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  Speaker 1: Act one of The Blunderer or the counterplots by Moliere.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. In the third volume of the
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  Speaker 1: Select Comedies of Monsieur de Moliere, London, seventeen thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: The Blunderer is dedicated to the Right Honorable Philip Earl
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  Speaker 1: of Chesterfield in the following words, my Lord, The translation
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  Speaker 1: of Les tourdi which, in company with the original throws
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  Speaker 1: itself at your Lordship's feet, is a part of a
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  Speaker 1: design formed by some gentlemen of exhibiting to the public
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  Speaker 1: a select collection of Moliere's plays in French and English.
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  Speaker 1: This author, my lord, was truly a genius, caressed by
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  Speaker 1: the greatest men of his own time, and honored with
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  Speaker 1: the patronage of princes. When the translator therefore of this
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  Speaker 1: piece was to introduce him in an English dress in justice,
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  Speaker 1: he owed him an English patron and was readily determined
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  Speaker 1: to your Lordship, whom all the world allows to be
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  Speaker 1: a genius of the first rank. But he is too
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  Speaker 1: sensible of the beauties of his author, and the refined taste,
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  Speaker 1: your Lordship is universally known to have in polite literature
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  Speaker 1: to plead anything but your candor and goodness for your
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  Speaker 1: acceptance of this performance. He persuades himself that your Lordship,
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  Speaker 1: who best knows how difficult it is to speak like Moliere,
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  Speaker 1: even when we have his sentiments to inspire us, will
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  Speaker 1: be readiest to forgive the imperfections of this attempt. He
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  Speaker 1: is the rather encouraged, my Lord, to hope for a
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  Speaker 1: candid reception from your Lordship, on account of the usefulness
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  Speaker 1: of this design, which he flatters himself, will have your approbation.
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  Speaker 1: Tis to spirit. Greater numbers of our countrymen to read
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  Speaker 1: this author, who would otherwise not have attempted it, or
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  Speaker 1: being foiled in their attempts, would throw him by in despair.
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  Speaker 1: And however generally the French language may be read or
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  Speaker 1: spoke in England, there will be still very great numbers
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  Speaker 1: even of those who are said to understand French, who
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  Speaker 1: to master this comic writer will want the help the translation.
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  Speaker 1: And glad would the publishers of this work be to
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  Speaker 1: guide the feebler steps of some such persons, not only
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  Speaker 1: till they should want no translation, but till some of
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  Speaker 1: them should be able to make much better than the
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  Speaker 1: present the great advantage of understanding Moliere. Your lordship best
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  Speaker 1: knows what is it, but almost to understand mankind. He
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  Speaker 1: has shown such a compass of knowledge in human nature
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  Speaker 1: as scarce to leave it in the power of succeeding
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  Speaker 1: writers in comedy to be originals. Whence it has in
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  Speaker 1: fact appeared that they who since his time have most
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  Speaker 1: excelled in the comic way, have copied Moliere, and therein
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  Speaker 1: were sure of copying nature. In this author, my Lord,
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  Speaker 1: our youth will find the strongest sense, the purest moral,
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  Speaker 1: and the keenest satire, accompanied with the utmost politeness, so
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  Speaker 1: that our countrymen may take a French polish without danger
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  Speaker 1: of commencing thoughts and apes, as they sometimes do, by
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  Speaker 1: an affectation of the dress and manners of that people.
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  Speaker 1: For no man has better portrayed, or in a finer
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  Speaker 1: manner exposed fopperies of all kind, than this our author
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  Speaker 1: has in one or other of his pieces. And now
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  Speaker 1: tis not doubted, my lord. But your lordship is under
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  Speaker 1: some apprehensions, and the reader under some expectation, that the
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  Speaker 1: translator should attempt your character in right of a dedicator,
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  Speaker 1: as a refined wit and consummate statesman. But my Lord,
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  Speaker 1: speaking the truth to a person of your Lordship's accomplishments
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  Speaker 1: would have the appearance of flattery, especially to those who
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  Speaker 1: have not the honor of knowing you, and those who
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  Speaker 1: have conceive greater ideas of you than the translator will
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  Speaker 1: pretend to express. Permit him, then, my Lord, to crave
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  Speaker 1: your Lordship's acceptance of this peace, which appears to you
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  Speaker 1: with a fair and correct copy of the original, but
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  Speaker 1: with a translation which can be of no manner of
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  Speaker 1: consequence to your Lordship, only as it may be of
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  Speaker 1: consequence to those who would understand moliere if they could.
