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The Well of the Saints

J. M. Synge

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trusting the holy water with the likes of you?

MOLLY BYRNE. He was afeard to go a far way with the clouds is coming beyond, so he's gone up now through the thick woods to say a prayer at the crosses of Grianan, and he's coming on this road to the church.

TIMMY — [still astonished.] — And he's after leaving the holy water with the two of you? It's a wonder, surely. [Comes down left a little.]

MOLLY BYRNE. The lads told him no person could carry them things through the briars, and steep, slippy-feeling rocks he'll be climbing above, so he looked round then, and gave the water, and his big cloak, and his bell to the two of us, for young girls, says he, are the cleanest holy people you'd see walking the world. [Mary Doul goes near seat.]

MARY DOUL — [sits down, laughing to herself.] — Well, the Saint's a simple fellow, and it's no lie.

MARTIN DOUL — [leaning forward, holding out his hands.] — Let you give me the water in my hand, Molly Byrne, the way I'll know you have it surely.

MOLLY BYRNE — [giving it to him.] — Wonders is queer things, and maybe it'd cure you, and you holding it alone.

MARTIN DOUL — [looking round.] — It does not, Molly. I'm not seeing at all. (He shakes the can.) There's a small sup only. Well, isn't it a great wonder the little trifling thing would bring seeing to the blind, and be showing us the big women and the young girls, and all the fine things is walking the world.

[He feels for Mary Doul and gives her the can.]

MARY DOUL — [shaking it.] — Well, glory be to God.

MARTIN DOUL — [pointing to Bride.] — And what is it herself has, making sounds in her hand?

BRIDE — [crossing to Martin Doul.] — It's the Saint's bell; you'll hear him ringing out the time he'll be going up some place, to be saying his praye

Jacob 09/05/2021
These were three plays about peasant farces in rural Ireland; Synge spent apparently most of his life living in the remotest Irish villages he could find to fully research this language and way of life. The result is a very lively dialogue style that leads into plausible if pretty comical adventures
Maddy 05/20/2020
Of the three plays, I liked Riders to The Sea the best. It would have probably been four stars if it was by itself. I didn't like the other two plays as much.
Rachel 04/07/2020
In 'Deirdre of the Sorrows', Synge has the eponymous Deirdre claim that 'It is not a small thing to be rid of grey hairs and the loosening of the teeth'. Clearly, for Synge, it's a huge asset, and I finished reading his collection of plays almost relieved for his sake that he died young. He has an a
Ivy-Mabel 08/17/2019
A rather strange play. Perhaps it needs to be read twice or three times!
Michael 08/10/2019
The words are the lyrics of life.

This is like reading along with the lyrics. You can hear the words in your own mind. Listen to the music.
Tim 07/27/2018
Oh wonderful wordplay! Read these lively passages and understand why Synge's work is still in print and why he continues to be regarded as a great Irish playwright. He did not live long and he wrote too little, but he left behind these works. Synge was an educated man from a bourgeois home, but he t

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