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 You say we are to face a preach? God's wordings are sacred in the church; but so they are by the pathways or by the roundabout. I too, beloved Christians, head to show you how we shall stand in the valley of Jozafat!

Peasant. It is not your turn, Nace!

Another peasant: Let them talk, let Nace talk! Their talk will be sweet – sweeter than the teacher's for that matter!

Nace. Dear Christians, when we stand in the valley of Jozefat. ..

Kalander. Shut it, coward!

Jerman. Companions!

Voices. Companions? Who here is a companion of yours?

Jerman. Comrades! I see your eyes voice how you came to listen to and take a look at a comedy. You have commenced with a divergent thought – and you are honest enough not to hide it. You have gathered to finish the comedy, and predominantly to conclude the play by spitting at and removing the joker; kick him out of the world. You are righteous to shine, smiling in the dark times which surround us. . . When the riches are burning and the taxes. ..

Some random: What do you make fun of us?

Jerman. Yet I did not summon you – not to exercise this grief and not to conduct comedy. We did not gather to overthrow god; not to insurrect counter to the crown. Our thought is calm and I am fairly certain we shall conduct it smiling. As you were thought, god gives everything, which grows on this Earth. ..