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LS
- Are you such a lad, eh?
PEER
- You shall judge for yourselves!
FIRST GIRL
- To the hut! To the hut!
SECOND GIRL
- We have mead!
PEER
- Let it flow!
THIRD GIRL
- No cot shall stand empty this Saturday night!
SECOND GIRL [kissing him].
- He sparkles and glisters like white-heated iron.
THIRD GIRL [doing likewise].
- Like a baby's eyes from the blackest tarn.
PEER [dancing in the midst of them].
- Heavy of heart and wanton of mind.
- The eyes full of laughter, the throat of tears!
THE GIRLS [making mocking gestures towards the mountain-tops,
- screaming and singing].
- Trond of the Valfjeld! Bard and Kare!
- Troll-pack!-To-night will you sleep in our arms?
[They dance away over the heights, with PEER GYNT in their midst.]
