Act IV, scene i

1  

[Sunnydale Woods]

[Enter Joss Whedon. Exit, pursued by a bear.]

[Enter Buffybot]

 
  Buffybot

Helloooo, hellooo, is anyone here?

   

[Exit Buffybot]

   

[Enter Angelus]

2 Angelus

O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?
I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
I should repent the evils I have done:
Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
Would I perform, if I might have my will;
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.

   

[Enter Xander of Oxnard and Anyanka]

 
3  

Why man, you doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty vamps
Walk under you huge legs, and peep about,
How kind, how generous,
you brought me lunch
And such a pretty lunch it is too.

 
  Xander of Oxnard

What do we leave the town,
Only to be followed by mad men in the wood?

 
4 Angelus

Your betters have endured me say my mind,
And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
Or better use then I shall rip them off,
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart concealing it will break,
And rather than it shall, I will be free
Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words
In deeds, in acts as black as blackest night.

 
5 Anyanka

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with me

[Waves hand and Angelus sits down on the ground]


That’s much better.

   

[Enter Adam and Glory and their assorted minions, fighting]

6 Glory

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and since you’re the ugliest demon around, you must have my key.

 
7 Adam

You foolish wench, wherefore do you follow rail at me,
Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain?
I have not your key

 
   

[Alarums, Adam and Glory fight, enter Donkey headed Xander of Sunnydale]

 
8 Donkey headed Xander of Sunnydale

They would make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could.
But I will not stir
from this wood, do what they can: I will walk up
and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear
I am not afraid.

[Sings]

The ousel cock so black of hue,
With orange-tawny bill,
The throstle with his note so true,
The wren with little quill,--

[Sees Adam and Glory]

9  

Can I say one thing? HELLLLPPP!

 
   

[Enter Buffy, Faith and Wesley, dressed in woman’s clothes as Joan the Vampire Slayer from opposite ends of the stage]

 
  Xander of Sunnydale

Yeah, err, verily, that was quick-eth, err.

 
10 Wesley

[To Adam]

What will you do, good metalhead Break a lance
And run a-tilt at death within a chair

[Wesley fights with Adam]

 
11 Faith

[To Wesley]

Of saucy and audacious eloquence,
Madam, I'll follow you unto the death.

[To Glory]

To die is such a noble journey ... Shouldn't you have gone too?'

[Faith fights with Glory]

 
12 Wesley

[Alarums, Wesley turns to fight Glory]

[To Faith]

Men may say more, swear more: but indeed
Our shows are more than will; for still we prove much in our vows.

[Aside]

A blank, never telling love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on false damsel cheek: pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
Sit like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Is not this love indeed?
She looks as freshly as the day we wrestled,
These may well be called Jove’s trees when it drops forth such fruit

 
13 Faith

[Faith turns to fight Adam]

So, you may put a man in your belly,

 
   

but not in good faith.
Men are best at exit lines, not vows,
For they are always making to remove.

 
15 Wesley

So, I misuse my sex in loveprate. And yet, I’d have the truth,
Pull my armor over my head and show the world what the bird haith done to his own nest.

[Alarums, fighting]

 
16 Buffy

[To Angelus]

Had I been seized by a hungry lion,
I would have been a breakfast to the beast,
Rather than have false Angelus met.
O, Heaven be judge how I love Angel,
Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
And full as much, for more there cannot be,
I do detest false perjured Angelus.
Therefore be gone; solicit me no more,
Why sit you so silent, speak.

17 Anyanka

And it is, it is a glorious thing To be a Vengeance Demon!

 
  Demon Back up singers

It is! Hurrah for the Vengeance Demon!
Hurrah for the Vengeance Demon!

 
  Anyanka

When I sally forth to seek my prey I help myself in a royal way.
I sink a few more relation-ships, it's true,
Than a well-bred monarch ought to do;
But many a demon with a first-class wish,
If she wants to call his amulet her own,
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than e'er I do,
For I am a Vengeance Demon!!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Vengeance Demon!!
For I am a Vengeance Demon!!
And, well, listen honey if he done you wrong.
Make a wish and make it right.

 
18 Angelus

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
You all alone beweep your outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with bootless cries
What then do you have?

 
19 Buffy

This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!

[Buffy kicks Angelus, who falls over]

 
   

[Alarums, Wesley, Faith, Adam, Glory, and minions fight, Enter Spike and Vamp Xander]

 
20 Spike

Through the forest have I gone.
But Angelus found I none,
On whose eyes I might approve
This flower's force in stirring love.
Night and silence.--Who is here?
Weeds of poofdom he doth wear:
Churl, upon thy eyes I throw
All the power this charm doth owe.
When thou wakest, let love forbid
Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:

[Spike trips, the philter flies into the air and lands on everyone.]

[Minions fall to making out.]

21 Buffy

[to Angelus]

You have done me much ungentleness

 
  Angelus

I care not if I have, it is my study
To seem despiteful and ungentle to you.

[To Spike]

Tell this drab what ‘tis to love.

