Scene 17
'He has given us... His shoe!'
- [holy music]
- FOLLOWERS:
- Oh! Oh! Ohh! Oh! Ah! Oh!
- ARTHUR:
- He has given us a sign!
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- FOLLOWER:
- Oh!
- SHOE FOLLOWER:
- He has given us... His shoe!
- ARTHUR:
- The shoe is the sign. Let us follow His example.
- SPIKE:
- What?
- ARTHUR:
- Let us, like Him, hold up one shoe and let the other be
upon our foot, for this is His sign, that all who follow
Him shall do likewise.
- EDDIE:
- Yes.
- SHOE FOLLOWER:
- No, no, no. The shoe is...
- YOUTH:
- No.
- SHOE FOLLOWER:
- ...a sign that we must gather shoes together in
abundance.
- GIRL:
- Cast off...
- SPIKE:
- Aye. What?
- GIRL:
- ...the shoes! Follow the Gourd!
- SHOE FOLLOWER:
- No! Let us gather shoes together!
- FRANK:
- Yes.
- SHOE FOLLOWER:
- Let me!
- ELSIE:
- Oh, get off!
- YOUTH:
- No, no! It is a sign that, like Him, we must think not
of the things of the body, but of the face and head!
- SHOE FOLLOWER:
- Give me your shoe!
- YOUTH:
- Get off!
- GIRL:
- Follow the Gourd! The Holy Gourd of Jerusalem!
- FOLLOWER:
- The Gourd!
- HARRY:
- Hold up the sandal, as He has commanded us!
- ARTHUR:
- It is a shoe! It is a shoe!
- HARRY:
- It's a sandal!
- ARTHUR:
- No, it isn't!
- GIRL:
- Cast it away!
- ARTHUR:
- Put it on!
- YOUTH:
- And clear off!
- SHOE FOLLOWER:
- Take the shoes and follow Him!
- GIRL:
- Come,...
- FRANK:
- Yes!
- GIRL:
- ...all ye who call yourself Gourdenes!
- SPIKE:
- Stop! Stop! Stop, I say! Stop! Let us-- let us pray.
Yea, He cometh to us, like the seed to the grain.
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Adam R. Jones