'Tis so with many rats; and all old women;--
Saving your health!

JACOBUS
No thought for public weal,
In this base grasping on--

PIPER
One thousand guilders.

KURT
[contemptuously]
For piping!

PIPER
Shall I pipe them back again?

WOMEN
( Good Saint Boniface!
Merciful heaven! ( Good Saint Willibald!
( Peter and Paul defend us!

HANS the Butcher
No, no; no fear o' that. The rats be drowned.
We saw them with our eyes.

PIPER
Now who shall say
There is no resurrection for a mouse?