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PEER
- They reel when my mother by chance falls a-scolding.
THE GREEN-CLAD ONE
- My father can kick e'en the loftiest roof-tree.
PEER
- My mother can ride through the rapidest river.
THE GREEN-CLAD ONE
- Have you other garments besides those rags?
PEER
- Ho, you should just see my Sunday clothes!
THE GREEN-CLAD ONE
- My week-day gown is of gold and silk.
PEER
- It looks to me liker tow and straws.
THE GREEN-CLAD ONE
- Ay, there is one thing you must remember:-
- this is the Ronde-folk's use and wont:
- all our possessions have twofold form.
- When you shall come to my father's hall,
- it well may chance that you're on the point
- of thinking you stand in a dismal moraine.
PEER
- Well now, with us it's precisely the same.
- Our gold will seem to you litter and trash!
- And you'll think, mayhap, every glittering pane
- is nought but a bunch of old stockings and clouts.
THE GREEN-CLAD O
