One-Act Play Collections - Book 4, Part 1 - Free Audiobooks

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
The bicyclers by John Kendrick bangs.
This is a LibriVox recording allLibriVox.
Recordings are in the public domain for more information or
to volunteer, please visit librivox.org.
Characters. Mr. Thaddeus Perkins a beginner

(00:21):
read by Robert Hoffman. Mrs. Thaddeus.
Perkins a resistant read by Elizabeth klett.
Jenny. Read by Christine gee, mr.
Edward Bradley asked offer read by Todd mr.
Robert yards. Lee read by Chuck Williamson.

(00:41):
Mr. Jack Barlow. Another Enthusiast read by David
Lawrence. Mrs. Edward Bradley, an
Enthusiast, read by Amanda Friday.
The scene is laid in the drawingroom of mr.
And mrs. Thaddeus Perkins at number
blank, Gramercy Square. It is late October.

(01:02):
The action begins at 8:30 o'clock on a Moonlight evening,
the curtain Rising discloses. Mr. And mrs.
Perkins sitting together. At right?
Is large window facing on Squareat rear is entrance to drying
room leaning against doorway is a safety bicycle.
Perkins is clad in bicycle Garb.Well, Bess, I'm in for it now.

(01:26):
No mistake. Bob and Jack are coming tonight.
To give me my first lesson biking.
I'm very glad at Thaddeus. I think it will.
Do you a world of good? You've been working too hard of
late and you need relaxation. I know that.
But from what I can gather learning to ride, a wheel isn't
the most stressful thing in the world.

(01:47):
There's a good deal of lying down about it, but it comes with
two, great suddenness that is. So, Charlie choose burrow says
he learned up at the Academy andhe told me that he spent most of
his time making dents in the floor with his head.
Well, I heard differently Emma, Bradley learned there at the
same time, he did. And she said, he spent most of

(02:08):
his time making dents in the floor with other people's heads.
And why really? He drove all the ladies to
wearing those odious psyche knots the time he ran into Emma.
If she hadn't warned her back hair that way she'd a fractured
her skull. They all tell the same story
Barlow said he always wore a beaver hat.

(02:28):
While cheese Borough was on the floor, so that if Charlie ran
into him and he took a header, his brain wouldn't suffer
nevertheless, mr. Cheese.
Borough learned more quickly than anyone else in the class.
So Barlow said, Because he wasn't eternally in his own way
as he was. And everyone else has a ring is
heard at the front door. Ah, I guess that's Bob and Jack

(02:50):
Enter Jenny mr. Bradley mom, Bradley wonder what
the deuce he's come for. He'll guide the life out of me.
Enter Bradley, he wears a dinnercoat.
Brad old chap. How are you?
Glad to see you? Good evening mrs.
Perkins, this your eldest with aknotted Perkins My eldest.

(03:12):
Yes, judge from his talk. That was your boy.
What can it be, you Thaddeus, that's who I am.
Why did you go into short trousers with a feeble laughs
glancing, at his clothes? Oh, these.
I'm taking up the bicycle even if it weren't for the
exhilaration of writing, it's a luxury to wear these clothes.

(03:36):
Old, flannel shirt old coat, oldpair of trousers, shortened to
the knee and golf stockings. I've had these golf stockings,
two years and never had a chanceto wear them.
Until now you've got it bad, haven't you?
How many lessons have you had? None.
Yet fact is just got my wheel, that's it over there by the

(03:56):
door, pneumatic tires tool chestcycle, amateur lamp all for a
hon. What about life insurance?
Did they When a policy for that,they ought to know.
But they would, if I'd insisted competition between makers is so
great, they'll give you almost anything to induce a bargain.

(04:17):
The only thing they really gave me extra is the kayak gun.
The what Kya gun, it shoots dogs.
Dog comes out. Catch a side of your leg,
mistakes it for a bone and grabsa.
Well, I fancy that's about the size of it.
You can't very well get off. So you get out your kayak gun

(04:38):
and shoot ammonia into the beasts face doesn't hurt the
dog, but it gives him something to think of I'll show you how
the thing works gets the gun from toolbox.
This is the deadly weapon and I'm the writer see sits on a
chair with face to back and works imaginary pedal.
Eels, you're the dog. I'm passing the farmyard Bow.

(05:00):
Wow, I don't you spring grabbed me by the bone.
I, I mean the leg poof. I shoot you with the ammonia
suits action to the word. Hi!
Hold on, starting back. Don't squirt?
That infernal stuff at me. My dear boy, get a grip on
yourself. I'm not really a key and why I
don't like bicyclist, their bones are safe for me.

(05:23):
I won't bite you really. I think that's Very ingenious
Arrangement, don't you mr. Bradley, I do indeed, but as
long as they're talking about it, I must say, I think what
Thaddeus really needs is a motorman gun to squirt ammonia,
or he would be R into the faces of those Cable Car fellows.
They're more likely to interferewith him, the dogs.

(05:44):
Don't you think? It's a first-rate idea Brad.
I'll suggest it to my agent. You are what?
Well I call him my agent, although really I've only bought
this one wheel from him. He represents the Czar
manufacturing company. They make czars, do they, with
dignity, they make Wheels. The man who owns the company is

(06:07):
named czar. I refer to him as my agent
because from the moment he learned I thought of buying a
wheel. He came and lived with me, I
couldn't get rid of him. And finally, in self-defense, I
bought this wheel was the only way I could get rid of him.
Aha, that's the milk. In the Coconut, a hadn't force
of mind to get rid of the agent.Couldn't say no, huh, I wonder

(06:31):
why you a man of sense. A man of dignity.
A gentleman should take up with this here, Brad.
I like you very Much. But I must say that a yes by the
way. Mr. Bradley, where is Emma this
evening? I never knew you to be
separated. Before sorrowful e.
This is the first time, mrs. Perkins fact, is we did intended

(06:54):
calling on you tonight and I dressed.
As you see me Emma wasn't properGarb to, but what you saw, what
a beautiful night? It was, she told me to go ahead
and she by jove, it almost makesme weep.
She wasn't taken ill. No, worse.
She said, Ed you go down to the El Al bike.
It's such a splendid night, finepiece of business dis to have a

(07:16):
bicycle come between man and wife is a pretty hard fate.
I think for the one who does ride, then Emma is coming here.
That's the idea on her wheel. Coming down the boulevard across
72nd Street, through the park, downtown Madison across twenty
third down for to 21st, then here, only right that I love

(07:37):
own. I hope Well, sadly, but these
bicyclists have a way of blocking together for all.
I know my beloved, Emma, May, now be coasting down Murray
Hill, escorted by some Bicycle Club from Jersey City.
Oh dear, mr. Bradley.
Oh, it's all right, I assure youmrs.
Perkins perfectly, right and proper.

(07:58):
It's merely part of the exercise.
Don't, you know, there's a hail-fellow-well-met Ness about
enthusiastic bicyclist and Emma is intensely enthusiastic it
gives her a chance. Ants you know and Emma has
always wanted a chance. Independence is a thing she's
been after ever since she got her freedom and now thanks to
the whale. She's got it again and even I

(08:19):
must admit, it's harmless fun and she doesn't get here though.
Looking at his watch, she's had time to come down twice bicycle.
Bells are heard ringing without,maybe that.
Is she now go and see, will you Thaddeus exit Perkins without
that you mrs. Bradley mrs.

(08:39):
And Bradley listened intently. No that's perk.
Got your wheel. Where can she be enter Perkins
with Barlow and yards lie? They both greet mrs.
Perkins, hello, Brad. You going to have a lesson to
dress for it. Aren't you by jove nothing like
a dinner coat for a bicycle ride.

(08:59):
Your coattails. Don't catch into gear severely,
I haven't taken it. Up fact is I don't care for
fads. Have you seen my wife?
Yes saw her the other night at the Academy rides Mighty.
Well to bread, don't wonder. You don't take it up contrast,
you know, a perk fearful thing for a man to have the world.

(09:24):
See how much smarter his wife isthen he is turning to his wheel.
Bradley's a little worried aboutthe non arrival of mrs.
Bradley, she was coming here on our wheel and started the same
time he did. Oh, that's all.
Ned. She knows her wheel.
As long as you know, your business can't come down quite
as fast on the L, particularly these nights just before

(09:47):
election. She may have fallen in, with
some political parade, and is waiting to get across the street
aside. Well, I like that aside, why
it's awful? Or she may possibly have
punctured her tire that would delay, her, 15 or 20 minutes.
Don't worry my dear boy, I showed her how to fix up.

(10:09):
Punctured Tire. Alright, it's simple enough.
You take the rubber thing they give you and fasten it to that
metal thingamabob, Igloo it up, poke it in, pull it out, pump
her up and there you are scornfully.
You told her that did you I did with a mock sigh of relief?
You don't know what a load you taken off my mind.

(10:32):
Hmm Thaddeus looking at his watch it's 9:00 I move.
We go out and have the lesson a the It is just right.
Yes we can't begin to soon. We'll all right I guess so I'm
ready. I'll go out to the corner and
see if there's any sign of mrs. Bradley exit, I do wish Emma
would come gazing out of window for some moments.

(10:55):
I can't understand how women cando these things writing down
here. All alone at night it is
perfectly ridiculous, rolling, perkins's wheel into middle of
Rome, Czar wheel a meekly. Yes.
Best going. They tell me can't compare with
the Alberta has a way of going to pieces like the one ha shay.

(11:16):
Hey, Bob exactly. When you least expect it to
though, the Alberta isn't much better.
You get coasting on either of them and halfway down, bang the
front wheel collapses. Hind wheel flies up and hits you
in the neck. Handlebar turns just in time to
stab you in the chest. And There you are, miles from

(11:40):
home, a physical, moral bicycle wreck, but Arena wheel is
different. In fact, I may say that the only
safe wheel is the arena. That's the one I ride.
However, at $50. This one isn't extravagant, I
paid 100 000. What hundred?

(12:04):
Well, you are a good fellow. It's a pretty wheel anyhow.
Hey, Bob, Simple beauty, is she pumped up, beg your pardon
pumped up tires, full and tight,ready for action.
Support an elephant. Yes.
So my, I mean, the agent said, it was perfect extra nuts.

