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It can happen today to the best of men.<br />

Fill the tankard aga<strong>in</strong>, it makes me brave.<br />

(She fills it, he holds it <strong>in</strong> his hand and dr<strong>in</strong>ks from it now and then.)<br />

(Aside.)<br />

(To MOGENS.)<br />

Tell me, Karen,... you understand it...<br />

Tell me aga<strong>in</strong>, what is it a man will do,<br />

When he wants to unearth a treasure yonder <strong>in</strong> Stevns?<br />

KAREN.<br />

I have often told you that.<br />

MOGENS.<br />

Tell me aga<strong>in</strong>.<br />

KAREN.<br />

Well, then...<br />

Perhaps it will frighten him.<br />

You know the church on Stevns' sea-cliff?<br />

Yes, Høierup.<br />

MOGENS.<br />

KAREN.<br />

A skipper built it<br />

Who had been <strong>in</strong> distress, about to be shipwrecked<br />

On Fælskov's reef; he promised heaven then<br />

That if his life was spared he would build<br />

A church on the sea-cliff. He was rescued,<br />

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