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 PEER
 * They reel when my mother by chance falls a-scolding.

THE GREEN-CLAD ONE
 * My father can kick e'en the loftiest roof-tree.

PEER
 * My mother can ride through the rapidest river.

THE GREEN-CLAD ONE
 * Have you other garments besides those rags?

PEER
 * Ho, you should just see my Sunday clothes!

THE GREEN-CLAD ONE
 * My week-day gown is of gold and silk.

PEER
 * It looks to me liker tow and straws.

THE GREEN-CLAD ONE
 * Ay, there is one thing you must remember:-
 * this is the Ronde-folk's use and wont:
 * all our possessions have twofold form.
 * When you shall come to my father's hall,
 * it well may chance that you're on the point
 * of thinking you stand in a dismal moraine.

PEER
 * Well now, with us it's precisely the same.
 * Our gold will seem to you litter and trash!
 * And you'll think, mayhap, every glittering pane
 * is nought but a bunch of old stockings and clouts.

THE GREEN-CLAD O