(12:26):
What extra nuts. Nuts, extra suppose you lose a
nut and your pedal comes off. What are you going to do?
Get a tow because Perkins thinksthis is like going.
To sleep. I don't know anything about it.
What I'm after is information. Only I give you warning, I will
not ride. So as to get round shoulders,

(12:49):
then where's your wrench? Screw up, your bar hoist, your
handles elevate your saddle and you're okay.
What settle have you tapping it?This not very good but we'll try
it. Come on, it's getting late.
They go out. Perkins reluctantly in.
A moment he returns alone and rushing to mrs.

(13:12):
Perkins kisses her affectionately.
Goodbye dearest. Goodbye don't hurt yourself.
That is exit Perkins leaving window and looking at clock on
man tall. 9:10 and Emma not hereyet.
It does seem too bad that she should worry Ed so much just for
independent sake. I'm quite sure I should never

(13:33):
want to ride a wheel. Anyhow, and even if I did and
her yards Lee hurriedly with A piece of flannel in his hand.
I beg. Pardon mrs.
Perkins. But have you a shawl strep in
the house? What is that?
You have in your hand, mr. Yardley That with a glance at
the piece of flannel. Oh, that's the flannel

(14:01):
snatching. The flannel from yard sleaze
hand. The teddy isn't that a piece of
teddys? Teddy shirt.
More than that. Mrs. Perkins, it's the greatest
part of Teddy shirt. That's why we wanted the shawl
strap. When we started him off, you
know, he took his coat off, Jackheld onto the wheel and I took

(14:21):
heady and the fullness of his shirt.
One, two, three teddy put on Steam Parlow, let go Teddy went
off. I held on this is what remained
it ruined the shirt. But Teddy is safe aside barring
about 60 or 70, Bruises with a faint smile, and the shawl

(14:46):
strap. I want to fasten it around.
Teddy's waste, grab hold of the handle and so hold him up.
He's all right, so don't worry, exit, mrs.
Perkins in search of shawl strap.
I guess I'd better not say anything about the ponds
extract. He told me to bring doesn't need

(15:08):
it. Anyhow man's got to get used to
leaving pieces of his ankle boneon the curbstone.
If he wants to learn to ride thewheel only worrier.
If I asked her for it, won't hurt him to suffer a week.
Enter Bradley. Has she come yet?
No, just gone upstairs for a shawl strap.
Shawl strap, who outside? Hurry up with that ponds

(15:32):
extract. Will you?
All right coming? Who who want who was gone?
Upstairs after shawl, strap my wife?
No, no no. Hasn't she got here yet?
It's mrs. Perkins perk fell off just now
and broken to. We want to fast.
Him together outside. Bring out that pump his wheels

(15:55):
flabby enter. Mrs. Perkins with Charles strap,
here it is. What did I hear about ponds
extract? Didn't somebody call for it?
No, no no, not a bit of it. What you heard was a shawl
strap? Sounds like extract.
Very much like it. In fact, but you did say you

(16:16):
want it aside to Bradley body has begged.
Ankle, but he'll get over it in a minute.
She'd only worry the best bicyclers in the world are all
the time, falling off, taking headers and banging their
ankles, poor, Emma enter Barlow where the deuce is that are it

(16:38):
is grasping him by the arm and pushing him out the ex trap.
Just what we wanted aside to Bradley, go down to the
drugstore and get a bottle of ponds.
Will you heh? Asset walking to window.
She can't be long in coming now.I guess I'll go out to the
corner again aside. Best bicyclers, always smashing,

(17:01):
ankles falling off taking headers.
If I ever get hold of Emma again, rushes out.
I'll see what which will ride. That seems to have made these
men crazy. I never saw such strange
behavior and all my life. The telephone Bell Rings.
What can that be goes to phone? Which stands just outside parlor
door? Hello?

(17:23):
What? Yes, this is 1181.
Yes, who are you? What Emma?
Oh dear I'm so glad are you alive?
Where are you? What?
Where the police station turningfrom?
Telephone Thaddeus, mr. Barlow, mr.

(17:45):
Yardley into telephone. Hello.
What for what riding without a lamp arrested at 42nd Street
want to be bailed out. Drops receiver.
Her rushes into parlor and throws herself on sofa to think
of it. Emma, Bradley telephone Bell.

(18:08):
Rings violently again, mrs. Perkins goes to it.
Hello. Yes.
Tell Ed, what? To ask for mrs.
Willoughby Hawkins. Who she?
What you drops? The receiver runs to window.

(18:29):
That is mr. Yardley, mr.
Barlow. All of you come here quick, they
rush in Perkins was Charles strap about his waist.
Limping Barlow has large air pump in his hand, mrs.
Perkins grows, faint, great Heavens.
What's the matter? Get some water, quick yards.
Lee runs for water air. Give me air, don't stand there

(18:54):
like an idiot grabbing pump fromBarlow's hand.
Ah, she wants are places pump onfloor and begins to Pump Air at
her. Who's the idiot.
Now, we went over to the window.She's not a bicycle.
They do sell mrs. Perkins revives.
What is the matter? Mrs. Willoughby Hawkins arrested

(19:15):
42nd Street. No, lamp bailed out.
Oh, dear me, dear me. It'll be in all the papers.
What's that got to do with us? Who's mrs.
Willowby Hawkins. Emma, assumed name good.
Lord, mrs. Bradley in jail.
This is a nice piece of ow. My ankle my ankle, enter,

(19:39):
Bradley and yards lie at the same time.
Bradley with bottle of ponds, extract yards lie with glass of
water where the deuce did. You fellows go to?
I've been wandering all over thesquare looking for you.
Your wife. What dropping bottle?
What about her hurt worse killed.

(20:03):
In jail. No bail wants to be limped out.
Good Heavens. Where when what?
Next where's my head? What are the baby say?
I must go to her once. Hold on old man, let me go up,
you're too excited. I know the police captain, you
stay here and I'll run up and fix it with him.

(20:24):
If you go, you'll find out who mrs.
Hawkins is, you'll get mad and things will be worse than ever.
But no, but my dear boy you juststay where you are yd Lee's
right, it would be an awful grind on you.
If this ever became known Bob can fix it up in two minutes
with the captain and mrs. Bradley can come right back with

(20:47):
him. Besides he can get there in five
minutes on his wheel. It will take you 20 on the cars.
Precisely. Meanwhile Brad you'd better
learn to ride the wheel so that mrs.
Be won't have to ride alone. This ought to be a lesson to
you. Holy idea, robbing his ankle,

(21:08):
you can use my wheel tonight. I think I've had enough for the
present aside. The Pavements aren't soft enough
for me and oh, Lord. What a stoic curb that was.
I never thought I'd get so low. Well, it seems to me that a man
with a wife in jail. Neaten be too stuck up to ride a

(21:29):
bicycle but bye-bye, I'm off exit.
Poor Emma out for freedom and lands in jail.
What hoard things policemen are to arrest a woman, sir her
right? If woman won't obey the law,
they ought to be arrested the same as men, if she wasn't my
wife, I'd like to see her send up for 10 years or even 20

(21:51):
years. Women have got no business.
You don't get mad bread. If you knew the fascination of
the wheel, you wouldn't blame her a bit coming down.
Well, I suppose, it has some fascination.
Just to escape further lessons. Oh indeed.
It's a most exhilarating sensation you seem to be flying
like a bird over the highways try it.

(22:12):
Ned, go on right away. You don't know how that little
ride I had graced me up here, here that there's a man who's
written, only eight inches on all his life and he says he felt
like a bird aside. Yes.
Like a spring chicken split openfor broiling.
Next time I write a wheel to be four-wheel.

(22:33):
Wheels with a horse. Fastened in front.
Oh my. Oh my, I believe, I've broken my
back to lies down. You seem to be exhilarated Daddy
has bracing up. Oh, I am, I am.
Never felt worse. That is better.
Come on bread. I'll show you the trick in two,

(22:53):
jiffies, it'll relieve. You're worried about Madam to
very well. I suppose there's no way out of
it, only let me know. As soon as Emma arrives, will
you? Yes.
We Will they go out as they disappear through the door?
Thaddeus groans allowed. Why?
What is the matter dear? Are you hurt?
Oh no, not at all my love. I was only thinking of mr.

(23:15):
Darlie's indignation tomorrow, when he sees the whole I made in
his curbstone with my ankle, oh,wow.
And as for my back, well I don'tthink the whole spine is gone.
I shouldn't be surprised. If it had come through in
sections, why you poor thing? Why didn't you say why didn't I
say my Heavens best, what did you think?

(23:37):
I wanted ponds extract for to drink or to water the street
with oh Lord. Lord holding up his arm.
There aren't any ribs sticking out?
Are there outside the other way?There?
That's it. You've got it outside.
Why? This is easy?
Isn't it easy that fellow would find comfort in your off?

(23:59):
Not too fast, walking to the window?
Why Thaddeus he's going like thewind down the street Heaven,
help him when he comes to the river.
Rushing, in here, we are in trouble.
Again, Brad's got off in my wheel.
I'm taking his and your tire is punctured.
He doesn't know the first thing about turning or stopping and I

(24:19):
can't run fast enough to catch him.
One member of the family is in jail.
The other on a runaway wheel yards Lee appears at door
assumes attitude of Butler announcing gassed.
This is Willoughby Atkins enter mrs.
Bradley hysterical. Oh Edward throws herself into
Barlow's arms. Excuse me, mrs.

(24:42):
Hawkins. Bradley, but I'm not, I'm not
your husband looking up tragically, where's that word?
Sit down, dear, you must be completely worn out in alarm.
Where is he fact is mrs. Bradley rising and standing on
one leg. We don't know.
He disappeared ten minutes ago. What do you mean disappeared?

(25:06):
Yes, he went East at the rate ofabout a mile.
A minute. My husband went East my I'll a
minute yes on a bike yards. Lee take me by the shawl strap
will you? It helped me over to that chair
my back hurts so I can't lie down.
Ned on a wheel. Why?
He can't ride. Oh yes he can.

