November 2, 2025 • 32 mins
Quiet, Please! was a radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper, also known for creating Lights Out. Ernest Chappell was the show's announcer and lead actor. Quiet, Please! has been praised as one of the finest efforts of the golden age of American radio dram. A total of 106 shows were broadcast between 1947 and 1949.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, quiet please, Quiet please.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hm h.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Hm quiet please. Dot Org presents Quiet Please, which is
written and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Paul Marrow.
Quiet Please. Friday is called read me this riddle, H.
(00:59):
I will tell you a singular thing. How it happens
that I am come to this far place from my
own country. Yet why I am come remains to me
a deep and dark secret yet unrevealed. Howbeit I am young,
and there are many marvels of the earth and of
the heavens yet unrevealed to me. Know that in my
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land I am a ruler, I am king. Nay, smile
not that I am a beardless youth, and that I
am clad in garments suppost unking me. Nor smile at
the birthen I bear elect to a wandering merchant, or
forsooth a beggar upon the highways. Or I am truly
king in my own country, and I shall be king
(01:42):
again when that I return, though in these later days
I am become somewhat bony, certis footsore. Now mock me not,
but be compassionate, or day may come when you should
walk in the streets of my royal city ragged even
as bearing only a staff such as I bear, and
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crying well away, and alms of me and my people,
and who will take you in and bestow upon you
meat him bread, and pour out the deep cups of wine,
and say unto you fall too, for thou art a friend. Aye.
So my people are good people, and yet they're no
more charitable than all the others of the earth that
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I call upon in my par journeying. Well, then be
compassionate to a man, a wanderer, not a king, or
I become a weary way, and the end of my
journeying is not yet revealed to me. Therefore I say
to you, be compassionate and give alms to the king.
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And on another day the king will requite the one
hundredfold gramarcy. For they whine this wine is less bitter
than the wine my people draw from the purple grape
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sun along low hillsides of my own land. But is
it not written that the wine of a stranger is
even sweeter? Is it permitted that I sit friend? You
are indeed a friend. I have not drunk nor eaten
since yester marm Nay, I shall not terry. I must
(03:30):
go on ah Now I thank THEE for a true man.
Believe me, when I return to mine own kingdom, I
will send begs of God at thy doorstep. Yet, however
much I shall send THEE Friend, will be but small
payment for this thy bread and thy wine, thy bounty
bestowed on me. Nay, laugh not, for I am truly
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a king, a bit of a very hungry one. And
thou shalt see one day, Ah, that is good? Is
there a drop more wine for the porkine?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
May you never suffer hunger or thirst? I am a
new man. Why yes, if there is bread and plenty,
I will eat more. Choose to tell one loaf is
short commons for one of my prodigious hunger and cheese?
And is that an onion I see on my shelf?
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I give you my thanks, and a pinch of salt.
Perhaps I have not dined so well even in my
palace of gold and dark marble, or a thousand nobles
said it? Eventide, Hey, well, I'll tell THEE friend. And
perhaps thou still drink a cup of wine whilst I
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say my say what, well? Now I will drink another
cup of wine with me, just to wet my whistle.
As the captain of my palace, guard says, yes, maybe
not so much. Well, know that my land is a
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fair land, long, peaceful hills under the summer sun, and
peaceful flowing rivers and distant mountains. Pleasant place, and my
people are as good, as well as good as any
on this earth, no better, no worse. Okay, Oh, a
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long way beyond the western ocean, Yes, there are lands beyond,
and beyond us to the west is another ocean, and
perchance there are lands beyond it. Aye. The world is wide,
as I have found, having trod so many weary leagues
of it. Well, but I have many who dwell at
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my palaces, but none so old, so wise, so verse.
And mysteries is by soussayers. And of them there is
one Chiron. And it was a twelvemonth ago that Chiron
began to speak to me of strange things.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
There be great portans, O king in the skies above
thy palace. Here, O king of the certain cloud, that
for thrice three nights has appeared low above the porches
of thy dwelling place, and that remaineth there until dawn time,
in the shape of a great hand that pointeth in
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a certain direction.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
There was a feared upon my throne, and I said
to Chiron the soussayer, say, Chiron, what this may be?
Is it a portent of death? That I shall soon
go to that country? Whence no man returns, or like
every man noble or commum, I'm feared of death. And
Cheiron wagged his ancient head and spoke again.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
To me, nay o king, I am bound to interpret
these marvels to thee. Yet this is beyond my ken.
I have cast spells, and I have fasted, and still
this thing passeth my understanding.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
And I was affrighted, and I said, Chiron, Chiron, I said,
read me this riddle, or die, For in my land
I had the power of the high, justice, the middle
and the low. And all obey my commands or die.
Therefore Cheiron went from my presence, and I frowned on
my high throne, that my face should not betray my fear.
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And the month went by and I saw not Chiron,
and the fear passed from me, until a day came
when my steward came, bowing to say that a messenger
from a far place waited without. And when this messenger
came to my throne room, he louded low before me,
and he laid beneath my hands a strange thing. Then,
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when I had broken the seals, then did the messengers there,
O King, He said, there is thy burthen. And I
looked and behold the thing he had given to me.
