{"id":162,"date":"2013-07-13T01:26:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=162"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:18","slug":"46-the-house-of-brut-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07\/46-the-house-of-brut-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","title":{"rendered":"-46_The House of Brut.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nTHE HOUSE OF BRUT<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\nFragment of a Play<\/font><\/i> <\/p>\n

\nDRAMATIS PERSONAE<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\nB<\/font>RUTUS<\/font>, Prince of Britain.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/p>\n

\nD<\/font>EVON<\/font>, son of Cormeus.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/p>\n

\nH<\/font>UMBER<\/font>,
\nKing of Norway.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/p>\n

\nG<\/font>UENDOLEN<\/font>, daughter of Cormeus.
\nE<\/font>STRILD<\/font>, A Pictish princess, concubine of Humber.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 883<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nAct Two <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b> <\/p>\n

\n
\n SCENE I <\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThe camp of Humber.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHumber, Offa, Norwegians.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>UMBER
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDrinkhael, dragons and stormwinds of the sea!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n(Drinks)<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSpare not to drain this sweetened juice of earth,
\nYou Vikings! How it bubbles to the lips
\nVigorous as newspilt blood. Drink deep, and shout
\n"Glory to Thor and Humber!" With the sun
\nUpon the force of Albanact we march.
\nShout, Norsemen! Let the heavens hear your menace.
\nDrinkhael!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(Drinks)<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LL
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWashael! Glory to ancient Thor
\nAnd Humber.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>UMBER
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am the hammer old of Thor
\nWhen he would crush the nations. He is merry
\nWith wine and smites the world with me.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n(Drinks’)<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nOr wherefore
\nShould I derive my glory ? Have I not
\nRushed through the angry waters when the whale
\nWas stunned between two waves and slain my foe
\nBetwixt the thunders ? Have not the burning hamlets
\nOf Gaul lighted me homeward for a league ?
\nErin has felt me, Norsemen.<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 885<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tA<\/font>LL
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGlory to Humber.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tHUMBER <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHave I not slain the Alban hosts and bound<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe necks of princes ? Yea, their glorious star<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd wonder for whom three kingdoms strove, Estrild,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLed to my ships ? The queens of the Orcades<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAre slaves and concubines to private Norsemen.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LL<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGlory to Humber, Thor’s hammer! Humber! Humber!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>UMBER
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHave I not harried Ireland, Denmark, Orkney ?
\nShattered the Pictish wheels, broken their scythes,
\nUnpeopled living tracts ? Why then prefer you
\nThor’s self to me ? Has he filled up your ships
\nWith gold and wines of France, rich rings and jewels,
\nMetals untold and beautiful sharp steel?
\nWho has enriched and aggrandised you all
\nTill you are gods, to each hand a country’s wealth,
\nTo each sword a century’s glory? Who has given
\nThe commonest men beauty divine to sleep with,
\nMade queens your slaves and kings your thralls, you Norsemen?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LL<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHumber, Humber! Not Thor, but mightier Humber.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>UMBER
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDrink, Norsemen. Ye shall all be kings. Scotia<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd Albany and Ireland shall be mine.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI’ll have as many kingdoms as the year<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHas moons. Do you doubt me. Vikings? Do you mutter?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut you shall see my glory. Call Estrild,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou thralls of Humber.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 886<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tA<\/font>LL
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGlory to great Humber!
\nHumber shall now be Thor. He shall new-make
\nThe bones of Heimir in his hands. Cry "Humber!"<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>UMBER
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThis river we ascend, shall now no more<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBear its old name but mine; and all this region<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBe Albany no more but Humberland:<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe world’s name changed shall be my monument.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter thralls with Estrild.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>STRILD<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGods, if you be, protect me!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LL
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGlory to Humber.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>UMBER
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLo she whose mystic<\/font>\u00b9<\/font> eyes enthral the nations,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nComes to do reverence to Humber, glad<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo be his glory’s meanest satellite.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nKneel down, daughter of princes, favoured more<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThan Freya or Gudrun; for these were wives<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nOf gods or demigods, but thou the slave<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nOf Humber. Lo whose pleasure kingdoms strove<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo do, is made my footstool. I have slain<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nNations to win her and have ravished her<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBefore her father’s eyes, not yet made blood<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd faces of a hundred warlike lovers.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYet all these could not help her cries.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LL
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHumber!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\u00b9starlike <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 887<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tO<\/font>FFA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe strong, the noble Humber!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>UMBER
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGirl, arise
\nAnd serve me. Thou shalt do it royally.
\nThis is thy father’s skull<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(Incomplete)<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 888<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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