coming._] Ah, the tinkling of ankle-rings!
The lady is here. Mistress, the nose-rope makes the bullocks
skittish. You had better climb in behind. [_Aryaka does so._]
The ankle-rings tinkle only when the feet are moving, and the
sound has ceased. Besides, the cart has grown heavy. I am sure the
lady must have climbed in by this time. I'll go ahead. Get up,
bullocks, get up! [_He drives about. Enter Viraka._]

_Viraka._ Come, come! Jaya, Jayamana, Chandanaka, Mangala,
Phullabhadra, and the rest of you!

So calm, when the herdsman, slipping his tether,
Breaks jail and the heart of the king together? 5

Here! You stand at the east gate of the main street, you at the
west, you at the south, you at the north. I'll climb up the broken
wall here with Chandanaka and take a look. Come on, Chandanaka,
come on! This way! [_Enter Chandanaka, in excitement._]

P. 166.5]

_Chandanaka._ Come, come! Viraka, Vishalya, Bhimangada, Dandakala,
Dandashura, and the rest of you!

Come quick, my reliables! Work! Now begin!
Lest the old king go out, and a new king come in. 6
Search gardens, and dives, and the town, and the street,
The market, the hamlet, wherever you meet 7
With what looks suspicious. Now, Viraka, say,
Who saved the young herdsman that just broke away? 8
Who was born when the sun in his eighth mansion stood,
Or the moon in her fourth, or when Jupiter could
Be seen in his sixth, or when Saturn was resting
In his ninth, in her sixth house when Venus was nesting,
Or Mars in his fifth?[69] Who will dare to be giving
The herdsman protection, while I am still living? 9, 10

_Viraka._ Chandanaka, you mercenary!

I swear on your heart, he's been long out of prison,
For the herdsman escaped ere the sun was half risen. 11

_Vardhamanaka._ Get up, bullocks, get up!

_Chandanaka._ [_Discovers him._] Look, man, look!

A covered cart is moving in the middle of the road;
Investigate it, whose it is, and where it takes its load! 12

_Viraka._ [_Discovers him._] Here, driver, stop your cart! Whose cart
is this? who is in it? where is it going?

_Vardhamanaka._ This is Charudatta's cart. Mistress Vasantasena
is in it. I am taking her to the old garden Pushpakaranda to meet
Charudatta.

_Viraka._ [_Approaches Chandanaka._] The driver says it is Charudatta's
cart; that Vasantasena is in