Servants. Here you are, Master Bannai. Lord Moronao has long been asking for you. What, you, who serve in a house noted for etiquette, run after a woman! How vulgar, how unmannerly of you!
Bannai. Hang it, they say the same thing as she did.
Recitative. He accompanies the servants with a sulky face; and immediately after, Kanpei comes in.
Kanpei. Did you see what I did? That fellow Bannai hoaxed me just now; and if I came and told him that he was wanted, he would have said, “Shut up, it is an old trick”; and so I gave drink to the servants and played the trick that he could not see through. Ha, ha, I had him there beautifully. Now that I have got rid of him, come with me.
Recitative. And he takes her by the hand.
Okaru. Oh, how impatient you are! Please, wait a moment.
Kanpei. What do you say? There is no need to wait, and the day will break before long. Come at once.
Recitative. He presses her; and to love inclined, she is nothing loth.
Okaru. But here are people about.
Recitative. From within the palace is heard the song of Takasago :—“They sit on the root of the pine-tree.”