 
  Spike

It is made of saigs and tears, And so I am for Buffy.

 
  Faith

And I for Buffy

 
  Anyanka

And I for vampish Xander

 
  Angelus

And I for Joan.

 
  Xander of Oxnard

And I for no woman, but for the self
That wears an ass’ face.

 
  Drucilla

Into hey, nonny, nonny

 
  Glory

And I for Adam

 
  Adam

And I for Glory

 
22 Glory

[To Adam]

Most sweet King

 
  Adam

Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,
Then was the time for words: no going then;
Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,
But was a race of heaven: they are so still,
Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
Art turn'd the greatest liar.
To deny my key that would turn thy lock.

  Glory

How now, lord!

  Adam

I would I had thy chest; thou shouldst know
There were a heart in Nilus.

 
  Glory

Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know
The purposes I bear; which are, or cease,
As you shall give the advice. By the fire
That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence
Thy soldier, servant; making peace or war
As thou affect'st.

 
  Adam

'Tis sweating labourTo bear such idleness so near the heart
As Adam this. But, madam, forgive me;
Since my becomings kill me, when they do not
And all the gods, like you, go with you!
Upon your sword sit laurel victory!
And smooth success be strew'd before your feet!

 
  Glory

Let us go. Come;Talk no more of keys,
That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,
And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!

[Exit Adam and Glory]

 
  Donkey Headed Xander of Sunnydale

Huh.

[sees Vamp Xander and Xander of Oxnard]

Hey!

 
23 Anyanka

[To Vamp Xander]

There's things that you guess
And things that you know
There's girls that you can trust
And girls that you don't
I swear I won't tease you
Won't tell you no lies
Every woman's got her patience
And here's where my ends
I want your sex
I want your love
I want your.....sex
C-c-c-c-come on.

  Vamp Xander

This sounds to the good, let us go.

[Exit Anyanka and Vamp Xander]

 
24 Xander of Oxnard

[To Donkey Headed Xander of Sunnydale]

Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.

25 Donkey Headed Xander of Sunnydale

This man is Genius to the myself;
My face, while I wear that of an ass,
You stole my face, Hey!

26 Xander of Oxnard

What, wilt thou hear some music,my sweet love?

 
  Donkey Headed Xander of Sunnydale

This doth take the love of self,
Too Far, And but moments gone,
I saw the Lady Anyanka leave with
Another me, this place madness is.

[Exuent Donkey Headed Xander of Sunnydale pursued by Xander of Oxnard]

 
27 Angelus

[To Wesley]

More wonderful, when angels are so angry.
Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
Of these supposed-evils, to give me leave,
By circumstance, but to acquit myself.

 
  Wesley

[To Angelus]

Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man,
For these known evils, but to give me leave,
By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self.

 
  Angelus

[To Wesley]

Your beauty was the cause of that effect;
Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep
To undertake the death of all the world,
So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.

[Aside]

Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.
What! I, that kill'd her,
To take her in her heart's extremest hate,
With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
The bleeding witness of her hatred by;
Having God, her conscience, and these bars
against me,
And I nothing to back my suit at all,
But the plain devil and dissembling looks,
And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!
Ha!

  Wesley

I’m standing right here.

[Exit Wesley stage left, pursued by Angelus]

  Buffy

Love makes you do the wacky, But this?

28 Spike

[To Buffy]

O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
With insufficiency my heart to sway?
To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and warrantize of skill
That, in my mind, thy best all worst exceeds?
Who taught thee how to make me love thee more
The more I hear and see just cause of hate?
O, though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
If thy worthiness raised love in me,
More worthy I to be beloved of thee.

29 Buffy

[To Spike]

My will is even this:
That presently you hie you home to bed.
Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man!
Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,
To be seduced by thy flattery,
For me, by this pale queen of night I swear,
I am so far from granting thy love
That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit,
And by and by intend to chide myself
Even for this time I spend in talking to thee.

 
30 Faith

[To Buffy]

O Buffy, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,
Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow
When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss
This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!

  Buffy

O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
To set against me for your merriment:
If you we re civil and knew courtesy,
You would not do me thus much injury.
Can you not hate me, as I know you do,
But you must join in souls to mock me too?
To vow, and swear, and super praise my parts,
When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.
A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,
To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes
With your derision! none of noble sort
Would so offend a maid, and extort
A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.

  Faith

You are unkind, Spike; be not so;
For you love Drucilla; this you know I know:
And here, with all good will, with all my heart,
In Buffy's love I yield you up my slaying;
And yours of Buffy to me bequeath,
Whom I do love and will do till my death.

 
  Spike

Sod that

[Faith and Spike fight]

 
  Buffy

Never did mockers waste more idle breath.

[Exit Buffy pursued by Faith and Spike]

   

[Enter Buffybot]

  Buffybot

Hellloo, helloo, is anyone here?

   

[To mass o’ minions]

I’m looking for me.
Have you seen me?
Okay, bye now.

   

[Exit Buffybot]

 
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