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  Speaker 1: Your Lordship's countenance to recommend it to such will infinitely
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  Speaker 1: oblige my Lord, your Lordship's most devoted and most obedient,
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  Speaker 1: humble servant, the translator. Gematis persone Lilia.
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  Speaker 2: Son de Pandolphus read by Leanna Leander.
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  Speaker 3: A young Gentleman of good birth read by Thomas Peter Anselmo.
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  Speaker 4: An old Man read by.
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  Speaker 5: Sonya Pandulphus An old Man read by Nima.
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  Speaker 6: Trufalden. An old Man read by Tod Andreas.
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  Speaker 7: A supposed Gipsy read by Son.
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  Speaker 8: Of the Exiles, masqueryl Servant to Lelio read by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 9: Ergast a Servant read by Allan Lapstone.
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  Speaker 6: A Messenger read by James Curin.
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  Speaker 10: Celia slave to Turrufaldin read by T. J.
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  Speaker 11: Burr, Hepaalete, daughter to Anneselmo, read by Eva Davis.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Devora Ellen. Scene Messina, The Blunderer
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  Speaker 1: or the Counterplats Act one, Scene one Lilio alone very.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Leander, very well, We must quarrel. Then we shall
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  Speaker 2: see which of us two will gain the day, and which,
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  Speaker 2: in our mutual pursuit after this young miracle of beauty
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  Speaker 2: will thwart the most his rivals addresses. Do whatever you can,
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  Speaker 2: defend yourself well, for depend upon it. On my side,
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  Speaker 2: no pain shall be spared.
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  Speaker 1: Scene two, Lilio masceriel.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, masquerel.
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  Speaker 8: What's the batter?
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  Speaker 2: A great deal? As the matter everything crosses my love.
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  Speaker 2: Leander is enamored of Celia. The fates of wilded that
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  Speaker 2: though I've changed the object of my passion, he still
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  Speaker 2: remains my rival.
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  Speaker 8: Leander and Hambert of Celia.
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  Speaker 2: He adores her.
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  Speaker 12: I tell you so, much the worse.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so much the worse, and that's what annoys me. However,
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  Speaker 2: I should be wrong to despair, for since you aid me,
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  Speaker 2: I ought to take courage. I know that your mind
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  Speaker 2: can plan many intrigues and never find anything too difficult.
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  Speaker 2: That you should be called the prince of servants, and
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  Speaker 2: that throughout the whole world.
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  Speaker 8: A truth to these compliments. When people have need of us,
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  Speaker 8: poor servants, we are darlings and incarmparable creatures. But at
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  Speaker 8: other times, at the least fit of anger, we are scoundrels,
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  Speaker 8: and not to be soundly thrashed.
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  Speaker 2: Nay, upon my word, you roll me by this remark.
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  Speaker 2: But let us talk a little about the captive. Tell
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  Speaker 2: me is there a heart so cruel, so unfeeling, as
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  Speaker 2: to be proof against such charming features? For my part,
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  Speaker 2: in her conversation, as well as in her countenance, I
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  Speaker 2: see evidence of her noble birth. I believe that Heaven
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  Speaker 2: has concealed a lofty origin beneath such a lowly station.
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  Speaker 8: You are very romantic with all your fancies. But what
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  Speaker 8: will Pandolphus do in this case? He is your father,
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  Speaker 8: at least, he says, so you know very well that
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  Speaker 8: his bile is pretty often stirred up that he can
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  Speaker 8: rage against you. Finally, when your behavior offends him, he
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  Speaker 8: is now entreaty with Anselmo about your marriage with his
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  Speaker 8: daughter Hippolyta, imagining that it is married alone that mayhap
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  Speaker 8: can steady you. Now should he discover that you eject
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  Speaker 8: his choice and that you entertain a passion for a
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  Speaker 8: person nobody knows anything about that, the fatal power of
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  Speaker 8: this foolish love causes you to forget your duty and
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  Speaker 8: disobey him.
