and the like?

JOHNNY B. If it is that poor, starved priest he called to that came
talking in secret signs to the man that is gone, it is likely he will
ask nothing for what he has to do. There is many a priest is a Whiteboy
in his heart.

NANNY. I tell you, if you brought him tied in a bag he would not say an
Our Father for you, without you having a half crown at the top of your
fingers.

BIDDY. There is no priest is any good at all but a spoiled priest; a
one that would take a drop of drink, it is he would have courage to
face the hosts of trouble. Rout them out he would, the same as a shoal
of fish from out the weeds. It's best not to vex a priest, or to run
against them at all.

NANNY. It's yourself humbled yourself well to one the time you were
sick in the gaol and had like to die, and he bade you to give over the
throwing of the cups.

BIDDY. Ah, plaster of Paris I gave him. I took to it again and I free
upon the roads.

NANNY. Much good you are doing with it to yourself or any other one.
Aren't you after telling that corpse no later than yesterday that he
was coming within the best day of his life?

JOHNNY B. Whist, let ye! Here is the priest coming.

[FATHER JOHN _comes in._]

FATHER JOHN. It is surely not true that he is dead?

JOHNNY B. The spirit went from him about the middle hour of the night.
We brought him here to this sheltered place. We were loth to leave him
without friends.

FATHER JOHN. Where is he?

JOHNNY B. [_taking up sacks_]. Lying there, stiff and stark. He has a
very quiet look, as if there was no sin at all or no great trouble upon
his mind.

FATHER JOHN [_kneels and touches him_]. He is not dead.

BIDDY [_pointing to_ NANNY]. He is dead. If it was letting on he was,
he would not have let that one rob him and search him the way she did.

FATHER JOHN. It has the appearance of death, but it is not death. He is
in a trance.

PAUDEEN. Is it heaven and hell he is walking at this time to be
bringing back newses of the sinners in pain?

BIDDY. I was thinking myself it might away he was, riding on white
horses with the riders of the forths.

JOHNNY B. He will have great wonders to tell out the time he will rise
up from the ground. It is a pity he not to waken at this time and to
lead us on to overcome the troop of the English. Sure those that are in
a trance get strength that they can walk on water.

ANDREW. It was Father John wakened him yesterday the time he was