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PEER

Cakes? Ay, a heaped-up dish.
And the dean's wife is getting ready
your coffee and your dessert.

ASE

Oh, Christ; shall we two come together?

PEER

As freely as ever you will.

ASE

Oh, deary, Peer, what a frolic
you're driving me to, poor soul!

PEER [cracking his whip].

Gee-up; will you stir yourself, Black-boy!

ASE

Peer, dear, you're driving right?

PEER [cracking his whip again].

Ay, broad is the way.

ASE

This journey,
it makes me so weak and tired.

PEER

There's the castle rising before us;
the drive will be over s