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peace-第3部分

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  TRYGAEUS

    Ah! great gods let us seek safety; I think I already hear the

noise of this fearful war mortar。 (He hides。)

  WAR (enters; carrying a huge mortar)

    Oh! mortals; mortals; wretched mortals; how your jaws will snap!

  TRYGAEUS

    Oh! divine Apollo! what a prodigious big mortar! Oh; what misery

the very sight of War causes me! This then is the foe from whom I fly;

who is so cruel; so formidable; so stalwart; so solid on his legs!

  WAR

    Oh! Prasiae! thrice wretched; five times; aye; a thousand times

wretched! for thou shalt be destroyed this day。

                              (He throws some leeks into the mortar。)

  TRYGAEUS (to the audience)

    This; gentlemen; does not concern us over much; it's only so

much the worse for the Laconians。

  WAR

    Oh! Megara! Megara! utterly are you going to be ground up! what

fine mincemeat are you to be made into!

                                          (He throws in some garlic。)

  TRYGAEUS (aside)

    Alas! alas! what bitter tears there will be among the Megarians!

  WAR (throwing in some cheese)

    Oh; Sicily! you too must perish! Your wretched towns shall be

grated like this cheese。 Now let us pour some Attic honey into the

mortar。

    (He does so。)

  TRYGAEUS (aside)

    Oh! I beseech you! use some other honey; this kind is worth four

obols; be careful; oh! be careful of our Attic honey。

  WAR

    Hi! Tumult; you slave there!

  TUMULT

    What do you want?

  WAR

    Out upon you! Standing there with folded arms! Take this cuff on

the head for your pains。

  TUMULT

    Oh! how it stings! Master; have you got garlic in your fist; I

wonder?

  WAR

    Run and fetch me a pestle。

  TUMULT

    But we haven't got one; it was only yesterday we moved。

  WAR

    Go and fetch me one from Athens; and hurry; hurry!

  TUMULT

    I'll hurry; if I return without one; I shall have no cause for

laughing。

                                                       (He runs off。)

  TRYGAEUS (to the audience)

    Ah! what is to become of us; wretched mortals that we are? See the

danger that threatens if he returns with the pestle; for War will

quietly amuse himself with pounding all the towns of Hellas to pieces。

Ah! Bacchus! cause this herald of evil to perish on his road!

  WAR (to the returning TUMULT)

    Well?

  TUMULT

    Well; what?

  WAR

    You have brought back nothing?

  TUMULT

    Alas! the Athenians have lost their pestle…the tanner; who

ground Greece to powder。

  TRYGAEUS

    Oh! Athene; venerable mistress! it is well for our city he is

dead; and before he could serve us with this hash。

  WAR

    Then go and seek one at Sparta and have done with it!

  TUMULT

    Aye; aye; master!

                                                       (He runs off。)

  WAR (shouting after him)

    Be back as quick as ever you can。

  TRYGAEUS (to the audience)

    What is going to happen; friends? This is the critical hour。 Ah!

if there is some initiate of Samothrace among you; this is surely

the moment to wish this messenger some accident…some sprain or strain。

  TUMULT (returning)

    Alas! alas! thrice again; alas!

  WAR

    What is it? Again you come back without it?

  TUMULT

    The Spartans too have lost their pestle。

  WAR

    How; varlet?

  TUMULT

    They had lent it to their allies in Thrace; who have lost it for

them。

  TRYGAEUS

    Long life to you; Thracians! My hopes revive; pluck up courage;

mortals!

  WAR

    Take all this stuff; I am going in to make a pestle for myself。

                                    (He goes in; followed by TUMULT。)

  TRYGAEUS (coming out of his hiding…place)

    Now is the time to sing as Datis did; as he masturbated at high

noon; 〃Oh pleasure! oh enjoyment! oh delights!〃 Now; oh Greeks! is the

moment when freed of quarrels and fighting; we should rescue sweet

Peace and draw her out of this pit; before some other pestle

prevents us。 Come; labourers; merchants; workmen; artisans; strangers;

whether you be domiciled or not; islanders; come here; Greeks of all

countries; come hurrying here with picks and levers and ropes! This is

the moment to drain a cup in honour of the Good Genius。

    (The CHORUS enters; it consists of labourers and farmers from

      various Greek states。)

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    Come hither all! quick; to the rescue! All peoples of Greece;

now is the time or never; for you to help each other。 You see

yourselves freed from battles and all their horrors of bloodshed。

The day hateful to Lamachus has come。 (To TRYGAEUS) Come then; what

must be done? Give your orders; direct us; for or swear to work this

day without ceasing; until with the help of our levers and our engines

we have drawn back into light the greatest of all goddesses; her to

whom the olive is so dear。

  TRYGAEUS

    Silence! if War should hear your shouts of joy he would bound

forth from his retreat in fury。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    Such a decree overwhelms us with joy; how different to the

edict; which bade us muster with provisions for three days。

  TRYGAEUS

    Let us beware lest the cursed Cerberus prevent us even from the

nethermost bell from delivering the goddess by his furious howling;

just as he did when on earth。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    Once we have hold of her; none in the world will be able to take

her from us。 Huzza! huzza!

  TRYGAEUS

    You will work my death if you don't subdue your shouts。 War will

come running out and trample everything beneath his feet。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    Well then! Let him confound; let him trample; let him overturn

everything! We cannot help giving vent to our joy。

  TRYGAEUS

    Oh! cruel fate! My friends! in the name of the gods; what

possesses you? Your dancing will wreck the success of a fine

undertaking。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    It's not I who want to dance; it's my legs that bound with

delight。

  TRYGAEUS

    Enough; please; cease your gambols。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    There! That's all。

  TRYGAEUS

    You say so; and nevertheless you go on。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    Yet one more figure and it's done。

  TRYGAEUS

    Well; just this one; then you must dance no more。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    No; no more dancing; if we can help you。

  TRYGAEUS

    But look; you are not stopping even now。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    By Zeus; I am only throwing up my right leg; that's all。

  TRYGAEUS

    Come; I grant you that; but pray; annoy me no further。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    Ah! the left leg too will have its fling; well; that's its

right。 I am so happy; so delighted at not having to carry my buckler

any more。 I fart for joy and I laugh more than if I had cast my old

age; as a serpent does its skin。

  TRYGAEUS

    No; it's not time for joy yet; for you are not sure of success。

But when you have got the goddess; then rejoice; shout and 
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