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 omes up on the other side].
 * Oh, Lord God-for my children's sake,
 * have mercy! Let me reach the land!
 * [Seizes hold of the keel.]

PEER
 * Let go!

THE COOK
 * Let go!

PEER
 * I'll strike!

THE COOK
 * So'll I!

PEER
 * I'll crush you down with kicks and blows!
 * Let go your hold! She won't float two!

THE COOK
 * I know it! Yield!

PEER
 * Yield you!

THE COOK
 * Oh yes!

[They fight; one of the COOKS hands is disabled; he clings on with the other.] PEER
 * Off with that hand!

THE COOK
 * Oh, kind sir-spare!
 * Think of my little ones at home!