Thou hast talk’d enough: ’tis an envious theme:

Now rest thee, and quench thy thirst, and eat!

But ere I ferry thee o’er the stream,

Thou must proof exhibit of talent meet.

No fare from trav’llers I’m wont to take;

But if they cannot give answers good

To every question I chuse to make,

Down at once they sink in the dark blue flood.

And now the goblin began to ask

Young Skirnir about the orbs of heaven: