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_: T