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

Ulf:
The gods are drowsy.

Oogno:
If they awake not soon and make this city worthy again
of our order I for one shall forsake the calling and
buy a shop and sit at ease in the shade and barter for
gain.

Thahn:
You will keep a shop?

{Enter Agmar and Slag. Agmar, though poorly dressed,
is tall, imperious, and older than Ulf. Slag follows
behind him.}

Agmar:
Is this a beggar who speaks?

Oogno:
Yes, master, a poor beggar.

Agmar:
How long has the calling of beggary existed?

Oogno:
Since the building of the first city, master.

Agmar:
And when has a beggar ever followed a trade? When has
he ever haggled and bartered and sat in a shop?

Oogno:
Why, he has never done so.

Agmar:
Are you he that shall be first to forsake the calling?

Oogno:
Times are bad for the calling here.

Thahn:
They are bad.

Agmar:
So you would forsake the calling?

Oogno:
The city is unworthy of our calling. The gods are