Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Lying

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I
laughed not; for she was afraid. And
he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
Genesis 18:15

Can someone make this into an Elizabethan comedy? My skills are wanting. The following scene is also delightful: 
— Abraham: Peradventure there shall be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
  the LORD: Nay I say; If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city walls, therein I will spare all the place for their sakes.
— Abraham: [speaking unto himself] Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes, but of His patience we shall take a sip: [back to the LORD] Peradventure there shall lack forty of the fifty righteous: wilt thou then destroy all the city for lack of forty?
— the LORD: Nay again, I tell thee, thou king-to-be; If I find in Sodom but five of the righteous within the city, yea, I will spare all the place for their sakes.
— Abraham: [to himself] Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but once more: [back to the LORD] Peradventure one shall be found there.
— the LORD: I will lend it to thee this one time, that marginal returns be so minuscule... Nay, I will not destroy it for one's sake!
[exeunt the LORD]

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