{"id":168,"date":"2013-07-13T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=168"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:20","slug":"06-the-viziers-of-bassora-act-2-sc-1-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\/06-the-viziers-of-bassora-act-2-sc-1-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","title":{"rendered":"-06_The Viziers of Bassora Act-2 Sc-1.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nAct Two <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nBassora.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nIbn Sawy’s house. An upper chamber in the women’s apartments.
\nDoonya, Anice-Aljalice.<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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

\nYou living sweet romance, you come from Persia.
\n‘Tis there, I think, they fall in love at sight?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut will you help me, Doonya, will you help me?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo him, to him, not to that grizzled King!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI am near Heaven with Hell that’s waiting for me.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI know, I know! you feel as I would, child,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIf told that in ten days I had to marry<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMy cruel boisterous cousin. I will help you.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut strange! to see him merely pass and love him!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nDid he look back at you?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhile he could see me.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYes, that was Nureddene.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou’ll help me?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYes,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 592<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nWith all my heart and soul and brains and body.
\nBut how? My uncle’s orders are so strict!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd do you always heed your uncle’s orders,
\nYou dutiful niece ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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

\nRigidly, when they suit me.
\nIt shall be done although my punishment
\nWere even to wed Fareed. But who can say
\nWhen he’ll come home ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nComes he not daily then ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhen he’s not hawking. Questing, child, for doves,
\nWhite doves.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>–<\/font>ALJALICE<\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI’ll stop all that when he is mine.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWill you ? and yet I think you will, nor find it
\nA task at all. You can do it ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI will.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tD<\/font>OONYA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou have relieved my conscience of a load.
\nWho blames me ? I do this to reform my cousin,
\nGravely, deliberately, with serious thought,
\nAnd am quite virtuously disobedient.
\nI almost feel a long white beard upon my chin,
\nThe thing’s so wise and sober. Gravely, gravely!<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 593<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nShe marches out, solemnly stroking<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nan imaginary beard.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMy heart beats reassuringly within.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe destined Prince will come and all bad spells<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBe broken; then \u2014 you angels up in Heaven<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWho guard sweet shame and woman’s modesty,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHide deep your searching eyes with those bright wings.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is not wantonness, though in a slave<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPermitted, spurs me forward. O tonight<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLet sleep your pens, in your rebuking volumes<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nRecord not this. I am on such a brink,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nA hound of horror baying at my heels,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI cannot pause to think what fire of blushes<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI choose to flee through, nor how safe cold eyes<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay censure me. I pass though I should burn.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou cannot bid me pick my careful steps!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nOh, no, the danger is too near. I run<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBy the one road that’s left me, to escape,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo escape, into the very arms I love.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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