No More Learning
And the tsar has
ordered to arrest and hang the
fugitive
heretic.
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov
Have you the tsar's edict with you?
2ND OFFICER.
I have it.
1ST OFFICER.
Give it here.
MISSAIL.
Why do you look at me so fixedly?
1ST OFFICER.
This is why; from Moscow there has fled a
certain wicked heretic--Grishka Otrepiev.
Have you
heard this?
MISSAIL.
I have not heard it.
OFFICER.
Not heard it?
Very good.
And the tsar has
ordered to arrest and hang the
fugitive
heretic.
Do you
know this?
MISSAIL.
I do not know it.
OFFICER.
(To VARLAAM.
) Do you know how to read?
VARLAAM.
In my youth I knew how, but I have forgotten.
OFFICER.
(To MISSAIL.
) And thou?
MISSAIL.
God has not made me wise.
OFFICER.
So then here's the tsar's edict.
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