Comedies by Ludvig Holberg
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be in trouble.
JACOB. Nonsense! How could she find out? Can't you swear that you paid out all the money? You're as stupid as an ox. JEPPE. That's true, Jacob! I can do that well enough. JACOB. Out with your penny. JEPPE. Here you are, but you must give me a penny change. JACOB (coming in with the glass; drinks to him). Your health, Jeppe! JEPPE. What a lot you take, you rogue! JACOB. Oh, yes, but it's the custom for the host to drink his guest's health. JEPPE. I know it is, but bad luck to the man that started the custom. Your health, Jacob! JACOB. Thanks, Jeppe! You'll drink the other pennyworth next, so there's no use your troubling about change. Or do you want a glass to your credit when you come again? For I give you my word I haven't any change. JEPPE. I'm damned if I do! If it's got to be spent, it might as well be spent now, so that I can feel I have something under my belt; but if you drink any of it, I won't pay. |
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