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He resumes his foetal posture, his head between his knees. ]
    VLADIMIR: Wait. [ He goes over and sits down beside ESTRAGON and begins to sing in a loud voice. ]
    Bye bye bye bye
    Bye bye —
    ESTRAGON: [ Looking up angrily. ]Not so loud!
    VLADIMIR: [ Softly. ]
    Bye bye bye bye
    Bye bye bye bye
    Bye bye bye bye
    Bye bye …
    [ ESTRAGON sleeps.  VLADIMIR gets up softly, takes off his coat and lays it across   ESTRAGON ’
s
shoulders, then starts walking up and down, swinging his arms to keep himself warm,   ESTRAGON wakes with a start, jumps up, casts about wildly.  VLADIMIR runs to him, puts his arms round him. ]There … there … Didi is there … don’t be afraid …
    ESTRAGON: Ah!
    VLADIMIR: There … there … it’s all over.
    ESTRAGON: I was falling –
    VLADIMIR: It’s all over, it’s all over.
    ESTRAGON: I was on top of a –
    VLADIMIR: Don’t tell me! Come, we’ll walk it off.
    [ He takes   ESTRAGON by the arm and walks him up and down until  ESTRAGON refuses to go any further. ]
    ESTRAGON: That’s enough. I’m tired.
    VLADIMIR: You’d rather be stuck there doing nothing?
    ESTRAGON: Yes.
    VLADIMIR: Please yourself.
    [ He releases ESTRAGON , picks up his coat and puts it on. ]
    ESTRAGON: Let’s go.
    VLADIMIR: We can’t.
    ESTRAGON: Why not?
    VLADIMIR: We’re waiting for Godot.
    ESTRAGON: Ah! [ VLADIMIR walks up and down. ] Can you not stay still?
    VLADIMIR: I’m cold.
    ESTRAGON: We came too soon.
    VLADIMIR: It’s always at nightfall.
    ESTRAGON: But night doesn’t fall.
    VLADIMIR: It’ll fall all of a sudden, like yesterday.
    ESTRAGON: Then it’ll be night.
    VLADIMIR: And we can go.
    ESTRAGON: Then it’ll be day again. [ Pause. Despairing. ] What’ll we do, what’ll we do!
    VLADIMIR: [ Halting, violently. ]Will you stop whining! I’ve had about my bellyful of your lamentations!
    ESTRAGON: I’m going.
    VLADIMIR: [ Seeing Lucky’ s hat. ]Well!
    ESTRAGON: Farewell.
    VLADIMIR: Lucky’s hat. [ He goes towards it. ]I’ve been here an hour and never saw it. [ Very pleased. ]Fine!
    ESTRAGON: You’ll never see me again.
    VLADIMIR: I knew it was the right place. Now our troubles are over. [ He picks up the hat, contemplates it, straightens  it. ]Must have been a very fine hat. [ He puts it on in place of his own which he hands to ESTRAGON .] Here.
    ESTRAGON: What?
    VLADIMIR: Hold that.
    [ ESTRAGON takes Vladimir’s hat.   VLADIMIR adjusts Lucky’s hat on his head, ESTRAGON puts on Vladimir’s hat in place of his own which he hands to  VLADIMIR .  VLADIMIR takes Estragon’s hat.   ESTRAGON adjusts Vladimir’s hat on his head. VLADIMIR puts on Estragon’s hat in place of Lucky’s which he hands to  ESTRAGON .  ESTRAGON takes Lucky’s hat. VLADIMIR adjusts Estragon’s hat on his head,  ESTRAGON puts on Lucky’s hat in place of Vladimir’s which he hands to VLADIMIR .  VLADIMIRV takes his hat.   ESTRAGON adjusts Lucky’s hat on his head. VLADIMIR puts on his hat in place of Estragon’s which he hands to ESTRAGON , ESTRAGON takes his hat. VLADIMIR adjusts his hat on his head. ESTRAGONV puts on his hat in place of Lucky’s which he hands to VLADIMIR . VLADIMIR takes Lucky’s hat.   ESTRAGON adjusts his hat on his head. VLADIMIR puts on Lucky’s hat in place of his own which he hands to ESTRAGON , ESTRAGON takes Vladimir’s hat. VLADIMIR adjusts Lucky’s hat on his head,  ESTRAGON hands Vladimir’s hat back to VLADIMIR who takes it and hands it back to  ESTRAGON who takes it and hands it back to VLADIMIR who takes it and throws it down. ]
    How does it fit me?
    ESTRAGON: How would I know?
    VLADIMIR: No, but how do I look in it?
    [ He turns his head coquettishly to and fro, minces like a mannequin. ]
    ESTRAGON: Hideous.
    VLADIMIR: Yes, but not more so than usual?
    ESTRAGON: Neither more nor less.
    VLADIMIR: Then I can keep it. Mine irked me. [ Pause. ]How shall I say? [ Pause. ]It itched me.
    [ He takes of Lucky’s hat, peers into it, shakes it, knocks on the crown, puts it