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 * He has set at defiance his life's design;
 * clap him into the ladle with other spoilt goods.

PEER
 * What nonsense! They must mean some other person.
 * Is it really Peer? It's not Rasmus, or Jon?

THE BUTTON-MOULDER
 * It is many a day since I melted them.
 * So come quietly now, and don't waste my time.

PEER
 * I'll be damned if I do! Ay, 'twould be a fine thing
 * if it turned out to-morrow some one else was meant.
 * You'd better take care what you're at, my good man!
 * think of the onus you're taking upon you-

THE BUTTON-MOULDER
 * I have it in writing-

PEER
 * At least give me time!

THE BUTTON-MOULDER
 * What good would that do you?

PEER
 * I'll use it to prove
 * that I've been myself all the days of my life;
 * and that's the question that's in dispute.

THE BUTTON-MOULDER
 * You'll prove it? And how?