Your time, did you say? There you jog my remembrance!

[Opens a door and calls out.

Come forth all! The time that shall be is proclaimed!

Reason is dead and gone; long live Peer Gynt!

Peer.

Now, my dear good fellow——!

[The Lunatics come one by one, and at intervals, into the courtyard.

Begriffenfeldt.

Good morning! Come forth,

And hail the dawn of emancipation!