FAIRY. This ring has the power to grant you all your wishes—to your credit, but to no one's harm.
PEHR. That's a fine ring! But what will the old man say?
FAIRY. He is only going to meet with his just punishment—punishment for his selfishness.
PEHR. Yes, that is just. All the same I feel sorry for him.
FAIRY. Do not grieve for him; I shall watch over his sorrow.
PEHR. Sorrow! Nothing else? Sorrow, he says, is the one pleasure in life. Let him sit and enjoy it then. I shall probably furnish him with opportunities.
FAIRY. And lastly, young man, will you take provisions from the Wise Man?
PEHR. What should they be?—Good advice?
FAIRY. Yes.
PEHR. Alas, I have such quantities of that!