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GAD: [Answering.] Ho! Dreamer!

[Enter JOSEPH ''approaching at the right side and coming towards the front. In his right hand is the shepherd's crook; in his left arm he carries a young lamb.]''

JOSEPH: Happy the hour wherein I find you. Give me something to drink.

SIMEON: We have no water to spare.

JOSEPH: Nay, not for me, but [Indicating the lamb.] for this poor orphan here.

JUDAH: Yonder are the shepherds, let it seek its mother.

JOSEPH: [Setting the lamb down at the left side.] Run, then, innocent.

ZEBULUN: Why art thou come?

JOSEPH: Our father sent me. I was to see whether all was well with you, and with the flocks.

GAD: All is well. Go thy ways, homeward.

JOSEPH: [Laughing.] Nay! I am anhungered and athirst!

SIMEON: We need thee not. As a spy art thou come hither.

JOSEPH: What hast thou done, Simeon, that thou so dreadest a spy?

SIMEON: I have work to do. I'll have no boys watching me.

JOSEPH: I'll not watch thee. I am for food and sleep.

DAN: Ay; to dream dreams of our downthrown, and thine uplifting.

JOSEPH: [Whimsically.] If I wake I am guilty, and I am guilty if I sleep!—Heigh-ho! I would Reuben were here. NAPHTALI: Reuben went to meet the wayfarers.