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 * Force is kindness!

SECOND GIRL
 * And kindness is force!

THIRD GIRL
 * If lads are awanting, one plays with the trolls!

PEER
 * Why, where are the lads, then?

ALL THREE [with a horse-laugh].
 * They cannot come hither!

FIRST GIRL
 * Mine called me his sweetheart and called me his darling.
 * Now he has married a grey-headed widow.

SECOND GIRL
 * Mine met a gipsy-wench north on the upland.
 * Now they are tramping the country together.

THIRD GIRL
 * Mine put an end to our bastard brat.
 * Now his head's grinning aloft on a stake.

ALL THREE
 * Trond of the Valfjeld! Bard and Kare!
 * Troll-pack! To-night would you sleep in our arms?

PEER [stands, with a sudden leap, in the midst of them].
 * I'm a three-headed troll, and the boy for three girls!

THE GIR