Act 4 Scene 3 :

Battlefield, the Second Night, Irish Camp.

[sound of hacking meat. Clashing of steel]

IRISH SOLDIER 1

May day never come, everything is fight ever since Gern let loose the
arrow.

IRISH SOLDIER 2

Even though wounded in the thigh by that bolt, Bran still strikes with lighting made steel blade. Listen, in the dark, our brothers and the others
still fight on.

IRISH SOLDIER 3

It tis this way for one full day and this second night.

GERN

Fear not, father's afronriders for Eliawras have provided me with that
quirrel infecting uncle Bran with belladonna poison.

[enter Falcon disguised as Eliawras]

Correct? I shot him well did I not, hugger of trees?

FALCON

[disguised as Eliawras]

That is true, my prince. By the next midnight, your uncle will enter into
the choir invisible.

[aside]

Ad for thee, unfaithful child... Your mother's bones at the base of the tower cry out to Jove for justice. The treason against your due king, you
will soon have to pay your due to Jove's harpies.

IRISH SOLDIER 4

I fear for our souls for this fight may not be right and if so when we are
judged the dead will cry out murderer on me.

GERN

Fear not, with Bran dead. By Eiru, Banbha, and Fodla I will receive the stone that Jacob sleep on and make me king. now, kiss me, and make it so.

FALCON

I shall kiss thee and set a destiny for you.

[aside, kisses him on both cheeks]

You will into Pluto's depths be tossed, there, Persiphone will set you next to Orpheus and say to you and your father, "Lord Hades, for six months out of the year I stay with you, yet these two amuse me so keep them here as my
fools." With many-headed Cerberus at his side, Hades, will nod and say to his hell- hound keep them here and forgo any food if you let my lady lose her smile.

GERN

When you kissed me and muttered words, I felt cold like that old saying about someone stepping on my grave. Yet this must not bother me, I go to
join my father this night in his fray.

[exit Gern]

IRISH SOLDER 2

Then we best sharpen our blades.

[enter Eliawras]

Hold there, why are there two of you?

FALCON

Ha, ha!

[drops his disguise]

I am Falcon, child of Destiny, maker of kings, and now I have set everything to right your magic will be of no use in this fight. I rather
have the fight even and fair, a duel to the death between titians.

ELIAWRAS

What have you done, sorcerer? What? Tell me spawn of unholy things, what
curses that I must undo. For you damn this land.

FALCON

Nay, the days of many Gods are to fade, for that is the way of thing. The
dragons fell to the giants and Titians, they to the many Gods.they will fall to, so will the elves and fairies, and someday man will go into the
dreaming.

ELIAWRAS

What are you saying? Is that an insult? Do you want a duel -match our magic. Then by bat's blood, decapitated and flayed toads, baby fat, I curse
thee to die by the hand of the one you love.

FALCON

Speak your poison elsewhere, Eliawras. Indegg you are, embroiler you will be (1). Cursed art thou above all the livestock and all the wild animals.

[Falcon transforms him into an Asp (1, 2)]

You will crawl on your belly hence; and will eat dust all the day of your life though when you nip at a black knight's heal a sword will raise and
crush you.

[exit Falcon]

IRISH SOLDIER 3

By this sight I fear what will the rising sun there bring as if Charon's
boats is waiting ahead.

ONE:

Indegg, the embroiler of Britian. According to Welsh legend, the messenger Indegg was to negotiate between King Arthur and Mordred, but uttered it so badly that battle came.

TWO:

Asp, snake. Biblical reference and from Mallory's "Le Mort de Arthur", where during the negotiations a snake was seen and the Black Knight drew his sword to kill it, the flash of steel caused a battle to come and the death of Arthur.

Act 4 Scene 4

Battlefield, the Second Night, English Camp.

[sound of hacking meat. Clashing of steel]

WITCH 2

{with Scales measuring (1)}

Where have you been, sister on this day where two moons are in the same month - a very sacred and cursed day? This second moon red with blood an
unhappy sight. (2).

WITCH 1

{with a drawn scythe (1)}

With the moon and comet, I was out killing swine...

{Enter Gwawl Llwyd }

GWAWL LLWYD

Pyrderi! Pyrderi the Welshman! Where are you? You stole my wife and cheated
me! Face me and die. Be dragged back into the hell you came from. Hold,
women, who are you to walk in this fight without fear of death?

WITCH 3

{with a sword (1)}

Death is a commodity like any other is it not? We are here to sew up the dead in their clothes and take them beyond, even if you have been tricked
into this fight.

GWAWL LLWYD

Then sewers of the dead and washers in the ford; take these alms and make
your craft well. For I shall slay Pyrderi this night or the next.

[Exit Gwawl Llwyd, looking for Pryderi]

TENGAU

Lord, lord, what bothers you, you know the sword well. Please kiss me. please love me. Even Manawyddan, brother of the king, has found some love
this night.

CARADOC

Nay, Lady Tengau, I cannot. My father is not in his tent. I must keep him
alive, for I shall not avenge him.

WITCH 2

Look well, Caradoc, Bran in the robes of the priest baptizing in the three- in-one God. Yet still here is an illusion of a great forest of wild beasts ready to tear him limb from limb. He exits into a field tended by shepherds
with tress of silver vines hung with grapes. In there a beautiful woman
sets him on the wheel and acclaim that, "You shall lose the game."

WITCH 3

Then Destiny shall spin her lots making him fall, crushing his jaw, and breaking his bones to be fed on by the wyrms. It be best to be with your
mate, than look for a king, fate is fate.

TENGAU

How dare you say that woman to my lord, the prince and heir to the king? I
just want him to say the words that I profess for him; that is all, not wish my lord's lord ill with Arthur's dream of being on Fortune's wheel. If we are to have children as Falcon has said, I will leave that up to my lord
husband.

CARADOC

Husband? Name him, and I shall slay him. Nobody shall have Tengau, except
for me!

Extent.

ONE:

Sword, Scythe, Scales. Symbols of the horseman of the Apocalypse.

TWO:

Moon. A blue moon is considered lucky and unlucky in some circles; however,
a blood moon is usually considered a bad omen of death and destruction.