帕布莉卡第三折 哭宴
（夫人上云）今日送张生赴京，红娘，快催小姐同去十里长亭。我已吩咐人安排下筵席，一面去请张生，想亦必定收拾了也。
（莺莺、红娘上云）今日送行，早则离人多感，况值暮秋时候，好烦恼人也呵！
（张生上云）夫人夜来，逼我上朝取应，得官回来，方把小姐配我。没奈何，只得去走一遭。我今先往十里长亭，等候小姐，与他作别呵。
（张生先行科）
（莺莺云）悲欢离合一杯酒，南北东西四马蹄。
（悲科）
〔正宫·端正好〕（莺莺唱）
碧云天，
黄花地，
西风紧，
北雁南飞。
晓来谁染霜林醉？
总是离人泪！
〔滚绣球〕
恨成就得迟，
怨分去得疾。
柳丝长，
玉骢[1]难系。
倩[2]疏林，
你与我挂住斜晖。
马儿慢慢行，
车儿快快随。
恰告了相思回避，
破题儿又早别离。
猛听得一声“去也”，
松了金钏；
遥望见十里长亭，
减了玉肌。
此恨谁知？
（红云）小姐，你今日竟不曾梳裹呵！
（莺莺云）红娘，你那知我的心来！
〔叨叨令〕
见安排车儿、马儿，
不由人熬熬煎煎的气；
甚心情花儿、靥儿[3]，
打扮得娇娇滴滴的媚？
眼看着衾儿、枕儿，
只索要昏昏沉沉的睡；
谁管他衫儿、袖儿，
湿透了重重叠叠的泪！
兀的不闷杀人也么哥！
兀的不闷杀人也么哥！
谁思量书儿、信儿，
还望他恓恓惶惶的寄。
（夫人、莺莺、红娘作到科）
（张生拜见夫人科）
（莺莺背转科）
（夫人云）张生，你近前来。自家骨肉，不须回避。孩儿，你过来见了呵。
（张生、莺莺相见科）
（夫人云）张生这壁坐，老身这壁坐，孩儿这壁坐。红娘斟酒来。张生，你满饮此杯。我今既把莺莺许配于你，你到京师，休辱没了我孩儿，你挣揣个状元回来者！
（张生云）张珙才疏学浅，凭仗先相国及老夫人恩荫，好歹要夺个状元回来，封拜小姐。
（各坐科）
（莺莺吁科）
〔脱布衫〕
下西风、黄叶纷飞，
染寒烟、衰草萋迷，
酒席上斜签着坐的。
我见他蹙愁眉死临侵地[4]。
〔小梁州〕
阁泪汪汪不敢垂，
恐怕人知。
猛然见了把头低，
长吁气，
推整素罗衣。
〔后〕
虽然久后成佳配，
这时节怎不悲啼？
意似痴，
心如醉。
只是昨宵今日，
清减了小腰围。
〔上小楼〕
我只为合欢未已，
离愁相继。
前暮私情，
昨夜分明，
今日别离。
我恰知那几日相思滋味，
谁想那别离情更增十倍。
（夫人云）红娘，服侍小姐把盏者！
（莺莺把盏科）
（张生吁科）
（莺莺低云）你向我手里吃一盏酒者！
〔后〕
你轻远别，
便相掷。
全不想腿儿相压，
脸儿相偎，
手儿相持。
你与崔相国做女婿，
妻荣夫贵。
这般并头莲，
不强如状元及第？
（重入席科）（吁科）
〔满庭芳〕
供食太急，
你眼见须臾对面，
顷刻别离。
若不是席间子母当回避，
有心待举案齐眉。
虽是厮守得一时半刻，
也合教俺夫妻每共桌而食。
眼底空留意，
寻思就里，
险化做望夫石。
（夫人云）红娘把盏者！
（红把张生盏毕，把莺莺盏云）小姐，你今早不曾用早饭，随意饮一口儿汤波。
〔快活三〕
将来的酒共食，
尝着似土和泥。
假若便是土和泥，
也有些土气息，泥滋味。
〔朝天子〕
暖溶溶玉醅[5]，
白泠泠似水，
多半是相思泪。
面前茶饭不待吃，
恨塞满愁肠胃。
只为蜗角虚名[6]，
蝇头微利，
拆鸳鸯在两下里。
一个这壁，
一个那壁，
一递一声长吁气。
〔四边静〕
霎时间杯盘狼藉，
还要车儿投东，
马儿向西，
两处徘徊，
落日山横翠。
知他今宵宿在那里？
有梦也难寻觅。
（夫人云）红娘，吩咐辆起车儿，请张生上马，我和小姐回去。
（各起身科）
（张生拜夫人科）
（夫人云）别无他嘱，愿以功名为念，疾早回来者！
（张生谢云）谨遵夫人严命！
（张生、莺莺拜科）
（莺莺云）此一行，得官不得官，疾便回来者！
（张生云）小姐放心，状元不是小姐家的，是谁家的？小生就此告别。
（莺莺云）住者，君行别无所赠，口占一绝[7]，为君送行：“弃掷今何道，当时且自亲。还将旧来意，怜取眼前人！”
（张生云）小姐差矣！张珙更敢怜谁？此诗，一来小生此时方寸已乱，二来小姐心中到底不信。且等即日状元及第回来，那时敬和小姐。
〔般涉·耍孩儿〕
淋漓红袖淹情泪，
知你的青衫更湿。
伯劳东去燕西飞，
未登程先问归期。
分明眼底人千里，
已过尊前酒一杯。
我未饮心先醉，
眼中流血，
心内成灰。
〔五煞〕
到京师，服[8]水土，
趁程途，节饮食，
顺时[9]自保千金体。
荒村雨露眠宜早，
野店风霜要起迟。
鞍马秋风里，
无人调护，
自去扶持。
〔四煞〕
忧愁诉与谁？
相思只自知，
老天不管人憔悴。
泪添九曲黄河溢，
恨压三峰华岳低。
到晚西楼倚，
看那夕阳古道，