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  Speaker 9: Ah.
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  Speaker 8: Heaven knows what a storm will then burst forth, and
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  Speaker 8: what fine lectures you will be treated to.
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  Speaker 2: A truth I pray to your rhetoric.
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  Speaker 8: Rather a truce to your manner of loving. It is
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  Speaker 8: none of the best, and you ought to endeavor.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know that nothing is gained by making me angry?
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  Speaker 2: The remonstrances are badly rewarded by me, And as a
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  Speaker 2: servant who counsels me acts against his own interests.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, he is in a passion.
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  Speaker 9: Now.
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  Speaker 8: All that I said was but in jest, And to
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  Speaker 8: try you do I look so very much like a
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  Speaker 8: censer and is masquerrel an enemy to pleasure. You know
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  Speaker 8: the contrary, and that it is only to certain people
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  Speaker 8: can tax me without nothing but being too good natured.
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  Speaker 8: Laugh at the preachings of an old gray beard of
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  Speaker 8: a father. Go on, I tell you, and mind them
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  Speaker 8: not upon my word. I am of opinion that these old,
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  Speaker 8: defeat grumpyed libertines come to stupefy us with their silly
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  Speaker 8: stories and being virtuous out of necessity, hope through sheer envy,
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  Speaker 8: to deprive young people of all the pleasures of life.
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  Speaker 8: You know my talents. I am at your service.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is talking in a manner alike. Moreover, when
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  Speaker 2: I first declared my passion, it was not ill received
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  Speaker 2: by the lovely object who inspired it. But just now
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  Speaker 2: Leander has declared to me that he is preparing to
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  Speaker 2: deprive me of Celia. Therefore, let us make haste ransack
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  Speaker 2: your brain for the speediest means to secure me possession
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  Speaker 2: of her plan. Any tricks, stratagems, roguery's inventions to frustrate
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  Speaker 2: my rival's pretensions.
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  Speaker 8: Let me think upon this matter, What can I invent
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  Speaker 8: upon this urge indication?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the stratagem?
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  Speaker 8: What a hurry you are in? My brain must always
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  Speaker 8: move slowly. I have found what you want. You must no, no, no,
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  Speaker 8: that's not it. But if you could go whether no,
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  Speaker 8: that's a flimsy trick. I thought that what is it?
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  Speaker 8: That will not do either? But could you not?
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  Speaker 2: Can I not?
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  Speaker 13: What?
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  Speaker 8: No? You could not do anything? Speak to Anselmo?
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  Speaker 2: And what can I say to him?
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  Speaker 8: That is true? That would be falling out of the
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  Speaker 8: frying pan into the fire. Something must be done, however,
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  Speaker 8: go to Trufaldin, what to do?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that sounds this is too much. You
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  Speaker 2: drive me mad with this idol talk.
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  Speaker 8: Sir, If you could lay your hand on plenty of pistoles,
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  Speaker 8: we should have no need now to think of and
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  Speaker 8: try to find out what means we must employ encompassing
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  Speaker 8: our wishes, we might, by purchasing this slave quickly prevent
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  Speaker 8: your rival from foresalling and you. Trufalden, who takes charge
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  Speaker 8: of her, is rather uneasy about these gypsies who placed
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  Speaker 8: her with him. If he could get back his money,
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  Speaker 8: which they have made him wait for too long, I
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  Speaker 8: am quite sure he would be delighted to sell her,
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  Speaker 8: for he always lived like the verius curmudgeon. He would
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  Speaker 8: allow himself to be whipped for the smallest coin in
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  Speaker 8: the realm. Money is the god he worships above everything.
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  Speaker 8: But the worst of it is that, what is the
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  Speaker 8: worst of it that your father is just as covetous,
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  Speaker 8: an old hunk who does not allow you to handle
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  Speaker 8: his ducats as you would like. But there is no
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  Speaker 8: way by which we could now open ever so small
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  Speaker 8: a purse in order to help you. But let us
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  Speaker 8: endeavor to speak to Celia for a moment to know
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  Speaker 8: what she thinks about this affair. This is her window.
