Mineog: Let the birds or the neighbours go screech after me and welcome, and I not in it to hear or to be annoyed.

Hazel: Why wouldn’t we hear?  I’m in dread it’s too much I’ll hear, and you yourself sending such news to travel abroad, that there is blood in me I concealed through my lifetime!

Mineog: What you are saying now has not the sense of reason.

Hazel: Tom Mineog to say that of me, that was my trusty comrade and my friend, what at all will strangers be putting out about me?

Mineog: Ah, what call have you to go lamenting as if you had lost all on this side of the sea!

Hazel: You to have brought that annoyance on me, what would enemies be saying of me?  That it was in my breed to be cracked or to have a thorn in the tongue.  There’s a generation of families would be great with you, and behind you they would be backbiting you.

Mineog: They will not.  You are of a family doesn’t know how to say a wrong word.

Hazel: A rabbit mushroom they might say me to be, with no memory behind or around me!

Mineog: Not at all.  The world knows you to be civil and brought up to mannerly ways.

Hazel: They might say me to have been a foreigner or a Jew man!

Mineog: I can bear witness you have no such yellow look.  And Hazel is a natural name.

Hazel: It’s likely they’ll say I was a sheep-stealer or a tinker that went foraging around after food!

Mineog: You that never put your hand on a rabbit burrow or stood before a magistrate or a judge!

Hazel: They’ll put me down as a grabber that was ready to quench a widow’s fire!

Mineog: Oh, where are you running to at all my dear man!

Hazel: And I not to be able at that time to rise up and to get satisfaction!  I to be wandering as a shadow and to see some schemer spilling out his lies!  That would be the most grief in death!  I to hit him a blow of my fist and he maybe not to feel it or to think it to be but a breeze of wind!

Mineog: You are going too far entirely!

Hazel: I to give out a strong curse on him and on his posterity and his land.  It would kill my heart if he would take it to be no human voice, but some vanity like the hissing of geese!

Mineog: I myself would recognise your voice, and you to be living or dead.

Hazel: You say that now.  But my ghost to come calling to you in the night time to rise up and to clear my character, you would run shivering to the priest as from some unnatural thing.  You would call to him to come banish me with a Mass!

Mineog: The Lord be between us and harm.

Hazel: To have no power of revenge after death!  My strength to go nourish weeds and grass!  A lie to be told and I living I could go lay my case before the courts.  So I will too!  I’ll silence you!  I’ll learn you to have done with misspellings and with death notices!  I’ll hinder you bringing in Casserlys!  I go take advice from the lawyer! (Goes towards door.)