If any sinners come along, set upon them and drive them off to Hell.
DEMONS.
We tremble and obey.
(Enter the bird-catcher, KIYOYORI).
KIYOYORI.
“All men are sinners.” What have I to fear
More than the rest?
My name is Kiyoyori the Bird-Catcher. I was very well known on the Terrestrial Plane. But the span of my years came to its appointed close; I was caught in the Wind of Impermanence; and here I am, marching to the Sunless Land.
Without a pang
I leave the world where I was wont to dwell,
The Temporal World.
Whither, oh whither have my feet carried me?
To the Six Ways already I have come.
Why, here I am already at the meeting of the Six Ways of Existence. I think on the whole I’ll go to Heaven.
DEMON.