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SCENE IX.

A Tract of Land. Enter Caffa the Druid and Buini the Ruthless Red.
BUINI.
This is the tract of land that Conor gave
To me.

CAFFA.
For what?

BUINI.
Betraying Usna's Sons.

CAFFA.
But then, what need have you for so much land?

BUINI.
For a possession.

CAFFA.
Yet, what need have you?

BUINI.
What need has Conor for his land?

CAFFA.
No need—
Only to show him where his grave is dug—
As thine is now, in Hell!

BUINI.
Why so? what now?

CAFFA.
The wrong that he has done to Usna's Sons,
Shall sink him down as low as to the Fiends!
Where thou shalt sink for joining him in sin!
The land that thou didst purchase from that Fiend,
Shall be transformed into a moor this night!
Nay, by the wafture of this Rod, shall now
Be swallowed up in one great Sea of Wrath—
Beneath whose raging waves thou shalt be drowned—
Finding no grave!

BUINI
(falling on his knees).
For God's sake, do not do it!
Have mercy on my soul!

CAFFA.
What mercy did
You show great Usna's Sons? Such as you showed
To them, I now will show to thee! From this
Day forth, this District shall be known as false
Buini's Moor!

BUINI.
Oh! God! have mercy on me!

CAFFA.
Now, as the Red Sea swallowed Pharaoh's host,
So shalt thou sink, by God's great wrath, to Hell!
Now, sink, Buini! sink through death to Hell!
[Caffa waves his Rod, and the land becomes inundated with water, in which Buini sinks, alternately rising and sinking, until borne out of sight.
So fell the Sons of God, by Sin, from Heaven!

[Exit. Scene changes.