Was this very pouch I bear? And look with him?
Never seen it before? Nay, I suppose not. It has
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gm from the torchwood tree, all a binum, and it
comes from the eastern shore of the dark continent. And
no king, and all the earth possesses so much wolf
as there is in this pouch. Fairly, and I was
joyed at the sight. And I spoke to the messenger
and asked him who had sent it, And he said,
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it is not thine, O King, it is thy burthen
to carry. And he louded low again and went from me.
Then I called Cheiron, the soussayer, And when he came,
I stretched out my hand, and I said.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Chiron live forever, O King.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Chiron, read me this riddle. What means this pouch of
precious albanum led us to be my burthen?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
O King, Now all is revealed. Well, Now, O King,
is thy riddle clear? The riddle of the cloud shaped
like a great hand pointing, and the riddle of the
gum and the torchwood tree, and all.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Well speak.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
It is written that every man high and low must
dree his own weird, O.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
King, So my fate is mine. Dost thou know it?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Ay?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
So speak, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I have dreamed a dream, O King, And this is
what I dreamed, but I knew not its meaning until.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This, this gift, this burthen.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
In my dream, O King, I saw thee clad in
the poor robe of a common man, wending thy way
across the world. And thou didst walk, having no beast
to ride upon, and only a staff to aid thy footsteps.
And from thy shoulder, O King, did hang the leathern pouch.
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And in my dream I could smell smell, I King,
smell the fragrance of precious torchwood, gum, precious o libanum.
And thou didst leave thy kingdom and thy crown behind.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
A fool Nay King, get me gone, false magician, Am
I to desert my kingdom and my throne and become
a beggar? Thy say, so be calm. And Yet when
I sought my couch at night I dreamed a dream.
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And in the dream a man walked slowly down a
strange road and leaned upon a staff such as this,
and from his shoulder depended a pouch. And I smelt
the smell of torchwood gum of precious albinium. And I
looked on the man's face, and behold, it was my own.
And as I looked, a thunderous voice spoke in my ear,
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and it said, go thou, Gaspar, and tarry not. And
in a senight, I laid away my kingly crown, and
I took up this burthen, and in this poor raiment
I set out on my far journeyings. And I enter
a year have I wandered? And I know not the way,
save that sometimes in my dreams a voice says, go
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this way, Gaspar, And that is the way I have come.
And that is my story. Now, canst thou read me
this riddle? Where is the end of this far journeying?
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Oh man, thou art wary well? So I am hungry
to you?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Is it thy affair?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
If I am well now old one, I hold it
is any man's affair of another hunger's. And it has
soon been proved to me.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Not to me, for I have not eaten since yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Well, I have, for one gave me beaten drink and
found me a place to sleep, for which I am grateful.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I slept by the wayside.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
It is a sorry thing that a man of my
age and infirmity should suffer.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I have not cried out, nay.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
But the one who fed me gave me bread and
cheese to speed me on my way. And since I
was about to posit to refresh myself, why should I
not share with thee?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, if thou hast plenty, it.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Is not plenty, but I share it freely with the
old man.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
That's my thanks, young one.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Here father, And if there is wine left in the
little bottle, thou shalt drink it too?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I thank THEE.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Hast thou come far? Then?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Ay? I have come far?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And whither goes stou?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That remains to be?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Ha knowest thou not my destination?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I know it not?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
That is very strange?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Is there another cup of wine? For I am old?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Drink the rest? Father, and God bless.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
THEE his blessings on you, chargeable youth.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It is all I have, But thou're to welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Ah good it is a strange thing to find a
king in rat sapping beside the highway.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
And how didst thou know that I am a king?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
What thou a king?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Didst thou not say it?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I said it, But I spoke not of thee of
whom man of myself? It is sooth I'm a king.
I'm a mighty king in a far land, powerful and potent,
ruling over many cities.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Why king, so am I a king?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Mock me? Not, young one?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Thou makest me.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I give thee thanks for thy bread and thy wine.
For I will not have my gray hair and my
present poverty mocked by a beardless youth.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I crave they pardon, old man, king, I say, But
thou speakest as a king is one to speak.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And so I am.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Well. Then why dost thou walk in the dust the road?
Where are thy retainers, thy horses and chariots, and the
sword in that crown?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I say I am a king, and I say I
am a king? Young fool?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Had I my captain, say had I mine that would
fight amongst themselves? Mine are in my kingdom half a
world away, and mine are in their own country. So
shall we be friends?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
But I am a king, and so am I? And
what dost thou hear, O King?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I am about my business? Strange business, ay, my son,
it is passing strange.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
What hast thou in yonder bag? O King?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I said, I am about my business.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I think thou hast gold?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I had a golden crown.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Ay, so did I? But thou's gold in my bag?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Touch not the bag, or it is not mine?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Not thy and thou a king?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Now a robber?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I am a king, I.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Say, king of robbers. Beware my staff, nay, grandfather, I
would not rob thee? Best not try no hearkening to me, well.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I have a strange thought that thou art a king,
so as I am, and thou hast gold.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
There I will not tell thee.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
And thou knowest not where thy journey end us? What
sayest thou thou didst have a visitation a portense that
set thee on this journeying?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Who art thou?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I am king of a far country, even as thou art?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
How should I know THEE to be a king?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
By my signet?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Behold, I too have a signet.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
So thou hast what meaneth all this? O King?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I know not but I obey.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Was it written that we should meet in this place?
