O, I will tell Conchubar and
Cuchulain
and all the kings about
you!
you!
Yeats
_
[_Enter the FOOL dragging the BLIND MAN. _
FOOL.
You have eaten it, you have eaten it! You have left me nothing but the
bones.
[_He throws BLIND MAN down by big chair. _
BLIND MAN.
O, that I should have to endure such a plague! O, I ache all over! O,
I am pulled to pieces! This is the way you pay me all the good I have
done you!
FOOL.
You have eaten it! You have told me lies. I might have known you had
eaten it when I saw your slow, sleepy walk. Lie there till the kings
come.
O, I will tell Conchubar and Cuchulain and all the kings about
you!
BLIND MAN.
What would have happened to you but for me, and you without your wits?
If I did not take care of you, what would you do for food and warmth?
FOOL.
You take care of me! You stay safe, and send me into every kind of
danger. You sent me down the cliff for gulls' eggs while you warmed
your blind eyes in the sun; and then you ate all that were good for
food. You left me the eggs that were neither egg nor bird. [_BLIND MAN
tries to rise; FOOL makes him lie down again. _] Keep quiet now, till
I shut the door. There is some noise outside--a high vexing noise,
so that I can't be listening to myself. [_Shuts the big door. _] Why
can't they be quiet! why can't they be quiet! [_BLIND MAN tries to get
away.
[_Enter the FOOL dragging the BLIND MAN. _
FOOL.
You have eaten it, you have eaten it! You have left me nothing but the
bones.
[_He throws BLIND MAN down by big chair. _
BLIND MAN.
O, that I should have to endure such a plague! O, I ache all over! O,
I am pulled to pieces! This is the way you pay me all the good I have
done you!
FOOL.
You have eaten it! You have told me lies. I might have known you had
eaten it when I saw your slow, sleepy walk. Lie there till the kings
come.
O, I will tell Conchubar and Cuchulain and all the kings about
you!
BLIND MAN.
What would have happened to you but for me, and you without your wits?
If I did not take care of you, what would you do for food and warmth?
FOOL.
You take care of me! You stay safe, and send me into every kind of
danger. You sent me down the cliff for gulls' eggs while you warmed
your blind eyes in the sun; and then you ate all that were good for
food. You left me the eggs that were neither egg nor bird. [_BLIND MAN
tries to rise; FOOL makes him lie down again. _] Keep quiet now, till
I shut the door. There is some noise outside--a high vexing noise,
so that I can't be listening to myself. [_Shuts the big door. _] Why
can't they be quiet! why can't they be quiet! [_BLIND MAN tries to get
away.
