Prince of Marshes: (Taking bag from his Aunt.)
These three leaves from the Tree of Power that
grows by the Well of Healing. Here they are
now for you, tied with a thread of the wool of
the sheep of the Land of Promise. There is power
in them to bring one person only back to life.
First Aunt: Give them back to me! You
have your own life to think of as well as any other
one!
Second Aunt: Do not spend and squander that
cure on any person but yourself!
Prince of Marshes: (Giving the leaves.) And if
I have given her my love that it is likely I will
give to no other woman for ever, indeed and
indeed, I would not ask her or wish her to wed
with a very frightened man, and that is what I
was a while ago. But you yourself have earned her,
being brave.
Manus: (Taking leaves.) I never will forget it
to you. You will be a brave man yet.
Prince of Marshes: Give me in place of it your
sword; for I am going my lone through the world
for a twelvemonth and a day, till I will learn to
fight with my own hand.
(Manus gives him sword. He throws off cloak
and outer coat and fastens it on.)
Nurse: Stand back, now. Let the whole of ye
stand back. (She lays a leaf on the Princess's mouth
and one on each of her hands.) I call on you by
the power of the Seven Belts of the Heavens, of
the Twelve Winds of the World, of the Three
Waters of the Sea!
(Princess stirs slightly.)
King: That is a wonder of wonders! She is stirring!