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Love is the Best Doctor-Molière · The Importance of Being Earnest

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Love is the Best Doctor by Moliere,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Unrivan Laun eighteen twenty to eighteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: a slight impromptu, a simple pencil sketch, which it has
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  Speaker 1: pleased the King to have made into an entertainment. It
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  Speaker 1: is the most hastily composed of all those written by
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  Speaker 1: order of his majesty. And when I say that it
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  Speaker 1: was sketched, written, learned, and acted in five days, I
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  Speaker 1: shall only be speaking the truth. There is no need
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that many things depend entirely on the
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  Speaker 1: manner of the performance. Every One knows well enough that
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  Speaker 1: comedies are written only to be acted, And I advise
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  Speaker 1: no one to read this unless he have the faculty
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  Speaker 1: while doing so of catching the meaning of the business
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  Speaker 1: of the stage. I shall say only one thing more,
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  Speaker 1: that it is to be wished that these sorts of
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  Speaker 1: works could always be shown with the same accessories with
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  Speaker 1: which they are accompanied when played before the King. One
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  Speaker 1: would then see them under much more agreeable conditions, and
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  Speaker 1: the airs and symphonies of the incomparable mister Lulie, added
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  Speaker 1: to the sweet voices and agility of the dancers, invest
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  Speaker 1: them undoubtedly with certain graces with which they could, with
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  Speaker 1: difficulty dispense Dramatis personi in the prolog.
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  Speaker 2: Comedy read by T. J.
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  Speaker 3: Burns.
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  Speaker 2: Music read by Reponsillina.
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  Speaker 4: The Ballet read by Abbaye.
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  Speaker 5: In the comedy Sciagarel Father to Listen read by Larry.
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  Speaker 6: Wilson, Clitandre in Love with Lusine read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 7: Monsieur Yllon Dealer in Hangings read by Victor Vizarassa.
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  Speaker 8: Monsieur Jose Goldsmith read by Craig Franklin.
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  Speaker 9: Monsieur Tomay a Physician read by Sonya.
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  Speaker 10: Monsieur de Fernandres a Physician read by Todd.
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  Speaker 3: Macraton a Physician read by Son of the Exiles.
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  Speaker 11: Monsieur Bohi Physician read by Philip Gould.
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  Speaker 12: Monsieur Philerina a Physician read by Alan Lapstone.
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  Speaker 5: The Notary read by Zames Corina.
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  Speaker 13: Lucid Scannerell's Daughter read by Jesse Percival.
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  Speaker 14: Aminta sa Ginnarel's Neighbor read by Sarah Hale.
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  Speaker 15: Lucretia, Scanner's Niece read by Leanna.
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  Speaker 4: Lizard to Lucinda read by Eva Davis.
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  Speaker 16: A Quack read by NeiMa.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Sandrashmitt. Scene Paris in one of
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  Speaker 1: the rooms of Scannarel's house. Love is the best doctor
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  Speaker 1: La MoU mizza prologue, comedy music, Do Belelet let us.
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  Speaker 2: Our fruitless quarrels banish each other's talents, not by turns dispute,
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  Speaker 2: but greater glory to attain the stay of all.
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  Speaker 4: Let be our aim.
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  Speaker 2: Let us all three unite with matchless Zeal, the greatest
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  Speaker 2: king on earth, with pleasure to provide. Let us all
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  Speaker 2: reunite the matchless Zeal, the greatest king on earth, with
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  Speaker 2: pleasure to provide from toils more irksome than can be
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  Speaker 2: imagined amongst us now, and then he comes to unbent.
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  Speaker 2: Can greater glory, greater pleasure be our share?
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  Speaker 7: Let us all.
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  Speaker 6: The earth with pleasure?
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  Speaker 1: Act one Seen one Scnarel Aminta Lucretia mosugillum mens.
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  Speaker 5: Jos, what a strange thing is life? And well? May
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  Speaker 5: I say with a great ancient philosopher that he who
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  Speaker 5: has much land has also strife and misfortune seldom comes alone.
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  Speaker 5: I had but one wife, and she is dead.
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  Speaker 7: Pray how many would you have?
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  Speaker 5: She is dead, friend Gillum. I take this last very
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  Speaker 5: much to heart, and I cannot think of it without tears.
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  Speaker 5: I was not all together satisfied with her behavior, and
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  Speaker 5: we often quarreled. But after all, death settles everything. She
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  Speaker 5: is dead. I bewall her. If she were alive, we
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  Speaker 5: would very likely quarrel. Of all the children God sent me,
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  Speaker 5: He has left me but one daughter, and it is
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  Speaker 5: she who is the cause of my trouble. For I
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  Speaker 5: see her plunged in the most dismal melancholy, the greatest sadness,
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  Speaker 5: which there is no way of getting rid, and the
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  Speaker 5: cause of which I cannot even learn. I declare I
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  Speaker 5: am at my wits end, and I am very much
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  Speaker 5: in want of good advice about it.
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  Speaker 1: To Lucretian, you are my niece. To Aminta, you are
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  Speaker 1: my neighbor, to Mosuchium, and mess Jos, you.
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  Speaker 5: My companions and friends. Tell me I pray what I
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  Speaker 5: am to do.
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  Speaker 8: As for me, I think could finally dress the things
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  Speaker 8: which please young girls most. And if I were you,
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  Speaker 8: I should buy her this very day a handsome set
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  Speaker 8: of diamonds, or rubies or emeralds, and.
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  Speaker 7: That if I were in your place, I would buy
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  Speaker 7: her a beautiful set of hangings with the landscape or
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  Speaker 7: some figures in them, and I should have them hung
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  Speaker 7: up in her room to cheer her spirits and to
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  Speaker 7: please her eyes.
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  Speaker 14: As for me, I would not take so much trouble.
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  Speaker 14: I would marry her well and as quickly as I could,
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  Speaker 14: to that young man who ask her hands some time ago.
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  Speaker 14: As I have been told.
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  Speaker 15: And I I think your daughter is not to all
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  Speaker 15: fit to be married. She has too delicate and unhealthy
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  Speaker 15: a constitution, and it is always sunding her willfully and
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  Speaker 15: speedily to the next world to expose her to bad children.
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  Speaker 15: In the state she is in the busy world does
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  Speaker 15: not suit her at all, and I would advise you
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  Speaker 15: to put her in a convent where she will find
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  Speaker 15: some amusements more to her taste.
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  Speaker 5: All this advice is certainly admirable, but I think it
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  Speaker 5: rather interested, and I find that you are giving it
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  Speaker 5: very much for your own benefit. You are a goldsmith,
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  Speaker 5: Monsieur Jose, and your advice savers of a man who
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  Speaker 5: wants to get rid of his wares. You sell hangings,
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  Speaker 5: Monsieur Guillon, and you look to me as if you
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  Speaker 5: had some which you would feign part with the young
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  Speaker 5: man whom you are in love with. Fair neighbor, is
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  Speaker 5: I have been told the very one who is somewhat
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  Speaker 5: favorably dispose towards my daughter, and you would not be
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  Speaker 5: sorry to see her wife of another. And as for you,
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  Speaker 5: my dear niece, it is not my intention, as is
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  Speaker 5: well known, to allow my daughter to get married at all,
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  Speaker 5: for reasons best known to myself. But your advice to
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  Speaker 5: make none of her is that of a woman who
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  Speaker 5: might charitably wish to become my sole heiress. Therefore, ladies
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  Speaker 5: and gentlemen, although your counsels be the best in the world,
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  Speaker 5: with your permission, I shall not follow a single one
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  Speaker 5: of them alone. So much for those fashionable advisers.
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  Speaker 1: Scene to Lucine gnareid.
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  Speaker 5: Ah. Here is my daughter, come to take a breath
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  Speaker 5: of air. She does not see me. She is sighing.
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  Speaker 5: She looks up to the.
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  Speaker 1: Sky to listend.
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  Speaker 5: May Heaven protect you. Good morning, my darling. Well, what
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  Speaker 5: is the matter? How do you feel? What always so
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  Speaker 5: sad and so melancholy and you will not tell me
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  Speaker 5: what ails you. Come, open your little heart to me. There,
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  Speaker 5: my poor pet, Come and tell your little thoughts to
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  Speaker 5: your little fond papa. Keep your spirits up, Let me
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  Speaker 5: give you a kiss.
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  Speaker 1: Come beside.
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  Speaker 5: It makes me wild to see her in that humor?
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  Speaker 1: To listend?
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  Speaker 5: But tell me? Do you wish to kill me with displeasure?
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  Speaker 5: And am I not to know the reason of this
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  Speaker 5: great listlessness? Tell me the cause? And I promise that
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  Speaker 5: I shall do everything for you. Yes, if you will
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  Speaker 5: only tell me why you are so sad, I assure you,
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  Speaker 5: and swear on this very spot that I will leave
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  Speaker 5: nothing undone to please you. I cannot say more. Are
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  Speaker 5: you jealous because one of your companions is better dressed
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  Speaker 5: than yourself? And is it some new fashioned stuff of
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  Speaker 5: which you want to address?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 5: Is your room not furnished nicely enough? And do you
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  Speaker 5: wish for one of those cabinets from Saint Laurent's fair?
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  Speaker 5: It is not that. Do you feel inclined to take
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  Speaker 5: lessons in something? And shall I get you a master
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  Speaker 5: to teach you how to play upon the harpsichord? No?
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  Speaker 5: Not that either. Are you in love with someone? Do
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  Speaker 5: you wish to be married.
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  Speaker 1: Lucined gives an affirmative sign. Scene three Zganarelle lucind Lisett.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sir, you have just been talking to your daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Have you found out the cause of her melancholy?
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  Speaker 5: No, she is a hussy who enrages me.
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  Speaker 4: Let me manage it, sir, I shall pumper a little.
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  Speaker 5: There is no occasion, and since she prefers to be
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  Speaker 5: in this mood, I am inclined to let her remain
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  Speaker 5: in it.
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  Speaker 4: Let me manage it. I tell you, perhaps she will
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  Speaker 4: open her heart more freely to me than to you.
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  Speaker 4: How now, madam, he will not tell us what ails you,
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  Speaker 4: and you wish to grieve everyone around you. You ought
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  Speaker 4: not to behave as you do. And if you have
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  Speaker 4: any objection to explain yourself to a father you ought
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  Speaker 4: to have none to open your heart to me? Tell
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  Speaker 4: me do you wish anything from him? He has told
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  Speaker 4: us more than once that he will spare nothing to
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  Speaker 4: satisfy you. Does he not allow you all the freedom
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  Speaker 4: you could wish for and do pleasure? Parties and feasts
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  Speaker 4: not tempt you?
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  Speaker 6: Say?
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  Speaker 4: Has anyone displeased you say? Have you not some secret
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  Speaker 4: liking for someone to whom you would wish your father
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  Speaker 4: to marry you. Ah, I begin to understand you. That
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  Speaker 4: is it why they do so many compliments, Sir, the
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  Speaker 4: secret is found out.
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  Speaker 5: And go ungrateful girl. I do not wish to speak
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  Speaker 5: to you anymore, and I leave you in your obstinacy.
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  Speaker 13: Dear father, since you wish me to.
