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- And next-now for putting your wits to the test.
- [Draws himself up in his seat.]
THE OLDEST TROLL-COURTIER [to PEER GYNT].
- Let us see if you have a wisdom-tooth
- that can crack the Dovre-King's riddle-nut!
THE OLD MAN
- What difference is there 'twixt trolls and men?
PEER
- No difference at all, as it seems to me.
- Big trolls would roast you and small trolls would claw you;-
- with us it were likewise, if only they dared.
THE OLD MAN
- True enough; in that and in more we're alike.
- Yet morning is morning, and even is even,
- and there is a difference all the same.-
- Now let me tell you wherein it lies:
- Out yonder, under the shining vault,
- among men the saying goes: "Man, be thyself!"
- At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls,
- the saying goes: "Troll, to thyself be-enough!"
THE TROLL-COURTIER [to PEER GYNT].
- Can you fathom the depth?
PEER
- It strikes me as misty.
THE OLD M
