(Enter Hyuuga, Gaara, and a servant)
Hyuuga But Uchiha is bound as well as I, In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, For men so old as we to keep the peace.
Gaara Of honourable reckoning are you both;
And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long.
But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?
Hyuuga But saying o'er what I have said before: My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fifteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
Gaara Younger than she are happy mothers made.
Hyuuga And too soon marr'd are those so early made.
The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,
She is the hopeful lady of my earth: But woo her, gentle Gaara, get her heart,
My will to her consent is but a part;
An she agree, within her scope of choice
Lies my consent and fair according voice.
This night I hold an old accustom'd feast,
Whereto I have invited many a guest,
Such as I love; and you, among the store,
One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
At my poor house look to behold this night
Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:
Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-apparell'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads, even such delight
Among fresh female buds shall you this night
Inherit at my house; hear all, all see, And like her most whose merit most shall be:
Which on more view, of many mine being one
May stand in number, though in reckoning none,
Come, go with me.
(To Servant, giving a paper )
Go, Sai, trudge about
Through fair Kanoha; find those persons out
Whose names are written there, and to them say,
My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.
(Exeunt Hyuuga and Gaara)
Sai Find them out whose names are written here! It is
written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his
yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with
his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am
sent to find those persons whose names are here
writ, and can never find what names the writing
person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time.
(Enter Doki and Itachi)
Doki Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish:
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Itachi Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that.
Doki For what, I pray thee?
Itachi For your broken shin.
Doki Why,Itachi art thou mad?
Itachi Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is;
Shut up in prison, kept without my food,
Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow.
Sai God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?
Itachi Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.
Sai Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I pray, can you read any thing you see?
Itachi Ay, if I know the letters and the language.
Sai Ye say honestly: rest you merry!
Itachi Stay, fellow; I can read.
(Reads)
'Ginma and his wife and daughters;
Kankuro and his beauteous sisters; the lady
widow of Hidan; Kakashi and his lovely
nieces; Gozu and his brother Mezu; mine
uncle Hyuuga, his wife and daughters; my fair niece
Miagrue; Gai; Ebisu and his cousin,
Neji, Kei and the lively Helena.' A fair
assembly: whither should they come?
Sai Up.
Itachi Whither?
Sai To supper; to our house.
Itachi Whose house?
Sai My master's.
Itachi Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before.
SaiNow I'll tell you without asking: my master is the
great rich Hyuuga; and if you be not of the house of Uhchihas, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.
Rest you merry!
(Exit)
Doki
At this same ancient feast of Hyuugas
Sups the fair Miagerue whom thou so lovest,
With all the admired beauties of Kanoha:
Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Itachi When the devout religion of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;
And these, who often drown'd could never die,
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!
One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
Doki Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself poised with herself in either eye:
But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
Your lady's love against some other maid
That I will show you shining at this feast,
And she shall scant show well that now shows best.
Itachi I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,
But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.
(Exeunt)
