Look, here it is written: Peer Gynt shalt thou summon.

He has set at defiance his life’s design;

Clap him into the ladle with other spoilt goods.

Peer.

What nonsense! They must mean some other person.

Is it really Peer? It’s not Rasmus, or Jon?

The Button-moulder.

It is many a day since I melted them.

So come quietly now, and don’t waste my time.

Peer.