Alas, yes, stop! I am not set to die!HANThis cannot help me, brave Chewbacca, nay.I prithee, save thy strength to fight again.Attend me now: the princess—thou must beHer strength, her stay, her guard, her confidence:These things that I no longer can bestow.LEIAO, I do love thee wholly, Han.HAN—I know.[Han is placed into the machine and emerges in a frozen block.
C-3POPray, turn around, Chewbacca, let me see.O, he in carbonite hath been encas’d—He should be well protected, if he hathSurviv’d the freezing process.VADER—Make report,Calrissian, is he alive?LANDO—He is,And rests in perfect hibernation here.VADERThe prize is thine now, bounty hunter Fett.Take him to Jabba, with my gratitude.FETT[aside:] Aye, prize, indeed, and worthy of the wait. To Tatooine I fly, with expectation of payment great.
VADERReset the chamber for young Skywalker—He shall the next a’freezing undergo.EnterIMPERIAL SOLDIER.
SOLDIERSkywalker’s ship hath just made landing, Lord.VADER’Tis well, and be thou sure he hither comes—Put him upon the path that leads him here.[Exit Imperial soldier.
Calrissian, take thou the princess andThe Wookiee to my ship, and there remain.LANDONay, thou didst say they would in Bespin dwell—With me, under my supervision keen.How canst thou bargain thus? ’Tis always thySide of the deal that doth improve. What shaltThou give to me to make this deal worthwhile?VADERSeek not to deal thyself a winning hand.The Empire shall not e’er play by thy rules.By my command, the deal is alterèd.In all thy orisons thou mayst yet pleadThe deal no further alterèd will be.[Exeunt Darth Vader and Boba Fett. Chewbacca and Princess Leia sing a song of lament.
CHEWBAC.[sings:] Auugh, egh, auugh, auugh egh. Auugh, muh, muh,Egh, egh, auugh, egh, egh, muh, muh.Auugh, auugh, egh, auugh, muh, egh, muh, muh,Muh, wroshyr, wroshyr, wroshyr.LEIA[sings:] Full fathom five my lover lies,Within an icy tomb,They say he lives, yet my heart dies,Sing wroshyr, wroshyr, wroshyr.CHEWBAC.[sings:] Egh, auugh, auugh, auugh, egh, egh, muh, muh,Auugh, egh, egh, auugh, auugh, muh, muh.Egh, auugh, auugh, grrm, auugh, egh, muh, muh,Muh, wroshyr, wroshyr, wroshyr.LEIA[sings:] Now he is gone, and so’s my life,All frozen in a moment.He my seiz’d lov’d one, I his strife,Sing wroshyr, wroshyr, wroshyr.[Exeunt.
Scene 2.
Bespin, the cloud city.
EnterLUKE SKYWALKER, with R2-D2 behind.
LUKE