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None of them glitters like him in the sunshine.-
- Down by the fence stand the people in clusters,
- lifting their hats, and agape gazing upwards.
- Women are curtseying. All the world knows him,
- Kaiser Peer Gynt, and his thousands of henchmen.
- Sixpenny pieces and glittering shillings
- over the roadway he scatters like pebbles.
- Rich as a lord grows each man in the parish.
- High o'er the ocean Peer Gynt goes a-riding.
- Engelland's Prince on the seashore awaits him;
- there too await him all Engelland's maidens.
- Engelland's nobles and Engelland's Kaiser,
- see him come riding and rise from their banquet.
- Raising his crown, hear the Kaiser address him-
ASLAK THE SMITH [to some other young men, passing along the road].
- Just look at Peer Gynt there, the drunken swine-!
PEER [starting half up].
- What, Kaiser-!
THE SMITH [leaning against the fence and grinning].
- Up with you, Peer, my lad!
PEER
- What the devil? The smith? What do you want here?
THE SMITH [to the others].
- He hasn't got over the Lunde-spree yet.
PEER [jumping up