"Dunsany, Lord - Five Plays" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dunsany Lord)

Oorander:
They have a hungry look.

Agmar: {who has not eaten}
I have not eaten since the world was very new and the
flesh of men was tenderer than now. These younger gods
have learned the habit of eating from the lions.

Oorander:
O oldest of divinities, partake, partake.

Agmar:
It is not fitting that such as I should eat. None eat
but beasts and men and the younger gods. The sun and
the moon and the nimble lightning and I -- we may kill
and we may madden, but we do not eat.

Akmos:
If he but eat of our offering he cannot overwhelm us.

All:
Oh, ancient deity, partake, partake.

Agmar:
Enough. Let it be enough that these have condescended
to this bestial and human habit.

Illanaun: {to Akmos}
And yet he is not unlike a beggar whom I saw not so
long since.

Oorander:
But beggars eat.

Illanaun:
Now I never knew a beggar yet who would refuse a bowl
of Woldery wine.

Akmos:
This is no beggar.

Illanaun:
Nevertheless let us offer him a bowl of Woldery wine.

Akmos:
You do wrong to doubt him.

Illanaun:
I do but wish to prove his divinity. I will fetch the