{"id":206,"date":"2013-07-13T01:26:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=206"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:26:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:36","slug":"39-prince-of-edur-act-3-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\/39-prince-of-edur-act-3-sc-1-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","title":{"rendered":"-39_Prince of Edur Act-3 Sc-1.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<b><br \/>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\">Act Three <\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>The forest near Dongurh.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span style=\"letter-spacing: 3pt\"><br \/>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\"><b>&nbsp;SCENE I<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Comol, Coomood, meeting in the forest.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">C<font size=\"2\">OOMOOD <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Where were you hidden, Comol, all this morning?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I have been wandering in my woods alone<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Imagining myself their mountain queen.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">O Coomood, all the woodland worshipped me!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Coomood, the flowers held up their incense-bowls<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">In adoration and the soft-voiced winds<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Footing with a light ease among the leaves<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Paused to lean down and lisp into my ear,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Oh, pure delight. The forest&#8217;s unnamed birds<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Hymned their sweet sovran lady as she walked<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Lavishing melody. The furry squirrels<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Peeped from the leaves and waved their bushy tails,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Twittering, &quot;There goes she, our beloved lady,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Comol Cumary,&quot; and the peacocks came<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Proud to be seen by me and danced in front;<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Shrilling, &quot;How gorgeous are we in our beauty,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Yet not so beautiful as is our lady,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Comol Cumary.&quot; I will be worshipped, Coomood.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">You shall be. There&#8217;s no goddess of them all<br \/>\nThat has these vernal looks and such a body<br \/>\nRemembering the glory whence it came<br \/>\nOr apt to tread with the light vagrant breeze<br \/>\nOr rest with moonlight.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 807<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">C<font size=\"2\">OMOL <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">That was what they told me,<br \/>\nThe voices of the forest, \u2014 sister Coomood,<br \/>\nThe myriad voices.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\tCUMARY<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">What did they tell you, Comol?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">They told me that my hair was a soft dimness<br \/>\nWith thoughts of light imprisoned in&#8217;t; the gods,<br \/>\nThey said, looked down from heaven and saw my eyes<br \/>\nWishing that that were heaven. They told me, child,<br \/>\nMy face was such as Brahma once had dreamed of<br \/>\nBut could not \u2014 no, for all the master-skill<br \/>\nThat made the worlds \u2014 recapture in the flesh<br \/>\nSo rare a sweetness. They called my perfect body<br \/>\nA feast of gracious beauty, a refrain<br \/>\nAnd harmony in womanhood embodied.<br \/>\nThey told me all these things, \u2014 Coomood, they did,<br \/>\nThough you will not believe it. I understood<br \/>\nTheir leafy language.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Come, you did not need<br \/>\nSo to translate the murmurings of the leaves<br \/>\nAnd the wind&#8217;s whisper. &#8216;Twas a human voice<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll swear, so deftly flattered you.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Fie, Coomood,<br \/>\n<b>It<\/b> was the trees, the waters; the pure, soft flowers<br \/>\nTook voices.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">One voice. Did he roar softly, sweetheart,<br \/>\nTo woo you ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 808<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">C<font size=\"2\">OMOL <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Oh, he&#8217;s a recreant to his duty.<br \/>\nHe loves the wild deer fleeing on the hills<br \/>\nAnd the strong foeman&#8217;s glittering blade, not Comol.<br \/>\nYou must not talk of him, but of the hills<br \/>\nAnd greenness and of me.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And Edur, Comol ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Edur! It is a name that I have heard<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">In some dim past, in some old far-off world<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I moved in, oh, a waste of centuries<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And many dreams ago. I&#8217;ll not return there.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">It had no trees, I&#8217;m sure, no jasmine-bushes,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">No happy breezes dancing with linked hands<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Over the hill-tops, no proud-seated hills<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Softening the azure, high-coped deep-plunging rocks<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Or flowery greenness round, no birds, no Spring.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">We are the distance of a world from Edur.<br \/>\nTomorrow is the May-feast&#8217;s crowning day,<br \/>\nComol.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Oh then we shall be happy breezes<br \/>\nAnd dance with linked hands upon the hills<br \/>\nAll the Spring-morning.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">It is a May to be<br \/>\nRemembered.