They wrestle savagely.

Sollers:

Keep off;
I'm the first here. Lap what you've spilt of mine.

Merrick:

You with your chiselling and screw-driving,
Your wooden work, you bidding me, the man
Who hammers a meaning into red hot iron?

VINE comes in slowly. He is weeping; the two wrestlers stop and stare at him, as he sits down, and holds his head in his hands, sobbing.

Vine:

O this is a cruel affair!

Sollers:

Here's Vine crying!