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  Speaker 5: Tell you, yes, I am losing all my regard for you.
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  Speaker 4: Her sadness, Sir.
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  Speaker 5: She is a hussy who wishes to drive me to
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  Speaker 5: my grave.
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  Speaker 13: But father, I am willing that is not a.
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  Speaker 5: Fit reward for having brought you up as I have done.
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  Speaker 5: But sir, no, I am in a terrible rage with her.
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  Speaker 5: But Father, I do not love you any longer. But
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  Speaker 5: she is a slut, but an ungrateful girl, but a
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  Speaker 5: hussy who will not tell me what is the matter
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  Speaker 5: with her.
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  Speaker 1: It is a husband she wants, is Gnarin pruten not
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  Speaker 1: to hear I have done with her husband.
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  Speaker 5: I hate her, ah, husband, and disown her as my daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Husband.
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  Speaker 5: Do not speak to me any more about her a husband.
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  Speaker 5: Speak no more to me about her husband. Speak to
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  Speaker 5: me no more about her husband.
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  Speaker 4: Husband husband.
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  Speaker 1: Scene for Lucinde Lisette.
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  Speaker 4: True enough, none so deaf as those who will not
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  Speaker 4: hear well?
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  Speaker 13: Is it I was wrong to hide my grief? I
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  Speaker 13: had but to speak to get all I wished from
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  Speaker 13: my father?
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  Speaker 4: You see now upon my word, he is a disagreeable man,
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  Speaker 4: and I confess it would give me the greatest pleasure
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  Speaker 4: to play him some trick. But how is it, madam,
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  Speaker 4: that till now you have kept your grief from me?
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  Speaker 13: Alas what would have been the use of telling you before?
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  Speaker 13: And would it not have been quite as well if
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  Speaker 13: I had kept it to myself all my life? Do
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  Speaker 13: you think that I have not foreseen all what you
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  Speaker 13: see now? That I did not thoroughly know the sentiments
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  Speaker 13: of my father, And that when he refused my hand
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  Speaker 13: to my lover's friend who came to ask for it
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  Speaker 13: in his name, he had not crushed every hope in
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  Speaker 13: my heart?
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  Speaker 4: What this stranger who asked for your hand is the
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  Speaker 4: one who knew?
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  Speaker 13: Perhaps it is not altogether modest in a girl to
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  Speaker 13: explain herself so freely, But in short, I tell you
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  Speaker 13: candidly that were I allowed to wish for any one,
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  Speaker 13: it is he whom I should choose. We have never
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  Speaker 13: had any conversation together, and his lips have never avowed
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  Speaker 13: the love he has for me. But in every spot
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  Speaker 13: where he had a chance of seeing me, his looks
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  Speaker 13: and his actions have always spoken so tenderly, and his
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  Speaker 13: asking me in marriage seems to me so very honorable
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  Speaker 13: that my heart has not been able to remain in
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  Speaker 13: sense his passion. Yet you see what the harshness of
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  Speaker 13: my father is likely to bring. All this tenderness, let.
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  Speaker 4: Me manage it. Whatever reason I have to blame you
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  Speaker 4: for the secret you kept from me, I shall not
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  Speaker 4: fail to serve your love, and provided you have sufficient resolution.
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  Speaker 1: But what am I to do.
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  Speaker 13: Against a father's authority? And if you will not relent?
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  Speaker 5: Come? Come?
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  Speaker 4: You must not allow yourself to be led like a goose,
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  Speaker 4: And provided it be done honorably, we can free ourselves
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  Speaker 4: from a father's tyranny. What does he wish you to do?
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  Speaker 4: Are you not of an age to be married? And
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  Speaker 4: does he think you are made of marble? Once more,
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  Speaker 4: bear up, I shall take a hand your love affair,
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  Speaker 4: and from this very moment do all I can to favorite.
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  Speaker 4: And you shall see that I know some stratagems. But
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  Speaker 4: I see your father. Let us go in and leave me.
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  Speaker 3: The act.
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  Speaker 1: Scene five is gonnael alone It is.
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  Speaker 5: Good sometimes to pretend not to hear things which one
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  Speaker 5: hears only do well. And I have done wisely to
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  Speaker 5: ward off the declaration of a wish which I have
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  Speaker 5: no intention of satisfying. Was there ever a greater piece
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  Speaker 5: of tyranny than this custom to which they wished to
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  Speaker 5: subject all fathers? Anything more preposterous and ridiculous than to
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  Speaker 5: amass great wealth by hard work and to bring up
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  Speaker 5: a girl with the utmost tenderness and care, in order
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  Speaker 5: to strip oneself of one and of the other for
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  Speaker 5: the benefit of a man who is nothing to us. No, no,
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  Speaker 5: I laugh at that custom, and I mean to keep
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  Speaker 5: my wealth and my daughter to myself.
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  Speaker 1: Scene six is Gannareel Lizette. Lizette running onto the stage
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  Speaker 1: and pretending not to see Gannarel.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, what a misfortune? Ah, what a calamity, poor mistress Ganerell.
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  Speaker 4: Where can I find him?
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  Speaker 1: It's gonerel beside?
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  Speaker 5: What does she say?
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  Speaker 1: Lisette is still running about?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wretched father, what will you do when you hear
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  Speaker 4: this Newscannarel aside?
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  Speaker 5: What can it be? My poor mistress? I am mandone, Ah.
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  Speaker 1: It's Goannarel running after Lizette.
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  Speaker 4: Lisette, what a misfortune.
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  Speaker 5: Listte.
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  Speaker 4: What an accident, Lisette, What a calamity Lisette? Oh, sir,
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  Speaker 4: what is the matter, sir?
