{"id":696,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=696"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:47","slug":"29-vasavadutta-act-three-scene-4-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06\/29-vasavadutta-act-three-scene-4-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","title":{"rendered":"-29_Vasavadutta-Act Three-Scene-4.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nSCENE IV <\/font> <\/b>
\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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\n <\/div>\n

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\n <\/div>\n

\nThe tower-room beside the terrace.
\nVuthsa on a couch. <\/i><\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll that I dreamed or heard of her, her charm
\nExceeds. She’s mine! she has shuddered at my touch;<\/p>\n

\nThrice her eyes faltered as they gazed in mine.<\/p>\n

\nHe lies back with closed eyes; <\/i><\/p>\n

\nMunjoolica enters and contemplates him. <\/i><\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nO golden Love! thou art not of this earth.
\nHe too is Vasavadutta’s! All is hers,
\nAs I am now and one day all the earth.
\nVuthsa, thou sleep’st not, then.<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSleep jealous waits
\nFinding another image in my eyes.<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou art disobedient. Wast thou not commanded
\nTo sleep at once?<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSleep disobeys, not I.
\nBut thou too wakest, yet no thoughts should have
\nTo keep thy lids apart.<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHow knowst thou that?
\nI am thy jailor and I walk my rounds.<\/p>\n

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

\nBright jailor, thou art jealous without cause.<\/p>\n

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\nWho would escape from heaven’s golden bars ?
\nThy name is Munjoolica? so is thy form
\nA bower of the graceful things of earth.<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI had another name but it has ceased, .
\nForgotten.<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou wast then Sourashtra’s child ?<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am still that royalty clouded, even as thou art
\nCaptive Cowsambie. Me Gopalaca
\nIn battle seized, brought a disdainful gift
\nTo Vasavadutta.<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSince our fates are one,
\nShould we not be allies?<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor what bold purpose ?<\/p>\n

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

\nHow knowest thou I have one?<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWere I a man!<\/p>\n

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

\nWouldst thou have freedom? wilt thou give me help?<\/p>\n

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

\nIn nothing against her I love and serve.<\/p>\n

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

\nNo, but conspire to serve and love her best<\/p>\n

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\n\u2013 270<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nAnd make her queen of all the Aryan earth.<\/p>\n

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

\nMy payment ?<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nName it thyself, when all is ours.<\/p>\n

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

\nContent; it will be large.<\/p>\n

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

However large.
\n\t
MUNJOOLICA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNow shall I be avenged upon my fate.<\/p>\n

\nI know what thy heart asks; too openly<\/p>\n

\nThou earnest the yearning in thy eyes.<\/p>\n

\nVuthsa, she loves thee as the half-closed bud<\/p>\n

\nThrills to the advent of a wonderful dawn<\/p>\n

\nAnd like a dreamer half-awake perceives<\/p>\n

\nThe faint beginnings of a sunlit world.<\/p>\n

\nDoubt not success more than that dawn must break;<\/p>\n

\nFor she is thine.<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTake my heart’s gratitude
\nFor the sweet assurance.<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am greedy. Only<\/p>\n

\nThy gratitude ?<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat wouldst thou have ?<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe ring<\/p>\n

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\nUpon thy finger, Vuthsa, for my own.<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>(putting it on her finger<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\nIt shall live happier on a fairer hand.<\/p>\n

MUNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSince thou hast paid me instantly and well,
\nI will be zealous, Vuthsa, in thy cause.
\nBut my great bribe is in the future still.<\/p>\n

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

\nClaim it in our Cowsambie.<\/p>\n

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

There indeed.<\/p>\n

Sleep now.<\/p>\n

VUTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBy thy good help I now shall sleep.<\/p>\n

\nMunjoolica goes out.
\n<\/i>Music is sweet; to rule the heart’s rich chords
\nOf human lyres much sweeter. Art’s sublime
\nBut to combine great ends more sovereign still,
\nAccepting danger and difficulty to break
\nThrough proud and violent opposites to our will.
\nSong is divine, but more divine is love.<\/p>\n

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