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 PEER
 * And the worms are squabbling for rags and clouts.

THE MAN IN MOURNING
 * That's the end of the ditty; it's over and done.

PEER
 * All the ditties end just alike;
 * and they're all old together; I knew 'em as a boy.

A LAD OF TWENTY [with a casting-ladle].
 * Just look what a rare thing I've been buying!
 * In this Peer Gynt cast his silver buttons.

ANOTHER
 * Look at mine, though! The money-bag bought for a halfpenny.

A THIRD
 * No more, eh? Twopence for the pedlar's pack!

PEER
 * Peer Gynt? Who was he?

THE MAN IN MOURNING
 * All I know is this:
 * he was kinsman to Death and to Aslak the Smith.

A MAN IN GREY
 * You're forgetting me, man! Are you mad or drunk?

THE MAN IN MOURNING
 * You forget that at Hegstad was a storehouse door.

THE MAN IN GR