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  Speaker 5: What has happened your daughter? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, do not cry in such a way, sir, you
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  Speaker 4: will make me laugh.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Your daughter, overcome by your words, and seeing how dreadfully
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  Speaker 4: angry you were with her, went quietly up to her room, and,
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  Speaker 4: driven by despair, open the window that looks out upon
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  Speaker 4: the river well. Then, casting her looks up to heaven. No,
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  Speaker 4: said she. It is impossible for me to live under
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  Speaker 4: my father's anger, and as he disowns me for his child,
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  Speaker 4: I shall die.
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  Speaker 5: She has thrown herself out of the window.
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  Speaker 4: No, sir. She gently closed it and lay down upon
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  Speaker 4: her bed. There she began to cry bitterly. All at
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  Speaker 4: once she turned pale, her eyes were old about her
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  Speaker 4: strength failed her, and she became stiff in my arms.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my child, she is dead.
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  Speaker 4: No, sir. I pinched her till she came to herself again.
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  Speaker 4: But she relapses every moment, and I believe she will
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  Speaker 4: not live out the day.
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  Speaker 5: Champagne, Champagne, Shampain.
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  Speaker 1: Scene seven scannaal Champagne, Lisette, quick.
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  Speaker 5: Go and fetch some doctors, and bring a lot of them.
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  Speaker 5: One cannot have too many at a crisis like this,
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  Speaker 5: Oh my daughter, my poor child.
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  Speaker 1: First entry Champagne servant to Gnarl knocks, dancing at the
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  Speaker 1: doors of four physicians. To four physicians dance and ceremoniously
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  Speaker 1: enter into Ganarel's house. End of Act one, Act two
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  Speaker 1: of Love is the Best Doctor by Moliere, translated by
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  Speaker 1: unrivan Laun eighteen twenty to eighteen ninety six. This is
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  Speaker 1: Two seen one Gannarel liset, what.
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  Speaker 4: Do you want with four physicians?
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  Speaker 5: Sir?
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  Speaker 4: Is one not enough to kill one person?
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  Speaker 5: Hold your tongue. Four heads are better than one.
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  Speaker 4: Cannot your daughter die well enough without the assistance of
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  Speaker 4: those gentlemen?
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  Speaker 5: Do you think people die through having physicians?
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  Speaker 4: Undoubtedly? And I knew a man who maintained and proved
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  Speaker 4: it too, by excellent reasons, that we should never say
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  Speaker 4: such a one has died of a fever or from
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  Speaker 4: inflammation of the lungs, But such a one has died
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  Speaker 4: of four physicians and two apothecaries.
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  Speaker 5: Hush, do not offend those gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Upon my word, Sir, our cat had a narrow escape
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  Speaker 4: from a leap he took a little while ago from
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  Speaker 4: the top of the house into the street. He was
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  Speaker 4: three days without eating and unable to wag head or foot.
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  Speaker 4: But it is very lucky that there are no cat doctors.
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  Speaker 4: Else it would have been all over with him, for
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  Speaker 4: they would have physical and bled him.
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  Speaker 5: Will you hold your tongue when I bid you what next? Here?
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  Speaker 5: They are look out.
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  Speaker 4: You are going to be finely edified. They will tell
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  Speaker 4: you in Latin that your daughter is ill.
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  Speaker 1: Seem to Monsieur Thomas de Fonandres macroutin pie scannerell Lisette, Well, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 9: We have examined the patient sufficiently, and undoubtedly there is
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  Speaker 9: a great deal of impurity in her.
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  Speaker 5: Is my daughter impure?
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  Speaker 9: I mean to say that there is a great deal
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: of impurity in her system and much corrupt matter. Ah,
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: I understand you now, but we are going to consult together.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Come a handsome chairs, Lizette to Monsieur Thomas.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Sir, are you with them's?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Gannael to Lisette, how.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Do you know this gentleman, from having seen him in
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: the other day at a dear friends of your niece,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: hoe is her coach man very well? Indeed he is
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: dead dead.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, that cannot be.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I do not know whether it can be or not,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: but I know well enough that it is.
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: He cannot be dead.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I tell you, and I tell you that he is
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: dead and buried.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: You are mistaken.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I have seen him.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: It is impossible. Hippocrates says that these sorts of diseases
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: end only on the fourteenth or twenty first day, and
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: he has been ill only six.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Hippocrates may say what he likes, but the coachman is dead.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: He's a chatterbox. Come, let us leave this room, gentlemen.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: I pray you to consult carefully. Oh, it is not
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: the custom to pay beforehand, yet, for fear I should
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: forget it and to have done with it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Here is He hands them some money, and each one,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: on receiving it, makes a different gesture. Scene three Monsieur
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: de Fonmantress, Tomas macrouton Baise. They all sit down and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: begin to cough.
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: Paris is marvelously large, and one has to take long
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: journeys when business to the little risk.
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: I am glad to say that I have got a
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: wonderful mule for that, and that one would hardly believe
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: what a deal of ground he takes me over daily.
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: I have got an astonishing horse, and it is an
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: indefatigable animal.
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: Do you know the ground my mule has been over
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: to day? I have been first close by the Arsenal,
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: from the Arsenal to the end of the Faubeuur Saint Germain,
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: from the Faubeur Saint Germain to the lower part of
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: the mare from the lower part of the Maree to
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: the Port Saint Here, from the Port Saintenore to the
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: Faubeur Saint Jacques, from the Faubeur Saint Jacques to the
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: Porto Richieu, from the Porto Richelieu here and from here
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: I have yet to go to the place Royale.
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: My horse has done all that today, And besides I
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: have been to see a patient at rule.
