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PEER

What stuff is this?

VON EBERKOPF

We now see gathered
in glory all the Gyntish host
of wishes, appetites, and desires-!

MONSIEUR BALLON [admiringly].

So this is being Monsieur Gynt!

VON EBERKOPF [in the same tone].

This I call being Gynt with honour!

PEER

But tell me-?

MONSIEUR BALLON

Don't you understand?

PEER

May I be hanged if I begin to!

MONSIEUR BALLON

What? Are you not upon your way
to join the Greeks, with ship and money-?

PEER [contemptuously].

No, many thanks! I side with strength,
and lend my money to the Turks.

MONSIEUR BALLON

Impossible!

VON EBERKO