We two?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I know not. In my dreams, an angel of the
Lord commanded me to put away my crown and my
kingly robes, and take up this staff and this bag
of gold, and come.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Away, an angel of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
King No I slept, and in my dream I heard
a voice.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
There was a voice in my dream, thou dost.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Bear a burthen.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Also I a torchwood gum that we call all aboma.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It is a princely treasure, yet it is not mine,
nor is the gold mine.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I am Gaspar King, lord of the High, justice, the
middle and the Low. I rule the lands beyond the
western Ocean.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm Melchior, descendant of princes, and I RuaRed the forest
land and the hills and the rivers of the land
of Corn.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Hail to thee O King Melchior.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And hail to THEE young in Gaspar in thy torn raiment.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
And to thee O Kay with ragged staff and my
tattered sandals, And.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Thanks to thee for thy crust of bread and thy
sour wine, Young King from beyond the Western Ocean. I
shall return one day, and I hope that I shall
live to return to Colne. But I fear that I
am old and shall not see my forest palace again.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
What is to be will be, O King. But hast
thou no thought of the place to which we journey?
I know not, or of what we shall find at
the end.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I know not.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
It is passing strange.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Look in Gaspar. I know not why you travel this road,
nor where you shall end your days, nor yet of
the life that you have left behind you.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
It was a good life, King of Fire, I.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Have led a good life. I have fought my enemies
and overcome them, and forgiven them like a true man.
I have had wealth and happiness, certain sorrows, but I
have had a good life. OBL not blame this. And
now I am nigh unto four score years. And it
would be a strange thing if I did not obey
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the command the Lord hath put upon me. Though I
die in the undertaking.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I have not lived as long as thee O King,
nor have I thy ancient wisdom. But I obey the
command of my Lord God.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Even as thou dost, what is the name of thy God?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Is there more than one God? Lord King?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Come help me rise, my son, for it is in
my mind that the end of our journeying is not
far off. I do miss hasten.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And I took the old man's arm, and he rose,
and we set our faces towards the east. Are that
way around the highway, and through the dusty winter's day
we traveled on together, and many were the tails we
exchanged of our kingdoms. This old white bearded patriarch of
the forests and me. And though the scrip of gold
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grew heavier and heavier on his withered shoulders, he would
never suffer me to take it from him, For this,
he said, was his own burthen, and he would carry
it till he died, if need be. And we walked
on and on till the early dusk fell about us,
and we debated where we should sleep and what we
should sup upon, for the crusts of the bread were gone,
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and the cheese and the wine, and we were weary
to wandering kings. A night fell, and the clouds gathered,
dark dark rain fell upon us. And in the darkness
and the weariness, suddenly strong hands seized us, and a
great voice cried out at our shoulders.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Old stand, I say, now, who are you two travelers?
In the night along my room. Who are you answer me?
Or I'll have your lives in an instant.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
My name is.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Gaspar, you old man, I melt your king of con thief.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Why King, I am king too, I am King of
the Robbers. Come away with them.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
And they dragged us away to King milchi Or and
me in the darkness of the night. And this King
of the robbers was surely a miteman and his followers,
it seemed. And presently there was a sound of more voices,
and the high walls of an ancient ruined castle appeared
on the top of the hill, and a great door opened,
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and we saw the horst a huge smoky fire, and
many men at arms crowded around the great pot that
hung over the fire. And there was a smell of
good thing broth and of wet leather in the stables,
and the mighty King of the Robbers flung us the
stone floor, where we lay stunned for a time. And
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at last I dared look up at him as he
stood over us, and laughed to see two kings at
his feet. And a great hand seized me and drew
me to my feet.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Whither goest thou stripling, Hey I know not. Do you
jested me by? Do you know who I am? Answer me?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I am Black King of the Robbers, Mark you well,
and I have slain my thousands.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
You're not slain me, a young cockerel. What do you
have in that pouch?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
It's not for thee.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
You there to tell me in my own debtt Oh.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I was at the robber King's throat in that little instant,
and I said to him move, and thou diest. And
the great black man looked me full in the eyes,
or I had him by the beard. And I'm strong
enough in my own right, even if I am wearying
a hungered And he knew death was very close, and
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I said, bid thy men go away.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I will not.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Bid them go away from us, or thou wilt die.
And he waited a little moment, and his white eyes
rolled in that black face, and he spoke low and gentle.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Go away, go away for a little.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
They'll be time if you'd see you king guard stay,
if you'd have him live, go for here now. And
slowly grumbling, they left the savory pot by the fireside
and snuck out of that place like the dogs there were.