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  Speaker 2: But Truefalden watches a closely night and day.
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  Speaker 8: Take care, let us keep quiet in this corner. Ah ah,
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  Speaker 8: what luck eh? Here she is coming just in the
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  Speaker 8: nick of time.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three, Celia Lilio Mascarille.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, madam, what obligations do I own to Heaven for
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  Speaker 2: allowing me to behold those celestial charms? You are blessed
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  Speaker 2: with whatever sufferings your eyes may have caused me. I
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  Speaker 2: cannot but take delight in gazing on them in this place.
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  Speaker 10: My heart, which has good reason to be astonished at
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  Speaker 10: your speech, does not wish my eyes to injure any one.
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  Speaker 10: If they have offended you in anything, I can assure
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  Speaker 10: you I did not intend it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, No, their glances are too pleasing to do me
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  Speaker 2: an injury. I counted my chief glory to cherish the
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  Speaker 2: wounds they give me, And you.
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  Speaker 8: Are soaring rather too high. This style is by no
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  Speaker 8: means what we want. Now, let us make better use
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  Speaker 8: of our time. Know of her quickly?
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  Speaker 1: What Trifalden within Celia Mascariel to Lilio.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what do you think now, oh cruel mischance, What
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  Speaker 2: business has this wretched old around? Interrupt us?
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  Speaker 8: Go withdraw, I'll find something to say to him.
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  Speaker 1: Scene four trifaldin Celia, Mascariel and Lilio in a corner.
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  Speaker 1: Trifalden to Celia, what.
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  Speaker 6: Are you doing out of doors? And what induces you
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  Speaker 6: to go out? You whom I have forbidden to speak
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  Speaker 6: to anyone.
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  Speaker 10: I was formerly acquainted with this respectable young man. You
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  Speaker 10: have no occasion to be suspicious of him?
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  Speaker 8: Is this signor true? Walden?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, it is himself, sir.
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  Speaker 8: I am holy yours. It gives me extreme pleasure to
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  Speaker 8: have this opportunity a pay my most humble respects to
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  Speaker 8: a gentleman who is everywhere so highly spoken of.
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  Speaker 6: Your most humble servant.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps I am troublesome, but I have been acquainted with
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  Speaker 8: this young woman elsewhere, and as I heard about the
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  Speaker 8: great skill she has in predicting the future, I wish
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  Speaker 8: to consult her about a certain affair.
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  Speaker 10: What do you dabble in the black art, No, sir,
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  Speaker 10: my skill lies entirely in the white.
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  Speaker 8: The case is this. The master whom I serve languishes
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  Speaker 8: for a fair lady who has captivated him. He would
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  Speaker 8: gladly disclose the passion which burns within him to the
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  Speaker 8: beatiest object whom he adores. But a dragon that guards
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  Speaker 8: this rare treasure, in spite of all his attempts, has
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  Speaker 8: hitherto prevented him. And what torments him still more and
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  Speaker 8: makes him miserable, is that he has just discovered a
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  Speaker 8: formidable rival. So that I have come to consult to
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  Speaker 8: know whether his love is likely to meet with any success.
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  Speaker 8: Be well assured that from your mouth I may learn
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  Speaker 8: truly the secret which concerns us.
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  Speaker 10: Under What planet? Was your master born.
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  Speaker 8: Under the planet which never alters his love?
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  Speaker 10: Without asking you to name the object, he sighs, for
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  Speaker 10: the science which I possess gives me sufficient information. This
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  Speaker 10: young woman is high spirited and knows how to preserve
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  Speaker 10: a noble pride in the midst of adversity. She is
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  Speaker 10: not inclined to declare too freely the secret sentiments of
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  Speaker 10: her heart. But I know them as well as herself,
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  Speaker 10: and am going with a more composed mind to unfold
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  Speaker 10: them all to you in a few words.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, wonderful power of magic virtue.
