IV 
 
THE BLACK BEAN 
 
SCENE — A small Syrian mud hut.  On a truckle bed strewn 
with dirty straw lie a naked man and woman. 
 
MAGDA 
 
Give me more money, Baa-Baa, for a kiss ;  
One of my kisses. 
 
ISSA 
 
Youdesh has the bag.  
(A pause.) 
 
Also I weary of thy sordidness.  
Love is at bottom a most noisome hag.  
Mother and brothers !  all the pageant passes  
Like a loud caravan of braying asses ;  
And now I — love thee !  in this hole of hell.  
A rotting camel by a dried-up well !