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 None of them glitters like him in the sunshine.-
 * Down by the fence stand the people in clusters,
 * lifting their hats, and agape gazing upwards.
 * Women are curtseying. All the world knows him,
 * Kaiser Peer Gynt, and his thousands of henchmen.
 * Sixpenny pieces and glittering shillings
 * over the roadway he scatters like pebbles.
 * Rich as a lord grows each man in the parish.
 * High o'er the ocean Peer Gynt goes a-riding.
 * Engelland's Prince on the seashore awaits him;
 * there too await him all Engelland's maidens.
 * Engelland's nobles and Engelland's Kaiser,
 * see him come riding and rise from their banquet.
 * Raising his crown, hear the Kaiser address him-

ASLAK THE SMITH [to some other young men, passing along the road].
 * Just look at Peer Gynt there, the drunken swine-!

PEER [starting half up].
 * What, Kaiser-!

THE SMITH [leaning against the fence and grinning].
 * Up with you, Peer, my lad!

PEER
 * What the devil? The smith? What do you want here?

THE SMITH [to the others].
 * He hasn't got over the Lunde-spree yet.

PEER [jumping up