(25:28):
What I'm afraid of is that he can't stop writing outside.
That's his voice. He called for help.
Rushing to window. Hi Brad.
Stop your wife's here in distance.
Yes. By jove leaning out of window,

(25:52):
he's turned the corner. Alright, if he keeps on round
we'll catch him next time he passes.
Oh, do do. Stop him.
I'm so afraid he'll be hurt looking out.
I can just see him on the other side of the square.
And oh, dear me, his lamp is out.
Oh mr. Yardley mr.
Barlow, mr. Perkins do stop him by this time

(26:14):
all are gazing out of window except Perkins, who is nursing
his ankle. I guess not, I'm not going to
lie down in the road or sit in the road or stand in the road to
stop him or anybody else. I don't believe.
I've got a sound bone left, but if I have, I'm going to save it.
If Bradley, kills himself, if his lamps out, the police will

(26:37):
stop him. Why not be satisfied with that?
Passing the window For Heaven's Sake.
What are you fellows? Stop me.
Put on the brake fall off. It hasn't Break despairingly in
distance. This is frightful yes with a

(26:58):
Grimace at his ankle. But, there are other fearful
things in this world. I shall go crazy.
If he isn't stopped, he'll kill himself, I have it leaving
window hurriedly got a length ofclothes line.
Mrs. Perkins, what the Dickens, yes, she rushes from the room,
what for, I'll lasso him. Next time he comes around, there

(27:20):
will be two of us with a grin. We can start a hospital on the
top floor. Or returning here, here's the
line yards. Lee takes it hurriedly and tying
it into a noose. Hastens out Rising.
If I never walk again, I must see this limps to window.
He's coming mr. Yardley, don't miss him steady

(27:41):
Bob, get in the light. Suppose it catches his neck,
this beats the wild west show a crash, he's all rush out, except
Perkins, oh yes, he learned in aThat he did easy huh?
Dad it almost makes me. Forget my pain enter all asking

(28:02):
is he hurt? How do you feel Etc?
Yards Lee has rope and in right hand noose is title bout
Bradley's body. His coat and clothing are much
the worse for wear poor. Dear Edward Joel.
Oh, don't mind me weakly kissingher.
I'm all right. Only a little accelerated and

(28:23):
somewhat somewhat What breathless?
Feel like a bird on toast yards away, You're a brick, but that
pavement, that was a pile of on and the hardest I ever
encountered. I always thought asphalt was
soft, who said, asphalt was softeasy to learn, though.
A too easy. I'd have gone on forever.

(28:45):
If it hadn't been for Bob, I'll give it up.
Ned dear. If you say so affectionately,
that's sweet of you, Emma. No indeed you want for I rather
like it while it's going on and when I learned to get off which
you will very shortly. You bet he's a Dandy.
I taught him. I think I'll adore it.

(29:06):
Buyers are wheel Brad best in the market.
Well, he's only 20 pounds. I've got one with a chi, a pump
and a Pneumatic gun. You can have for $10 at the
door. Subway, Surf, ma'am exit.
Let us go out and restore our nerves.
Come Emma. She and mrs.
Bradley walk out aside. I say Brad, you owe me five.

(29:30):
What for Dale cheap to very, I think he ought to open a bottle
besides. I'll attend to the bottles will
have 32 will be enough 32 of Fizz for you and Bob and the
ladies. And if Bradley will agree, I'll
split a quart of ponds extract with him.
I'll go you. I think I could take care of the

(29:52):
whole Court myself, then we'll make it for Bottles appearing at
door with her arm about mrs. Bradley, aren't you coming as
fast as we can? My dear Rising with difficulty.
We've been taking lessons, you know, and can't move as rapidly
as the rest of you were a trifle.
A trifle tired yards, lie yuto, Bradley into the dining-room and

(30:14):
Barlow. Kindly pretend I'm a shawl, will
you and Carry Me In? I'll buy a wheel tomorrow.
Don't Brad, I, I'll give you mine.
Mine fact is old man. I don't exactly like feeling
like a bird. They go out and as the last
Perkins and Bradley disappear, stiffly through the port EA's,

(30:34):
the curtain Falls and of the bicyclers by John Kendrick
bangs. The dark Lady of the sonnets by
Bernard Shaw. This is a LibriVox recording all

(30:57):
LibriVox. Recordings are in the public
domain for more information or to volunteer, please visit
librivox.org. Narrator Red by Chris Marcellus.
The beef eater and the Warder read by Elizabeth klett.
The man William Shakespeare readby algy pug.

(31:19):
The Lady Queen Elizabeth read byChristine menza the dark lady
read by capricia Page. The dark Lady of the sonnets
fantasy Eckler, fifteen to sixteen hundred midsummer night
on the Terrace of the palace at Whitehall overlooking.
The Thames. The palace clock Chimes, four

(31:40):
quarters and Strikes. Eleven a Beefeater on guard.
A cloaked man approaches stand. Who goes there?
Give the word Maddie. I cannot I have clean forgotten
it. Then you cannot pass here.
What is your business? Who are you?
Are you a true? Man bar from McMaster water.

(32:01):
I'm not the same man, two days together.
Sometimes, Adam sometimes Benvolio, and Anon the ghost, a
ghost angels, and Ministers of Grace defend us well, said,
Master water with your leave, I will sit that down in writing
for. I have a very poor and unhappy
brain for remembrance. He takes out his tablets and

(32:23):
rights. You think this is a good scene
with you on your learning watch and I approaching like a ghost
in the Moonlight still not so amazingly at me.
But Mark, what I say I keep truth here tonight with a dark
lady, she promised to bribe the water.
I gave her the way with all fourtickets for the Globe, Theater.

(32:46):
Slay gonna she gave me two, onlydetaching, a tablet, my friend
present, his tablet. And you'll, Be welcomed at any
time when the plays of William Shakespeare are in hand.
Bring your wife, bring your friends, bring the whole
Garrison. There is ever plenty of room.
I cannot for these newfangled plays, no man can understand a

(33:09):
word of them. They are all talk.
Well you're not giving me a passfor the Spanish tragedy to see
the Spanish tragedy. One page, my friend here are the
means he gives him a piece of gold gold.
Old. Oh sir.
You are a better paymaster than your dark lady.

(33:29):
Women are thrifty my friend to Sosa and you have to consider
that the most open-handed of us.Must Ian cheapen that which we
buy every day. This lady has to make a present
to a warden. I every night of her life
turning pale. Oh, not believe it.
Now you sir I dare be sworn do not have an adventure like this

(33:50):
twice in the year. Villain would tell me that my
dark lady has ever done this before that she maketh occasions
to meet other men. Now the Lord bless your innocent
sir. Do you think you're the only
pretty man in the world? A marry Lady, sir.
A warm bit of stuff. Go to, I'll not see her pass a
deceit. On a gentleman that have given

(34:11):
me. The first piece of gold.
I ever handled Master water. Is it not a strange thing?
That we knowing that all women are fools.
Should be amazed to find our ownparticular drab.
No better than the rest not all sir decent bodies many of them
know all false all is I'll deny it thou liest you judge too much

(34:33):
by the court sir there indeed you may say a Frailty that it's
name is woman. Pulling out his tablets again
pretty say that again that aboutfrailty the strain of music.
What You have music. So I'm no musician.
God knows there is music in yoursoul.
Many of your degree have it verynotably writing Frailty.

(34:56):
Thy name is woman. Thy name is woman.
Well sir, it is but forwards. Are you a snapper up of such
unconsidered Trifles. Napa up of immortal phrase, he
writes it down. This man is a greater than I you
have. My Lord pembroke's trickster

(35:18):
like enough, he is my dear friend.
But what called you his trick making sonnets by Moonlight and
do the same lady to know last night.
He stood here on your errand andin your shoes thou too Brutus
and I called him friend is ever so sir, he's ever.

(35:40):
So twas episode, he turns away overcome to Gentlemen of Verona.
Judas Judas. Is he so bad?
Is that sir? Recovering his charity and
self-possession bad? Oh no human Master water-human
we call one another names when we are offended is children do

(36:02):
that is all. Aye sir words words words, Mia,
wind sir, we fill our bellies with the East Wind sir as the
scripture hath. It you cannot feed capons so a
good Cadence. It's by your leave, he makes a
note of it. What manner of thing is a

(36:22):
Cadence, sir. I have not heard of it.
I think to rule the world with friend, you speak strangely sir,
no offense, but aren't like, you, you are a very civil
gentleman and a poor man feels drawn to you.
You being asked, we're willing to share your thought with him.
This is my trade, but alas, the world for the most part will not

(36:44):
under my thoughts. Lamp light streams from the
palace door as it opens from within.
Here Comes Your lady sir, I'll do two other end my ward.
You may even take your time about your business.
I shall not return to, suddenly,unless my sergeant comes
prowling round. It is a fell Sergeant sir strict
in his arrest. Good denser.

(37:07):
And good luck. He goes, Strict in his arrest
filled. Sergeant.
Oh, He makes a note of them. A cloaked lady gropes her away
from the palace and wanders, along the Terrace walking in her
sleep. Rubbing her hands.
As if washing them out, damned spot, you will Mar all with

(37:31):
these Cosmetics. God made you one face and you
make yourself another think of your grave woman not ever of
being beautified. All the perfumes of Arabia will
not whiten this tutor hand. All the perfumes of Arabia.
Beautified. Beautified a poem in a single

(37:54):
word. Can this be by Mary to the lady?
Why do you speak in a strange voice?
And at a poetry, for the first time are you ailing?
You walked like the dead. Mary Mary, echoing him, Mary
Mary, who would have thought that woman to have had so much

(38:17):
blood in her? Is it my fault that my
counselors put Deeds of blood onme fi, if you were women, you
would have more wit than to stain the floor.
So far really, hold not up her head.
So the hair is false. I tell you yet, again, Mary's

(38:38):
buried. She cannot come out of her
grave. I fear her, not these cats that
dare jump into Thrones though they be fit.
Only for men's laps must be put away.
What's done cannot be undone out.
I say, Phi a queen And freckled shaking her arm midi, I say, how

(39:04):
to sleep, the lady wakes starts,and nearly faints.
He catches her on his arm. Where am I?
What art thou? I cry.
You Mercy, I hadn't stuck your person or this while he thought
you were my Mary and my mistressprofane fellow.

