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up? A MAN
- Oh no,
- that you're certainly not; for I've heard the most on't
- from my grandfather-
PEER
- Liar! It happened to me!
THE MAN
- Yes, like everything else.
PEER [with a fling].
- I can ride, I can,
- clean through the air, on the bravest of steeds!
- Oh, many's the thing I can do, I tell you!
- [Another roar of laughter.]
ONE OF THE GROUP
- Peer, ride through the air a bit!
MANY
- Do, dear Peer Gynt-!
PEER
- You may spare you the trouble of begging so hard.
- I will ride like a hurricane over you all!
- Every man in the parish shall fall at my feet!
AN ELDERLY MAN
- Now he is clean off his head.
ANOTHER
- The dolt!
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