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ROBIN
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I asked for Major Molineux.
WATCHMAN
Boy
Keep asking! We are cleaning house.
The Major's lost a lot of money
lately, buying bad real estate.
He can't afford his country cousins.
Move, you filthy, sucking hayseed!
or I'll spike you with my stick!
Why don't you hit him, Brother?
WATCHMAN
ROBIN
I'll have
you in the stocks by daybreak, Boy.
We'll go, Sir. I'm your countryman
learning the customs of the city.
I've learned how to avoid the stocks.
WATCHMAN
Boy
ROBIN
Boy
ROBIN
Baggy buttocks, baggy buttocks,
the Queen of England's willing
to serve you for a shilling,
to stick you in the stocks.
Robin, these people are like wild
wolves walking through the woods.
We're learning
how to live. The man was drunk.
Our Deerfield watchmen only drink
at Communion. Something's wrong,
these people need new blood.
Perhaps .
they'll get it. Here's a clergyman,
he'll tell us where to find our kinsman.
ROBERT
LOWELL
(Goes off singing)
(The
CLERGYMAN
comes across the stage. He
is
awkwardly holding a