Enter another 3PO DROID.
C-3PO
What joy to see a kind, familiar face.
DROID
E chu ta!
[Exit 3PO droid.
C-3PO
—O, how rude! But pray, what’s here?
[C-3PO enters another room.
Was that an R2 unit’s sound I heard?
Is’t possible that R2-D2’s here?
Hello, who is herein?
Enter a SHADOWY FIGURE.
FIGURE
—Say, who art thou?
C-3PO
Alas, this is my end! An enemy—
If only I could others tell. O me!
[Exeunt as C-3PO is shot into pieces.
Enter PRINCESS LEIA.
LEIA
Time’s passage hath not sooth’d my mind’s distress.
Full many moments we have waited here
Within this lovely city in the clouds,
Yet I am neither rested nor relax’d.
Foreboding doth creep o’er me like a plague—
My mind is sore afeard, my hands do shake,
And nowhere can my troubl’d soul find peace.
The quick permission given us to land,
The too-familiar welcome Lando gave,
A small apartment offer’d for our use—
It seems as though we were expected here,
Though how this could have happen’d, I know not.
For surely when th’Imperi’l fleet broke up,
We in the opposite direction flew.
But e’en beyond that worry there is more,
For though I do not love the prating droid
C-3PO has not been seen since our
Arrival here. We have too much of quiet—
I almost miss his constant chattering.
Enter HAN SOLO.
HAN
All shall be well. The ship is fix’d with care.
There are but two or three things more, then will
We make our swift departure hence. ’Tis fair?
LEIA
The swiftest shall be best. Some thing is still
Awry. Where is C-3PO? He hath
Not seen us or been seen for many hours,
And no one knows about his way or path.
Hath he lost all his faithful, droidly sense?
Most happ’ly would I by him be annoy’d,
If it did mean that he, at least, were near.
HAN
I shall inquire of Lando ’bout the droid.
But in the meantime, Leia, have no fear.
LEIA
I trust not Lando.
HAN
—Neither, sweet, do I,
Yet he’s my friend who helpeth us, dost see?
I’ll warrant that we soon from here shall fly.
LEIA
Then thou shalt take thy flight as well—from me.
HAN
The future has its own time yet to write,
And wheth’r or not we worry, my good lass,
It comes as sure as day doth follow night.
So, think not of it till it come to pass.
[Exeunt Han Solo and Princess Leia.
Enter a merry band of UGNAUGHTS, singing as they pass around parts of C-3PO’s body.
UGN. 1
O pass me that!
UGN. 2
O give me this!
UGN. 3
We Ugnaughts are a’working!
UGN. 2
O pass the head!
UGN. 3
Give me the chest!
UGN. 1
Our duties never shirking!
UGN. 3
Thou naughty droid—
UGN. 1
Thou hast been caught!
UGN. 2
Thy prying never ceases!
UGN. 1
Your lesson learn’d—
UGN. 2
Our treasures earn’d—
UGN. 3
For now thou art in pieces!
Enter CHEWBACCA.
CHEWBAC.
Auugh!
[Chewbacca begins collecting pieces of C-3PO.
UGN. 2
Take not the arms!
UGN. 3
Pray, leave the legs!
UGN. 1
Thy greed thou art revealing!
UGN. 3
But naught shall last!
UGN. 1
For nothing doth!
UGN. 2
Our treasures thou art stealing!
UGN. 1
So shall we speak—
UGN. 2
Our proverb true—
UGN. 3
With voices loudly ringing—
UGN. 2
It easy came—
UGN. 3
And easy goes—
UGN. 1
But still we keep on singing!
[Exeunt Ugnaughts, singing.
Enter HAN SOLO and PRINCESS LEIA.
LEIA
I see, Chewbacca, thou hast found the droid,
At least some small and varied parts of him.
O, what hath happen’d?
CHEWBAC.
—Auugh!
HAN
—Thou hast found him
Upon a junk pile, what? How can that be?
C-3PO was fine when we arriv’d.
But now, I fear, he is more dread than droid.
LEIA
’Tis such a mess. Canst thou repair him, good
Chewbacca?
CHEWBAC.
—Egh, auugh.
HAN
—Lando’s people can
Provide the cure.
LEIA
—Nay, thank you: I’d not hav’t.
Enter LANDO.
LANDO
Forgive me, worthy guests. Do I intrude?
LEIA
Nay, verily.
LANDO
—O, but thou art a beauty.
I prithee, never leave—thou dost belong
With us in our great city in the clouds.
Thy loveliness doth put the sun to shame,
Thy brightness of your cheek would shame the stars.
LEIA
[aside:] This scoundrel too familiar is. Now do
I see that though I once thought Han uncouth,
He is the sweetest smuggler ever liv’d.
[To Lando:] Thou hast my thanks.
LANDO
—Now come, will ye join me
For some repast?
CHEWBAC.
—Auugh.
LANDO
—Chewie, fear thou not!
Be sure I meant that all invited are.
[Seeing C-3PO:] Is there some matter with your droid?