{"id":756,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=756"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:13","slug":"22-vasavadutta-act-one-scene-2-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\/22-vasavadutta-act-one-scene-2-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","title":{"rendered":"-22_Vasavadutta-Act One-Scene-2.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\">\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>SCENE II<\/b><\/font><b><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/b><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>A hall in the palace at Cowsambie.<br \/>\nYougundharayan, Roomunwath.<\/i><\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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\">I see his strength lie covered sleeping in<br \/>\nflowers;<\/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 is a greatness hidden in his years.<\/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\">R<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Nourish not such large hopes.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I know too well<br \/>\nThe gliding bane that these young fertile soils<br \/>\nCherish in their green darkness; and my cares<br \/>\nWatch to prohibit the nether snake who writhes<br \/>\nSweet-poisoned, perilous in the rich grass,<br \/>\nLust with the jewel love upon his hood,<br \/>\nWho by his own crown must be charmed, seized, changed<br \/>\nInto a warm great god. I seek a bride<br \/>\nFor Vuthsa.<\/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\">R<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Wisely; but whom?<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">One only lives<br \/>\nSo absolute in her charm that she can keep<br \/>\nHis senses from all straying, the child far-famed<br \/>\nFor gifts and beauty, flower by magic fate<br \/>\nOn a fierce iron stock.<\/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\">R<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Vasavadutta,<br \/>\nAvunthie&#8217;s golden princess! Hope not to mate<br \/>\nThese opposite godheads. Follow Nature&#8217;s prompting,<\/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 215<\/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\">Nor with thy human policy pervert<br \/>\nHer simple ends.<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Nature must flower into art<br \/>\nAnd science, or, else wherefore are we men?<br \/>\nMan out of Nature wakes to God&#8217;s complexities,<br \/>\nTakes her crude simple stuff and by his skill<br \/>\nTurns things impossible into daily miracles.<\/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\">R<font size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH <\/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\">This thing is difficult, and what the gain ?<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<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\">It gives us a long sunlit time for growth;<\/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 we shall raise in her a tender shield<br \/>\nAgainst that iron victor in the west,<br \/>\nThe father&#8217;s heart taking our hard defence<br \/>\nForbid the king-brain in that dangerous man.<br \/>\nThen when he&#8217;s gone, we are his greatness&#8217; heirs<br \/>\nIn spite of his bold Titan sons.<\/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\">R<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">He must<br \/>\nHave fallen from his proud spirit to consent.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Another strong defeat and she is ours.<\/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\">R<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Blow then the conchs for battle.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I await<br \/>\nOccasion and to feel the gods inclined.<\/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>(to Vuthsa entering)<\/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\">My son, thou comest early from thy breezes.<\/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 216<\/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\">V<font size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/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\">The dawn has spent her glories and I seek<\/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\">Alurca and Vasuntha for the harp<\/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 chanted verse and lyric ease until<\/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\">The golden silences of noon arrive.<\/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\">See this strange flower I plucked below the<br \/>\nstream!<\/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\">Each petal is a thought.<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And the State&#8217;s cares,<br \/>\nKing of Cowsambie ?<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Are they not for thee,<br \/>\nMy mind&#8217;s wise father ? Chide me not. See now,<br \/>\nIt is thy fault for being great and wise.<br \/>\nWhat thou canst fashion sovereignly and well,<br \/>\nWhy should I do much worse ?<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And when I pass ?<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Thy passing I forbid.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Vuthsa, thou art<br \/>\nCowsambie&#8217;s king, not time&#8217;s, nor death&#8217;s.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">O then,<br \/>\nThe gods shall keep thee at my strong demand<br \/>\nTo be the aged minister of my sons.<br \/>\nThis they must hear.<b> <\/b> Of what use are the gods<br \/>\nIf they crown not our just desires on earth ?<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Well, play thy time. Thou art a royal child,<\/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 217<\/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\">And though young Nature in thee dallies<br \/>\nlong,<br \/>\nI trust her dumb and wiser brain that sees<br \/>\nWhat our loud thoughts can never reason out,<br \/>\nNot thinking life. She has her secret calls<br \/>\nAnd works divinely behind play and sleep,<br \/>\nShaping her infant powers.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I may then go<br \/>\nAnd listen to Alurca with his harp ?<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Thy will<br \/>\nIn small things train, Udayan, in the great<br \/>\nMake it a wrestler with the dangerous earth.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/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\">My will is for delight. They are not<br \/>\nbeautiful,<br \/>\nThis State, these schemings. War is beautiful<br \/>\nAnd the bright ranks of armoured men and steel<br \/>\nThat singing kisses steel and the white flocking<br \/>\nOf arrows that are homing birds of war.<br \/>\nWhen shall we fight again?<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">When battle ripens.<br \/>\nAnd what of marriage? Is it not desired?<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<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\">O no, not yet! At least I think, not yet.<\/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 tell thee a strange thing, my father. I<br \/>\nshudder,<\/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 know it is with rapture, at the thought<\/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 women&#8217;s arms, and yet I dare not pluck<\/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\">The joy. I think, because desire&#8217;s so 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\">That the mere joy might seem quite crude and<br \/>\npoor<\/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 spoil the sweetness. My father, is it so<br \/>\n?<\/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 218<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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\">Perhaps. Thou hast desire for women then?<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<\/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 is for every woman and for none.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<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\">One day perhaps thou shalt join war with<br \/>\nwedlock<br \/>\nAnd pluck out from her guarded nest by force<br \/>\nThe wonder of Avunthie, Vasavadutta.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/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\">A name of leaping sweetness I have heard!<br \/>\nOne day I shall behold a marvellous face<br \/>\nAnd hear heaven&#8217;s harps defeated by a voice.<br \/>\nDo the gods whisper it? Dreams are best awhile.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">These things we shall consider.<\/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\">ARINACA<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(entering)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Hail, Majesty!<br \/>\nA high-browed wanderer at the portals seeks<br \/>\nAdmittance. Tarnished is he with the road,<br \/>\nAlone, yet seems a mighty prince&#8217;s son.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Bring him with honour in. Such guests I<br \/>\nlove.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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\"><b>We<\/b> should know first what soul is<br \/>\nthis abroad<br \/>\nAnd why he comes.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">We&#8217;ll learn that from his lips.<\/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 219<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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\">Hope not to hear truth often in royal<br \/>\ncourts.<br \/>\nTruth! Seldom with her bright and burning wand<br \/>\nShe touches the unwilling lips of men<br \/>\nWho lust and hope and fear. The gods alone<br \/>\nPossess her. Even our profoundest thoughts<br \/>\nAre crooked to avoid her and from her touch<br \/>\nCrawl hurt into their twilight, often hating her<br \/>\nToo bright for them as for our eyes the sun.<br \/>\nIf she dwells here, it is with souls apart.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">All men were not created from the mud.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<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\">See not a son of heaven in every worm.<br \/>\nLook round and thou wilt see a world on guard.<br \/>\nAll life here armoured walks, shut in. Thou too<br \/>\nKeep, Vuthsa, a defence before thy heart.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 120pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Parinaca brings in Gopalaca.<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Which is Udayan, great Cowsambie&#8217;s king?<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">He stands here. What&#8217;s thy need from Vuthsa<br \/>\n? Speak.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Roomunwath, look with care upon this face.<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/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\">Hail, then, Cowsambie&#8217;s majesty, well borne<br \/>\nThough in a young and lovely vessel! Hail!<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/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\">Thou art some great one surely of this earth<br \/>\nWho com&#8217;st to me to live guest, comrade, friend,<\/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 220<\/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\">Perhaps much more.<\/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\">G<font size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I have fought against thee, king.<br \/>V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/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\">The better! I am sure thou hast fought well.<br \/>\nCom&#8217;st thou in peace or strife ?<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">In peace, O king,<\/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 as thy suppliant.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Ask; I long to give.<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA<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\">Know first my name.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Thy eyes, thy face I know.<br \/>G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/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 am Gopalaca, Avunthie&#8217;s son,<br \/>\nOnce thy most dangerous enemy held on earth.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/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\">A mighty name thou speakest, prince, nor one<br \/>\nTo supplications tuned. Yet ask and have.<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Thou heard&#8217;st me well? I am thy foeman&#8217;s<br \/>\nson.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/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\">And therefore welcome more to Vuthsa&#8217;s<br \/>\nheart.<br \/>\nFoemen! they are our playmates in the fight<br \/>\nAnd should be dear as friends who share our hours<br \/>\nOf closeness and desire. Why should they keep<br \/>\nThemselves so distant? Thou the noblest of them all,<br \/>\nThe bravest. I have played with thee, O prince,<\/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 221<\/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\">In the great pastime.<\/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\">G<font size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">This was Vuthsa then!<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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\">And wherefore seeks the son of Mahasegn<br \/>\nHostile Cowsambie ? Or why suppliant comes<br \/>\nTo his chief enemy ?<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I should know that brow.<br \/>\nThis is thy great wise minister ? That is well.<br \/>\nI seek a refuge.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And thou sayst thou art<br \/>\nAvunthie&#8217;s son?<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Because I am his son.