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  Speaker 10: If your master is really constant in his affections, and
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  Speaker 10: if virtue alone prompts him, let him be under no
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  Speaker 10: apprehension of sighing in vain. He has reason to hope
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  Speaker 10: the fortress he wishes to take is not averse to capitulation,
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  Speaker 10: but rather inclined to surrender.
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  Speaker 8: That's something. But then the fortress depends upon a governor
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  Speaker 8: whom it is hard to gain over.
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  Speaker 10: There lies the difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: Mascariel aside, looking at Lilio, the deuce.
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  Speaker 8: Takes this troublesome fellow who is always watching us.
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  Speaker 10: I am going to teach you what you ought to.
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  Speaker 2: Do, Lilio joining them, mister Trefaldon, give yourself no farther uneasiness.
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  Speaker 2: It was purely in obedience to my orders that this
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  Speaker 2: trusty servant came to visit you. I dispatched him to
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  Speaker 2: offer you my services, and to speak to you concerning
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  Speaker 2: this young lady. He's libacy I am willing to purchase
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  Speaker 2: before long, provided we two can agree about the terms.
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  Speaker 1: Mascariel aside plague.
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  Speaker 8: Take the ass.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, which of the two am I to believe this
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  Speaker 6: story contray Dick's? The former? Very much?
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  Speaker 8: Sir. This gentleman is a little bit wrong in the
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  Speaker 8: upper store. Did you not know it?
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  Speaker 6: I know what I know, and begin to smell a rat.
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  Speaker 6: Ce Celia, get you in and never take such a
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  Speaker 6: liberty again. As for you two arrogant rogues, or I
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  Speaker 6: am much mistaken. If you wish to deceive me again,
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  Speaker 6: let your stories be a little more in harmony.
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  Speaker 1: Scene five, Lilio Mascarille, he is quite.
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  Speaker 8: Right to speak plainly. I wish he had given us
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  Speaker 8: both a sound cudgeling. What was the good of showing
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  Speaker 8: yourself and like a blunderer coming and giving the lie
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  Speaker 8: to all that I had been saying. I thought I
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  Speaker 8: did right, to be sure, but this actual not not
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  Speaker 8: to surprise me. You possess so many counterplots that your
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  Speaker 8: freaks no longer astonish anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Good heavens, how I am stored it for nothing is
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  Speaker 2: the harm so great that it cannot be remedied. However,
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  Speaker 2: if you cannot place Celia in my hands, you may
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  Speaker 2: at least contry to frustrate all the ander schemes so
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  Speaker 2: that he cannot purchase this fair one before me. But
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  Speaker 2: lest my present should be further mischievous, I'll leave you
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  Speaker 2: Mascariel alone very well.
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  Speaker 8: So say the truth. Money would be a surance, staunch
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  Speaker 8: agent in our cause. But as this meanspring is lacking,
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  Speaker 8: we must employ some other means.
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  Speaker 1: Scene six, and Selmo Mascariel.
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  Speaker 4: Upon my word, this is a strange age we live in.
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  Speaker 4: I am ashamed of it. There was never such a
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  Speaker 4: fondness for money, and never so much difficulty in getting
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  Speaker 4: one's own, notwithstanding all the care a person may take
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  Speaker 4: that nowadays are like children, be got with pleasure but
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  Speaker 4: brought forth with pain. It is pleasant for money to
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  Speaker 4: come into our purse, but when the time comes that
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  Speaker 4: we have to give it back, then the pangs of
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  Speaker 4: labor sees us. Enough of this. It is no trifle
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  Speaker 4: to receive at last two thousand francs, which have been
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  Speaker 4: owing upwards of two years.
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  Speaker 1: What luck, Mascarille aside.
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  Speaker 8: Good heavens, What fine game to shoot fly. Just let
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  Speaker 8: me see if I cannot wheedle him a little. I
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  Speaker 8: know what.
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  Speaker 12: Speeches to soothe him, joining him unsemble.
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  Speaker 8: I have just seen who pretty your marina?
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  Speaker 4: Ah? What does the cruel fair one say about me?
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  Speaker 8: Say that she is passionately fond of you?
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  Speaker 4: Is she?
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  Speaker 8: She loves you so that I very much pity her?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? How happy you make me?
