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- Well, patience is wholesome.
THE CAPTAIN
- Bear away from that sea!
THE MATE
- There the wreck turned over!
PEER
- All is silent of a sudden-!
THE BOATSWAIN
- Were they married, as you think,
- there are three new-baked widows even now in the world.
- [The storm increases. PEER GYNT moves away aft.]
PEER
- There is no faith left among men any more,-
- no Christianity,-well may they say it and write it;-
- their good deeds are few and their prayers are still fewer,
- and they pay no respect to the Powers above them.-
- In a storm like to-night's, he's a terror, the Lord is.
- These beasts should be careful, and think, what's the truth,
- that it's dangerous playing with elephants;-
- and yet they must openly brave his displeasure!
- I am no whit to blame; for the sacrifice
- I can prove I stood ready, my money in hand.
- But how does it profit me?-What says the proverb?
- A conscience at ease is a pillow of dow
