The Image and Other Plays - 1922 Author:Gregory Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Costello: Good woman! Hosty: Rise it, ma'am, rise it! Mrs. Coppinger: (Coming a step forward)— "The foes of Ireland, well 'tis known he often made them quail,... more » With eloquence like thunder he defended Gran- uaile, You may talk of Wellington and the battles that he won, But in all that he deserved was nothing to what O'Connelldone!" Costello: Very good! That's the chat now! "But in all he deserved was nothing to what O'Connelldone!" Coppinger: He had a gift of sweetness on the tongue. Whatever cause he took in hand it was as good as gained. Hosty: The best man within the walls of the world he was. He never led anyone astray. Mrs. Coppinger: What wonder in that, he being as he was the gift of God. Wasn't Ennis the best town in the thirty-two counties of Ireland, sending him to Parliament the time his own place had him put out? Costello: (Sings.) "In the year '47 we laid him in Glasnevin."—I'm no songster like Mrs. Coppinger. Mrs. Coppinger: To throw out the poison from his cup he did, the time there was death lurking in it. The English that put it within in it, because he was a pious man. I seen his picture in a book one time. I give you my word I kissed it there and then. Coppinger: His picture! No, but I that saw himself one time in Galway. I couldn't get anear him, all the nations of the world were gathered there to see him. Costello: Sure I seen him myself, it was the greatest thing ever I saw. He drove through the streets very plain, and an oiled cap on him, and he having but the one horse. Hosty: No, but seven horses in his coach he had the day I saw him. They couldn't get in the eighth. Coppinger: Oh, it's a great image and a great monument I will shape out for him the dear man Costello: So you will! And he having one hand resting on...« less