衰柳长堤。
〔三煞〕
方才还是一处来，
如今竟是独自归。
归家怕看罗帏里，
昨宵是绣衾奇暖留春住，
今日是翠被生寒有梦知。
留恋应无计，
一个据鞍[10]上马，
两个泪眼愁眉。
〔二煞〕
不忧“文齐福不齐”[11]，
只忧“停妻再娶妻”。
河鱼天雁多消息，
我这里“青鸾有信频须寄”，
你切莫“金榜无名誓不归”。
君须记：若见些异乡花草，
再休似此处栖迟[12]。
（张生云）小姐金玉之言，小生一一铭之肺腑。相见不远，不须过悲，小生去也。忍泪佯低面，含情假放眉。
（莺莺云）不知魂已断，那有梦相随。
（张生下）
（莺莺吁科）
〔一煞〕
青山隔送行，
疏林不做美，
淡烟暮霭相遮蔽。
夕阳古道无人语，
禾黍秋风尚马嘶。
懒上车儿内，
来时甚急，
去后何迟！
（夫人云）红娘，扶小姐上车。天色已晚，快回去波。终然宛转从娇女，算是端严做老娘。
（夫人下）
（红娘云）前车夫人已远，小姐只索快回去波！
（莺莺云）红娘，你看他在那里?
〔收尾〕
四围山色中，
一鞭残照里。
将遍人间烦恼填胸臆，
量[13]这般大小车儿，
如何载得起！
注释：
[1]玉骢：骏马名，即一种青白色的骏马。
[2]倩（qìnɡ）：请人代自己做事意。
[3]花儿、靥儿：即指头上所戴或饰于面部的饰物。
[4]死临侵地：木呆呆的、无情打采的样子。
[5]玉醅（pēi）：美酒。
[6]蜗角虚名：比喻极微小之浮名。
[7]口占一绝：随口而吟出一首绝句。
[8]服：习惯、适应。
[9]顺时：顺应四时之变化。
[10]据鞍：跨上马鞍。
[11]文齐福不齐：才华横溢而少有福分；暗喻不能考中。
[12]栖迟：逗留、留连。
[13]量（liànɡ）：度量、估量。
Scene 3 Farewell Feast
Madame Cui enters and says:
We are going to see Master Zhang start for the Capital today,and Rose has gone to tell my daughter to come with us to the Pavilion of Farewell.I have ordered a feast prepared and an invitation sent to Master Zhang,and I think he must have finished his packing by now.
Yingying enters with Rose and says:
We are going to see him off today.It is sad to say good-bye at any time,and how much sadder on a late autumn day!
Master Zhang enters and says:
Madame told me last night to go to the Capital for the civil service examinations.She would marry her daughter to me if I came back with an official rank.What can I do but go as she directed.Now I am starting for the Pavilion of Farewell to wait for the Young Lady so that I may bid her farewell.
(Exit.)
Yingying says:
We drink a cup of wine whether we part or meet;
No matter where he goes,the rider must be fleet.
She sings to the tune of CALM DIGNITY:
With clouds the sky turns grey
O’er yellow-bloom-paved way.
How bitter blows the western breeze!
From north to south fly the wild geese.
Why like wine-flushed face is frosted forest red?
It’s dyed in tears the parting lovers shed.
