Let them waste; let it all be squandered!

Peace, mother; what need we care!

’Tis the rich Jon Gynt gives the banquet;

Hurrah for the race of Gynt!

What’s all this bustle and hubbub?

Why do they shout and bawl?

The captain is calling the son in;—

Oh, the provost would drink my health.

In then, Peer Gynt, to the judgment;

It rings forth in song and shout: