帕布莉卡第三折 赖简
（红娘上云）今日小姐着俺寄书与张生，当面偌多假意儿，诗内却暗约着他来。小姐既不对俺说，俺也不要说破他，只请他烧香，看他到其间怎生瞒俺？
（红娘请云）小姐，俺烧香去来！
（莺莺上云）花香重叠晚风细，庭院深沉早月明。
〔双调·新水令〕（红娘唱）
晚风寒峭透窗纱，
控金钩绣帘不挂。
门阑凝暮霭，
楼阁抹残霞。
恰对菱花[1]，楼上晚妆罢。
〔驻马听〕
不近喧哗，
嫩绿池塘藏睡鸭。
自然幽雅，
淡黄杨柳带栖鸦。
金莲蹴损牡丹芽，
玉簪儿抓住荼[2]架。
早苔径滑，
露珠儿湿透凌波袜。
俺看我小姐和张生，巴不得到晚哩。
〔乔牌儿〕
自从那日初时想月华，
捱一刻似一夏，
见柳梢斜日迟迟下。
道“好教贤圣打”。
〔搅筝琶〕
打扮得身子儿乍[3]，
准备来云雨会巫峡。
为那燕侣莺俦，
扯杀心猿意马。
他水米不沾牙，
越越的闭月羞花。
真假，这其间性儿难按捺，
我一地胡拿[4]。
小姐，这湖山下立地，我闭了角门儿，怕有人听咱说话。
（红娘瞧门外科）
（张生上云）此时正好过去也。
（张生瞧门内科）
〔沉醉东风〕
是槐影风摇暮鸦，
是玉人帽侧乌纱[5]。
你且潜身曲槛边，
他今背立湖山下。
那里叙寒温，打话。
（张生搂红娘云）我的小姐！
（红云）是俺也！早是差到俺，若是差到夫人，怎了也！
便做道搂得慌，
也索觑咱，
多管是饿得你穷神眼花。
我且问你：真个着你来么？
（张生云）小生是猜诗谜杜家，风流随何，浪子陆贾，准定扢扢帮便倒地。
（红云）你却休从门里去，只道我接你来。你跳过这墙去。张生，你见么？今夜一弄儿风景，分明助你两个成亲也。
〔乔牌儿〕
你看淡云笼月华，
便是红纸护银蜡。
柳丝花朵便是垂帘下，
绿莎便是宽绣榻。
〔甜水令〕
良夜又迢遥，
闲庭又寂静，
花枝又低亚[6]。
只是他女孩儿家，
你索意儿温存，
话儿摩弄，
性儿浃洽[7]；
休猜做路柳墙花。
〔折桂令〕
他娇滴滴美玉无瑕，
莫单看粉脸生春，
云鬓堆鸦。
我也不去受怕担惊，
我也不图浪酒闲茶。
是你夹被儿时当奋发，
指头儿告了消乏。
打叠起嗟呀，
毕罢了牵挂，
收拾过忧愁，
准备着撑达。
（张生跳墙科）
（莺莺云）是谁？
（张生云）是小生。
（莺莺唤云）红娘！
（红娘不应科）
（莺莺怒云）哎哟，张生，你是何等之人！我在这里烧香，你无故至此，你有何说！
（张生云）哎哟！
〔锦上花〕
为甚媒人心无惊怕？
赤紧夫妻意不争差。
我蹑足潜踪，去悄地听他。
一个羞惭，
一个怒发。
〔后〕
一个无一言，
一个变了卦。
一个悄悄冥冥，
一个絮絮答答。
（红娘远立，低叫云）张生，你背地里硬嘴那里去了？你向前呵！告到官司，怕羞了你？
为甚迸定随何，禁住陆贾，叉手躬身，如聋似哑？
〔清江引〕
你无人处且会闲嗑牙[8]，
就里空奸诈。
怎想湖山边，
不似“西厢下”。
（莺莺云）红娘，有贼！
（红云）小姐，是谁？
（张生云）红娘，是小生。
（红云）张生，这是谁着你来？你来此有甚么勾当？
（张生不语科）
（莺莺云）快扯去夫人那里去！
（张生不语科）
（红云）扯去夫人那里，便坏了他行止，我与小姐处分罢：张生，你过来跪者！你既读孔圣之书，必达周公之礼，你夤夜[9]来此何干？
香美娘，处分花木瓜。
〔雁儿落〕
不是一家儿乔坐衙，
要说一句儿衷肠话。
只道你文学海样深，
谁道你色胆天来大！
〔得胜令〕
你夤夜入人家，
我非奸做盗拿。
你折桂客，做了偷花汉，
不去跳龙门，
来学骗马。
小姐，且看红娘面，饶过这生者！
（莺莺云）先生活命之恩，恩则当报。既为兄妹，何生此心？万一夫人知之，先生何以自安？今看红娘面，便饶过这次。若更如此，扯去夫人那里，决不干休！
谢小姐贤达，看我面做情罢。若到官司详察，先生整备[10]精皮肤一顿打。
（莺莺云）红娘，收了香桌见，你进来波！
（莺莺下）
（红娘羞张生云）羞也，羞也！却不道“猜诗谜杜家，风流随何，浪子陆贾”，今日便早死心塌地也！
〔离亭宴带歇拍煞〕
再休题“春宵一刻千金价”，
准备去“寒窗重守十年寡”。
猜诗谜的杜家，
拍了“迎风户半开”，
山障了“隔墙花影动”，
云罨了“待月西厢下”。
一任你将何郎粉去搽，
他已自把张敞眉来画。
强风情措大，
晴干了尤云[11]雨心，
忏悔了窃玉偷香胆，
涂抹了倚翠偎红话。
淫词儿早则休，
简帖儿从今罢。
犹古自参不透风流调法。
小姐，
你息怒嗔波卓文君，
张生，
你游学去波渴司马[12]。
注释：
[1]菱花：古代人使用铜境，阳光映在铜境上，返出的光影如“菱花”一般，所以用菱花代指铜镜。
[2]荼（tú mí）：蔷薇科属植物，开白色重瓣花朵。
[3]乍：体面、美丽。
[4]胡拿：乱来、胡闹。
[5]乌纱：旧时当官者所戴官帽以黑色纱织物制成，故以“乌纱”代指做官。
[6]低亚：低垂。
[7]浃洽：（性情）十分祥和、和睦。
[8]闲嗑牙：扯闲天、说闲话。
[9]夤（yín）夜：深夜。
[10]整备：整理备办、收拾准备。
[11]（tì）：滞留。
[12]司马：即指汉代的司马相如，此处指张生。
Scene 3 Repudiation
Rose enters and says:
When my Young Mistress ordered me to take her letter to Master Zhang,she pretended to assume a cool air,but actually she made a secret assignation with him in her poem.Since she did not tell me the truth,I will not give her away,but simply ask her to burn incense and see how she can humbug me when he comes.
( Respectfully)Will you go to burn incense,my Young Mistress?
Yingying enters and sings:
The evening breeze is heavy with fragrance of flowers;