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: But by the bye, which side do you take in
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: the quarrel between the two physicians, Theophrastus and Artemius, For
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: it is a matter that divides our profession.
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: I I am for Artemius.
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: Uh huh so am I It is true that his
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: advice killed the patient as we have experienced, and that
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: theophrastsis was certainly much better. But the letter is wrong
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: in the circumstances, and ought not to have been of
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: a different opinion from his senior.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: What do you say?
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: Certainly we ought at all times to preserve the professional etiquette,
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: whatever may happen.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: For my part, I am excessively strict on that subject,
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: except among friends. The other day three of us were
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: called in to consult with an outsider, but I stopped
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: the whole affair and would hold no consultation unless things
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: were conducted according to etty Kat. The people of the
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: house did what they could, and the case grew worse,
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: but I would not give way, and the patient bravely
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: diet during the contention.
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: It is highly proper to teach people how to behave
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: and to show them their inexperience.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: A dead man is but a dead man, and of
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: very little consequence. But professional etiquet neglected do great harm
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: to the whole body of physicians.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Seen for Gnael Monsieur Thomas Defonandress Macruton.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Baise, gentlemen, my daughter is growing worse. I beg you
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: to tell me quickly what you have decided on.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Monsieur Thomas to Monsieur defonandress.
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: The word is with you, sir.
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: No, sir, it is for you to speak if you please.
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: You are jesting, I shall not speak first, sir, sir.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Oh mercy sake, gentlemen, drop these ceremonies and consider that
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: matters are urgent.
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: Your daughter's complained.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Opinion of all these gentlemen, Ah, gentlemen, one at a time,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: I pray, sir.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: We have duly argued upon your daughter's complained and my
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: own opinion is that it proceeds from the overheating of
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: the blood. Consequently, I would have her bled as soon
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: as possible.
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: And I say that her illness arises from a beautification
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: of humors caused by too great repletion. Consequently, I would
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: have her given an amnic.
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: I maintained that an emetic will.
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: Kill her, and I that bleeding will be the death
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: of her.
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: He dislike you to set up for a clever man.
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: Yes, it is like me, and I can at any
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: rate cope with you in all kinds of knowledge.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: Do you recollect a man you killed a few days ago?
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: Do you recall the lady you sent to the other
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: world three days.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Ago Monsitomas to Gnarel, I have given you my opinion.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Monsieur de Fernandress to Gannarel, I.
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: Have told you what I think.
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: If you do not have your daughter bled directly, she
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: is a dead woman.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: If you have her blood, she will not be alive
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: a quarter of an hour afterwards.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene five scannarel Monsieur macoton baisse, Which of the.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Two am I to believe? And who can decide amidst
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: such conflicting opinions? Gentlemen, I beseech you to guide me
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: and to tell me dispassionately the best means of relieving
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: my daughter, Sir.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: In these kinds of cases, one must proceed very carefully
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: and do nothing inconsiderately. As the saying is. The more
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: so as the mistakes one may make, according to our
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: master Hipocrates, have the most fatal consequences.
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: That is true enough. One must take great care what
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: one does, for this is not child's play and win.
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: A mistake has been made, it is not easy to
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: rectify it nor make good, but one is spoilt experimentum perculosum.
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: It is therefore as well to argue beforehand, to weigh
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: things duly, to consider the constitution of people to examine
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: the causes of the complaint and to decide upon the
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: remedies to be adopted is gnarel Beside.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: One moves like a tortoise, while the other gallops like
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: a post horse.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, to come to the fact, I find that
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: your daughter has a chronic disease, to which she will
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: succumb if relief be not given her. The more as
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: the symptoms give indications of emitting purelignous and mordicant exhalations
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: which irritate the cerebral membranes, and these vapors, which in
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: the Greek we call atmos ah course, by putred, tananacious
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: and congluttonous humors which have agglomerated in the abdomen.
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: And as these humors were engendered there by a long
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: succession of time, they have become our deaend and have
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: assumed those malignant fumes that rise towards the region of
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: the brain.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Consequently, in order to withdraw, to detach, to loosen, to expel,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: to evacuate these said humors, a very strong purgative is necessary.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: But first of all I think it as well, and
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: it will not cause any inconvenience to employ some little
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: anodie medicines, that is to say, small emollient and detersive injections,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: refreshing julips and syrups, which may be mixed with her
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: parley water.
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: After that we will come to the purgatives and to
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: the bleeding, which we shall repeat if necessary.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: We do not say that your daughter may not die
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: for all this, but you will at least have the
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: satisfaction of having done something, and the consolation of knowing
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: that she died according to rule.
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: It is better to die according to rule than to
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: recover in violation of eat.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: We have sincerely told you our opinions.
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: And we have spoken to you as to our own Bretherreconnarel.
• 31:32
  Speaker 17: To Monsieur Macurton, I am humbly obliged to you. To
• 31:40
  Speaker 17: Monsieur Vais, I am very much obliged to you for
• 31:43
  Speaker 17: the trouble you have taken.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Scene six Scannarel alone here.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I am a little more in the dark than I
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: was before zounds. I have got an idea. I will
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: buy some more of you, and I will make her
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: take it. Or Vietin is a kind of remedy that
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: has done a great deal of good to many, soho.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Scene seven is gone a quick Will you.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Sir, kindly give me a box of your or vietin,
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: for which I shall.
• 32:19
  Speaker 16: Pay you the gold of all climes which by the
• 32:23
  Speaker 16: ocean are bound can air it repay this important secret.