<br \/>\nMy father casts me from him and no spot,<br \/>\n<b>Once<\/b> thought my own, will suffer now my tread.<br \/>\nTherefore I come. Vuthsa Udayan, king,<br \/>\nGrant me some hut, some cave upon thy soil,<br \/>\nSome meanest refuge for my wandering head.<br \/>\nBut if thy heart can dwell with fear, as do<br \/>\nThe natures of this age, or feed the snake<br \/>\nSuspicion, over gloomier borders send<br \/>\nMy broken life.<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUNGUNDHARAYAN <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Vuthsa, beware. His words<br \/>\nStrive to conceal their naked cunning.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Prince,<\/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 222<\/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\">What thou demand&#8217;st and more than thou<br \/>\ndemand&#8217;st,<br \/>\nIs without question thine. Now, if thou wilt,<br \/>\nReveal the cause of thy great father&#8217;s wrath,<br \/>\nBut only if thou wilt.<\/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\">G<font size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Because his bidding<br \/>\nRemained undone, my exile was embraced.<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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\">More plainly.<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Ask me not. I am ashamed.<br \/>\nNor should a son unveil his father&#8217;s fault.<br \/>\nThey, even when they tyrannise, remain<br \/>\nMost dear and reverend still, who gave us birth.<br \/>\nThis, Vuthsa, know; against thee I was aimed,<br \/>\nA secret arrow.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Keep thy father&#8217;s counsel.<br \/>\nIf he shoot arrows and thou art that shaft,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll welcome thee into my throbbing breast.<br \/>\nWhat thou hast asked, I sue to thee to take.<br \/>\nThou seek&#8217;st a refuge, thou shalt find a home:<\/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\">Thou fleest a father, here a brother waits<br \/>\nTo clasp thee in his arms.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Too frank, too noble!<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/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\">Come closer. Child of Mahasegn, wilt thou<br \/>\nBe king Udayan&#8217;s brother and his friend ?<br \/>\nThis proud grace wilt thou fling on the bare boon<br \/>\nThat I have given thee? Is it much to ask?<\/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 223<\/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\">G<font size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/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\">To be thy brother was my heart&#8217;s desire.<br \/>\nShod with that hope I came.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Clasp then our hands.<br \/>\nGopalaca, my play, my couch, my board,<br \/>\nMy serious labour and my trifling hours<br \/>\nShare henceforth, govern. All I have is thine.<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Thine is the noblest soul on all the earth.<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA<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\">Frown not, my father. I obey my heart<br \/>\nWhich leaped up in me when I saw his face.<br \/>\n<b>Be<\/b> sure my heart is wise. Gopalaca,<br \/>\nThe sentinel love in man ever imagines<br \/>\nStrange perils for its object. So my minister<br \/>\nExpects from thee some harm. Wilt thou not then<br \/>\nAssure his love and pardon it the doubt ?<\/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\">G<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OPALACA <\/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\">He is a wise deep-seeing statesman, king,<br \/>\nAnd shows that wisdom now. But I will swear,<br \/>\nBut I will prove to thee, thou noble man,<br \/>\nThat dearest friendship is my will to him<br \/>\nThou serv&#8217;st and to work on him proudest love.<br \/>\nIs it enough?<\/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\">V<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">My father, hast thou heard ?<br \/>\nA son of kings swears not to lying oaths.<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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\">It is enough.<\/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 224<\/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\">V<font size=\"2\">UTHSA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Then come, Gopalaca,<br \/>\nInto my palace and my heart.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 120pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>He goes into the palace with Gopalaca.<\/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\">Y<font size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">O life<br \/>\nBesieged of kings! What snare is this ? What charm ?<br \/>\nThere was a falsehood in the Avunthian&#8217;s eyes.<\/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\">R<font size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH <\/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\">He has given himself into his foemen&#8217;s hands<br \/>\nAnd he has sworn. He is a prince&#8217;s son.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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, by his sire; but the pale queen<br \/>\nUngarica<\/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\">Was to a strange inhuman father born<\/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 from dim shades her victor dragged her<br \/>\nforth.<\/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\">R<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH <\/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\">There&#8217;s here no remedy. Vuthsa is ensnared<br \/>\nAs with a sudden charm.<\/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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 96pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I&#8217;ll watch his steps.<br \/>\nKeep thou such bows wherever these two walk<br \/>\nAs never yet have missed their fleeing mark.<\/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\">R<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OOMUNWATH<\/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 was this nobly done on Vuthsa&#8217;s 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\">Y<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">OUGUNDHARAYAN <\/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\"><b>O,<\/b> such nobility in godlike times<br \/>\nWas wisdom, but not to our fall belongs.<br \/>\nSweet virtue now is mother of defeat<br \/>\nAnd baser, fiercer souls inherit earth.<\/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<b><br \/>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">C <i>u r t a i n<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/b>&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 225<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE II &nbsp; A hall in the palace at Cowsambie. 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