JEPPE. Swear that the devil may split you if it's not so. JUDGE. Come, take our word for it, and thank us for so graciously sentencing you back to life again.
JEPPE. If you hadn't hanged me yourselves, I would gladly thank you for taking me down from the gallows.
JUDGE. Be satisfied, Jeppe! Tell us if your good wife beats you too often, and we shall find a remedy. Here are four rix-dollars with which you can make merry for a while, and don't forget to drink our health.
[Jeppe kisses his hand and thanks him.]
[Exit Judge, followed by his servants.
SCENE 3
JEPPE. Now I've lived half a hundred years, but in all that time I haven't had so much happen to me as in these two days. It is a devil of a story, now that I come to think of it: one hour a drunken peasant, the next a baron, then another hour a peasant again; now dead, now alive on a gallows, which is the most wonderful of all. Perhaps it is that when they hang living people they die, and when they hang dead people they come to life again. It seems to me that, after all, a glass of brandy would taste magnificent. Hey, Jacob Shoemaker! Come out here!
SCENE 4
[Enter Jacob Shoemaker.]
JACOB. Welcome back from town! Did you get the soap for your wife?