(Enter LADY Hyuuga and Kurenai)
Lady Hyuuga Kurenai where's my daughter? call her forth to me.
Kurenai Now, by my maidenhead, at fifteen year old,
I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!
God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Hinata!
(Enter Hinata)
Hinata H-how now! w-who calls?
Kurenai Your mother.
Hinata Madam, I-I am here.
What is your will?
Lady Huyyga
This is the matter:-Kurenai, give leave awhile,
We must talk in secret:--Kurenai, come back again;
I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.
Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.
Kurenai Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
Lady Hyuuga She's not fifteen
KurenaiI'll lay fifteen of my teeth,--
And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but fif-
She is not fifteen How long is it now
To Lammas-tide?
Lady Hyuuga A fortnight and odd days.
Kurenai Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--
Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;
She was too good for me: but, as I said,
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--
Of all the days of the year, upon that day: For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;
My lord and you were then at Uhchi:--
Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,
To bid me trudge:
And since that time it is eleven years;
For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
She could have run and waddled all about;
For even the day before, she broke her brow:
And then my husband--God be with his soul!
A' was a merry man--took up the child:
'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,
The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'
To see, now, how a jest shall come about!
I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;
And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'
Lady Hyuuga Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.
Kurenai
Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,
To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'
And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;
A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:
'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'
Hinata And stint thou too, I pray thee, Kurenai say I.
KurenaiPeace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace!
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:
An I might live to see thee married once,
I have my wish.
Lady Hyuuga Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme
I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,
How stands your disposition to be married?
Hianta It is an honour that I dream not of.
KurenaiAn honour! were not I thine onlyKurenai,
I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.
Lady Hyuuga Well, think of marriage now; younger than you,
Here in Kanoha, ladies of esteem,
Are made already mothers: by my count,
I was your mother much upon these years
That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:
The valiant Gaara seeks you for his love.(more like lust ;D)
Kurenai A man, young lady! lady, such a man
As all the world--why, he's a man of sand.
Lady Hyuuga Kanoha's summer hath not such a flower.
Kurenai Nay, he's a desert flower; in faith, a very desert flower.
Lady Hyuuga What say you? can you love the gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast;
Read o'er the volume of young Gaaras' face,
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
Examine every married lineament,
And see how one another lends content
And what obscured in this fair volume lies
Find written in the margent of his ocean eyes.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him, only lacks a cover:
The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride
For fair without the fair within to hide:
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;
So shall you share all that he doth possess,
By having him, making yourself no less.
Kurenai No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men.
Lady Hyuuga Speak briefly, can you like of Gaaras' love?
Hinata I'll look to like, if looking liking move:
But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
(Enter a Servant)
Sai
Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you
called, my young lady asked for, Kurenai cursed in the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must
hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight.
Lady Hyuuga We follow thee.
(Exit Servant Hinata, the county stays).
Kurenai Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.
An:\\ Ok I'm trying to get at least two pages a day because the play is so damn long and my attention span is somewhat short and I hope you guys are in joying this so I can get a original going too...and viper-head I miss chuu :'(