Tune: ROLLING BALL
It’s my regret
So late we met;
It grieves my heart
So soon to part.
Long as the willow branch may be,
It cannot tie his parting steed to the tree.
What would I not have done
If autumn forest could hang up the setting sun!
Go slowly,parting steed;
Cab,follow it with speed!
Of lovesickness just cured,
The grief of parting must now be endured.
“I’m going,”when a voice is heard to say,
My body seems to waste away.
When the Pavilion of Farewell comes in sight,
My bracelet becomes no longer tight.
Rose says:
You have not made your toilet today,my Young Mistress.
Yingying says:
How can you know the feelings of my heart,Rose!
She continues to sing:
Who knows,who knows
My heart full of woes?
Tune: MURMURING SONG
Seeing the cab and steed ready to start,
How can I not feel grief and anguish gnaw my heart?
How can I rouge my cheeks and powder my face,
Adorn myself with winning charm and grace?
What can I do is but to bury deep
My head between my coverlet and pillow and sleep,
And let my hundred-folded dress with flowing sleeves
Drowned in a stream of tears no one perceives.
O what unconsolable grief!
O what unconsolable grief!
Could words and letters bring me any relief?
(Madame Cui,Yingying and Rose arrive at the Pavilion of Farewell.)
(Master Zhang salutes Madame Cui profoundly.)
(Yingying turns her face away.)
Madame Cui says:
Come nearer,Master Zhang.Now that you are my flesh and blood,there is no need for you to avoid my daughter.Come over here and meet him,my dear child!
(Master Zhang and Yingying meet each other.)
Madame Cui says:
Sit down,Master Zhang.I will sit here and my child there.Pour out wine,Rose.Drink up this cup,Master Zhang.Since I have promised to marry my daughter to you,you must go to the Capital and prove yourself worthy of our family and win the highest honor in the examinations.
Master Zhang says:
Though not born a literary talent or brilliant scholar,I will do my best,depending on the favor and fortune of your honorable family,to win the highest honor in the examinations so that the Young Lady may be ennobled m due course.
(They all sit down.)
(Yingying sighs.)
Yingying sings to the tune of DOFFING THE CLOTHES:
The west wind drives the withered leaves here and there;
Decayed in mist,the grass has chilly,foggy air.
I see him sit at table,slanting his head,
Knitting his brows,as if half-dead.
Tune: SMALL LIANGZHOU
He dare not let his tears fall from his brimful eyes
For fear his grief be known.
Seeing himself observed,he utters sighs,
Pretending to arrange his white silk gown.
Tune: PETTY SONG
Though we’ll be man and wife in future years,
How can I now refrain from shedding tears?
My mind with him infatuated,
My heart with love intoxicated.
Just overnight
My slender waist has grown more slight.
Tune: ASCENDING THE ATTIC
Our joy of union not complete,
Our grief of parting comes so fleet.
You know how much for you I cared.
It was not till last night was our love declared.
But oh,today
You’ll go away!
Having suffered from lovesickness on those days,
I know not parting grief still ten times heavier weighs.
Madame Cui says:
Help your Young Mistress to pour out wine,Rose.
(Yingying pours out wine.)
(Master Zhang sighs.)
Yingying whispers:
Drink up this cup of wine I hold in my hand.
She sings to the tune of PETTY SONG:
While young,
One makes light of a farewell long;
Light-hearted,
Lovers do not care to be parted.
Canst thou forget thy leg across mine,
My cheek against thine,
Hand in hand we combine.
The former Premier’s son-in-law-to-be,
Thy noble wife would ennoble thee
Like one stem with twin lotus-flowers,
Far better than to win honor and power.
(Yingying sits down again at the table and sighs.)
She sings to the tune of COURTYARD FULL OF FRAGRANCE:
So quickly passes the feast.
We sit now face to face;
We’ll then be west and east.
If Mother were not in her place,
We might have enjoyed a bridal meal alone.
Although the time will soon pass by,
It might be called a dinner of our own.
In vain I center on him my eye,
Keep thinking on,And nearly turn into a stone.
Madame Cui says:
Pour out wine,Rose.
Rose,pouring out a cup for Master Zhang and another for Yingying,says:
You have not had breakfast this morning,my Young Mistress.Will you please drink a little?
Yingying sings to the tune of HAPPY THREE:
They offer me both food and wine,
Which taste like muddy water’neath the feet:
As mud the food is not so fine;
As water the wine is not so sweet.
Tune: HOMAGE TO EMPEROR
Even warmed wine as cold as ice appears,
It is diluted with my lovesick tears.
Not that I will not eat the food before my eyes;
But that my stomach’s filled with grief and sighs.
