(To Christy,
who is freed.) Come on now.
CHRISTY. Go with you, is it? I will then, like a gallant captain with his
heathen slave. Go on now and I'll see you from this day stewing my oatmeal
and washing my spuds, for I'm master of all fights from now. (Pushing Mahon.)
Go on, I'm saying.
MAHON. Is it me?
CHRISTY. Not a word out of you. Go on from this.
MAHON [walking out and looking back at Christy over his shoulder.] -- Glory
be to God! (With a broad smile.) I am crazy again! [Goes.]
CHRISTY. Ten thousand blessings upon all that's here, for you've turned me a
likely gaffer in the end of all, the way I'll go romancing through a romping
lifetime from this hour to the dawning of the judgment day. [He goes out.]
MICHAEL. By the will of God, we'll have peace now for our drinks. Will you
draw the porter, Pegeen?
SHAWN -- [going up to her.] -- It's a miracle Father Reilly can wed us in the
end of all, and we'll have none to trouble us when his vicious bite is healed.
PEGEEN -- [hitting him a box on the ear.] -- Quit my sight. (Putting her
shawl over her head and breaking out into wild lamentations.) Oh my grief,
I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World.
CURTAIN
THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD was first produced by the National Theatre
Society, Ltd., at the Abbey Theatre, on Saturday, 26th January, 1907, under
the direction of W. G. Fay.
Christopher Mahon, W. G. FAY
Old Mahon, his father, a squatter, A.
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