The rising moon has brightened the deep,silent bowers.
Rose sings to the double tune of NEW WATER:
The evening breeze so cold has come through window screen;
The golden hooks have not kept up the curtains green.
The door is open to the evening haze,
The bower steeped in the sun’s departing rays.
Before her mirror in her boudoir my Young Mistress
Has just put on her evening dress.
Tune: HALTING THE HORSE
From bustle far away,
In the light-green pool the ducks sleep.
Beautiful is the day,
On the pale yellow willow-tree crows are perched deep.
She crushes peonies’young shoots with her small feet,
Her jade hairpin entangled in red flowers sweet.
Slippery is the mossy way,
Her stockings wet with pearls of dewdrops indiscreet.
She says:
My Young Mistress and Master Zhang seem impatient for the nightfall.
She sings to the tune of PSEUDO-MELODY:
Ever since sunrise
They have wearied their eyes.
For the rising moon,
A moment seems as long as the month of June.
Beyond the willow-trees now slowly sinks the sun,
They wish it buried by the Holy One.
Tune: ZITHER AND GUITAR
In bewitching attire,
She brings her cloud and rain to quench his flame and fire.
Seeing the orioles and swallows in pairs,
Could she not think of love affairs?
She will neither drink nor eat,
And looks more bashful and sweet.
Is she not true?
It is hard to construe,
And I’m not sure what to do.
She says:
My Young Mistress,will you please stand below the poolside rock?I will shut the side door lest we should be overheard.
(She looks outside the door.)
Master Zhang enters and says:
It is time to go there.
(He looks inside the door.)
Rose sings to the tune of INTOXICATED EAST WIND:
The evening crow
Amid the trees
Seems to shiver and throw.
Its shadow is in the breeze.
No,it’s the scholar,I guess,
In his black silk headdress.
Behind the winding balustrade he seems to hide;
With her back to the rock she stands by the poolside.
How can they interchange a word?
How can their speech be heard?
Master Zhang,embracing Rose,says:
My dear young lady!
Rose says:
You beast!It is I.Luckily the mistake is made with me.What if it were my Mistress!
She continues to sing:
Are you so eager
For an embrace?
That hungry and meager,
You see stars in my face!
She says:
Let me ask you once more if you were told to come here.
Master Zhang says:
I am a master in solving riddles,full of romance and gallantry.So I am sure to captivate her.
Rose says:
Don’t go through the door,or she will say I have let you in.You must climb over the wall,you see?Such a beautiful night is really good for a tryst.
