Act Five SCENE I Outside the King's tents near Pratisthana. In the background the confluence of the river Ganges and Yamuna. -Manavaka alone. MANAVAKA After long pleasuring with Urvasie In Nandan and all woodlands of the Gods, Our King's at last returned, and he has entered His city, by the jubilant people met With splendid greetings, and resumed his toils. Ah, were he but a father, nothing now Were wanting to his fullness. This high day At confluence of great Ganges with the stream Dark Yamuna, he and his Queen have bathed. Just now he passed into his tent, and surely His girls adorn him. I w

SCENE V In the forest. Pratap, Ruttan and Rajpoots. OUTSIDE Bappa! Bappa! Ho, Sheva Ekling! An arrow descends and a Rajpoot/alls. RUTTAN Still upwards! ICHALGURH Upwards still! Death on the height Seats crowned to meet us', downwards is to dishonour And that's no Rajpoot movement. Brother Ruttan, We're strangled with a noose intangible. O my brave Rajpoots, by my headlong folly Led to an evil death! RUTTAN What is this weakness, Chouhan of famous Ichalgurh ? Remember Thyself, my brother. But a little more And we have reached their wasps'-nest on the hills. ICHALGURH Not

The Door at Abelard THE village of Streadhew lay just under the hill, a collection of brown solid cottages straggling through the pastures, and on the top of the incline Abelard with its gables and antique windows watched the road wind and drop slowly to the roofs of Orringham two miles away. For many centuries the house and the village had looked with an unchanged face on a changing world, and in their old frames housed new men and manners, while Orringham beyond adapted itself and cast off its mediaeval slough. The masters of Abelard lived with the burden of a past which they could not change. Stephen Abelard of Abelard, the last male of his line, had lived i

Act Three SCENE I Bassora. Ibn Sawy's House. A room in the outer apartments decorated for a banquet. Doonya, Anice-Aljalice, Balkis. DOONYA Lord, how they pillage! Even the furniture Cannot escape these Djinns. Ogre Ghaneem Picks up that costly chain between his teeth And off to his castle; devil Ayoob drops That table of mosaic in his pocket; Zeb sweeps off rugs and couches in a whirlwind. What purse will long put up with such ill-treatment? BALKIS It must be checked. DOONYA 'Tis much that he has kept His promise to my uncle. Oh, he's sound! These villains spoil him. Anice

Act Two Scene - I MANAVAKA Listen, you dreamer! Are you deaf? I tell you I have found a way: PURURAVAS Speak on. MANAVAKA Woo sleep that marries men with dreams, Or on a canvas paint in Urvasie And gaze on her for ever. URVASIE (aside) O sinking coward heart, now, now revive. PURURAVAS And either is impossible. For look! How can I, with this rankling wound of love, Call to me sleep who marries men with dreams ? And if I paint the sweetness of her face, Will not the tears, before it is half done, Blurring my gaze with mist, blot the dear vision ? CHITRA

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SCENE III Ibn Sawy's house. The upper chambers of the women's apartments, Doonya, sleeping on a couch. Enter Nureddene and Anice-Aljalice. NUREDDENE I told you 'twas the morning. ANICE-ALJALICE Morning so early? This moment 'twas the evening star; is that The matin lustre ? NUREDDENE There is a star at watch beside the moon Waiting to see you ere it leaves the skies. Is it your sister Peri ? ANICE-ALJALICE It is our star And guards us both. NUREDDENE It is the star of Anice, The star of Anice-Aljalice who came From Persia guided by its silver beams In

SCENE II The palace in Bassora. Alzayni, Murad, Almuene, Ajebe. ALZAYNI I like your nephew well and will advance him. For what's twixt you and Murad, let it sleep. You are both my trusty counsellors. ALMUENE A nothing, I grieve I pressed; forget it, noble Murad. MURAD That's as you please. ALMUENE Come, you're my nephew too. VOICE OUTSIDE Ho, Mahomed Alzayni, Sultan, Ho! ALZAYNI Who is that Arab? ALMUENE (at the window) God! 'tis Nureddene. Impossible! ALZAYNI Or he is courage-mad. ALMUENE 'Tis he.

THE PRINCE OF MATHURA This seems to be a first version of Prince of Edur PERSONS OF DRAMA AJAMEDE, Prince of Mathura, a fugitive in the mountains. INDRADYUMNA, his friend and comrade. ATRY, King of Mathura, by the help. of the Scythians. TORAMAN, Prince of Cashmere, son of the Scythian, warlord of the North West. CANACA, his Brahmin, his court jester. HOOSHKA, Captain of the Scythian bodyguard. MAYOOR, Atry's general and minister. INDRANY, Queen of Mathura. URMILA, Princess of Mathura, daughter of Atry and Indrany. LILA, daughter of Hooshka. Page – 891 Act One SCENE I Mathur

THE HOUSE OF BRUT Fragment of a Play DRAMATIS PERSONAE BRUTUS, Prince of Britain. DEVON, son of Cormeus. HUMBER, King of Norway. GUENDOLEN, daughter of Cormeus. ESTRILD, A Pictish princess, concubine of Humber. Page – 883 Act Two SCENE I The camp of Humber. Humber, Offa, Norwegians. HUMBER Drinkhael, dragons and stormwinds of the sea! (Drinks) Spare not to drain this sweetened juice of earth, You Vikings! How it bubbles to the lips Vigorous as newspilt blood. Drink deep, and shout "Glory to Thor and Humber!" With the sun Upon the force of Albanact we march.