COLLECTED PLAYS

SRI AUROBINDO

Contents

PART ONE

PERSEUS THE DELIVERER

Act One	Act Two	Act Three
SCENE I	SCENE I	SCENE I
SCENE II	SCENE II	SCENE II
SCENE III	SCENE III	SCENE III

Act Four		Act Five
SCENE I		SCENE I
SCENE II		SCENE II
SCENE III		SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V

VASAVADUTTA

Act One		Act Two
SCENE I		SCENE I
SCENE II		SCENE II
		SCENE III

Act Three	Act Four	Act Five
SCENE I	SCENE I	SCENE I
SCENE II	SCENE II	SCENE II
SCENE III	SCENE III	SCENE III
SCENE IV		SCENE IV
SCENE V		SCENE V
		SCENE VI

RODOGUNE

Act One	Act Two	Act Three
SCENE I	SCENE I	SCENE I
SCENE II	SCENE II	SCENE II
SCENE III	SCENE III	SCENE III
	SCENE IV
	SCENE V

Act Four		Act Five
SCENE I		SCENE I
SCENE II		SCENE II
SCENE III		SCENE III
SCENE IV		SCENE IV
SCENE V

ERIC

Act One	Act Two	Act Three
SCENE I	SCENE I	SCENE I
SCENE II	SCENE II	SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV

Act Four		Act Five
SCENE I		SCENE I
SCENE II

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

SCENE III

The same.
Eunice, Rodogune.

RODOGUNE

Will they not let me go and see him even ?

EUNICE

We'll make our way to him and put for him
To Egypt, Egypt.

RODOGUNE

There's only one joy left:

To be with him whether we live or die.

EUNICE

You are too meek. Cleone helps us here
Whatever be the spring of her strange pity.
When we come back, Phayllus, we shall find out
Whether the ingenuity of men
Holds tortures huge enough for your deserts.

RODOGUNE

Why do you pace about with flaming eyes ?
Be still and sit and put your hand in mine.

EUNICE

My Parthian sweetness! O, the gods are cruel
Who torture such a heart as thine.

RODOGUNE

Where is

My mother?

EUNICE

She is lying in her room

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Dry-eyed and voiceless, gazing upon Fate
With eyes I dare not look at. Till tomorrow.
At dawn we'll have him out. Cleone bribes
The sentries; Thoas has horses and a ship
Wide-winged for Egypt, Egypt.

RODOGUNE

O yes, let us leave

Syria and cruel Antioch.

EUNICE

For a while.
I would have had him out tonight, my King,
But ruffian Theras keeps the watch till dawn.
How long will walls immure so huge a prisoner?
Trial! When he returns in arms from Egypt,
Try him, Phayllus. We must wait till dawn.

RODOGUNE

I shall behold him once again at dawn.

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