And I said to the black man sit, And when
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he had sat himself on the floor, good King milky
Or stood up, and I said, tie his hands, majesty,
And the king tied the Robert King's hands, and we
left him there whilst we went to the fireside and
supped enormously on savory cooked meat. Then when we had
eaten our fill, we returned again to the black man.
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Now king of the robbers. I'm hungry, well, we were
hungered to king.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Come now, mercy for thy food, black man. It was good.
A bait, a pinch more salt would have helped. But
can a man have everything.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Cut me loose? Nay, my men will return.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Well, then perhaps we must kill thee. No, my knife
is sharp. No, and we have not come thus far
to be halted by robbers.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Where dost thou go.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
About our business?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Robber, Hold you, old man, I am no mere thief.
I am King of the robbers in seos.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Thou art be decked like a king in others finery.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
I tell you I am no ordinary man. I am
king in my own land. You cannot slay me, no.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Thou Robert King, that I myself am king beyond the
western Ocean.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And I am king of the forests and the valleys
of cone.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
You look like kings in your rags.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
And thou with thy pinioned hands.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Nevertheless, I am king.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And I and I.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
What is the name of the kingdom?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Erst was I King of Ethiop in the dark continent Ethiop?
Where is that has never heard of my country?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Old man?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Ah, it is a barren land and a poor one.
And the high sun burns the rock hills, and the
lions prey upon the poor villages of my people.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
And there is neither gold, nor silver, nor precious jewels
within my land, only desolation.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And thou hast forsworn thy kingdom to be king of
the robbers.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Then nay, nay, old man.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Call me king, for I'm Melchior of con and.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Call me king. I am Gaspar of the lands beyond
the setting sun.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
And I am Balthazar, King of Ethio.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And thous said it is a poor land and thus desert.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Nay, King Melchior, I have not deserted my people in
my country. I have come into foreign parts that I
may strip gold and jewels and wealth from the inhabitants,
to take back one day to my own land and
enrich it, and bring a measure of happiness to my people.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Sayest thou, sooth King Balthazar.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
It is so, sayest thou south, I have said it.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Reach me the hands? What wouldst thou reach me the hands?
Thou art free? Belkasar?
Speaker 7 (26:49):
For my life, I thank thee old King. But how
dost thou know?
Speaker 8 (26:52):
I will spare thee, saying I am free?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Now why we are three kings, Belthazzar, how shall we
all upon one another like whites?
Speaker 7 (27:02):
It is so? Give me thy hand, and I'm King Melchior.
And now it is not meat that king should be
clad in rags. Let me know.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
How. No, we are dedicated to a far journey. We
two about the Czar and me must on?
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Whither goest thou that we know not save that we
must on? What is this wonder night?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Unto a year ago? Beltazzar, I was commanded to take
up this pouch and dress in the throw, and take
up the staff, and go whersoever the Lord would lead me,
bearing this precious gift.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And know too that I melchi or a comb, was
so bidden to go carrying with me this bag of
heavy gold, gold gold.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I And what hast thou gasper precious gum of the
torchwood tree, even.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
All of them precious, precious gifts.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I and for whom that that we know, not Balthazar, we.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Have but followed the bidding.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
And a potents, the signs to you.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
A cloud in the sky pointing, and a voice in
my dreams.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
The apparition of an angel, and a voice that said,
go and tarry not.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
No more, no more, no more.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
You believe, then, how else would we give up our
thrones and come, these many leagues?
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Will you come with me? Where to the tower? I
have something to show you?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
And we went with the robber king, fearing not of
his followers, and we climbed many a musty stairway, until
at last we stood on the topmost pinnacle of the
ancient ruined castle. And the dismal rain fell upon our
bare heads, and in the darkness, King Balthazar pointed a
way toward the east, and we followed his pointing dark hand.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
What do you see? What do you see through the
darkness and the rain and the lowering clouds, O, brother kings?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
And we looked, we three kings, through the murky blackness
where all the stars of heaven should be hidden, and
far far away, rising over the sodden hills that stretched
away to the land of Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee.
A bright, glowing, great star, brighter than the star of morning,
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and its rays transfigured the three who stood at the
castle battlement, and we fell on our knees. Three then
spoke Balthasar, King of Ethiop to us.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
You have brought a libanum of the torch tree, Gaspar,
which is called frankencense, and you have brought massy gold,
King Melchia. My burden shall be the incense of my
barren country, which is called labdanum, though in the tongue
of my people it is called mrr.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
And bearing our gifts of frankinsens and gold and myrrh,
we three kings.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
Gaspar and Balthazar, We three.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Kings set out through the reign and blackness to follow
the rays of a star. And now read me this riddle.
What manner of king shall the most potent kings of
Earth bow down?
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Unto the title of today's quiet, please story was read
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me this riddle.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It was written and directed by Willis Cooper, and the
man who spoke to you was Paul Nerom and Brian
Hunt played King Milkior. David Loftus was Balthazar, and Gary
Wallen was she Ram. The music for Quiet Please is
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played by Albert Berman. Now her word about next week's
Quiet Please, here's our writer, director Willis Cooper. Thank you
for listening to Quiet Please, and for next week, I
have a story for you called the Gothic Tale. And
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so until next week at five thirty Eastern Standard time,
I am quietly yours, Arness Chapel
Okay, quiet please, Quiet please.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hm h.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Hm quiet please. Dot Org presents Quiet Please, which is
written and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Paul Marrow.