(39:27):
How do you dare be not wroth with me lady.
My mistress is a marvelous proper woman but she does not
speak so well as you all the perfumes of Arabia, That was
well, said spoken with a good accent and excellent discretion.
Have I been in speech with you here, right?

(39:48):
Yes. Fair lady.
Have you forgot it? I have walked in my sleep walk
ever. In your sleep Fair 14, then your
words drop. Like honey, no you to whom you
speak sir that you dare express yourself.
So softly, not I not care. Neither you are some lady of the

(40:08):
Court be like To me, there are two sorts of women.
Those with excellent voices, Sweet and Low, and cackling.
Hens, that cannot make me dream.Your voice has all manner of
loveliness in it. Grudge me, not a short, our
average music. Sir, you are over bold season.

(40:28):
Your admiration for a while. With holding up his hand to stop
her season. Your admiration for a while.
Hello. Do you dare mimic me to my Face
is music. Can you not hear when a good
musician? Sings the song through, you're
not seeing it and seeing it again.
Do you have a court and fixed? It's perfect.

(40:49):
Melody season, your admiration for a while God, the history of
man's heart is in that one word,admiration, admiration taking up
his tablets, what was it? Suspend your admiration, for a
space? A very vile.
I love s's I said season, your season, I season season season,

(41:17):
playground my memory, my Richardmemory.
I must e'en. Write it down.
He begins to write, but stops his memory failing him, you tell
me which was the vile jingle. You said, very justly, minor Nia
caught it even as my false tongue said it, you said for a
space. I said for a while for a while,

(41:41):
he corrects it good. I don't know, B, minor, neither
for a space nor a while. But forever Todd's, my life, are
you by chance, making love to me, knave.
Nay did you who have made the love?
I would pour it out at your feet, I cannot but love a less
that such store by an apt word, therefore vouchsafe Divine

(42:06):
Perfection of a woman. I know I've said that before
somewhere and the wordy gamut ofmy love for, you must be fire
new. You talk too much sir.
Let me warn you. I am more accustomed to be
listened to then preached at themost alike that that do talk
well. But do you speak with the

(42:27):
tongues of angels as indeed you do year to know that?
I am the king of words. A king, huh?
No less. We are poor things, we men and
women. Dare you call me woman what
nobler name. Can I tend to you?
How else could I love you yet? You may well shrink from the

(42:48):
name. Have I not said we are but poor
thing has yet. There is a power that can redeem
us Gramercy for your sermon sir.I hope I know my duty this is no
sermon but the Living Truth. The power I speak of is the
power of immortal poetry for know that viola.
World is and worms as we are, you have.

(43:10):
But to invest all this vileness with a magical Garment of words
to transfigure is an uplift. Outsoles chill, Earth flowers
into a million Heavens. You spoiled your heaven with
your million. You are extravagant.
Observe some measure in your speech.
You speak now has been does and who pray is been allotted

(43:35):
bricklayer. Who thinks that the sky?
Guys at the top of his ladder and so takes it on him to rebuke
me for flying. I tell you there is no word yet
coined a new Melody yet, sung that is extravagant and Majestic
of enough for the glory. That lovely words can reveal.
It is heresy to deny it. Have you not been taught that?
In the beginning, was the word, the word was with God.

(43:59):
Nay that the Word was God, beware fellow.
How do you presume to speak of holy things?
The Queen is the head of the church?
You are the head of my church. When you speak as you did at
first? All the perfumes of Arabia can
the queen speak. Thus they say she plays well

(44:20):
upon the virginals that her place her to me and I'll kiss
her hands. But until then, you are my queen
and all kiss those lips that have dropped music on my heart,
he puts his arms about her unmeasured impudence on your
Life. Take your hands from me.

(44:41):
The dark lady comes stooping along the terrorists.
Behind them, like a running thrush.
When she sees how they are employed.
She Rises angrily to her full height and listens jealously.
Unaware of the dark lady. Then ceased, make my hands
tremble, with the streams of life.
You pour through them. You hold me as a lone star holds
the iron. I cannot be cling to you.

(45:03):
We are lost you, and I nothing can separate us now.
We shall see that false lying, Hound, you and your filthy troll
with to vigorous cuffs, she knocks the Paris under sending
the man who is unlucky enough toreceive a right-handed blow
sprawling on the flags. Take that both.
You until ringwraith throwing off, her cloak and turning, and

(45:26):
outraged Majesty on her assailant, high treason,
recognizing her and falling on her knees in abject Terror.
Well, I am lost. I have struck the queen setting
up as majestically as his ignominious posture, allows
woman, you obstruct William, Shakespeare Mary.
Come up struck William, Shakespeare, quote, fur and who,

(45:51):
in the name of Of all the sluts and Jade's and lighter loves and
fly-by-nights that infest this Palace of mine.
Mesh William Shakespeare, be Madam he is but a player.
Oh, I could have my hand cut off.
Be like, you will mistress. Have you been fought you?
That I am like to have your headcut off as well.

(46:14):
We'll save me. Oh, save me, save you a likely
save your on my Royal word. Good.
I had thought this fellow at least an Esquire for I had hoped
that even the vilest of my ladies would not have Dishonored
by Court by wanting with a base Bond servant indignantly

(46:34):
scrambling to his feet. Baseborn.
I as Shakespeare of Stratford I whose mother was an Ardent
baseborn. You forget yourself Madam blood.
Do I say so? I will teach you rising from her
knees and throwing herself, between them will, and God's
name anger her. No further, it is death Madam,

(46:58):
do not listen to him. Not worried in to save your
life, Mary not to mention mine. Earn well, I flatter a monarch
who forgets, what is due to my family?
I did. I not that?
My father was brought down to bea poor bankrupt, but was his
gentle blood that was ever too generous for trade.
Never did. He disowned his debts?

(47:18):
This true, he paid them not but it is an attested truth that he
gave builds for them and it was hers bills in the hands of Base
hucksters that were his undoing.The son of your father, shall
learn his place in the presence of the daughter of Harry.
The eighth. Swelling with intolerant
importance name. Not that inordinate mad in the

(47:40):
same breath with stretch Ford's worthiest, Alderman, John,
Shakespeare, wedded, but once Henry Tudor was married six
times. You should blush to utter his
name. Well for pity sake.
Oh no you that King. Harry was indeed your father?
Sounds. Now by she stops to grind her

(48:00):
teeth with rage. She will have me Whipped through
the streets. Oh God.
Oh God. Learn to know yourself better.
Madam, I'm an honest gentleman when questioned parentage and
have already set in my demand for the coat of arms.
That is lawfully. Mine can you You see as much
yourself another word and I begin with mine.

(48:23):
Own hands, the work. The hangman shall finish.
You, are no true chuda. This baggage here has as good a
right to your Royal seat. Has you what maintains you on
the throne of England? Is it your Renown?
Add wit your wisdom that sits atNorth?
The Crafty is Statesman of the Christian world.
No does the mere chance that might have happened to any milk

(48:45):
made the Caprice of nature that made you the most This piece of
beauty, the age hath seen, Elizabeth raised fists on the
point of striking him fall to her side.
That is what has brought all men, do your feet and founded
your strewn on the impregnable. Rock of your proud heart as
Stony Island in a sea of Desire.There Madam is some wholesome

(49:08):
blunt on a speaking for you, nowdo your worst Master
Shakespeare. It is well for you that I am a
merciful Prince I make allowancefor your rustic ignorance but
remember that there are things which be true and are yet not
seemly to be said, I will not say to a queen for you will have

(49:34):
it that I am none but to a virgin it is no fault of mine
that you are a virgin. Madam old beard is my Misfortune
in merci. Madame hold no, further
discourse with him. He had ever some Lou just on his
tongue you hear how use at me calling me baggage in the like
to your Majesty's face as for you mistress.

(49:58):
I have yet to demand what your business is at this hour in this
place and how you come to be. So concerned with a player that
you strike blindly at your Sovereign, in your jealousy of
him Madam as I live and hope forsalvation, huh?
I I must like to be saved as thou that.

(50:18):
Leave us not save some magic of words and verses.
I say Madam as I am living woman, I came here to break with
him forever. Oh Madam.
If you would know what misery islisten to this, man, that is
more than man and less at the same time.

(50:41):
He will tie you down to an atomized, your very Soul.
He will wring tears of blood from your humiliation and then
he will heal the wound with flatteries that no woman can
resist. Flatteries kneeling.
Oh Madam, I put my keys. Should your Royal feet?
I confess too much. I have a rude tongue.

(51:03):
I am unmannerly, I blaspheme against the Holiness of anointed
royalty, but oh, my Royal mistress.
Am I a flatterer? I absolve you as to that you are
far too playing a dealer to please me.
He rises gratefully Madam. He is flattering you, even as he
speaks. A terrible Flash in her eye,

(51:25):
huh? Is it so Madam?
She is jealous and haven't helped me.
Not without reason who you say, you are a merciful Prince, but
that was cruel of you that hiding your Royal dignity.
When you found me here for, how can I ever be content with this
black-haired black-eyed? Black, advised devil again.

(51:46):
Now that I've looked upon a realBeauty and real Majesty.
Wounded and desperate. He hath swore to me, 10 times
over that, the day shall come inEngland.
When black women for all their foulness shall be more thought
on than fair ones to Shakespeare.
Scolding at him deny it if thou canst.

(52:09):
Oh he is compact of lies and scorns I am tired of being
tossed up to heaven and drag down to Hell at every whim that
takes him. I'm ashamed to my very soul.
That I have a based myself to love one that my father would
not have deemed fit to hold my Stirrup one, that will talk to

(52:32):
all the world about me. That will put my love and my
shame into his plays and make meblush for myself there. that
will write sonnets about me, that no man of gentle, strain
would put his hand to I am all disordered.
I know. Not what I'm saying to your

(52:53):
majesty. I am of all ladies most deject
and wretched, huh? At last sorrow has struck a note
of Music out of the all ladies, most deject and wretched.
He makes a note of it Madam. I implore you give me leave to
go. I am distracted with grief and
shame. I go the dark lady tries to kiss

(53:15):
her hand. No more go.
The dark lady goes convulsed, you have been cruel to that poor
fond wretch Master Shakespeare. I'm not cruel Madam.
But, you know, the Fable of Jupiter and similarly, I could
not help my lightning scorching,her.
You have an overweening In conceit of yourself sir.

