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PEER
- I need my life far more than you,
- for I am lone and childless still.
THE COOK
- Let go! You've lived, and I am young!
PEER
- Quick; haste you; sink;-you drag us down.
THE COOK
- Have mercy! Yield in heaven's name!
- There's none to miss and mourn for you-
- [His hand slips; he screams:]
- I'm drowning!
PEER [seizing him].
- By this wisp of hair
- I'll hold you; say your Lord's Prayer, quick!
THE COOK
- I can't remember; all turns black-
PEER
- Come, the essentials in a word-!
THE COOK
- Give us this day-!
PEER
- Skip that part, Cook;
- you'll get all you need, safe enough.
THE COOK
- Give us this day-