Quiet Please. Friday is called read me this riddle, H.
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I will tell you a singular thing. How it happens
that I am come to this far place from my
own country. Yet why I am come remains to me
a deep and dark secret yet unrevealed. Howbeit I am young,
and there are many marvels of the earth and of
the heavens yet unrevealed to me. Know that in my
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land I am a ruler, I am king. Nay, smile
not that I am a beardless youth, and that I
am clad in garments suppost unking me. Nor smile at
the birthen I bear elect to a wandering merchant, or
forsooth a beggar upon the highways. Or I am truly
king in my own country, and I shall be king
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again when that I return, though in these later days
I am become somewhat bony, certis footsore. Now mock me not,
but be compassionate, or day may come when you should
walk in the streets of my royal city ragged even
as bearing only a staff such as I bear, and
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crying well away, and alms of me and my people,
and who will take you in and bestow upon you
meat him bread, and pour out the deep cups of wine,
and say unto you fall too, for thou art a friend. Aye.
So my people are good people, and yet they're no
more charitable than all the others of the earth that
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I call upon in my par journeying. Well, then be
compassionate to a man, a wanderer, not a king, or
I become a weary way, and the end of my
journeying is not yet revealed to me. Therefore I say
to you, be compassionate and give alms to the king.
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And on another day the king will requite the one
hundredfold gramarcy. For they whine this wine is less bitter
than the wine my people draw from the purple grape
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sun along low hillsides of my own land. But is
it not written that the wine of a stranger is
even sweeter? Is it permitted that I sit friend? You
are indeed a friend. I have not drunk nor eaten
since yester marm Nay, I shall not terry. I must
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go on ah Now I thank THEE for a true man.
Believe me, when I return to mine own kingdom, I
will send begs of God at thy doorstep. Yet, however
much I shall send THEE Friend, will be but small
payment for this thy bread and thy wine, thy bounty
bestowed on me. Nay, laugh not, for I am truly
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a king, a bit of a very hungry one. And
thou shalt see one day, Ah, that is good? Is
there a drop more wine for the porkine?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
May you never suffer hunger or thirst? I am a
new man. Why yes, if there is bread and plenty,
I will eat more. Choose to tell one loaf is
short commons for one of my prodigious hunger and cheese?
And is that an onion I see on my shelf?
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I give you my thanks, and a pinch of salt.
Perhaps I have not dined so well even in my
palace of gold and dark marble, or a thousand nobles
said it? Eventide, Hey, well, I'll tell THEE friend. And
perhaps thou still drink a cup of wine whilst I
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say my say what, well? Now I will drink another
cup of wine with me, just to wet my whistle.
As the captain of my palace, guard says, yes, maybe
not so much. Well, know that my land is a
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fair land, long, peaceful hills under the summer sun, and
peaceful flowing rivers and distant mountains. Pleasant place, and my
people are as good, as well as good as any
on this earth, no better, no worse. Okay, Oh, a
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long way beyond the western ocean, Yes, there are lands beyond,
and beyond us to the west is another ocean, and
perchance there are lands beyond it. Aye. The world is wide,
as I have found, having trod so many weary leagues
of it. Well, but I have many who dwell at
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my palaces, but none so old, so wise, so verse.
And mysteries is by soussayers. And of them there is
one Chiron. And it was a twelvemonth ago that Chiron
began to speak to me of strange things.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
There be great portans, O king in the skies above
thy palace. Here, O king of the certain cloud, that
for thrice three nights has appeared low above the porches
of thy dwelling place, and that remaineth there until dawn time,
in the shape of a great hand that pointeth in
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a certain direction.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
There was a feared upon my throne, and I said
to Chiron the soussayer, say, Chiron, what this may be?
Is it a portent of death? That I shall soon
go to that country? Whence no man returns, or like
every man noble or commum, I'm feared of death. And
Cheiron wagged his ancient head and spoke again.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
To me, nay o king, I am bound to interpret
these marvels to thee. Yet this is beyond my ken.
I have cast spells, and I have fasted, and still
this thing passeth my understanding.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
And I was affrighted, and I said, Chiron, Chiron, I said,
read me this riddle, or die, For in my land
I had the power of the high, justice, the middle
and the low. And all obey my commands or die.
Therefore Cheiron went from my presence, and I frowned on
my high throne, that my face should not betray my fear.
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And the month went by and I saw not Chiron,
and the fear passed from me, until a day came
when my steward came, bowing to say that a messenger
from a far place waited without. And when this messenger
came to my throne room, he louded low before me,
and he laid beneath my hands a strange thing. Then,
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when I had broken the seals, then did the messengers there,
O King, He said, there is thy burthen. And I
looked and behold the thing he had given to me.
Was this very pouch I bear? And look with him?
