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 * Well, patience is wholesome.

THE CAPTAIN
 * Bear away from that sea!

THE MATE
 * There the wreck turned over!

PEER
 * All is silent of a sudden-!

THE BOATSWAIN
 * Were they married, as you think,
 * there are three new-baked widows even now in the world.
 * [The storm increases. PEER GYNT moves away aft.]

PEER
 * There is no faith left among men any more,-
 * no Christianity,-well may they say it and write it;-
 * their good deeds are few and their prayers are still fewer,
 * and they pay no respect to the Powers above them.-
 * In a storm like to-night's, he's a terror, the Lord is.
 * These beasts should be careful, and think, what's the truth,
 * that it's dangerous playing with elephants;-
 * and yet they must openly brave his displeasure!
 * I am no whit to blame; for the sacrifice
 * I can prove I stood ready, my money in hand.
 * But how does it profit me?-What says the proverb?
 * A conscience at ease is a pillow of dow