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Ay, there you are right. But if now you do what you can, you will doubtless move her.

I? God knows 'twould but little serve if I

Yet 'tis strange you should seek her here if you have so little hope.

What mean you?—Tell me, know you Lady Inger?

Surely; since I am her guest

Ay, but it in nowise follows that you know her. I too am her guest, yet have I never seen so much as her shadow.

Yet did you speak of her

as all folk speak. Why should I not? And besides, I have often enough heard from Peter Kanzler