Three Wonder Plays

Three Wonder Plays

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Title: Three Wonder Plays
Author: Lady I. A. Gregory
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THREE WONDER PLAYS
By LADY GREGORY
Drama
Other works:
SEVEN SHORT PLAYS. FOLK-HISTORY PLAYS. 2 VOLS. NEW
COMEDIES. THE GOLDEN APPLE. THE DRAGON. OUR IRISH
THEATRE. A
CHAPTER OF
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. THE KILTARTAN MOLIERE. THE IMAGE

AND OTHER PLAYS. THREE WONDER PLAYS.
Irish Folk-Lore and Legend
VISIONS AND BELIEFS. 2 VOLS. CUCHULAIN OF
MURITHEMNE. GODS AND FIGHTING MEN. SAINTS AND
WONDERS. POETS AND DREAMERS. THE KILTARTAN
POETRY BOOK. THE KILTARTAN HISTORY BOOK.
* * * * *
HUGH LANE'S LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENT WITH SOME
ACCOUNT OF THE DUBLIN GALLERIES.

Three Wonder Plays
By
Lady Gregory
G.P. Putnam's Sons London & New York
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CONTENTS
THE DRAGON
ARISTOTLE'S BELLOWS
THE JESTER

THE DRAGON
ACT I
PERSONS

The King The Queen.
The Princess Nuala.
The Dall Glic (THE BLIND WISE MAN).
The Nurse.
The Prince of the Marshes.
_Manus, King of Sorcha_.
_Fintan, The Astrologer_.
Taig.
Sibby (TAIG'S MOTHER).
Gatekeeper.
Two Aunts of the Prince of the Marshes.
Foreign Men Bringing in Food.
The Dragon.

ACT I
_Scene: A room in the King's house at Burren. Large window at back
with deep window seat. Doors right and left. A small table and some
chairs_.
_Dall Glic: (Coming in with tray, which he puts on table. Goes back to
door.)_ You can come in, King. There is no one here.
_King: (Coming in.)_ That's very good. I was in dread the Queen might
be in it.
_Dall Glic_: It is a good thought I had bringing it in here, and she gone
to give learning to the Princess. She is not likely to come this side. It
would be a great pity to annoy her.

_King: (Hastily swallowing a mouthful.)_ Look out now the door and
keep a good watch. The time she will draw upon me is when I am
eating my little bite.
_Dall Glic_: I'll do that. What I wouldn't see with my one eye, there's
no other would see with three.
_King_: A month to-day since I wed with her, and well pleased I am to
be back in my own place. I give you word my teeth are rusting with the
want of meat. On the journey I got no fair play. She wouldn't be willing
to see me nourish myself, unless maybe with the marrow bone of a
wren.
_Dall Glic_: Sure she lays down she is but thinking of the good of your
health.
_King_: Maybe so. She is apt to be paying too much attention to what
will be for mine and for the world's good. I kept my health fair enough,
and the first wife not begrudging me my enough. I don't know what in
the world led me not to stop as I was.
_Dall Glic_: It is what you were saying, it was for the good of the
Princess Nuala, and of yourself.
_King_: That is what herself laid down. It would be a great ease to my
mind, she was saying, to have in the house with the young girl, a far-off
cousin of the King of Alban, and that had been conversation woman in
his Court.
_Dall Glic_: So it might be too. She is a great manager of people.
_King_: She is that ...I think I hear her coming.... Throw a cloth over
the plates.
_Queen: (Coming in.)_ I was in search of you.
_King_: I thought you were in Nuala's sunny parlour, learning her to
play music and to go through books.
_Queen_: That is what I thought to do. But I hadn't hardly started to
teach her the principles of conversation and the