(53:37):
That displeases your queen. Oh Madam.
Can I go about with the modest cost for the minor poet?
Belittling my inspiration and making the mightiest Wonder of
your drain a thing of naught. I've said that not marble nor
the Gilded monuments of princes shall outlive the words with
which I make the world glorious or foolish it.

(53:58):
My will besides, I would have you think be great enough to
grant me a boon? I hope it is a boon that may be
asked of a Virgin Queen without offense.
Sir. I mistrust your for witness and
I bid you remember that I do notsuffer persons of your degree if
I may say so without offense to your father, the aldermen to

(54:21):
presume too far. Oh Madam, I shall not forget
myself again, though. By my life, could I make you a
serving wench, neither a queen, or a virgin, should you be for
so much longer as a flash of light?
Lightning might take to cross the river to the bank side but
since you are a queen and will not of me, nor of Philip of
Spain, nor of any other Mortal man, I must even contain myself

(54:45):
as best I met and ask you only for a boon of State, a boon of
State already. You are becoming a courtier like
the rest of them, you lack advancement, lack advancement?
Now your Majesty's, leave a queenly phrase he is about to

(55:05):
write it down. Striking the tablets from his
hand, your tables, begin to anger me sir.
I am not here to write your plays for you.
You are here to inspire The Madam for this, among the rest,
we ordained. But the bun I crave is that you
do end our great play house, or if I may make bold to coin a

(55:26):
scholarly name for it and National Theater for the better
instruction and Gracie of your Majesty's subjects why sir are
there not theaters in our on thebank side and in Blackfriars
Madam, these are the adventures of needy and desperate men that
must to see themselves from perishing of want.

(55:46):
Give the Cilia sort of people what they best like.
And what they best like, God knows is not their own
betterment and instruction. As we will see, by the example
of the churches, which must needs compel men to frequent
them through, they be open to all without Charge only when
there is a matter of a murderer or a plot or a pretty use in
petticoats were some naughty, tale of wantonness,

(56:10):
re-established pay the great cost of good players in their
finery, with a little profit to boot to prove this.
I would tell you that I have written two Noble and excellent
plays setting forth, the advancement of women of high
nature and fruitful industry. Even as your majesty is the one,
the skillful physician the otherassisted devoted to good.

(56:31):
It works. I've also stole from a book of
idle want entails two of the most damnable foolishness has in
the world, in the one of which awoman goeth in man's attire and
maketh impudent, love to her Swain who pleases the
Groundlings by overthrowing a wrestler.
Whilst in the other one of the same kidney, she wrote her wit

(56:52):
by saying in English naughtinesshas to a gentleman as lewd as
herself, I've read these to savemy friends from penury.
It showing my scorn for such. Bodies.
And for them, that praise them by calling the one as you like,
it. Meaning that it is not as I like
it and the other Much Ado, AboutNothing as it truly is and now

(57:13):
these two filthy pieces Drive their nobler fellows from the
stage. But indeed I cannot have my lady
physician presented at all. She being too honest, a woman
for the taste of the Town. Wherefore I humbly.
Beg your majesty to give order that a theater be endowed out of
the public revenue for the playing of the Those pieces of
mine which term much and we'll touch seeing that is Gain Is So

(57:35):
Much Greater with the worse thanwith the better thereby.
You should also encourage other men to undertake the writing of
plays who do not despise it and leave it.
Holy to those whose councils were working.
Little, good your realm. For this writing a pledge is a
great matter forming, as it doesthe mines and affections of men
in such sort that whatsoever. They see done ensure on the

(57:58):
stage, there will presently be doing an The world, which is but
a larger stage of late. As you know, the church taught
the People by means of plays butthe people flocked early to such
as were full of superstitious Miracles and bloody martyrdoms.
And so the church which also wasjust then brought into streets

(58:19):
by the policy of your Royal. Father did abandon and
discountenance the Art of playing and thus it fell into
the hands of poor players and greedy Merchants that had their
pockets to look. To not the greatness of this
your kingdom. Therefore now must your majesty
take up that good work, that your church has abandoned and

(58:40):
restore the art of playing to its former use and dignity
Master Shakespeare. I will speak of this matter to
the Lord Treasurer there. No man done Madam.
Well, there has never yet, the Lord Treasurer that could find a
penny for anything over and above the necessary, expenses of
your government Chief or a war or a salary for his own nephew

(59:02):
Master Shakespeare, you speak soothe her yet.
Cannot I in any wise mend it I do not offend my unruly Puritans
by making so lewd, a place as the playhouse a public charge
and there'll be a thousand things to be done in this London
of mine before your poetry can have its Penny from The General

(59:25):
purse. I tell thee Master will, it will
be three hundred years and more?Before my subjects learned that
man cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of Those whom, God inspires Us by that time you
and I will be dust beneath the feet of the horses.

(59:46):
If indeed there be any horses then and Men be still riding
instead of flying. Now it may be that by then your
Works will be dust off. So they will stand Madam fear
nor for that it may prove. So but of this I am certain for

(01:00:07):
I know my countrymen that until every other Country in the
Christian world even to Barbarian Muscovy.
And the hamlets of the boorish Germans have, it's playhouse at
the public charge England will never adventure and she will
Adventure, then only because it is her desire to be ever in the

(01:00:28):
fashion and to do humbly and dutifully what?
So she cioth everybody else doing in the meantime, you must
content yourself as best, you can buy.
The playing of those two pieces,which you give out as the most
damnable ever RIT. But with your countrymen, I warn
you will swear are the best you have ever done.

(01:00:51):
But this, I will say That if I could speak across the ages to
our descendants, I should heartily recommend them to
fulfill your wish for the Scottish Minstrel hath.
Well, said that he, that maketh,the songs of a nation is
mightier than he that maketh itslaws.

(01:01:12):
And the same May well be true ofplays and interludes the clock
Chimes, the first quarter, the water Returns on his round.
And now, sir, we are upon the hour when it better be Seems the
Virgin Queen to a be a bed than to converse alone with the
naughtiest of her subjects. Ho there who keeps water on the

(01:01:32):
Queen's lodgings tonight I do and please your majesty see the
to keep it better in future. You have led past the most
dangerous Gallant even to the very door of our Royal chamber
lead him forth and bring me wordwhen he is safely locked out
for. I shall scarce daring.

(01:01:53):
They're disrobe until the palacegates are between us kissing her
hand. My body goes through the gate
into the darkness Madam, but my thoughts follow you, how to my
bed? No, Madam do your prayers in
which I beg you to remember my theater, that is my prayer to
posterity. Forget, not your own to God.

(01:02:17):
And so, goodnight, Master will good night, great.
Elizabeth God, Save the Queen. Our men exhantus severally, she
to her chamber, he in custody ofthe Warder to the gate, nearest
Blackfriars ayotte st. Lawrence 20th, June 1910.

(01:02:38):
End of the dark Lady of the sonnets by Bernard Shaw.
Hello us. A lyrical dramatic poem by James
Allen. This is a LibriVox recording all
LibriVox. Recordings are in the public
domain for more information or to volunteer, please visit
librivox.org. Dramatis Persona, I ll H read by

(01:03:04):
norbade rien, the prophet and Earth read by Ahmad the tree.
Even read by Elizabeth klett, Cosmos recording by Kathy
Barrett. First voice of Nature and First
Voice of Truth, read by Christine g, s voice of Nature

(01:03:28):
and second Voice of Truth reg byCarl books.
Third voice of Nature and third Voice of Truth read Miranda
Federman fourth voice of Nature and forth, Voice of Truth.
Read by algy pug, fifth voice ofNature and fifth Voice of Truth

(01:03:51):
recording by Kathy Barrett, sixth voice of nature read by
Elizabeth klett. Narrator read by algy pug.
Seen a beautiful island wooded Al hours, sitting on a Fallen
Tree near the seashore. And to this Lonely Island.

(01:04:13):
I repair to search for peace after long days and nights upon
the waters, storm-tossed and fatigued.
My skiff touch die, Fair Harbor,blessed aisle.
Now, on by fragrant bosom, I will rest, and in thy spiritual
ecstasy sweetly participate. They loveliness entrances me.

(01:04:36):
They restfulness in weaves my thoughts with peace.
Imperishable, Thou Art silent solitary beautiful and I am
lonely yet. Thy Solitude perchance, Will
Comfort me and take away my loneliness and pain.
Oh Solitude, thou habitation of aspiring Hearts, thou light and

(01:05:01):
Beacon of the pure thou guide ofthem that cry in darkness.
Thou sweet friend of Sorrow stricken Wanderers, thou staff
and stay of the strong, climber up, the hills tracklist, and
strange of Truth instructor, thou and teacher of the
teachable and true beloved of the lowly wise and good, be

(01:05:25):
Mike. Companion.
Now, and take away, the world's ache from my bosom.
I am tired of the vein highways where the noise and din, drowns
all but sad remembrance, tired of all the tumult and Terror and
the tears that rule discordant in the house of life shaking but

(01:05:46):
not destroying as the storms Confederate, with the oceans,
shake the shores and rockbound margins of the continents.
I seek the peace. That does not change.
The calm that knows, no storm. The silence That Remains
Pleasure disturbs and does not satisfy when the excitement of

(01:06:09):
the senses fade sorrow and pain return and leave the heart
remorseful desolate as though, the waist and baron more, the
lonely curl, you cries. So Wales, the bird of Anguish or
the Mind sated with pleasure, whoa, and want to repair to the
Abode of selfishness and take Legions of miseries with them.

