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- There are people that ship off far gruesomer figures
- in sermons, in art, and in literature-
- yet have to stay out in the cold-
PEER
- Ah, but then,
- do you know-I once went and set up as prophet!
THE LEAN ONE
- In foreign parts? Humbug! Why, most people's sehen
- ins Blaue ends in the casting-ladle.
- If you've no more than that to rely upon,
- with the best of goodwill, I can't possibly house you.
PEER
- But hear this: In a shipwreck-I clung to a boat's keel,-
- and it's written: A drowning man grasps at a straw,-
- furthermore it is written: You're nearest yourself,-
- so I half-way divested a cook of his life.
THE LEAN ONE
- It were all one to me if a kitchen-maid
- you had half-way divested of something else.
- What sort of stuff is this half-way jargon,
- saving your presence? Who, think you, would care
- to throw away dearly-bought fuel in times
- like these on such spiritless rubbish as this?
- There now, don't be enraged; 'twas your sins that scoffed at;
