There is some noise outside--a high vexing noise,
so that I can't be listening to myself.
so that I can't be listening to myself.
Yeats
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. _] Ah! you would get away, would you! [_Follows BLIND MAN and
brings him back. _] Lie there! lie there! No, you won't get away! Lie
there till the kings come. I'll tell them all about you. I will tell it
all. How you sit warming yourself, when you have made me light a fire
of sticks, while I sit blowing it with my mouth. Do you not always make
me take the windy side of the bush when it blows, and the rainy side
when it rains?
