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PEER
- No, you're worth a better fate;
- better twenty thousand times!
- Little, ugly, dear old mother,
- you may safely trust my word,-
- all the parish shall exalt you;
- only wait till I have done
- something-something really grand!
ASE [contemptuously].
- You!
PEER
- Who knows what may befall one!
ASE
- Would you'd get so far in sense
- one day as to do the darning
- of your breeches for yourself!
PEER [hotly].
- I will be a king, a kaiser!
ASE
- Oh, God comfort me, he's losing
- all the wits that he had left!
PEER
- Yes, I will! just give me time!
ASE
- Give you time, you'll be a prince,
- so the saying goes, I think!
PEER
- You shall see!
