I have seen gold enough. FOURTH PEASANT I would not say that it's so beautiful. FIRST PEASANT But doesn't a gold piece glitter like the sun? That's what my father, who'd seen better days, Told me when I was but a little boy-- So high--so high, it's shining like the sun, Round and shining, that is what he said. SECOND PEASANT There's nothing in the world it cannot buy. FIRST PEASANT They've bags and bags of it. (_They go out._ _The two_ MERCHANTS _follow silently_. _Then_ ALEEL _passes over the stage singing_.) ALEEL Impetuous heart be still, be still, Your sorrowful love can never be told, Cover it up with a lonely tune. He who could bend all things to His will Has covered the door of the infinite fold With the pale stars and the wandering moon. END OF SCENE IV. SCENE V SCENE.--_The house of_ SHEMUS RUA. _There is an alcove at the back with curtains; in it a bed, and on the bed is the body of_ MARY _with candles round it_. _The two_ MERCHANTS _while they speak put a large book upon a table, arrange money, and so on_. FIRST MERCHANT Thanks to that lie I told about her ships And that about the herdsman lying sick, We shall be too much thronged with souls to-morrow. SECOND MERCHANT What has she in her coffers now but mice? FIRST MERCHANT When the night fell and I had shaped myself Into the image of the man-headed owl, I hurried to the cliffs of Donegal, And saw with all their canvas full of wind And rushing through the parti-coloured sea Those ships that bring the woman grain and meal. They're but three days from us. SECOND MERCHANT When the dew rose I hurried in like feathers to the east, And saw nine hundred oxen driven through Meath With goads of iron. They're but three days from us. FIRST MERCHANT Three days for traffic. (PEASANTS _crowd in with_ TEIG _and_ SHEMUS.) SHEMUS Come in, come in, you are welcome. That is my wife. She mocked at my great masters, And would not deal with them. Now there she is; She does not even know she was a fool, So great a fool she was. TEIG She would not eat One crumb of bread bought with our master's money, But lived on nettles, dock, and dandelion. SHEMUS There's nobody could put into her head That Death is the worst thing can happen us. Though that sounds simple, for her tongue grew rank With all the lies that she had heard in chapel. Draw to the curtain. (TEIG _draws it_.) You'll not play the fool While these good gentlemen are there to save you. SECOND MERCHANT Since the drought came they drift about in a throng, Like autumn leaves blown by the dreary winds. Come, deal--come, deal. FIRST MERCHANT Who will come deal with us? SHEMUS