Never seen it before? Nay, I suppose not. It has
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gm from the torchwood tree, all a binum, and it
comes from the eastern shore of the dark continent. And
no king, and all the earth possesses so much wolf
as there is in this pouch. Fairly, and I was
joyed at the sight. And I spoke to the messenger
and asked him who had sent it, And he said,
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it is not thine, O King, it is thy burthen
to carry. And he louded low again and went from me.
Then I called Cheiron, the soussayer, And when he came,
I stretched out my hand, and I said.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Chiron live forever, O King.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Chiron, read me this riddle. What means this pouch of
precious albanum led us to be my burthen?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
O King, Now all is revealed. Well, Now, O King,
is thy riddle clear? The riddle of the cloud shaped
like a great hand pointing, and the riddle of the
gum and the torchwood tree, and all.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Well speak.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
It is written that every man high and low must
dree his own weird, O.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
King, So my fate is mine. Dost thou know it?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Ay?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
So speak, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I have dreamed a dream, O King, And this is
what I dreamed, but I knew not its meaning until.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This, this gift, this burthen.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
In my dream, O King, I saw thee clad in
the poor robe of a common man, wending thy way
across the world. And thou didst walk, having no beast
to ride upon, and only a staff to aid thy footsteps.
And from thy shoulder, O King, did hang the leathern pouch.
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And in my dream I could smell smell, I King,
smell the fragrance of precious torchwood, gum, precious o libanum.
And thou didst leave thy kingdom and thy crown behind.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
A fool Nay King, get me gone, false magician, Am
I to desert my kingdom and my throne and become
a beggar? Thy say, so be calm. And Yet when
I sought my couch at night I dreamed a dream.
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And in the dream a man walked slowly down a
strange road and leaned upon a staff such as this,
and from his shoulder depended a pouch. And I smelt
the smell of torchwood gum of precious albinium. And I
looked on the man's face, and behold, it was my own.
And as I looked, a thunderous voice spoke in my ear,
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and it said, go thou, Gaspar, and tarry not. And
in a senight, I laid away my kingly crown, and
I took up this burthen, and in this poor raiment
I set out on my far journeyings. And I enter
a year have I wandered? And I know not the way,
save that sometimes in my dreams a voice says, go
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this way, Gaspar, And that is the way I have come.
And that is my story. Now, canst thou read me
this riddle? Where is the end of this far journeying?
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Oh man, thou art wary well? So I am hungry
to you?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Is it thy affair?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
If I am well now old one, I hold it
is any man's affair of another hunger's. And it has
soon been proved to me.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Not to me, for I have not eaten since yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Well, I have, for one gave me beaten drink and
found me a place to sleep, for which I am grateful.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I slept by the wayside.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
It is a sorry thing that a man of my
age and infirmity should suffer.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I have not cried out, nay.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
But the one who fed me gave me bread and
cheese to speed me on my way. And since I
was about to posit to refresh myself, why should I
not share with thee?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, if thou hast plenty, it.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Is not plenty, but I share it freely with the
old man.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
That's my thanks, young one.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Here father, And if there is wine left in the
little bottle, thou shalt drink it too?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I thank THEE.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Hast thou come far? Then?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Ay? I have come far?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And whither goes stou?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That remains to be?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Ha knowest thou not my destination?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I know it not?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
That is very strange?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Is there another cup of wine? For I am old?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Drink the rest? Father, and God bless.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
THEE his blessings on you, chargeable youth.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It is all I have, But thou're to welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Ah good it is a strange thing to find a
king in rat sapping beside the highway.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
And how didst thou know that I am a king?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
What thou a king?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Didst thou not say it?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I said it, But I spoke not of thee of
whom man of myself? It is sooth I'm a king.
I'm a mighty king in a far land, powerful and potent,
ruling over many cities.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Why king, so am I a king?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Mock me? Not, young one?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Thou makest me.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I give thee thanks for thy bread and thy wine.
For I will not have my gray hair and my
present poverty mocked by a beardless youth.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I crave they pardon, old man, king, I say, But
thou speakest as a king is one to speak.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And so I am.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Well. Then why dost thou walk in the dust the road?
Where are thy retainers, thy horses and chariots, and the
sword in that crown?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I say I am a king, and I say I
am a king? Young fool?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Had I my captain, say had I mine that would
fight amongst themselves? Mine are in my kingdom half a
world away, and mine are in their own country. So
shall we be friends?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
But I am a king, and so am I? And
what dost thou hear, O King?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I am about my business? Strange business, ay, my son,
it is passing strange.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
What hast thou in yonder bag? O King?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I said, I am about my business.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I think thou hast gold?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I had a golden crown.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Ay, so did I? But thou's gold in my bag?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Touch not the bag, or it is not mine?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Not thy and thou a king?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Now a robber?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I am a king, I.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Say, king of robbers. Beware my staff, nay, grandfather, I
would not rob thee? Best not try no hearkening to me, well.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I have a strange thought that thou art a king,
so as I am, and thou hast gold.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
There I will not tell thee.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
And thou knowest not where thy journey end us? What
sayest thou thou didst have a visitation a portense that
set thee on this journeying?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Who art thou?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I am king of a far country, even as thou art?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
How should I know THEE to be a king?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
By my signet?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Behold, I too have a signet.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
So thou hast what meaneth all this? O King?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I know not but I obey.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Was it written that we should meet in this place?