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">It is the May-feast of my life,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 809<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Coomood, the May-feast of my life, the May<br \/>\nThat in my heart shall last for ever, sweet<br \/>\nFor ever and for ever. Where are our sisters ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">C<font size=\"2\">OOMOOD <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Nirmol is carrying water from the spring;<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Ishany hunts the browsing stag today,<br \/>\nA sylvan archeress.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">What have you in the basket?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Flowers I have robbed the greenest woodland of<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">For Bappa&#8217;s worship. They must hide with bloom,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Sheva Ekling today. Tomorrow, sweet,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I&#8217;ll gather blossoms for your hair instead<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And weave you silver-petalled anklets, ear-rings<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Of bright may bloom, zones of Spring-honeysuckle,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And hide your arms in vernal gold. We&#8217;ll set you<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Under a bough, our goddess of the Spring,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And sylvanly adore, covering your feet<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">With flowers that almost match their moonbeam whiteness<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Or palely imitate their rose; \u2014 our Lady,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Comol Cumary.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Will Bappa worship me ?<br \/>\nBut I am an inferior goddess, Coomood,<br \/>\nAnd dare not ask the King of Paradise<br \/>\nTo adore me.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">You must adore him, that&#8217;s your part.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I will, while &#8217;tis the May.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 810<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">C<font size=\"2\">OOMOOD <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And afterwards ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Coomood, we will not think of afterwards<br \/>\nIn Dongurh, in (he springtide.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Tomorrow dawns<br \/>\nThe seventh morning, Comol.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I did not hear you.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Are these our hunters ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I have a better aim<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Than yours.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Enter Prithuraj and Ishany.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">RITHURAJ<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Did I deny it ?<b> <\/b> Oh, you shoot<br \/>\nRight through the heart.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I&#8217;ll never marry one<br \/>\nWhom I outdo at war or archery.<br \/>\nYou tell me you are famous Martund&#8217;s son,<br \/>\nThe mighty Gehlote. Wherefore lurk you then<br \/>\nIn unapproachable and tangled woods<br \/>\nWarding off glory with your distant shafts,<br \/>\nWhile life sweeps past in the loud vale below ?<br \/>\nNot breast the torrent, not outbrave its shocks<br \/>\nTo carve your names upon the rocks of Time<br \/>\nIndelibly?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">RITHURAJ<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">We will affront, Ishany,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 811<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">The Ganges yet with a victorious gleam<br \/>\nOf armour. But our fates are infant still<br \/>\nAnd in their native thickets they must wait<br \/>\nTo flesh themselves and feel their lion strengths<br \/>\nBefore they roar abroad.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Until they do,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Talk not of love.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">RITHURAJ<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">What would you have me do ?<br \/>\nO&#8217;erbear in arms the Scythian Toraman,<br \/>\nAnd slay the giant Hooshka ? Meet Ichalgurh<br \/>\nAnd come unharmed, or with my single sword<br \/>\nSay halt to a proud score of the best lances<br \/>\nYou have in Edur ? This and more I can<br \/>\nFor thee, Ishany.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">You talk, but do it first.<br \/>\nDoers were never talkers, Prithuraj.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">RITHURAJ<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Oh, that&#8217;s a narrow maxim. Noble speech<br \/>\nIs a high prelude fit for noble deeds;<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><b>It<\/b> is the lion&#8217;s roar before he leaps.<br \/>\nProud eloquence graces the puissant arm<br \/>\nAnd from the hall of council to the field<br \/>\nWas with the great and iron men of old<br \/>\nTheir natural stepping.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">You only roar as yet.<br \/>\nI beat you with the bow today; sometime<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll fight you with the sword and beat you.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 812<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">RITHURAJ<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Will you?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Just as your lady did ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">She played, she played,<br \/>\nBut I would aim in earnest at your heart.<br \/>\nOne day we&#8217;ll fight and see.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">RITHURAJ<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Why, if we do,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll claim a conqueror&#8217;s right on your sweet body,<br \/>\nIshany.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And my heart ? You must do more,<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ll have that.