Peer.
[With a high leap.]
Just fancy, for a reindeer to leap from on high—
To fall and fall—and never feel the ground beneath your hoofs!
Hussein.
A knife! I am blunt;—quick, mend me and slit me!
The world will go to ruin if they don’t mend my point for me!
Peer.
A pity for the world which, like other self-made things,
Was reckoned by the Lord to be so excellently good.