For fame as empty as the horn of a snail,
For profit trifling as the head of a fly,
Two love-birds torn apart bewail.
One here,the other there,we’re giving sigh for sigh.
Tune: FOUR-SIDE TRANOUILLITY
They remove in a moment dish and cup,
The cab goes down,the horse goes up.
Both linger till
The sun sinks behind the bar of a green hill.
Who knows tonight where thou shalt be?
Even in dreams I cannot find thee.
Madame Cui says:
Rose,bid them to get ready the carriage and request Master Zhang to mount his horse.I am going back with your Young Mistress.
(They all get ready to start.)
(Master Zhang makes his bow to Madame Cui.)
Madame Cui says:
I have no other wish but that you should win high rank and come back soon.
Master Zhang,thanking her,says.
I will obey your instructions.
(Master Zhang and Yingying bow to each other.)
Yingying says:
You are going now.Whether you win high rank or not,I just hope you will be back as soon as possible.
Master Zhang says:
Make yourself easy on that score,my dear Young Lady.To which family will the highest literary honor belong if not to yours?I must bid you farewell now.
Yingying says:
I have no other farewell gift for you but an impromptu quatrain:
Now left alone,what can I say,
I whom you loved deep night and day?
Do not bestow your love of old
Upon another whom you behold!
Master Zhang says:
You mistake me,my dear Young Lady!How could I bestow my love on anyone else but you?As I am in a confused state of mind and you may not believe what I say,I will not respond to your poem until I come back with the highest literary honor.
Yingying sings to the tune of PLAYING THE CHILD:
My sleeves in crimson and tears of love are drowned;
I know more soaked are yours,those of the blue-gowned.
Eastward the oriole and westward the swallow flies;
Before you start I ask when you’ll return.
Although afar,still you will be before my eyes;
I’ll drink a cup of wine to show my deep concern.
Before I drink,my heart is drunk,
My eyes shed blood,in ash my feeling’s sunk.
Tune: LAST STANZA BUT FIVE
Before your arrival,get used to harsh climate;
When you pursue your way,in food be moderate!
Take care of your own health,
Which is a mine of wealth!
Early to bed on journey long in rainy days
And late to rise at country inn in wind and haze,
Riding in chilly autumn breeze,Uncared-for,you yourself should take your ease.
Tune: LAST STANZA BUT FOUR
To whom of my grief to complain?
Alone I know the pain.
Should I complain to Heaven?O,to what avail?
My tears would make the Yellow River overflow;
My grief would make three mountain peaks bend low.
At dusk I’ll lean on Western Tower’s rail
To watch the setting sun over ancient way
And withered willow trees along the bay.
Tune: LAST STANZA BUT THREE
Not long ago we came in laughter;
Alone I’ll be back shortly after.
Once home,I’ll dread
To see the curtained bed.
Last night in warm embroidered coverlet spring dwelt;
Tonight you’ll dream of counterpane where cold is felt.
Can I detain you any longer here?
You have mounted your steed now.
Both of us are in tear
With a knitted eyebrow.
Tune: LAST STANZA BUT TWO
I care not if your talent won’t build a career,
But fear you may give up the old wife for the new.
I wish wild geese and fish would bring your letters here.
While I shall send you tidings by the Phoenix Blue
O do not swear
You won’t come back unless you win the laurel crown!
Please note it down:
If you see elsewhere beauties fair,
Don’t linger any longer there!
Master Zhang says:
My dear,your words as precious as gold and jade are imprinted on my heart.We will meet again soon,so you need not be too sad.I am going now.
Holding back tears,I pretended to make bows;
Though feeling sad,I tried to unknit my brows.
Yingying says:
Not knowing that my heart is broken,
I’ll follow you in dreams unwoken.
(Exit Master Zhang.)
(Yingying sighs.)
Yingying sings to the tune of LAST STANZA BUT ONE:
Green hills and forests standing between him and me
Seem to extend a thousand li.
Thin mist and evening vapours screen him from my view.
No human voice is heard on sun-lit ancient way
But rustling of the crops in autumn wind and horse’s neigh.
I am reluctant to enter the cab,
So eager to have come with you;So slow to go back afar!
Madame Cui says:
Rose,help your Young Mistress to her carriage.The time is late.Let us go home.
Although to give way to my daughter I appear,
I’ve acted after all as proper mother dear.(Exit.)
Rose says:
Your mother’s carriage is a long way ahead.You must go back quickly.
Yingying says:
Rose,can you see where he is now?
She sings to the tune of THE LAST STANZA:
Surrounded by mountains east and west,
He flips his whip on sun-lit road.
All the world’s grief seems to fill my breast.
How can such a small cab bear such a heavy load!
(Exeunt.)
