Now hear what’s the matter. No doubt you remember

That night when I came to the Rondë a-wooing——

The Old Man.

Why, of course, my Lord Prince!

Peer.

Oh, no more of the Prince!

But no matter. You wanted, by sheer brute force,

To bias my sight, with a slit in the lens,

And to change me about from Peer Gynt to a troll.

What did I do then? I stood out against it,—