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Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts by James Elroy Flecker
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RAFI
(Sarcastically) Ye are three jolly fellows of amiable disposition.
(Drinks.)
I thank you, negro, I drink to yours.

HASSAN
I drink to forget a woman, but will this little cup suffice?

RAFI
Nor ten, nor ten thousand little cups like these, if you have loved.
Tonight I shall fill my bowl of the oblivion with the blood
of the Caliph of Bagdad. Brother, will that great cup suffice?

HASSAN
(In terror) Call me not brother, thou savage man, who dost talk
of shedding the holiest blood in Islam!

RAFI
When high office is polluted, when the holy is unholy, when justice
is a lie, when the people are starved, and the great fools
of the world are in high office, then dares a man talk of shedding
the holiest blood in Islam?

CALIPH
Also when one has a vengeance to wreak on the Caliph and a claim
on a lady of his household.

MASRUR
Why do you want to nail him in his coffin alive? Tell us the tale.

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