What funny clothes!
GRANNY TYL
He has put on the things which he wore in his shop.... Here, as a rule, the weather is so mild, the air so warm and balmy, that we've no need to dress ourselves; but you wouldn't be able to see us if we had no clothes; and so, in your honour, we've put on those we used to wear on earth.... It'll be quite amusing: some of them date back ever so far.... Look, there they come, out of the houses they once lived in....
(Enter from the town-house a CITIZEN of the time of Louis XIV; from the sixteenth-century prison a PRISONER still wearing chains and irons on his feet and hands. His shackles now seem to be light and cause him no inconvenience. He attracts TYLTYL'S attention.)
TYLTYL
Who is that one? Was he chained up?
GRANNY TYL
Yes, he is one of your ancestors who spent nearly all his life in prison.
TYLTYL
It's not a thing to boast of; he'd have done better to stay at home.