TYLTYL
Good-evening ... sir!
THE GREAT ANCESTOR
Kiss me first. Don't be afraid. I look rather savage, but it is only a shape which I had to put on in order to make myself visible to you. I had no other handy.... But I am really quite clean and I don't smell bad.
TYLTYL
I never said you did!
THE GREAT ANCESTOR
No, but to judge by the grimace you made you weren't quite sure!... (Sitting down on the middle bench.) I will sit down here; the Great Mendicant will take his seat on my right and the Great Peasant on my left. They don't smell either.... (THE GREAT MENDICANT and THE GREAT PEASANT take their seats; the other ANCESTORS stand behind him.) And I will take you on my knees.... I am glad to hold you in my arms for a moment.... We have known each other so long!
TYLTYL
I don't remember ever seeing you before.