• 32:29
  Speaker 16: My remedy cures, by its excellence rare more complaints than
• 32:35
  Speaker 16: are counted up in a whole year. The itch, the mange,
• 32:40
  Speaker 16: the skurf, the fever, the plague, the gout, the smallpox, ruptures,
• 32:46
  Speaker 16: the measles. Great power possesses my orvitant.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Sir. I am willing to believe that all the gold
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: in the world could not pay for your remedy. But
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: here is a piece of thirty sous which you will take, if.
• 33:02
  Speaker 16: You please admire how good I am. For a few
• 33:06
  Speaker 16: paltry pens I dispense freely such marvelous treasure. With this
• 33:13
  Speaker 16: you may brave quite devoid of all fear, all the
• 33:17
  Speaker 16: ills to which mortals are subject. Down here the itch,
• 33:21
  Speaker 16: the mange, the scurf, the fever, the plague, the gout,
• 33:27
  Speaker 16: the smallpox, ruptures, the measles. Great power possesses my ou Vitin.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Second entry, several trivelin and scaramouche servants of the quak
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: come in dancing. End of Act two, ac three of
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Love is the Best Doctor by Moliere, translated by Rivan
• 33:57
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• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Act three, Scene one, Monsieur Philauren, Thomas de fonandress.
• 34:17
  Speaker 12: Are you not ashamed, gentlemen, for men of your age
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: to show so little discrimination and to quarrel like young madcaps?
• 34:31
  Speaker 12: Do you not plainly see the harm which these kinds
• 34:36
  Speaker 12: of disputes do us with the world? And is it
• 34:41
  Speaker 12: not sufficient that the learned perceived the dissensions and differences
• 34:47
  Speaker 12: between our contemporaries and the old masters of our craft,
• 34:53
  Speaker 12: without revealing to the public by our quarrels and bickering
• 34:58
  Speaker 12: the boasting of our art. As for me, I do
• 35:03
  Speaker 12: not at all understand the mischievous policy of some of
• 35:08
  Speaker 12: our brethren. And it must be admitted that all these
• 35:13
  Speaker 12: controversies have somewhat strangely disparaged us, and that if we
• 35:20
  Speaker 12: are not careful, we shall ruin ourselves. I do not
• 35:26
  Speaker 12: say so for my own interest, for Heaven be praised.
• 35:32
  Speaker 12: My little affairs are already settled, whether it blows brains
• 35:38
  Speaker 12: or hails. Those who are dead are dead, and I
• 35:44
  Speaker 12: have sufficient to be independent of the living. Yet all
• 35:50
  Speaker 12: these disputes do physic no good, since Heaven has done
• 35:57
  Speaker 12: us the favor that for so many centuries people remain
• 36:02
  Speaker 12: infatuated with us. Let us not open their eyes by
• 36:07
  Speaker 12: our extravagant cabals, and let us take advantage of their
• 36:12
  Speaker 12: folly as quietly as possible. We are not the only ones,
• 36:19
  Speaker 12: as you know full well, who try to make the
• 36:23
  Speaker 12: best of human foibles. The whole study of the greatest
• 36:28
  Speaker 12: part of mankind tends towards that, and everyone endeavors to
• 36:34
  Speaker 12: speculate our man's weakness in order to derive some benefit
• 36:39
  Speaker 12: from them. Flatterers, for example, seek to profit by men's
• 36:45
  Speaker 12: love of praise by giving them all the vain incense
• 36:49
  Speaker 12: they crave. It is an art by which, as we
• 36:53
  Speaker 12: may see, large fortunes are made. Alchemists seek to profit
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: by the passion for wealth, by promising mountains of gold
• 37:05
  Speaker 12: to those who listen to them, and drawers of horoscopes
• 37:10
  Speaker 12: by their deceitful prophecies profit by the vanity and ambition
• 37:16
  Speaker 12: of credulous minds. But the greatest failing in men is
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: their love of life. By our pompous speeches, we benefit
• 37:28
  Speaker 12: by it and know how to take advantage of the
• 37:32
  Speaker 12: veneration for our profession with which the fear of death
• 37:37
  Speaker 12: inspires them. Let us therefore, maintain ourselves in that esteem
• 37:44
  Speaker 12: in which their foibles have placed us, And let us
• 37:48
  Speaker 12: agree before our patients, so as to claim for ourselves
• 37:53
  Speaker 12: the credit for the happy issue of the complaint, and
• 37:57
  Speaker 12: to throw our nature all the blunders of our art.
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: Let us, not, i say, foolishly, destroy the happy accident
• 38:09
  Speaker 12: of an error which gives bread to so many people,
• 38:14
  Speaker 12: and which allows us to raise everywhere such beautiful estates
• 38:20
  Speaker 12: with the money of those whom we have sent to
• 38:24
  Speaker 12: the grave.
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: You are right in all that you say, but sometimes
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: one cannot control one's temper.
• 38:33
  Speaker 12: Come, gentlemen, lay aside all animosity, and make up your
• 38:39
  Speaker 12: quarrel on the spot.
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: I consent, Let him allow me to have my way
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: with the medic for the patient in question, and I
• 38:47
  Speaker 10: will let him have his with the first patient he
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: shall be concerned with.
• 38:51
  Speaker 12: Nothing could be better said, And that is reasonable, very well,
• 38:58
  Speaker 12: that is settled, Shake hands, then farewell another time, show
• 39:06
  Speaker 12: more tact.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Scene two Monsieur Tomas, Monsieur de ferandres lise it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: What gentlemen, you are here and you do not think
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: of repairing the wrong done to the medical profession?
• 39:20
  Speaker 10: What now?
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: What is the matter? Some insolent fellow has had the
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: impudence to encroach upon your trade, and without your prescription,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: has killed a man by running a sword clean through
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: his body.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Look you here.
