BROTHER.
You have cited me a notable instance. I am persuaded to resolve with you how this thing may be effected.
Come now, by what strategy may we get access to our foe?
MAKINO.
A plan has suddenly come into my head. You know that these hōka plays are become the fashion of the day. Why should not I dress up as a hōka and you as a hōka priest? They say that our man is a great lover of the Zen doctrine; so you may talk to him of Zen.
BROTHER.
That is indeed a pretty notion; let me lose no time in effecting it.
I am resolved; in a pilgrim guise
I mask my limbs.
MAKINO.
And I, glad-thoughted,
In a minstrel’s garb go forth.