This is an extract from Clarke's attempts to re-work Macbeth into Union propaganda
Enter S2 Officer 491 and S4 Section Leader 926
491: <:: So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
926: <:: How far is't call'd to the Nexus?
Enter three anti-citizens
What are these?
So wither'd and so wild in their non-UU attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the city,
And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand me,
By each at once her chappy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips: you should be citizens,
And yet your outward contraband forbid me to interpret
That you are so.
491: <::Speak, if you can: what are you?
1st Anti-Citizen: All hail, 491! hail to thee, Officer of Section 2!
2nd Anti-Citizen: All hail, 49102, hail to thee, Section Leader of Section 2!
3rd Anti-Citizen: All hail, 49102, thou shalt be Sectorial hereafter!
926: <:: Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of high command hope,
That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.
1st Anti-Citizen: Hail!
2nd Anti-Citizen: Hail!
3rd Anti-Citizen: Hail!
1st Anti-Citizen: Lesser than 491, and greater.
2nd Anti-Citizen: Not so happy, yet much happier.
3rd Anti-Citizen: Thou shalt get Sectorials, though thou be none:
So all hail, 491 and 926!
1st Anti-Citizen: 491 and 926, all hail!
The anti-citizens begin to run away
491: <::Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:
By Sinel's death I know I am Officer of S2;
But how Section Leader? the Section Leader lives,
A prosperous unit; and to be SeC
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Section Leader. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.
Anti-Citizens have gotten out of there and left stage
926: <:: The city hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?
491: <::Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted
As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!
926: <::Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the non-UU foodstuffs
That takes the reason prisoner?
491: <::Your officer shall be SeC.
926: <::You shall be SeC.
491: <::And Leader of Section my secton too: went it not so?
926: <::To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?
Enter two 01s; 241 and 558
241: <::The SeC hath happily received, 491,
The news of thy success; and when he reads
Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,
His wonders and his praises do contend
Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,
In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,
He finds thee in the stout Resistance ranks,
Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
Strange images of death. As thick as hail
Came post with post; and every one did bear
Thy praises in his Union's great defence,
And pour'd them down before him.
558: <::We are sent
To give thee from our superior thanks;
Only to herald thee into his sight,
Not pay thee.
241: <::And, for an earnest of a greater honour,
He bade me, from him, call thee Leader of Section 2:
In which addition, hail, most worthy Leader 49102!
For it is thine.
926:<:: What, can the devil speak true?
491: <::The Section Leader lives: why do you dress me
In borrow'd robes?
588: <::Who was the SL lives yet;
But under heavy judgment bears that life
Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined
With those of resistance, or did line the rebel
With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
He labour'd in his Union's wreck, I know not;
But treasons level-one, confess'd and proved,
Have overthrown him.
491: <::[Aside] Officer, and Section Leader!
The greatest is behind.
To 241 and 588
<::Thanks for your pains.
The rest of the page is unfinished or scribbled away in frustration.
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