First Lawyer—But where is that vis? Where is that metus? That is but chicanery.
Second Lawyer—No, you are using chicane.
First Lawyer—No honest man shall accuse me of such a thing.
(The lawyers grapple, and Jeppe runs over and pulls the wig off the first lawyer and strikes him on the head with it.)
Judge—Order in the courtroom! Stop, I have heard enough! (Reads his verdict:) Whereas Jeppe on the Hill, son of Niels on the Hill, and grandson of Jeppe from the same place, is proved by legal witnesses as well as by his own confession to have surreptitiously entered the Baron's castle, put on his clothes, and maltreated his servants, he is condemned to die by poison, and when he is dead his body shall be hanged on the gallows.
Jeppe—Ah! Ah! Gracious judge! Is there no pardon?
Judge—None. The sentence shall be executed immediately in my presence.
Jeppe—Ah! Won't you give me a glass of whiskey before I drink the poison so that I can die like a soldier?
Judge—Yes, that is permitted.