We two?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I know not. In my dreams, an angel of the
Lord commanded me to put away my crown and my
kingly robes, and take up this staff and this bag
of gold, and come.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Away, an angel of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
King No I slept, and in my dream I heard
a voice.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
There was a voice in my dream, thou dost.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Bear a burthen.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Also I a torchwood gum that we call all aboma.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It is a princely treasure, yet it is not mine,
nor is the gold mine.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I am Gaspar King, lord of the High, justice, the
middle and the Low. I rule the lands beyond the
western Ocean.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm Melchior, descendant of princes, and I RuaRed the forest
land and the hills and the rivers of the land
of Corn.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Hail to thee O King Melchior.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And hail to THEE young in Gaspar in thy torn raiment.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
And to thee O Kay with ragged staff and my
tattered sandals, And.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Thanks to thee for thy crust of bread and thy
sour wine, Young King from beyond the Western Ocean. I
shall return one day, and I hope that I shall
live to return to Colne. But I fear that I
am old and shall not see my forest palace again.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
What is to be will be, O King. But hast
thou no thought of the place to which we journey?
I know not, or of what we shall find at
the end.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I know not.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
It is passing strange.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Look in Gaspar. I know not why you travel this road,
nor where you shall end your days, nor yet of
the life that you have left behind you.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
It was a good life, King of Fire, I.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Have led a good life. I have fought my enemies
and overcome them, and forgiven them like a true man.
I have had wealth and happiness, certain sorrows, but I
have had a good life. OBL not blame this. And
now I am nigh unto four score years. And it
would be a strange thing if I did not obey
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the command the Lord hath put upon me. Though I
die in the undertaking.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I have not lived as long as thee O King,
nor have I thy ancient wisdom. But I obey the
command of my Lord God.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Even as thou dost, what is the name of thy God?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Is there more than one God? Lord King?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Come help me rise, my son, for it is in
my mind that the end of our journeying is not
far off. I do miss hasten.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And I took the old man's arm, and he rose,
and we set our faces towards the east. Are that
way around the highway, and through the dusty winter's day
we traveled on together, and many were the tails we
exchanged of our kingdoms. This old white bearded patriarch of
the forests and me. And though the scrip of gold
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grew heavier and heavier on his withered shoulders, he would
never suffer me to take it from him, For this,
he said, was his own burthen, and he would carry
it till he died, if need be. And we walked
on and on till the early dusk fell about us,
and we debated where we should sleep and what we
should sup upon, for the crusts of the bread were gone,
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and the cheese and the wine, and we were weary
to wandering kings. A night fell, and the clouds gathered,
dark dark rain fell upon us. And in the darkness
and the weariness, suddenly strong hands seized us, and a
great voice cried out at our shoulders.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Old stand, I say, now, who are you two travelers?
In the night along my room. Who are you answer me?
Or I'll have your lives in an instant.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
My name is.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Gaspar, you old man, I melt your king of con thief.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Why King, I am king too, I am King of
the Robbers. Come away with them.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
And they dragged us away to King milchi Or and
me in the darkness of the night. And this King
of the robbers was surely a miteman and his followers,
it seemed. And presently there was a sound of more voices,
and the high walls of an ancient ruined castle appeared
on the top of the hill, and a great door opened,
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and we saw the horst a huge smoky fire, and
many men at arms crowded around the great pot that
hung over the fire. And there was a smell of
good thing broth and of wet leather in the stables,
and the mighty King of the Robbers flung us the
stone floor, where we lay stunned for a time. And
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at last I dared look up at him as he
stood over us, and laughed to see two kings at
his feet. And a great hand seized me and drew
me to my feet.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Whither goest thou stripling, Hey I know not. Do you
jested me by? Do you know who I am? Answer me?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I am Black King of the Robbers, Mark you well,
and I have slain my thousands.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
You're not slain me, a young cockerel. What do you
have in that pouch?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
It's not for thee.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
You there to tell me in my own debtt Oh.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I was at the robber King's throat in that little instant,
and I said to him move, and thou diest. And
the great black man looked me full in the eyes,
or I had him by the beard. And I'm strong
enough in my own right, even if I am wearying
a hungered And he knew death was very close, and
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I said, bid thy men go away.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I will not.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Bid them go away from us, or thou wilt die.
And he waited a little moment, and his white eyes
rolled in that black face, and he spoke low and gentle.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Go away, go away for a little.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
They'll be time if you'd see you king guard stay,
if you'd have him live, go for here now. And
slowly grumbling, they left the savory pot by the fireside
and snuck out of that place like the dogs there were.
And I said to the black man sit, And when
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he had sat himself on the floor, good King milky
Or stood up, and I said, tie his hands, majesty,
And the king tied the Robert King's hands, and we
left him there whilst we went to the fireside and
supped enormously on savory cooked meat. Then when we had
eaten our fill, we returned again to the black man.