(01:06:32):
I would find where wisdom is where peace abides, where truth
Majestic changeless and eternal stands Untouched by the
illusions of the world for surely.
There is knowledge truth and peace for him who seeks seeing
that ignorance and error. And affliction are these prove

(01:06:53):
the Unseen truth of verse Lee Darkness makes light sure.
And certain though, we see it not We sleep and wake and waking
know, the dream that troubled Usin sleep, how it arose
phantasmal and chaotic in the mind left all ungoverned even so

(01:07:13):
perchance this life of passion and of wild, desire troubled
chaotic and not understood maybeas twere.
A dream and if a dream of the unmastered mind, we shall awake
out of the nightmare of our miseries and know the gladness
of reality. T.
But how shall one awake how if not, by bridling his passions

(01:07:37):
curbing, his desires by masterful Dominion of the will
if passions be the Troubled Dreams of life and not its
substance and reality, then he, who shakes off, passion shall
awake and know the truth. Surely this must be so Therefore
unto this unfrequented place. Have I addressed myself that I

(01:07:59):
may gain by Purity and strong self-mastery.
The Wake Envision that does set men free from painful Slumber
and the night of grief here and observed in solitary I will
purify my heart and trained my mind in the true ways of sweet.
Unselfishness subduing, self andpassion.

(01:08:21):
So perchance the changeless truth will be revealed Yield to
me and I shall move where duty calls, Serene and cyrillus.
More over here. An aged profit dwells.
So, I am told, who will instructme in the Silent Way, which
winds through the morasses of the mind, and to the firm

(01:08:43):
Heights, of accomplished truth, him will.
I seek when I have slept a whilefor weariness?
Now, urges me to rest. Lies down.
Thou's. If Iris Thou sweet and cooling
breath. That temper is the broiling
midday rays of June's extremistsheat, blow me now and fan me

(01:09:07):
into sweet forgetfulness. I am a wearied battling with the
waves. Now, will I sleep after my long
long search upon the waters? I am spent with toil watch our
me nature. I am safe with the Sleeps.

(01:09:27):
Voices of nature. Listen, o Allah is woven of
passion is the universe vein is thy puny strength to break.
Its web submit thyself to that which in the Christ gratify
nature, do not fly Delight. It allows come, let me lead the

(01:09:49):
arrow louse, Let Me Guide thee, Ariel, Alice come are allows
allows come It allows come. There is sweet intoxication in
the pleasure House of Earth, I renewed, exhilaration love and

(01:10:10):
happiness and Mirth. Come allows it will always come.
It will always come. What is seen is sure what has
felt is known. Pleasure is secure.
Joy is life alone. Come ellos ellos.

(01:10:32):
Come it will always come. Come and drink the wine of Life
Pleasures vintage come and taste.
Leave thy fruitless search and strife, holy vigils, where and
waste youth for love and Revels framed nature.
Thus is blindly blamed Come ellos ellos.

(01:10:57):
Come it will always come. Think no more of low and high,
leave thy climbing's and forget aim and struggle doubt.
And SCI level is the pathway setof enjoyment seek no more rest.
Thou hear thy Woe Is or it allows come let me leave.

(01:11:24):
The are Laos. Let Me Guide the a olaus.
Come are Laos a woodlouse? Come it allows come unnumbered
ages. Have I rode through the abysmal
spaces and yawns new from yawns old, the Eternal finger traces,

(01:11:44):
Adam must father, weight moves. No Rest, no rest.
With hopes and fears, and hates and loves are blessed and
blessed. Lutheran or a allow us sorrow?
Death. Darken.
All the universe. Its creatures are involved in
pain and woe helpless. They cry and no one hears or

(01:12:09):
age. Dark, dark is life and none.
Its meaning know they allow us here.
None can lead the AL hours. None can guide the AL hours.
He allow us, they allow us here.They allow us here.

(01:12:29):
There is pain and woe and sorrowin the hospital of Earth, every
night and morning, and Mauro bringeth, drought, and death,
and Earth. He allow us, he allow us here.
He allow us here. What is scenes unsure?
What is felt is blown self is insecure.

(01:12:54):
Life is pain alone. He allow us, he allow us here.
He allows here We move in and Sly we saw and cry.
We wander like the wind upon thestream.
They lie for peace seeking. These public in pain, our

(01:13:18):
unending dream. And I was here.
None can lead the AL hours. None can guide the IL H here.
Allow us he allow us here, he allow us here.
Voices of Truth away koel. Laos rice, shake off the dreams

(01:13:44):
of night, open thine eyes, and seek the light passionless
wisdoms, waits for the in Surah less Serenity leaves out the
fleeting shapes of time. The rugged way of Truth Sublime,
walk down or Fair nor grieve, no, last scorning the self whose

(01:14:05):
end is dust. Waco allows iolaous wake hey
laughs week. Knowledge is for him who seeks
wisdom, Crown as him? Who strives piece in sinless.
Silence speaks all things, Parish truth, survives way, K,

(01:14:29):
ol house. Your Laos wake house week.
Follow where virtual leads higher and still higher.
Listen, when pureness pleads quench, not her fire.
Lo he shall see reality who cometh upward.

(01:14:52):
Cleansed from all desire. Wake a olaus, a woodlouse wake
House. Wake who you attain a thunder
Purity? The faultless Parthenon of Truth
death. See awake dispersed.
The dreams of self and see in Behold The Shining Gateway into

(01:15:15):
Ian wake, a louse, you allows wake.
Conquer thyself, then Thou shaltknow climb to the high, leave
though, the low Deliverance shall him, entrance who strives
with sins and Sorrows tears, andpains till he attains way KO

(01:15:38):
Laos and you allows wake. In the visions of the ages, I am
ever more reflected in the precepts of the sages.
I am spoken and rejected. I can suffer.
No Distortion sin and sorrow cannot stain me, fixed and

(01:15:59):
faultless and proportion. He must Bend who would attain me
They allow us waking who will lead me, who will guide me in my
deep perplexity. In the middle of the island
weights, the sage whom you are seeking on the Rock which cannot

(01:16:19):
crumble sits. The prophet who will guide you.
I allowance wakes. Made the conflicting visions of
the mind. I Darkly grope and never more
confined, the steadfastness and surety that I seek where
Cameron's the silence cannot speak so many voices and so many

(01:16:41):
ways, so many wonderings, the nights and days one way I seek
one voice. I long to hear, but truth eludes
me and does not appear. Now to this island Center I
repair to seek the prophet Who abideth there?
The scene changes to the center of the island and aged, and

(01:17:03):
venerable man, appears sitting upon a rock art.
Thou, the prophet whom I seek. I AB be thou my guide for thou
art wise and I am ignorant. Speak.
Thou, and I will hear teach me and I will be instructed, make
me to behold the path, which leads to truth.

(01:17:24):
And I will walk it though it Bo strewn with Flint Sandberg.
And if it needs must come withinthe round of holy discipline.
That one shall walk that way with naked feet or else forego
the end and view of truth, then Barefoot.
I will walk it and account bleeding's and wounds and
lacerations as AIDS unto my willand fortitude as tasks wisely

(01:17:49):
ordained. And so to be gladly encountered
in my pilgrimage, mine ears are open opened.
Our mine eyes. For I am blind and cannot find
my way he who would see what theold.
See Guy Sigalert route must first his blindness.
Now, he cannot see who doesn't wish to see thinking he sees

(01:18:13):
already while his acts Proclaim,his spiritual blindness, drew
two weights on the lowly hearted, he who knows that big
passion about he yet is blind has dropped his way to wisdom
doubt. See, I see not but the darkness
of my mind and in that Darkness Ever Changing shapes of things

(01:18:37):
phantasmal that perplex and haunt eluding knowledge.
I am ignorant yet strive to knownor will I cease to strive till
I attain. Seek die Darkness do so far
dust. See knowing dad ignorance.
So far has start, 82 knowledge. Seek And I'll shall surely find

(01:19:01):
how, shall I seek increase distracted?
Self-reliance. Make the spectres of their my
debate. I whale see.
Now, come on, Ty self, nor let no mood, no subtle passion.
The also Swift dzire Hall D to baseness but should star be

(01:19:21):
hauled rise and reggae die manhood taking gain of lowliness
and wisdom from thy fall. Strive, ever for the Mastery of
dynamite and lead. Some good from every
circumstance that shall confrontday.
Make that store of strength Reacher for eels and counter
that overcome submit to note butnobleness Rejoice, like a strong

(01:19:47):
Athletes Training for the prize.One day.
Full strength is dried be not the slave of last said, cravings
and indulgences of disappointments.
Miseries and Grieves fears, doubts and limitations but
control die self would calm Dennis.
Master data D, which Master's orders, and which he had to fall

(01:20:12):
has mastered t. Let not thy passions rule, but
ruled by passions, subjugate ourself till passion is
transmuted into peace and wisdomCrown.
T. So shalt Thou Art 8 and by
attaining no hard is the past which thou has set before me

(01:20:34):
Steep and strange its ass scent and familiar and unknown the
place where to eat leads. I see it rise precipitous but
yet accessible beyond the reach of vision what awaits the
climber none, but he who climbs my know?
For, if one asked and with believing ears, attend, the

(01:20:55):
spiritual Mountaineer in his de picture of the unknown Heights.
What knows he more, though? More believing what gains he,
but words, and wanderings, and dreams.
Unless he also climb, I would earn Mount faith and descend to
knowledge. I would not rest idly in The

(01:21:16):
Valleys of belief content with speculation.
I would be the Mountaineer and know the mountain area is he who
dauntless climbs? But yet the way we're leads it
or beyond the reach of sight is dark unknown.
Mysterious what avails the strength Newest Ascent, if some

(01:21:38):
precipice the daring climber claim or loosened rock, dash him
to death or cold and hunger. Make ravaged upon his strength.
Passion is sweet. Aunt is enjoyed and known and
round about the habitations at the mountain space in the
familiar values of the Mind twine.
The sweet flowers of soft, affections filling the air with

(01:22:00):
fragrance and delight and mellowfruits of love and labor.
Hang right? For the plucking, Shall I?
These renounce the shore and known for the unsure unknown, or
these not safe, substantial and possessed.
While what I seek. Where is it?
Is this truth? This idea of reality which

(01:22:22):
haunts my mind and drives me with her.
I know not itself a speculation.What, abides, alas.
All that we have and know is caught in transiency changes
that never End row wave like, oh, the Restless universe and
man is tossed, their in. So it befores that everything

(01:22:45):
which comes into his grasp bearing, the face of an enduring
Joy after a little fever of delights torn away again.
Nothing indoors. All things are dying even while
they live and life is passing while it seems to wait.
There is no sweet possession, norare, Joy, No cherished.