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: You may laugh at us now, but you shall fall
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: into our hands one of these days.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: If ever I have recourse to you, I give you
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: leave to kill me.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Scene three Clitandre disguised as a physician.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: Lisette, Well, Lisette, what do you think of my disguise?
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: Do you believe that I can trick the good man
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: in these?
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Do? I?
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: Look?
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Thus it could not be better. And I have been
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: waiting impatiently for you. Heaven has given me the most
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: humane disposition in the world. And I cannot bear to
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: see two lovers sigh for one another without entertaining a
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: charitable tenderness towards them, and an ardent wish to relieve
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: the ills which they are suffering. I mean no matter,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: at what cost? To free Lucinda from the tyranny to
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: which she is subjected, and to confide her to your care.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: I liked you at first sight. I am a good
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: judge of people, and she could not have made a
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: better choice. Love risks extraordinary things, and we have concocted
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: a little scheme which may perhaps be successful. All our
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: measures are already taken. The man we have to deal
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: with is not one of the sharpest, and if this
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: trick fail, we shall find a thousand other ways to
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: encompass our end. Just wait here a little I shall
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: come back to fetch you.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Titandre retires to the far end of the stage scene
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: for gonnarrel lisette, Hurrah, hurrah.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: Sir, what is the matter?
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Rejoice at what? Rejoice?
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: I say, Tell me what it is about, and then
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: I shall rejoice.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Perhaps, No, I wish you to rejoice. First. I wish
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: you to sing, to dance on what grounds? On my
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: bare word?
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Be it?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: So he sings and dances, La la la la la,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: l' la la aa.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: What the deuce?
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Your daughter is cured, sir?
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: My daughter is cured.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, I have brought you a doctor, but a doctor
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: of importance who works wonderful cures and who laughs at
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: the other physicians.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: Where is he?
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I shall bring him in gonnerrel alone.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: It remains to be seen if he will do more
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: than the others.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Scene five Clitondre disguised as a physicians General Lisette Lisette
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: leading Clitandre.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Here he is.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: The doctor has not much beard as yet.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Knowledge is not measured by the beard, and his skill
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: does not lie in his chin.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: Sir. They tell me that you have some capital recipes
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: for relaving the bowels.
• 42:25
  Speaker 18: My remedy, Sir, are different from those of other physicians.
• 42:30
  Speaker 18: They use emetics, bleeding, drugs and injections. But I cure
• 42:36
  Speaker 18: by words, sounds, letters, talismans and rings.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: Did I not tell you so?
• 42:44
  Speaker 10: Ha?
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Ha, great man, this, sir, as your daughter is yonder
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: ready dressed in her chair, I shall bring her here.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, do Clitandre feelings Gannerel's pulse.
• 42:57
  Speaker 18: Your daughter is very ill, sir.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: You can tell that here, yes, by the sympathy.
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: Which exists between father and daughter.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Scene six Scannarel Lucinde Clitandre, Lisette Lizette.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: To Clitandre, Sir, here is a chair near her. To Scannarel,
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: come let us leave them to themselves.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: Why so I wish to remain here?
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Are you jesting? We must leave them? A doctor has
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: one hundred things to ask, which it is not decent
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: for a man to hear.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Scannarel and Lizette retire Clitandre softly to lucined.
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: Ah lady, how great is my delight? And how little
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: do I know how to begin my discourse? As long
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: as I spoke to you only with my eyes, it
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: seemed to me that I had a hundred things to say.
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: And now that I have the opportunity of speaking to
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: you as I wished, I remain silent, and my great
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: joy prevents my utterance.
• 44:06
  Speaker 13: I may say the same, and I feel like you
• 44:10
  Speaker 13: thrills of joy that prevent me from speaking.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Ah Madam, How happy should I be if it were
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  Speaker 6: true that you feel all I do, and that I
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  Speaker 6: were allowed to judge of your heart by mine? But
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  Speaker 6: may I at least believe, dear lady, that I owe
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  Speaker 6: to you the idea of this happy scheme which enables
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  Speaker 6: me to enjoy your presence.
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  Speaker 13: If you do not altogether owe the thought to me,
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  Speaker 13: you are at any rate my debtor for having gladly
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  Speaker 13: approved of the proposal.
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  Speaker 1: Is Gannael to Lisette.
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  Speaker 5: It seems to me that he talks very close to her.
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  Speaker 4: He is studying her physiognomy and all the features of
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  Speaker 4: her face.
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  Speaker 6: Clitandreu Totin, will you be constant, dear lady, in these
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  Speaker 6: favors which you are bestowing upon me?
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  Speaker 13: But you will you be firm in the resolutions which
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  Speaker 13: you have taken, ah madam till death.
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  Speaker 6: I desire nothing so much as to be yours, and
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  Speaker 6: I shall prove it.
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  Speaker 1: To you, is Gennarel to clitandre.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how those are patient? She seems a little more cheerful.
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  Speaker 18: Right is because I have already tried upon her one
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  Speaker 18: of the remedies which my art teaches me. As a
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  Speaker 18: mind has a great influence on the body, and as
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  Speaker 18: it is from the first that diseases most generally arise,
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  Speaker 18: my custom is to cure the mind before dealing with
• 45:34
  Speaker 18: the body. I have therefore studied this young lady's looks,
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  Speaker 18: her features, and the lines of both hands, And by
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  Speaker 18: the knowledge which Heaven has bestowed upon me, I have
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  Speaker 18: discovered she is ill in mind, and that the whole
• 45:49
  Speaker 18: of her complaint arises only from a disordered imagination, from
• 45:53
  Speaker 18: an inordinate desire.
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  Speaker 3: Of being married.
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  Speaker 18: As for myself, I think nothing more extravagant and ridiculous
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  Speaker 18: in this hankering after marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Scannarel aside, How clever.