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">RITHURAJ<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">It cannot now be long<br \/>\nBefore the mailed heel of Edur rings<br \/>\nUpon our hill-side rocks. Then I&#8217;ll deserve it.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Till then you are my fellow hunter only,<br \/>\nNot yet my captain.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Enter Nirmol.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">IRMOL <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Idlers and ne&#8217;er-do-weels, home! Here have I carried twelve<br \/>\nfull jars from the spring, set wood on the stove, kindled the fire,<br \/>\nwhile you play gracefully the sylvan gadabouts. Where is the<br \/>\nvenison ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">RITHURAJ<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Travelling to the cooking-pot on a Bheel&#8217;s black shoulders.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 813<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">IRMOL <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">In your service, Ishany! or you shall not taste the stag you have<br \/>\nhunted.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">SHANY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Child, do not tyrannize. I am as hungry with this hunting as a<br \/>\nbeef-swallowing Scythian.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Exit.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">IRMOL<br \/>\n\tCUMARY<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Off with you, hero, and help, her with your heroic shoulders.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Exit Prithuraj.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A pair of warlike lovers!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">IRMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">You are there, sister-truants? Have you no occupation but to<br \/>\nlurk in leaves and eavesdrop upon the prattle of lovers ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Why, Nirmol,<b> <\/b>I did my service before I came.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">IRMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Yes, I know! To sweep one room\u2014oh, scrupulously clean,<br \/>\nfor is it not Bappa&#8217;s ? and to scrub his armour for a long hour<br \/>\ntill it is as bright as your eyes grow when they are looking at<br \/>\nBappa, \u2014 do they not, Coomood ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">They do, like stars allowed to gaze at God.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">IRMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Exact! I have seen her \u2014<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Nirmol, I do not know how many twigs there are in the forest,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 814<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">but I will break them all on your back, if you persevere.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">IRMOL <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Do you think you are princess of Edur here that you threaten me ?<br \/>\nNo, we are in the democracy of Spring where all sweet flowers<br \/>\nare equals. Oh, I will be revenged on you for your tyrannies in<br \/>\nEdur. I have seen her, Coomood, when she thought none was<br \/>\nlooking, lay her cheek wistfully against the hilt of his sword,<br \/>\ntrying to think that the cold hard iron was the warm lips of its<br \/>\nmaster and hers. I have seen her kiss it furtively \u2014<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(embracing and stopping her mouth)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Hush, hush, you wicked romancer.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">IRMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Go then and cook our meal like a good<br \/>\nprincess and I will promise not to repeat all the things I have heard you murmur to<br \/>\nyourself when you were alone.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Nirmol, you grow in wickedness with years.<br \/>\nWait till I have you back in Edur, maiden;<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I&#8217;ll scourge this imp of mischief out of you.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">IRMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I have heard her, Coomood, \u2014<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I am off, I am away! I am an arrow from Kodal&#8217;s bow.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Exit.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">IRMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">She is hard to drive, but I have the whip-hand of her.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Have you the crimson sandal-powder ready?<br \/>\nFlowers for the garlands Spring in sweet abundance<br \/>\nProvides us.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 815<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">IRMOL <\/font>C<font size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Yes. She shall be wedded first<br \/>\nBefore she knows it.    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMOOD<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Unless my father&#8217;s sword<br \/>\nStriking us through the flowery walls we hide in,<br \/>\nPrevent it, .Nirmol.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">IRMOL<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UMARY<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 100pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Coomood, our fragile flowers will weave<br \/>\nA bond that steel cannot divide, nor death<br \/>\nDissever.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Exeunt.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span style=\"letter-spacing: 1pt;font-weight: 700\"><br \/>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Curtain<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 816<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-07_Collected Plays Part-II_Volume-07\/_images\/817a.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"561\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">Facsimile of the previous page from P<font size=\"2\">RINCE<br \/>\nOF <\/font>E<font size=\"2\">DUR<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 817<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act Three &nbsp; The forest near Dongurh. &nbsp; &nbsp;SCENE I &nbsp; Comol, Coomood, meeting in the forest. 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