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 PEER
 * I've forgot what I never have known.
 * What's this that you prate of? When last did we meet?

THE WOMAN
 * When last we met was when first we met.
 * [To THE BRAT.]
 * Give your father a drink; he is thirsty, I'm sure.

PEER
 * Father? You're drunk, woman! Do you call him-?

THE WOMAN
 * I should think you might well know the pig by its skin!
 * Why, where are your eyes? Can't you see that he's lame
 * in his shank, just as you too are lame in your soul?

PEER
 * Would you have me believe-?

THE WOMAN
 * Would you wriggle away-?

PEER
 * This long-legged urchin-!

THE WOMAN
 * He's shot up apace.

PEER
 * Dare you, you troll-snout, father on me-?

THE WOM