O ancestors, pray save me from these foolsWho with their instruments and scanners couldNot find a bantha in a womp rat’s hole.But calm thyself now, Vader, be at ease.This momentary failure may yet proveMost beneficial, and I’ll warrant thatThe time shall not go dully by us, forIt shall be us’d to finalize my plansAnd think upon the moment when I shallBoth meet and then defeat the SkywalkerWho dares to call the Empire enemy.So let these rebels go for now, my soul,And ponder how to make their downfall whole.[Exit.
<p>Scene 7.</p>The Dagobah system.
EnterYODA, R2-D2, and LUKE SKYWALKER, who practices lifting things with the Force.
YODAUse the Force, Luke, yes.Now, lift thou the stone. Feel it.The Force within flows.[R2-D2 begins to beep as Luke’s ship sinks.
Nay, listen thou notTo the droid and all his beeps.Do thou concentrate![Everything that was lifted falls.
R2-D2Nee, nee, beep, meep, beep, squeak, squeak, whistle, squeak!LUKEFie! We shall never extricate the ship.YODASo certain are you?Always with you, my pupil,It cannot be done.What have we done here—Hear’st thou nothing that I say?Dost thou attend, Luke?If depend uponThe Force thou shalt, anythingPossible shall be.LUKEBut Master, moving stones with the great ForceI do admit may be achiev’d. But this,This ship—to lift its hulk, its mass, its size—’Tis different, aye, wholly different!YODANay! No different.Only within thy mind, Luke,Different it is.Thou must unlearn allThose things that thou hast learnèd.Dost thou understand?LUKEIn troth, I understand, and I shall try.YODANay, nay! Try thou not.But do thou or do thou not,For there is no “try.”LUKE[aside:] I shall stretch out my mind, and shall attempt,But this is madness—lifting e’en a ship?The greatest Jedi still cannot achieveThat which is patently impossible.Methinks no Force can move this ship, and thusI certain am I never shall do this.[Luke tries to lift the ship with the Force, but the ship sinks lower.
R2-D2Beep, hoo.LUKE—Nay, I cannot. ’Tis much too big.YODANay, size matters not.Look thou at me, I prithee.Judge me by my size?And where you should not.For my ally ’tis the Force.A pow’rful ally.Life doth create it.Its energy surrounds us,Binds us together.Luminous beingsWe are, not this crude matter.You must feel the Force.All around thee, here—Between thou and me, tree, rock:Ev’rywhere it is.E’en between the landAnd your ever-sinking ship,The Force is there, too.LUKEI know now thou dost ask th’impossible.[Luke sits aside, as Yoda lifts his hands.
YODA 