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  Speaker 5: Fellow this.
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  Speaker 18: And I have and always shall have a frightful disliked
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  Speaker 18: wetcannarel Aside, A.
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  Speaker 5: Great doctor of this.
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  Speaker 18: But as we must humor the imagination of patience, do
• 46:23
  Speaker 18: I have perceived in her a wandering of the mind,
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  Speaker 18: and even that there was great danger not giving her
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  Speaker 18: prompt relief, I have taken her at her foible and
• 46:33
  Speaker 18: told her that I came here to solicit her hand
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  Speaker 18: from you. Suddenly her countenance changed, her complexion cleared, her
• 46:41
  Speaker 18: eyes became animated. And if you will leave her for
• 46:45
  Speaker 18: a few days in this error, you will see that
• 46:49
  Speaker 18: we shall cure her.
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, I do not mind.
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  Speaker 18: After that we shall apply other means to cure her
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  Speaker 18: of this fancy.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that will do very well. Listen, my girl, this
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  Speaker 5: gentleman wishes to marry you, and I have told him
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  Speaker 5: that I give my consent.
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  Speaker 13: Alas can it be possible, of course, but really in earnest.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly, lucinde to Clitandre what.
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  Speaker 13: You wish to be my husband? Yes, madam, and my
• 47:25
  Speaker 13: father consents to it. Yes, my child, Ah, how happy
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: I am if that is true?
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  Speaker 18: Doubt it not, Madam. My love for you, my ardent
• 47:36
  Speaker 18: wish to be your husband. Do not date from to day.
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  Speaker 18: I came only for this, and if you wish me
• 47:43
  Speaker 18: to tell you the plain truth, this dress is nothing
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  Speaker 18: but a mere disguise. I ask the physician only to
• 47:52
  Speaker 18: get near to you, and the more easily to obtain
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  Speaker 18: what I desire.
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  Speaker 13: These are signs of a very tender love, and I
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  Speaker 13: am fully sensible of them.
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  Speaker 1: Scannarel beside, Oh, poor silly girl, silly girl, silly girl.
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  Speaker 13: You do consent, then, father, to give me this gentleman
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  Speaker 13: for a husband.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, certainly, Come give me your hand, give me yours also, sir,
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  Speaker 5: for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But sir Scannarel, with suppressed.
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  Speaker 5: Laughter, no, no, it is to satisfy her by take it.
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  Speaker 6: That is over, except as the pledge of my faith.
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  Speaker 1: This ring which I give you, softly to Gannarel, it
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: is a constellated ring which cures separations of the mind.
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  Speaker 13: Let us draw up the contract so that nothing may
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  Speaker 13: be wanting.
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  Speaker 6: I have no objections, madam, softly to Scannarel, I will
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  Speaker 6: bring the.
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  Speaker 18: Fellow who writes my prescriptions and will make her believe
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  Speaker 18: that he is a notary. Just so, hulloo, sign up
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  Speaker 18: the notary. I have brought with me what you.
• 49:06
  Speaker 13: Brought a notary with you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, madam, I am glad of that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, the poor silly girl, the silly girl.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Scene seven. The notary Clitandreu Scannarel, Lucinde Lisette triitandre speaks
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  Speaker 1: softly to the notary. Scannarel to the notary, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Sir, you are to draw up a contract for these
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: two people. Right to leucinned We are making the contract.
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  Speaker 5: To the notary, I give her twenty thousand crowns as
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: a portion. Write that down.
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  Speaker 13: I am very much obliged to you, dear father.
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  Speaker 5: That is done. You have only to sign it. That
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: is a quickly drawn contract.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Clitandreu to Scannarel.
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  Speaker 5: But a releef, sir, No, no, I tell you, do
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  Speaker 5: we not all know? To the notary, come hand him
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  Speaker 5: the pin to sign to come you sign? Now sign
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  Speaker 5: sign well, I shall sign presently.
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  Speaker 13: No, no, I will have the contract in my own hands.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Well there, then, after having signed, are you satisfied.
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  Speaker 13: Better than you can imagine?
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  Speaker 5: That is all right, Then that is all right.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: I have not only had the precaution to bring a notary,
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: I have also brought singers, musicians and dancers to celebrate
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: the feast and for our enjoyment. Let them come in.
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: There are people I always have with me, and whom
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: I daily make use of, to calm by their harmony
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: in dancing the troubles of the mind.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Scene eight, comedy the ballet music.
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  Speaker 2: Without our aid, all human behind would soon become unhealthy.
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  Speaker 2: We are indeed the best of all physicians. Would you
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: dispel by easy means splenetic fumes that man is heir
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: to avoid Hippocrates and come to us. Without all humankind
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: would soon become unhealthy.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: We are indeed the best of all physicians. While the sports,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: laughter and pleasures are dancing together, Cliton re leeds rescind away.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Scene nine is Gennarel Lisette music to belay sports, laughter, pleasures.
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  Speaker 5: A pleasant way of curing people this. But where are
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: my daughter and the doctor?
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: They are gone to finish the remaining part of the marriage.
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: What do you mean by the marriage.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: The fact is, sir, you have been cleverly done, and
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: the joke you thought to play remains a truth.
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  Speaker 5: The devil it does.
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  Speaker 1: He wishes to rush after Clitandre and Lucinde. The dancers
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  Speaker 1: restrain him.
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  Speaker 5: Let me go, Let me go, I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: The dancers still keep hold of him again. They wish
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: to make him dance by force.
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  Speaker 5: Why take you all?
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three. End of Love is the Best
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  Speaker 1: Doctor by Moliere, translated by Henri van Laun eighteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: to eighteen ninety six