Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Introduction, Scene 2


Sly, is now surrounded by servants, he asks if someone can get him a beer, and the servants ask persuasively whether he would not like finer delicacies such a wine, cloths and fruit. Sly tells the servants that he has never had any of these luxuries and is no honor or lord. The real Lord, dressed as a servant, purposed that it was a shame that a man of such power and nobility have been infected with such an illness. Sly says to the servants “What, are you trying to make me crazy? I’m Christopher Sly, son of old Sly of Barton-on-Heath, a peddler by birth, a cardmaker by trade, a keeper of trained bears by bad luck, and now, by present profession, a tinker.” And he tells them to go ask an old friend of his that he owes a great tab in a bar to.
This is why your wife is mourning, and why your servants hold their heads in shame, said the prisoners. The lord asks him to try and recall his last time sane, and asks if there is anything he wants the servants to do. The Lord continues to try and pursue him by offering great luxuries that only a king could have means to attain. The servants tell him of lustful paintings of Greek gods, and of how his wife was the fairest creature on the planet before tears covered her beautiful face, and even now she has no equal.

Sly appears to start to believe the servants into thinking that he is actually a lord. And they tell him that he has slept the past fifteen years, and for the small moments when he woke, he would only yell things referring to his landlady’s daughter Circely Hacket. And they tell him none of these people actually exist. Sly thanks the servants and assures them that he will not forget their help. A Page enters the room disguised as a Nobel lady and accompanied by servants, she tells him that he shall address her by madam, and she to him Lord. He tells her to sleep with him, and she says that she is forbidden, due to risk of his dreams coming back. Sly says that he is really turned on, but will wait, no matter how his body feels about it. A messenger come in and suggests that he watches a comedy routine to make him feel better. Sly asks what it is about, and the messenger says it’s a story, so sly tells the “Nobel lady” to sit by him, and for them to forget their cares, as they are not getting any younger.

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