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.
