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

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\n <\/font>Act I<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nMathura.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nScene 1<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nA street in Mathura. Ahuca’s house.<\/i><\/p>\n

\nSudaman, Ocroor.<\/i><\/p>\n

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S<\/font>UDAMAN<\/p>\n

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What art thou?<\/font><\/p>\n

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O<\/font>CROOR<\/p>\n

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One that walks the Night.<\/font><\/p>\n

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S<\/font>UDAMAN<\/p>\n

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No Ogre!<\/p>\n

\nThou art Ocroor by thy voice.<\/p>\n

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O<\/font>CROOR<\/p>\n

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Whatever name<\/p>\n

The Lord has given his creature. Thou shouldst be<\/p>\n

\nSudaman.<\/p>\n

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S<\/font>UDAMAN<\/p>\n

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If I am?<\/font><\/p>\n

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O<\/font>CROOR<\/p>\n

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Walk not alone<\/p>\n

When the black-bellied Night has swallowed earth<\/p>\n

\nLest all thou hast done to others should return<\/p>\n

Upon thee with a sword in the dumb Night<\/p>\n

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\nAnd no man know it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SUDAMAN<\/p>\n

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Care not; I am shielded.<\/font><\/p>\n

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O<\/font>CROOR<\/p>\n

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Not by the gods!<\/font><\/p>\n

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S<\/font>UDAMAN<\/p>\n

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No, by a greater god<\/p>\n

\nThan any that have seats near Vishnu’s throne.<\/p>\n

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O<\/font>CROOR<\/p>\n

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What god whom even Sudaman worships?<\/font><\/p>\n

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S<\/font>UDAMAN<\/p>\n

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Terror<\/p>\n

Whose shoe I have enshrined in Mathura<\/p>\n

\nAnd all men kiss it and their tongues declare<\/p>\n

‘Tis justice and mild rule while their hearts hate<\/p>\n

\nAnd quiver.<\/p>\n

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O<\/font>CROOR<\/p>\n

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Thou art the Ogre. Has the blood<\/p>\n

Of many nobles not contented thee?<\/p>\n

\nDost thou not feel enough thy furious greatness yet,<\/p>\n

Sudaman?<\/p>\n

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S<\/font>UDAMAN<\/p>\n

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Ocroor, I have a belly to digest<\/p>\n

\nMuch more than Mathura.<\/p>\n

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O<\/font>CROOR<\/p>\n

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So Ravan had<\/p>\n

Who perished.<\/p>\n


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SUDAMAN<\/p>\n

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What dost thou in this black night<\/p>\n

Whose shadows help the lover and the thief,<\/p>\n

\nTwo kindred traders? Which of these art thou?<\/p>\n

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OCROOR<\/p>\n

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Both, may be.<\/p>\n

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SUDAMAN<\/p>\n

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If thou be, then let thy theft<\/p>\n

Attain some Yadav’s house, that I may laugh<\/p>\n

\nAt his dishonour.<\/p>\n

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OCROOR<\/p>\n

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Thou hatest much, it seems,<\/p>\n

Thy father’s nation!<\/p>\n

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SUDAMAN<\/p>\n

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Whom I have imprisoned<\/p>\n

\nThat I may mock him daily, else were he dead<\/p>\n

And with the gods he worships.<\/p>\n

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OCROOR<\/p>\n

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Thou shalt end<\/p>\n

\nEvilly yet.<\/p>\n

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SUDAMAN<\/p>\n

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If it is so, ’tis so<\/p>\n

Because the round of being leads to that,<\/p>\n

\nAnd not because of gods or virtue.<\/p>\n

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