MONTANUS. When you have been to school as long as I have and passed your examinations, then you can give yourself a Latin name, too; but as long as you are a peasant boy, you must be satisfied with plain Jacob Berg. By the way, have you noticed that my sweetheart has been longing for me?
JACOB. Indeed she has. She has been very impatient at your staying away so long, brother.
MONTANUS. There you go again, yokel!
JACOB. I meant to say: Mossur's sweetheart has been impatient because brother stayed away so long.
MONTANUS. Well, I'm here now, Jacob, and all for her sake; but I shall not stay very long, for as soon as we've had the wedding I shall take her to Copenhagen with me.
JACOB. Won't Mossur take me along?
MONTANUS. What would you do there?
JACOB. I should like to look around in the world a bit.
MONTANUS. I wish you were six or seven years younger, so that I could put you into a Latin school, and then you could be a college man, too.
JABOC. No, that wouldn't do.