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Now king of the robbers. I'm hungry, well, we were
hungered to king.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Come now, mercy for thy food, black man. It was good.
A bait, a pinch more salt would have helped. But
can a man have everything.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Cut me loose? Nay, my men will return.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Well, then perhaps we must kill thee. No, my knife
is sharp. No, and we have not come thus far
to be halted by robbers.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Where dost thou go.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
About our business?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Robber, Hold you, old man, I am no mere thief.
I am King of the robbers in seos.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Thou art be decked like a king in others finery.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
I tell you I am no ordinary man. I am
king in my own land. You cannot slay me, no.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Thou Robert King, that I myself am king beyond the
western Ocean.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And I am king of the forests and the valleys
of cone.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
You look like kings in your rags.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
And thou with thy pinioned hands.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Nevertheless, I am king.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And I and I.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
What is the name of the kingdom?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Erst was I King of Ethiop in the dark continent Ethiop?
Where is that has never heard of my country?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Old man?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Ah, it is a barren land and a poor one.
And the high sun burns the rock hills, and the
lions prey upon the poor villages of my people.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
And there is neither gold, nor silver, nor precious jewels
within my land, only desolation.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And thou hast forsworn thy kingdom to be king of
the robbers.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Then nay, nay, old man.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Call me king, for I'm Melchior of con and.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Call me king. I am Gaspar of the lands beyond
the setting sun.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
And I am Balthazar, King of Ethio.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And thous said it is a poor land and thus desert.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Nay, King Melchior, I have not deserted my people in
my country. I have come into foreign parts that I
may strip gold and jewels and wealth from the inhabitants,
to take back one day to my own land and
enrich it, and bring a measure of happiness to my people.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Sayest thou, sooth King Balthazar.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
It is so, sayest thou south, I have said it.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Reach me the hands? What wouldst thou reach me the hands?
Thou art free? Belkasar?
Speaker 7 (26:49):
For my life, I thank thee old King. But how
dost thou know?
Speaker 8 (26:52):
I will spare thee, saying I am free?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Now why we are three kings, Belthazzar, how shall we
all upon one another like whites?
Speaker 7 (27:02):
It is so? Give me thy hand, and I'm King Melchior.
And now it is not meat that king should be
clad in rags. Let me know.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
How. No, we are dedicated to a far journey. We
two about the Czar and me must on?
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Whither goest thou that we know not save that we
must on? What is this wonder night?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Unto a year ago? Beltazzar, I was commanded to take
up this pouch and dress in the throw, and take
up the staff, and go whersoever the Lord would lead me,
bearing this precious gift.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And know too that I melchi or a comb, was
so bidden to go carrying with me this bag of
heavy gold, gold gold.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I And what hast thou gasper precious gum of the
torchwood tree, even.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
All of them precious, precious gifts.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I and for whom that that we know, not Balthazar, we.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Have but followed the bidding.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
And a potents, the signs to you.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
A cloud in the sky pointing, and a voice in
my dreams.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
The apparition of an angel, and a voice that said,
go and tarry not.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
No more, no more, no more.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
You believe, then, how else would we give up our
thrones and come, these many leagues?
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Will you come with me? Where to the tower? I
have something to show you?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
And we went with the robber king, fearing not of
his followers, and we climbed many a musty stairway, until
at last we stood on the topmost pinnacle of the
ancient ruined castle. And the dismal rain fell upon our
bare heads, and in the darkness, King Balthazar pointed a
way toward the east, and we followed his pointing dark hand.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
What do you see? What do you see through the
darkness and the rain and the lowering clouds, O, brother kings?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
And we looked, we three kings, through the murky blackness
where all the stars of heaven should be hidden, and
far far away, rising over the sodden hills that stretched
away to the land of Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee.
A bright, glowing, great star, brighter than the star of morning,
(29:29):
and its rays transfigured the three who stood at the
castle battlement, and we fell on our knees. Three then
spoke Balthasar, King of Ethiop to us.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
You have brought a libanum of the torch tree, Gaspar,
which is called frankencense, and you have brought massy gold,
King Melchia. My burden shall be the incense of my
barren country, which is called labdanum, though in the tongue
of my people it is called mrr.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
And bearing our gifts of frankinsens and gold and myrrh,
we three kings.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
Gaspar and Balthazar, We three.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Kings set out through the reign and blackness to follow
the rays of a star. And now read me this riddle.
What manner of king shall the most potent kings of
Earth bow down?
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Unto the title of today's quiet, please story was read
(30:41):
me this riddle.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It was written and directed by Willis Cooper, and the
man who spoke to you was Paul Nerom and Brian
Hunt played King Milkior. David Loftus was Balthazar, and Gary
Wallen was she Ram. The music for Quiet Please is
(31:06):
played by Albert Berman. Now her word about next week's
Quiet Please, here's our writer, director Willis Cooper. Thank you
for listening to Quiet Please, and for next week, I
have a story for you called the Gothic Tale. And
(31:27):
so until next week at five thirty Eastern Standard time,
I am quietly yours, Arness Chapel
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