"THE MOTH
I'm a tiny tiny thing
Ever flying in the spring
Round and round a ringaring.
Long ago I was a king
Now I do this kind of thing
On the wing, on the wing!
Bing!
(He rushes against the mauve shade flapping noisily)
Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty petticoats."
(U15.2468)
I'm a tiny tiny thing
Ever flying in the spring
Round and round a ringaring.
Long ago I was a king
Now I do this kind of thing
On the wing, on the wing!
Bing!
(He rushes against the mauve shade flapping noisily)
Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty petticoats."
(U15.2468)
"(From left upper entrance with two gliding steps Henry Flower comes forward to left front centre. He wears a dark mantle and drooping plumed sombrero. He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer"
(U15.2478)
(U15.2478)
"and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob's pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a female head."
(U15.2481)
(U15.2481)
"He wears dark velvet hose and silverbuckled pumps. He has the romantic Saviour's face with flowing locks, thin beard and moustache. His spindlelegs and sparrow feet are those of the tenor Mario, prince of Candia."
(U15.2482)
(U15.2482)
"He settles down his goffered ruffs and moistens his lips with a passage of his amorous tongue.)
HENRY
(In a low dulcet voice, touching the strings of his guitar.)"
(U15.2485)
HENRY
(In a low dulcet voice, touching the strings of his guitar.)"
(U15.2485)
"There is a flower that bloometh.
(Virag truculent, his jowl set, stares at the lamp."
(U15.2489)
(Virag truculent, his jowl set, stares at the lamp."
(U15.2489)
"Grave Bloom regards Zoe's neck. Henry gallant turns with pendant dewlap to the piano.)"
(U15.2491)
(U15.2491)
"STEPHEN
(To himself.) Play with your eyes shut. Imitate pa. Filling my belly with husks of swine. Too much of this. I will arise and go to my. Expect this is the. Steve, thou art in a parlous way. Must visit old Deasy or telegraph. Our interview of this morning has left on me a deep impression. Though our ages. Will write fully tomorrow. I'm partially drunk, by the way. (He touches the keys again.) Minor chord comes now. Yes. Not much however.
(Almidano Artifoni holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustachework.)
ARTIFONI
Ci rifletta. Lei rovina tutto."
(U15.2494)
(To himself.) Play with your eyes shut. Imitate pa. Filling my belly with husks of swine. Too much of this. I will arise and go to my. Expect this is the. Steve, thou art in a parlous way. Must visit old Deasy or telegraph. Our interview of this morning has left on me a deep impression. Though our ages. Will write fully tomorrow. I'm partially drunk, by the way. (He touches the keys again.) Minor chord comes now. Yes. Not much however.
(Almidano Artifoni holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustachework.)
ARTIFONI
Ci rifletta. Lei rovina tutto."
(U15.2494)
"FLORRY
Sing us something. Love's old sweet song.
STEPHEN
No voice. I am a most finished artist."
(U15.2505)
Sing us something. Love's old sweet song.
STEPHEN
No voice. I am a most finished artist."
(U15.2505)
"FLORRY
(Smirking.) The bird that can sing and won't sing.
(The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two Oxford dons with lawnmowers, appear in the window embrasure. "
(U15.2510)
(Smirking.) The bird that can sing and won't sing.
(The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two Oxford dons with lawnmowers, appear in the window embrasure. "
(U15.2510)
"Both are masked with Matthew Arnold's face.)"
(U15.2513)
(U15.2513)
"PHILIP SOBER
Take a fool's advice. All is not well. Work it out with the buttend of a pencil, like a good young idiot. Three pounds twelve you got, two notes, one sovereign, two crowns, if youth but knew."
(U15.2515)
Take a fool's advice. All is not well. Work it out with the buttend of a pencil, like a good young idiot. Three pounds twelve you got, two notes, one sovereign, two crowns, if youth but knew."
(U15.2515)
"Mooney's en ville, Mooney's sur mer, the Moira, Larchet's, Holles street hospital, Burke's. Eh? I am watching you." (U15.2518)
" PHILIP DRUNK
(impatiently) Ah, bosh, man. Go to hell! I paid my way. If I could only find out about octaves. Reduplication of personality. Who was it told me his name? (his lawnmower begins to purr) Aha, yes. Zoe mou sas agapo. Have a notion I was here before. When was it not Atkinson his card I have
somewhere. Mac Somebody. Unmack I have it. He told me about, hold on, Swinburne, was it, no?" (U15.2521)
(impatiently) Ah, bosh, man. Go to hell! I paid my way. If I could only find out about octaves. Reduplication of personality. Who was it told me his name? (his lawnmower begins to purr) Aha, yes. Zoe mou sas agapo. Have a notion I was here before. When was it not Atkinson his card I have
somewhere. Mac Somebody. Unmack I have it. He told me about, hold on, Swinburne, was it, no?" (U15.2521)
"FLORRY
And the song?
STEPHEN
Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
(U15.2528)
And the song?
STEPHEN
Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
(U15.2528)
"FLORRY
Are you out of Maynooth? You're like someone I knew once.
STEPHEN
Out of it now. (to himself) Clever."
(U15.2532)
Are you out of Maynooth? You're like someone I knew once.
STEPHEN
Out of it now. (to himself) Clever."
(U15.2532)