A little God, With comfortable feathers, and bright eyes. FIRST GIRL. There will be no more dancing in our time, For nobody will play the harp or the fiddle. Let us away, for we cannot amend it, And watch the hurley. SECOND GIRL. Hush! he is looking at us. SEANCHAN. Yes, yes, go to the hurley, go to the hurley, Go to the hurley! Gather up your skirts— Run quickly! You can remember many love songs; I know it by the light that’s in your eyes— But you’ll forget them. You’re fair to look upon. Your feet delight in dancing, and your mouths In the slow smiling that awakens love. The mothers that have borne you mated rightly. They’d little ears as thirsty as your ears For many love songs. Go to the young men. Are not the ruddy flesh and the thin flanks And the broad shoulders worthy of desire? Go from me! Here is nothing for your eyes. But it is I that am singing you away— Singing you to the young men. [_The TWO YOUNG PRINCESSES come out of palace. While he has been speaking the GIRLS have shrunk back holding each other’s hands._ FIRST GIRL. Be quiet! Look who it is has come out of the house. Princesses, we are for the hurling field. Will you go there? FIRST PRINCESS. We will go with you, Aileen. But we must have some words with Seanchan, For we have come to make him eat and drink. CHAMBERLAIN. I will hold out the dish and cup for him While you are speaking to him of his folly, If you desire it, Princess. [_He has taken dish and cup._ FIRST PRINCESS. No, Finula Will carry him the dish and I the cup. We’ll offer them ourselves. [_They take cup and dish._ FIRST GIRL. They are so gracious; The dear little Princesses are so gracious. [_PRINCESS holds out her hand for SEANCHAN to kiss it. He does not move._ Although she is holding out her hand to him, He will not kiss it. FIRST PRINCESS. My father bids us say That, though he cannot have you at his table, You may ask any other thing you like And he will give it you. We carry you With our own hands a dish and cup of wine. FIRST GIRL. O, look! he has taken it! He has taken it! The dear Princesses! I have always said That nobody could refuse them anything. [_SEANCHAN takes the cup in one hand. In the other he holds for a moment the hand of the PRINCESS._ SEANCHAN.