(01:23:06):
Um, stance, no prize delight, nolovely thing of which it can be
said, there is no time when thiswill never be.
What comes to pass passes and Coney's, no more, what grows
decays, what Rises Falls, what lives and flourishes dies and US

(01:23:27):
fade away, where then is Surety,where is knowledge, where is
rest and refuge there is rest, it rude, is they know?
Rest in death, there is no rested debt.
No Rest in death nor life. With no rest are dead.

(01:23:47):
No life yet. All it debt, all life, what
route? He's there is rest profit of
good lead me to the abiding set.My feet upon the ostia highway,
which doth lead to the Eternal City.
I would find the rest and refugeof undying truth.

(01:24:08):
Looked our wooden loud amidst up, change abides the changeless
At the heart of strive to perfect, peace, reposes at the
root of all the Restless strivings of the world.
His passion and that passion is heart is taught throat.
Yeah. The laughs laws is in die, mind,

(01:24:31):
and written on the tablet of DieHard.
I'd said tunnel addicts, subjugate their passions and the
truth will be revealed for whosofollows.
Passion find it to pay but whosoChris passion, find that peace,
not to be subject unto passion, but to subject passion is this.

(01:24:53):
Then the way dowel has well said, as the sweet not is held
in the hard shell and cannot be enjoyed but by destruction of
the Hosk. So truth in passion is
preserved, but it's not known. Till passion, be destroyed and
Cast Away. He who preserved passion

(01:25:13):
dreading loss of sweetness. And enjoyment cannot know to
place some shoot now, find wherewisdom he's he is a prodigal
feeding upon the husks of Life, the Ambitions of tanks and
knowing not it's carnal, seeing not the change, the substance of
reality. He only knows who conquers evil,

(01:25:35):
he who must herself passes Beyond a dim uncertain, light of
faith and on, he breaks to lightor perfect knowledge words.
And Folds and one sebacean gladness.
Perfect peace. I know that sorrow follows
passion know that grief and emptiness and heartaches way to

(01:25:56):
Pond all the Earthly Joys. So am I sad yet?
Truth must be and being can be found and though, I am in
sorrow, this I know I shall be glad when I have found a truth.
There is no gladness like the joy of trude, the pure in heart
swim, in a sea of place that ever more nor sorrow knows not

(01:26:20):
paid for, who can see the cosmosand be sad to know, is to be
happy, they Rejoice, who have attained Perfection, these are
day, who leave and no, and realized that rude.
I strive for that Perfection. Shall I reach the heights of
blessed Vision Comfort, a to hide.

(01:26:42):
So blessed Vision. Yeah, shall reach yet how.
And when and where I am confused, the way is near and
yet, I see it not. He must be friendly or dormant
toad, who would be the company? And otherwise I know, the cosmic
Splendor he must to who seeks tostand.

(01:27:05):
Must Fall hoof. A new dries must know the low as
sending to the high. He Who would know the great must
not disdain. The dill is at the weighed upon
the small. He was defines who finds
humility. Speak, honor profit.
I attend thy words, the bists can either Bend now.

(01:27:27):
Stand erect, being bists, abandoned be Stilton did cease
but man can band. And man.
Can't stand erect being man and breastfeed aw, and stainless
steel sheets. Here is Deliverance.
Man's Redemption lies. In man himself, he had his not
born of self but takes its rise.Intrude, man can achieve.

(01:27:52):
He find it truth. Who find it self-control?
When I have found? The meaning of thy words, I know
I shall be wise as Thou Art wise, but now I hear thee and
yet here, Oh, thee. Not thou Wilt perceive the
substance of my words and understand their meaning when
they steered it, meaning in die self and in die, mind stand

(01:28:15):
clear. And well, reflected Dawkins now,
only by subjugation of die self and practice of the highest, all
that is real easy. Nerd out what things are
fleeting shows, vein, an illusionary holding nor rest,
nor refuse for the Eyes obey theright and wrong shall never

(01:28:38):
again, a same type, he's not error Hardy, more attuned.
I heart to Purity and thou shaltreached a place where sorrow is
not and own evil ends. The holy ones?
No, not the name of sin goodnessand Truth May glad to good and

(01:28:59):
true the perfect ones behold to pop a claw struggle and Strive
for ended intrude. All Things Are Holy to the holy
mind, all Aegis are legitimate and pure, all occupations,
blessed and Sanctified and everyday is about I perceive some

(01:29:20):
glimmering of a light transcending light, some outline
of a mighty principal, more beautiful than Beauty.
See, some dim appearing of the vision of a life vaster than
life the cosmos is Sublime. My eyes will open.
I shall see the truth and seeingshall be glad for Evermore.

(01:29:42):
Be mindful or the taught that Source will see baloney patient
while instructed hold myself in check by many single steps.
All John is reached completion as the tree that rears its
stately head toward the sky bestowing shade and shelter
issued from a teeny seed and waiting patiently upon the law

(01:30:07):
of grout. It came to be the thing Majestic
that it now appears. Is so wisdom from a single act
of good. While planted watched and
watered comes at last to its Sublime proportions.
I will tend the plant of wisdom with all diligence and watch its

(01:30:27):
growth toward Perfection. Show me the unobserved and lowly
way. Let praise reward and popularity
be no more sweet to me and no more sort.
Let's self be blotted out. I seek the truth now.
Listen and attend, the pigeon, speak holes and the buildings,

(01:30:48):
and a storm or batons that they had weakened little failings.
Eat holes in the Citadel of character, which we can't us,
cannot withstand the storms of circumstance, but weekly Falls
before temperatures Temptations as to be built at the honeycomb,
the board, its nest. The His strong house, even bit

(01:31:11):
by bit stolen to stroll, and stone laid up on Stone until the
Finish tang and Beaufort, whole crowns effort at success.
So the wise man by adding told to told and deed to deed in ways
of good built at his character, little by little, he
accomplishes his Noble ends. It quite patients wargs,

(01:31:35):
diligently While others sleep OST Lake there, Heart desires in
Riot nowise moved from his main purpose by perplexities false
errors failures difficulties pains daily.
He builds into his heart and mind pure tolds.
High aspirations selfless Deeds until at last.

(01:31:58):
The edifice of Truth is finished.
And behold the arises in a the Temple of perfection.
I have found the little gauge Min and Most grown, which leads
into a dark despised. Neglected way, which further
leads to Glorious esplanades andHeights of Splendor foolish.

(01:32:19):
Men, avoid the lowly and therebythe lofty lose, despise the
small, and the Majestic Ole Missand see, not profit of good, and
Truth wisely and well hast thou instructed.
Me, thou Hast revealed to me thepath of peace.
My eyes are opened. And At Last, I See thy lowly way

(01:32:43):
and I will enter in the prophet way, awaits dice, Tran was tread
behold, where rise pretty piece,yet Grand the hills of what you
hire and Beyond the picks up Lester's and yet again upon the
lofty, Summits of the truth where clouds and darkness are
not and who arrests a tunnel spender.

(01:33:05):
They're abiding Joy awaits. Die coming on would indisposed a
doctor lucian's of die self. Evil is good.
Tonight is darkness and no more that self been nothing and a
true to be all does conquer pain.
Equius, Serenity, wisdom, accompanies Tranquility to self

(01:33:29):
substitute, the fadeless glory. Now Be watchful.
Fearless faithful patient pure My honest meditation sounded
deaths profound of life and scale the height Sublime of love
and wisdom, he who doesn't find a way of meditation, cannot

(01:33:50):
reach emancipation and Enlightenment, but thou Wilt
find a way of only told, which mind made comments that first
down, will see, the permanent amateur mutable the truth.
Eternal in the things that change Thou shalt behold the
perfect law Whoa, Cosmos from cows Rises, when the Concord

(01:34:11):
self lies underneath man's. He'll love.
Be their strength, lokhande passion, tortured multitudes and
have compassion on them now. Their Pain by die, long sorrow
ended. Dow would come to perfect peace.
And so, will bless the world leading up to the high and holy

(01:34:33):
way the feet of them that seek. And now I go to my boat.
Go down to die wall. Prophet of peace.
I go and unto the spirit of truth, I come to all the world
and all that lives forever. More be peace.

(01:34:55):
I am Perfection is and peace. Evil is gone, beholding me.
And they from sin and sorrow sees who look upon my symmetry
when fault and failure. Find my form.
Low fault and failure are no more.
I am the sunshine in the storm, the whisper and the oceans Roar,

(01:35:16):
the creeping action that deceives the LIE, the theft, the
murderer Zaire, all these. My Crucible receive they burn in
my Celestial fire all superstitions errors, wild The
Crawling craft, the cruel, lust,all that debases in defiles, I
grind and Scatter in the dust the nation's rise.

(01:35:38):
The empires fall, and die eternally, rehearse to scene,
and strain majestical the drama of the universe.
The eons pass the system's pale unchanged, their changes behold.
They listened and I tell my tale, I all their fleeting forms
and fold who, knoweth me, becometh me.

(01:36:01):
Who hath? My vision finds release from
darkness in captivity. I am Perfection is and peace.
End of aisle hours. A lyrical dramatic poem by James
Allen. Fame and The Poet, by Lord

(01:36:28):
dunsany. This is a LibriVox recording all
LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more
information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org.
Fame and The Poet, by Lord dunsany.
Seen the poet's rooms in London windows and back a high screen

(01:36:53):
in a corner. Time.
February 30th. Characters.
Harry Des rêves, a poet. Read by mux shearling.
A dick prattle. A lieutenant major of the Royal
Horse Marines read by Del Mar H2O beer.

(01:37:13):
Fame and narrator read by Elizabeth klett.
The poet is sitting at a table writing, enter dick prattle.
Hello, Harry hello dick! Good Lord, where are you from
the ends of the Earth? Well, I'm damned thought I'd
drop in and see how you were getting on.

(01:37:34):
Well, that's Splendid. What are you doing in London?
Well, I wanted to see if I couldget one or two decent ties to
where you can get nothing out there.
Then I thought I'd have a look and see how London was getting
on. Hmm, Splendid, how is everybody?
We're all going strong, that's good prattle, seeing paper and
ink, but what are you doing? Writing writing?

(01:37:56):
I didn't know you wrote. Yes, I've taken to add rather, I
say writing so good. What do you write?
Oh, poetry, poetry good. Lord.
Yes, that sort of thing, you know.
Good Lord, it make any money buyit.
No hardly any. I say, why don't you Chuck it?

