SCENE 4
(Enter Jeppe and Nille.)
JEPPE. Oh, my dear son, don't carry on so, and don't quarrel with everybody. The bailiff and deacon, who at our request undertook to make peace between you and your father-in-law, have, I hear, been made sport of. What is the use of turning good folk into cocks and bulls?
MONTANUS. For this purpose I have studied, for this purpose I have racked my brains: that I may say what I choose, and justify it.
JEPPE. It seems to me that it would have been better never to have studied in that way.
MONTANUS. Keep your mouth shut, old man!
JEPPE. You're not going to beat your parents?
MONTANUS. If I did, I should justify that, too, before the whole world. [Exeunt Jeppe and Nille, weeping.]