FOURTH PEASANT. I would not say that it's so beautiful.
FIRST PEASANT. But doesn't a gold piece glitter like the sun? That's what my father, who'd seen better days, Told me when I was but a little boy— So high—so high, it's shining like the sun, Round and shining, that is what he said.
SECOND PEASANT. There's nothing in the world it cannot buy.
FIRST PEASANT. They've bags and bags of it.
(They go out. The two MERCHANTS follow silently.)
END OF SCENE 4
SCENE 5
SCENE.—The house of SHEMUS RUA. There is an alcove at the back with curtains; in it a bed, and on the bed is the body of MARY with candles round it. The two MERCHANTS while they speak put a large book upon a table, arrange money, and so on.
FIRST MERCHANT. Thanks to that lie I told about her ships And that about the herdsman lying sick, We shall be too much thronged with souls to-morrow.