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 PEER
 * What stuff is this?

VON EBERKOPF
 * We now see gathered
 * in glory all the Gyntish host
 * of wishes, appetites, and desires-!

MONSIEUR BALLON [admiringly].
 * So this is being Monsieur Gynt!

VON EBERKOPF [in the same tone].
 * This I call being Gynt with honour!

PEER
 * But tell me-?

MONSIEUR BALLON
 * Don't you understand?

PEER
 * May I be hanged if I begin to!

MONSIEUR BALLON
 * What? Are you not upon your way
 * to join the Greeks, with ship and money-?

PEER [contemptuously].
 * No, many thanks! I side with strength,
 * and lend my money to the Turks.

MONSIEUR BALLON
 * Impossible!

VON EBERKO