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  Speaker 8: The poor thing is nearly dying with love. Oh, my
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  Speaker 8: dearest Anselmo. She cries every minute? When shall marriage unite
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  Speaker 8: our two hearts? When will you vouchsafe to extinguish my flames?
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  Speaker 4: But why has she hitherto concealed this from me? Girls
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: in troth a great dissemblers, Mascarie, what do you say, really?
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  Speaker 4: Though in years yet I look still well enough to
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: please the eye?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, truly, that face of yours is still very passable.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: If it is not of the handsomest in the world,
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  Speaker 8: it is very agreeable.
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  Speaker 1: So that mascariel endeavoring to take the purse, so that.
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  Speaker 8: She dotes on you and regard you no longer. What
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  Speaker 8: but as a husband and fully intense.
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  Speaker 4: And fully intense and.
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  Speaker 8: Fully intense, whatever may happen to steal your purse.
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  Speaker 1: To steal mascariel taking the purse and letting it fall
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  Speaker 1: to the ground to steal a kiss from your mouth.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, I understand you come hither. The next time you
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: see her, be sure to say as many fine things
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  Speaker 4: of me as possible.
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  Speaker 8: Let me alone.
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  Speaker 4: Farewell.
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  Speaker 8: May Heaven guide.
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  Speaker 1: You Andselmo returning hold, I really should have committed a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: strange piece of folly, and you might justly have accused
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  Speaker 1: me of neglect.
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  Speaker 4: I engage you to assist me in serving my passion.
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  Speaker 4: You bring good tidings, and I do not give you
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: the smallest present to reward your zeal. Here, be sure
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: to remember, oh, pray, don't permit me.
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  Speaker 8: I won't. Indeed, I do not act thus for the
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: sake of money.
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  Speaker 4: I know you do not.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: But however, no, Anselma, I will not. I am a
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: man of honor. This offends me.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Farewell, then, Musquerie.
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  Speaker 12: Ah, how long rended he is, Anselmo coming back.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I wish you to carry a present to the fair
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: object of my desires. I will give you some money
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: to buy her rising or any other trifle as you
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: may think will please her most.
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  Speaker 8: Now there is no need of your money without troubling yourself.
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  Speaker 8: I will make her a present. A fashionable ring has
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: been left in my hands, which you may pay for afterwards.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: If it fits her, be.
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  Speaker 4: It so give it her in my name. But above all,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: manage matters in such a manner that she may still
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: desire to make me her own.
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  Speaker 1: Scene seven Lilio Anselmo Mascariel Lilio taking up the purse.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Whose passes this.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: During the whole of the preceding scene, Mascaril has quietly
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: kicked the purse away so as to be out of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: sight of Anselmo, intending to pick it up when the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: latter has gone.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Oh heavens, I dropped it and might have afterwards believed
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: somebody had picked my pocket. I am very much obliged
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: to you for your kindness, which saves me a great
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: deal of vexation and restores me my money. I shall
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: go home this minute and get rid of it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Scene eight Lilio Mascarille Old's death.
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  Speaker 8: You have been very obliging, very much so.
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  Speaker 2: Poor my word. If it had not been for me,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: he would have lost his money.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: Certainly you do wonders and show to day a most
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: exquisite judgment and supreme good fortune, we shall prosper greatly.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: Go on as you have begun.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: What is the matter now?
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: What have I done to speak plainly as you wish
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: me to do, and as I ought? You have acted
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: like a fool. You know very well that your father
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: leaves you without money, that a formidable arrival follows us closely.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: Yet for all this, when to oblige you, I venture
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: on a trick of which I take all the shame
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: and danger upon myself. What was this, yes, nanny, it
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: was to release the captive that I was getting the money?
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: Whereof your officiousness took care to deprive us?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: If that is the case, I am in the room.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: But who could have imagined it?
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: It really required a great deal of discernment.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: You should have made some signs to warn me of
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: what was going on.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Yes, indeed I ought to have eyes in my back.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: By Jove, be quiet, Let us hear no more of
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: your nonsensical excuses another after all, this would perhaps abandon everything.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: But I have planned just now a master stroke which
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: I will immediately put into execution, on condition that if.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: No I promise you henceforth not to interfere, either in word.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: Or deed, away, then the very sight of you, kindles
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: my wrath above all.
