the interest, I owe her ten taels; but
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I've
TOU:
ACT I
Mistress
'
(Exeunt.)
(Enter DOCTOR LU.)
DOCTOR:
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I am Doctor Lu.
I've bor
MRS. TSAI:
DOCTOR:
MRS. TSAI:
doctor.
DOCTOR:
If you'll
MRS. TSAI:
Very well.
'VJ
I
a,,,
.
DOCTOR:
MRS. TSAI:
Where?
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ACT I
Here's a good
I've
dad!
NG:
C
HA
wife.
--
Hey, widow!
Propose
it to. her,_
..
---
--
--
MRS. TSAI:
What an idea!
DONKEY:
all.
So you refuse!
:MR8.TSAI:
DONKEY:
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Wait!
You take
DONKEY:
Let's go.
(Exeunt.)
(Enter TOD NGO.)
TOU NGO:
chow.
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death.
DONKEY:
At seventeen I mar
She's gone
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My-rreait_}fJ7fit.(qJiJriL_
ha:,;; sujfered for so many years!
--- - ---
Momfog a:r eve1{ing it i alCthe same:
From dawn to dusk I can .n.either eat nor sleep,
Racked by sad dreams at night, sad thoughts by
day,
Unending sorrow which I cannot banish,
Unceasing reasons for fresh misery.
Wretchedness makes me weep, grief makes me
frown;
that debt.
(Enter
---------- ------------
-----
MISTRESS
TSAI
with
OLD
CHANG
and
DONKEY.)
MRS. TSAI:
DONKEY:
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-ACT. I
(crying):
MRS. TSAI
How am I going
MRS. TSAI:
TOU NGO:
NGO:
think
That
again!
would
We're
not
never
short
do,
o.f
mother!
money.
Please
Besides,
you are growing old - how can you take another hus
band?
MRS. TSAI:
TOU NGO:
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ACT II
DOCTOR:
I think you'd
MRS. TSAI: Since it has come to this,
be the wedcan
today
and
too,
nd
husba
a
better take
olleWi1I1iave to be my wife.
family. Or
DONKEY: Now we shall marry into theiJ:
narrow
have
and
new,
as
hats are. brushed as good
Fine!
Good!
brims like bridegrooms'!
,._,.
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r!rt.
r;
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Doctor!
I want a drug!
DOCTOR:
DONKEY:
(Exit.)
CHANG (to MRS. TSAI):
(Exeunt.)
I am Doney Chang.
here.
(Enter DONKEY.)
DONKEY:
!.!_
e aU men say;
Iii Women should. not believ
ij Such a marriage could not last.
Ir Where did she find this old yokel,
\1'1. And this other ruffian here?
:\'! Have you no feeling left for the dead?
'1\ \ You must think this over again.
.
I' Your husband worked in different cities and counties
ng.
To amass a well-earned fortune, and lack nothi
?
Chang
ey
How can you let his estate go to Donk
st.
harve
the
g
, but others e reapin
ledt
\ He til
ding day.
.
I won
TOU NGO: You take a husband if you must.
are alreaay
MRS. TSAI: T1iedate is fixed, and they
TOU NGO:
I am Doctor Lu.
side the town and was just going to strangle her when
DONKEY:
DOCTOR:
it?
I won't.
Fine!
Fine!
DONKEY:
home.
DOCTOR:
(Exit.)
Since I've
later.
to sell drugs.
(Exit.)
(Enter MI$TRESS TSAI, supported by OLD CHANG
and. DONKEY.)
CHANG:
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ACT II
,.'l
Tou Ngo!
r,
'
h
i
I am Tou Ngo.
My mother-in-law is un-
fickle!
l,.
- -
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in a tavern?
Or l{ke Meng Kuang,** who showed such respect to
-- her husband?
The wonieii today are different:
y OU can 'neith'er. teii"' thefr character from . their
speech,
Nor judge them by their actions.
They're all of them faithless, all nm after new lovers;
And before their husbands' graves are dry
They set aside their mourning for new clothes.
Where is the woman whose tears for her husband
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DONKEY:
her some.
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gar.
(TOU NGO
soup.
TOU NGO
'
TO tTNGO:
DONKEY:
TOU NGO:
CHANG:
DONKEY:
CHANG
Here it is.
Take it.
Wu
Tzu
A \voman washing by a
Upon leaving, he asked her
with
*Cho Wen-chun, the daughter of a rich man, who eloped
Since they
ssuma Hsiang-ju, a famous Han dynasty scholar.
where she
were poor, they kept a small tavern in Chengtu
served as barmaid.
hill every day to watch for his return, till at last she was trans
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MRS. TSAI:
CHANG:
TOU NGO:
soup?
man!
(Panic-stricken.)
(Wails.)
TOU NGO:
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ACT II
MRS. TSAI:
TOU NGO:
He's dead!
DONKEY:
MRS. TSAI:
TOU NGO:
What
MRS. TSAI:
TOU NGO:
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DONKEY:
murder of my
father!
If
TOU NGO:
fect.
I am innocent.
you
want
it
settled
in
ACT III
ACT
III
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I am a hard-working official;
I make money out of my lawsuis;
.
