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 * We are deeds;
 * thou shouldst have achieved us!
 * Doubt, the throttler,
 * has crippled and riven us.
 * On the Day of Judgment
 * we'll come a-flock,
 * and tell the story,-
 * then woe to you!

PEER
 * Rascal-tricks! How dare you debit
 * what is negative against me?
 * [Hastens away.]

ASE'S VOICE [far away].
 * Fie, what a post-boy!
 * Hu, you've upset me!
 * Snow's newly fallen here;-
 * sadly it's smirched me.-
 * You've driven me the wrong way.
 * Peer, where's the castle?
 * The Fiend has misled you
 * with the switch from the cupboard!

PEER
 * Better haste away, poor fellow!
 * With the devil's sins upon you,
 * soon you'll faint upon the hillside;-
 * hard enough to bear one's own sins.
 * [Runs off.]