(01:38:16):
Oh, I don't know. Some people seem to Like my
stuff brother, that's why I go on.
I'd Chuck it. If there's no money in it, but
then it's hardly in your line. Is it you'd hardly approve of
poetry if there was money in it.Oh, I don't say that.
If I could make as much by poetry, as I can by betting, I
don't say, I wouldn't try the Poetry touch.
Only only what do, I don't know.Only there seems more sense in

(01:38:40):
betting somehow. Well yes I suppose it's easier
to tell what an Earthly horse isgoing to do than to tell.
But Pegasus watch pigs. Oh, the winged horse of poet.
I say, you don't believe in a winged horse tool in our trade.
We believe in all fabulous things.

(01:39:01):
They all represent some large truth to turn us an emblem like
Pegasus is as real thing to a poet as a Derby.
Winner would be to you know Che it could be a cigarette.
Well thanks. What they knew you'll believe in
nymphs and fauns and pan and allthose kind of birds.

(01:39:22):
Yes. Yes.
In all of them. Good Lord.
You believe in the Lord mayor ofLondon, don't you?
Yes, of course. But what is that 4 million
people are so made him? Lord, mayor didn't they?
And he represents to them the wealth and dignity and tradition
of well, yes, but I say what hasall this?
Well, he stands for an idea to them and they made him Lord

(01:39:45):
mayor. And so he is one block or she is
in the same way. Pan has been made what he is by
millions by millions to whom he represents World old traditions
prattle rising from his chair and stepping backwards laughing
and looking at the poet in a kind of assumed wonder.

(01:40:07):
I say, I say you old Heathen, but good Lord, he bumps into the
high screen behind. Pushing it back a little Look
out, look out. Whoa, what's the matter?
The screen. Oh sorry.
Yes, we'll put it right, he is about to go around behind it.
No, don't go round there or why not?

(01:40:29):
Oh, you wouldn't understand. Wouldn't understand.
Hey, what have you got? Oh, one of those things you
wouldn't understand. Of course, I do understand.
Let's have a look the poet walks.
Prattle and the screen, he protests no further prattle.

(01:40:51):
Looks round the corner of the screen and alter the Reeves.
Removing the screen altogether, that is all, what do you make of
it and altar of Greek design shaped like a pedestal is
revealed papers litter. The floor, all about it.
I say you always were an untidy devil.
Well what do you make of it? It reminds me of your room at

(01:41:14):
Eton my room at Eton. Yes, you always had papers all
over the floor. Oh, yes.
And what are these? All these are poems.
And this is my alter to fame to fame the same.
That homo new good. Lord Keats never saw her Shelley

(01:41:35):
died, too young. She came late at the best of
times now, scarcely, ever. But my dear fellow, you don't
mean that, you think there really is such a person, I
offer. All My songs to her but you
don't meet, you think you could actually see Fame, we poets
personify abstract things and not poets only but sculptors and

(01:41:57):
Painters to all the great thingsof the world are those abstract
things. But what I mean is that they're
not really, they're like you me to us.
These things are more real than men, they outlive Generations.
They watch the passing of Kingdoms.
We go buy them like dust. They are still here, unmoved

(01:42:21):
unsmiling but but you, you can'tthink that you could see vain.
You don't expect to see it. Not to me, never to me, she of
the golden trumpet and Greek dress will never appear to me.
We all have our dreams. I say, what have you been doing

(01:42:41):
all day? I only writing a sonnet stood.
On wooden not very about how long is it about 14 lines.
I tell you what it is. Yes, I tell you what you've been
overworking yourself. I want to talk like that onboard
the Sanders working for the passing out exam.

(01:43:01):
I got so bad. I couldn't seen anything seen
anything would. Yes.
Haunt pigs snakes with wings. Anything one of your winged
horses, even they gave me some stuff called bromide for it.
You take a rest. Rest, but my dear fellow, you
don't understand it. All I merely said that abstract

(01:43:22):
things ought to a poet as near and real and visible.
As one of your bookmakers Obama AIDS.
I know you take a rest. Well, perhaps I will.
I'd come with you to that musical comedy.
You're going to see only, I'm a bit tired after writing this.
It's a tedious job. I'll come another night.

(01:43:43):
How do you know? I'm going to see a musical
comedy. Well, Well where would you go
Hamlet's on that the Lord Chamberlain's?
You're not going there. Do I look like it know where
you're quite right? I'm going to see the girl from
Bedlam so long. I must push off.
Now it's getting late. You take a rest.
Don't add another line to that Summit for teens quite enough.

(01:44:08):
You take a rest. Don't have any dinner tonight,
just rest. I was like that, once myself, So
long. So long exit prattle, the Reeves
returns to his table and sits down good old dick, he's the
same as ever. Lord, how time passes he takes
his pan and his sonnet and makesa few alterations.

(01:44:30):
Well that's finished. Can't do any more to it.
He rises and goes to the screen,he draws back part of it and
goes up to the altar. He is about to place his sonnet
reverently at the foot of the altar amongst his other verses?
No, I would not put it there. This one is worthy of the altar,

(01:44:51):
he places the sonnet upon the altar itself, if that's on.
It does not give me Fame. Nothing that I've done before.
We give it to me, nothing that Iever will.
Do he replaces the screen and returns to his chair at the
table. Twilight is coming on.
He sits with his elbow on the table, his head on his hand or
however, the actor pleases. Well, well fan, Has he seen Dick

(01:45:15):
again? Well dick and Joyce is life so
he's no fool. What was that?
He said. There's no money in poetry.
You'd better Chuck it. Ten years work.
And what have I to show for it? The admiration of men who care
for poetry, and how many of themare there?

(01:45:36):
There's a bigger demand for smoke glasses to look at
eclipses of the sun. Why should Fame come to me?
Haven't I given up my days for her?
That is enough to keep her away.I'm a poet.
That is enough reason for her toslight me proud and aloof and
cold as marble. What?

(01:45:57):
Does Fame care for us. Yes, take is right.
It's a poor game. Chasing Illusions.
Hunting the intangible pursuing dreams dreams.
Why we are ourselves dreams. He leans back in his chair.

(01:46:17):
We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is
rounded with a sleep. He is silent for a while.
Suddenly he lifts his head. My Room at Eton dick said and
untidy mess as he lifts his headand says these words Twilight

(01:46:37):
gives place to broad daylight merely as a hint that the author
of the play may have been mistaken.
And the whole thing may have been no more than a poet's
dream, so, it was and it's an untidy mess.
They're looking at screen to takes right?
I'll tied it up. I'll burn the whole damned Heap.

(01:46:58):
He Advanced his impetuous Flee toward the screen every damn
poem that I was ever fool enoughto waste my time on.
He pushes back the screen Fame, in a Greek dress, with a long
golden trumpet. In her hand is seen standing
motionless on the altar like a marble goddess.
So, You have come for a while. He stands Thunderstruck, then he

(01:47:22):
approaches the altar Divine. Fair lady, you have come, he
holds up his hands to her and leads her down from the Altar
and into the center of the stageat whatever moment.
The actor finds it most convenient, he repossesses
himself of the sonnet that he had placed on the altar.
He now offers it to fame. This is my sonnet Is it Well

(01:47:45):
Done. Fame takes it.
Reads it in silence. While the poet watches her
rapturously? You're a bit of all right.
What some poet? I scarcely.
Understand your it, but it's notpossible.
Are you she that new Homer Homer?

(01:48:09):
Lord? Yes.
Blind out that it couldn't see aHard.
Oh heavens. Fame walks beautifully to the
window. She opens it and puts her head
out. Fame in a voice with which a
woman in an upper story would cry for help if the house was
well alight. Hi, hi boys.

(01:48:31):
Hi. Hi folks.
Hi, the murmur of a gathering crowd is heard Fame blows her
trumpet. Why?
He's a poet quickly over her shoulder?
What's your name? The Reeves is names.
Do Reeves Harry? The Reeves is PALS.
Call him Harry. Say, what's your favorite color?

(01:48:58):
I don't quite understand. Well, which do you like best
green or blue? Oh, blue.
She blows her trumpet out of thewindow.
No, I think. Green green is his favorite

(01:49:19):
color. Yeah, tell us something.
They want to know all about. Yeah, wouldn't you, perhaps
would they care to hear my sonnet if you would Fame,
picking up quill are, what's this?
Oh, that's my pen. Fame after another blast on her

(01:49:43):
trumpet here, ice with our quill, cheers from the crowd
Fame, going to a cupboard and what have you got an ear?
Oh, those are my breakfast things, Fame, finding a dirty
plate. Well, if you had on this 10 eggs
and bacon Fame at the window, hehas eggs and bacon for

(01:50:08):
breakfast. What's this?
Oh, a golf stick. He's a man's man.
Man, he's a virile man. He's a manly man.
Wild cheers from the crowd this time only from women's voices.

(01:50:31):
Oh, this is terrible. This is terrible.
This is terrible, Fame. Gives another peel on her horn.
She is about to speak One Moment.
One Moment. Well, out with it.
For 10 years, Divine lady, I have worshipped.
You offering all my songs. I find I find.

(01:50:55):
I am not worthy. Oh, you're all right.
No, no. I am not worthy.
It cannot be, it cannot possiblybe others to serve you more.
I must say it. I cannot possibly love you.
Others are worthy. You will find others but I know.

(01:51:19):
No no. It cannot be.
It cannot be. Oh pardon me but it must not.
Meanwhile Fame has been lighting.
One of his cigarettes. She sits in a comfortable chair
leans right back and puts her feet right up on the table
amongst the poet's papers. Oh I fear.
I offend you but But it cannot be.

(01:51:42):
Oh, that's all right. Old bird.
No offense. I ain't going to leave you.
But, but, but I do not understand.
I've come to stay. I am she blows a puff of smoke
through her trumpet. Curtain.
And of Fame and The Poet, by Lord dunsany.
And of Fame and The Poet, by Lord dunsany.

All Episodes

One-Act Play Collections - Book 4, Part 1

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Stuff You Should Know

Dateline NBC

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}One-Act Play Collections - Book 4, Part 1