But when my superiors come to inv:stigate,
I pretend to be ill and stay at home in bed.
.
This morning I am holdmg
I am prefect of Chuchow.
court.
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him?
PREFECT:
Why?
clothes to me!
fendant?
Out with the truth now!
DONKEY: I am the plaintiff. I accuse this young
.
woman, Tou Ngo, of poisoning my father with soup.
Let justice be done; Your Honour!
PREFECT:
<rou NGO:
MRS. TSAI:
DONKEY:
PREFECT:
TOU NGO:
Bring the
TOU NGO:
Your Honour,
Attendant!
TRESS ,TSAI.)
ATTENDANT:
ATTENDANT:
DONKEY:
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TOU,NGO:
PREFECT:
TOU
NGO
(hastily):
Stop,
stop!
Don't
beat
my
;i\
\ Jmother
i(
the ol
in law'.
an.
EXECUTIONER:
sten
PR
ACT III
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way.
It's be
-4
T OU NGO:
(Exit.)
MRS. TSAI:
Poor child!
in the market-place.
Tomorrow
Tou
Ngo
will
be
TOU NGO:
executed.
EXECUTIONER:
TOU NGO:
comes through.
We are late.
We must
'
(Exeunt.)
EXECUTIONER:
(Exit.)
PREFECT:
around.
TOU NGO:
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EXECUTIONER:
TOU NGO:
need?
I am going to
die.
What relatives do I
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EXECUTIONER:
EXECUTIONER:
TOU NGO:
law?
Ah, Heaven!
EXECUTIONER:
TOU NGO:
MRS. TSAI:
for
iripe
soup,. I
prepared
some
for
you.
He never
To take re
am going to be killed.
paper money to spare, burn some for me, for the sake
of your dead son!
back!
Now then,
Come here.
mutton
EXECUTIONER:
Your
Poor child!
TOU NGO:.
words to her.
EXECUTIONER:
ACT Ill
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If injustice
Be quiet!
What
thing to say!
It
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ACT IV
TOU NGO:
EXECUTIONER:
have a drink.
A fine stroke!
I am Tou Tien-chang.
I left my
child Tuan-yun.
TOU:
I shall
-(l...._i
went
you.
to the capital, .
I am sad,
dered him he was imprisoned. Since such great injustice had been
done, frost appeared in summer.
He will see
g to the tfiign,e.
and happiness.
TOU:
portin
ACT IV
(Enter TOU TIEN-CHANG.)-
boy.
TOU:
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TOU:
who poisoned
her
father-in-law.
same as mine!
I'll put
at the
it
Wait, I sud
(He sleeps.)
c:Ji0 r
TOU NGO:
(She enters
ACT IV
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TOU
(shedding tears):
Tuan-yun,
my
child!
Where
you
My servant is asleep;
.
TOU:
can
read
again.
"This
concerns
others.
the
TOU NGO:
TOU:
I am.
Hush, girl!
to
investigate
cases
and
discover
corrupt
officials.
;;;e-
control otners?
Can there
I'll trim
it once more.
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IfP-.yo
c
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you, I am the emperor's ins-:::
come near, I'll cut you in two. Hey, boy! How can
heinous of crimes?
Let me
How
she was
When
done.
Tuan-yun.
(As TOU trims the light, TOU NGO's spirit once more
turns over the fiLe.) Now the lamp is brighter, I can
Ghosts!
TOU NGO :
once!
n1ore.
ordinary!
at
up
Get
My daughter's name is
soundly?
bow to me as my daughter.
so
This is terrifying!
TOU NGO:
Fear is making him lose his head;
The sound of my weeping has frightened him more
than ever.
Here, Tou Tien-chang, my old father,
Will you let your daughter Tou Ngo bow to you?
sleep
Ghosts!
How odd!
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Dutie
o e ience
to
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The
Virtues
re to serve
0A.
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o
l,..w.
hus
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But regardless
.
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{'to hvSbI...
5oJ w(
SlSfv.-/.-.vJ
rA
f'
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of all!
woman,
you
should
have
studied
propriety
and
:z
Don't threaten
In Chu
When I went
to Old Chang.
At that
I asked.
Do
"What
"A
"A
no son of our clan has broken the law; for five genera
tions no daughter has married again. I'd rather die
I am innocent.
I'll go to court
she went to ask him for the money, he lured her out
a false confession.
death.
Chang asked:
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ACT IV
ma'am?"
widowed
that
My
case,
Old
mother-in-law
daughter-in-law."
said:
Old
"No
Chang
What
one
but
said:
do you
"In
say?"
So
Donkey tried
"But
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Y\
It is.
This reminds me of a story.
In the Han
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ACT IV
(bowing):
With sharp sword of authority and tally of gold,
You will kill all evil and corrupt officials,
To serve your sovereign and relieve the people!
(She turns back.) There's one thing I nearly forgot,
TOU NGO
father.
TOU:
TOU NGO:
TOU:
Dawn is breaking.
MRS. TSAI:
I am Tou Tien-chang.
verdict!
He shall be
The wrong