She sings to the tune of PSEUDO-MELODY:
Behold!The fleecy cloud veiling the moon so bright
Serves as the shade of silver candle;
The weeping willows and flowers as window-screen
And verdant grass as spacious couch embroidered green.
Tune: SONG OF SWEET WATER
Beautiful is your nuptial night.
The court is tranquillized with leisure;
The blooming branches weighed down for your pleasure.
Knowing she is a maiden pure,
You must be gentle to allure
Her with caressing words and in your temper sweet.
Don’t take her for a flaunting flower you meet!
Tune: PICKING LAUREL
Like flawless jade she’s charming and full of grace.
Do you not see her lovely face
Exhaling spring,
And her cloudy hair waved like a raven’s wing?
But your worry and fear won’t worry me,
For I don’t hope from you a cup of wine or tea.
When you’re excited under the coverlet,
Your fingers may be tired and sweetened with her sweat.
When your sweat and hers blend,
Your worry comes to an end.
Your sorrow is no more,
And you’ll be ready to go on before.
(Master Zhang climbs over the wall.)
Yingying says:
Who is it?
Master Zhang says:
It is I.
Yingying calls:
Rose!
(Rose does not answer.)
Yingying says in anger:
Oh,Master Zhang!What kind of a man you are!Why have you come while I am burning incense?
Master Zhang says:
Ah!
Rose sings to the tune of FLOWERS ON BROCADE:
Why is a go-between free from worry and fear?
Skin to skin,man and wife of difference will be clear.
I’d better go
To listen on tiptoe.
One of them full of shame;
The other’s ired in flame.
Tune: A SECOND STANZA
One has nothing to say
The other’s changed her mind.
The one does silent stay;
The other chatters things unkind.
Rose,standing at a distance,says in a low voice:
Master Zhang,what has become of all your bold talk behind her back?Go on!If this is brought before the court,do you think you will be the only one to be disgraced?
She continues to sing:
You were full of romance and gallantry.
Where did they flee?
You clasp your hands and bow your head
As if you’re deaf and dumb,half-dead.
Tune: A CLEAR RIVER
You wag your tongue with none beside,
But you are cunning and crafty in vain.
Who would have thought by the poolside,
So different you would remain?
Yingying says:
Rose,there is a thief here!
Rose says:
Who is it,my Young Mistress?
Master Zhang says:
It is I,Miss Rose.
Rose says:
Who told you to come,Master Zhang?What is your business here?
(Master Zhang remains silent.)
Yingying says:
Drag him off to my mother’s place!
(Master Zhang remains silent.)
Rose says:
If we drag him off to my Mistress’place,it would unmake his reputation.Let me deal with him for you,my Young Mistress.Master Zhang,come here and kneel down.You have read the Books of Confucius,so you should understand the proper ways of behavior.What have you come here for at this late hour of night?
She continues to sing:
See what the lady fair and sweet
Will do with pretty fruit not good to eat!
Tune: WILD GEESE’S FALL
Not that as judges we wish to pose,
But something heartfelt I’d propose.
I thought your scholarship profound as the sea;
Who knows your lust amounts to bare audacity!
Tune: TRIUMPHANT SONG
You’ve come so late
At dead of night.
Do you want to steal sweet flowers by force?
You are a scholar bright.
Why don’t you go to jump over the Dragon’s Gate
But over the garden wall as mounting a horse?
Rose says:
Please forgive him once for my sake,my Young Mistress.
Yingying says:
We are bound to repay your kindness for saving our lives.But since we have become brother and sister,how can you have such a desire?What if my mother should know of this?Now for Rose’s sake I forgive you this time.But should it occur again,you will be dragged to my mother’s place without leniency.
Rose continues to sing:
Thanks to my Young Mistress,your mistake
Has been pardoned for my sake.
If we should bring before the court this case,
None could have saved your skin and face.
Yingying says:
Rose,remove the incense table and come in with me.(Exit.)
Rose,mocking Master Zhang,says:
For shame!For shame!Did you not say that you were a master in the art of solving riddles,full of romance and gallantry?From today on you may regard all your scheme as dead.
She sings to the tune of FAREWELL FEAST AND EPILOGUE:
Say not one night of love is worth as dear as gold.
Live ten years’single life more in your study cold!
You are a master in solving riddles,you say,
But mountains,not half-opened doors,stand in your way,
And bar you from the sight of dancing flowers,
And clouds overshadow the moon over the Western Bower.
You may powder your brazen face;
She’s painted her eyebrows with grace.
You poor wretch want to force a shower
Upon the thirsting flower.
Your audacity you should regret;
Your honeyed speech you should forget.
No more seductive verse
Nor any letter worse!
You have no chance
To boast of your romance.
My Mistress Young,
Do not be angry any more!
O Master Zhang,
Pursue your studies as before!
(Exeunt.)