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  Speaker 2: Don't delay ful fear that in this business.
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  Speaker 8: Once more, I tell you begone, I will set about it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Exit Lilio.
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  Speaker 8: Let us manage this well. It will be the most
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  Speaker 8: exquisite piece of roguery if it succeeds as I think
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  Speaker 8: it must. We'll try. Oh, but here comes the very
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: man I want.
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  Speaker 1: Scene nine Pandulphus Mascarille.
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  Speaker 5: Mascaria, Sir, to tell you the truth, I'm very dissatisfied
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  Speaker 5: with my.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: Son, with my master. You are not the only one
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: who complains of him. His bad conduct, which has grown
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: unbearable in everything, puts me each moment out of patience.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: I thought, however, you and he understood one another pretty well.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: I believe it not, sir. I am always trying to
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: put him in mind of his duty. We are perpetually
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: at dagger's drawn. Just now we had a quarrel again
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: about his engagement with Hippolyta, which I find he is
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: very averse to. By a most disgraceful refusal, he violates
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  Speaker 8: all the respect due to a father. A quarrel, yes,
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: a quarrel, and a desperate one too.
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  Speaker 5: I was very much deceived then, for I thought you
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: supported him in all he did.
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  Speaker 8: I see what this world has come to. How is
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: innocent always oppressed? If you knew but my integrity, you
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: would give me the additional salary of a tutor, whereas
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: I am only paid as his servant. Yes, you yourself could
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: not say more to him than I do in order
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: to make him behave better quackerness sake, sir, I say
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: to him very often, cease to be driven hither and
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: thither by every wind that blows reform. Look what a
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: worthy father Heaven has given you, What a reputation he
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: has forbear to stab him thus to the heart, and
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: live as he does as a man of honor.
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  Speaker 5: That was well said. And what answer could he make
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: to this answer?
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  Speaker 8: Why only nonsense, with which he almost dries me mad.
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  Speaker 8: Not but that at the bottom of his heart he
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: retains those principles of honor which he derives from you.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: But reason at present does not sway him. If I
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: might be allowed to speak freely, you should soon see
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: him submissive without much trouble.
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  Speaker 5: Speak out.
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  Speaker 8: It is a secret which would have serious consequences for
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: me should it be discovered. But I am quite sure
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: I can confide it to your prudence. You are right,
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: know then that your wishes are sacrificed to the love
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  Speaker 8: your son has for certain slave.
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  Speaker 5: I've been told so before, but to hear it from
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: your mouth pleases me.
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  Speaker 8: I leave you to judge whether I am his secret confidant.
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  Speaker 5: I am truly glad of it.
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  Speaker 8: However, do you wish to bring him back to his
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: duty without any public scandal? You must. I am in
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: perpetual fear lest anybody should surprise us. Should he learn
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: what I have told you, I should be a dead man.
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: You must, as I was saying, to break off this business,
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: secretly purchase this slave whom he so much idolizes, and
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: send her into another country. And Selmo is very intimate
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: with Trufaldin. Let him go and buy her for you
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: this very morning. Then if you put her into my hands,
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: I know some merchants, and promise to sell her for
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: the money she costs you, and to send her out
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: of the way in spite of your son, For if
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: you would have him disposed for matrimony, we must divert
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: this growing passion. Moreover, even if he were resolved to
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: wear the yoke you designed for him, Yet this other
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: girl might revive his foolish fancy and prejudice him anew
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: against matrimony.
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  Speaker 5: Very well, argued, I like this advice much. Here comes
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Anselmo go. I will do my utmost quickly to obtain
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: possession of this troublesome slave. When I will put her
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: into your hands to finish the rest, Mascariel alone, bravo.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: I will go and tell my master of this long
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: live all knavery and knaves.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Also Scene ten, Hippolyta Mascariel a traitor?
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: Is it thus that you serve me? I overheard all,
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: and have myself been a witness of your treachery. Had
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: I not, could I have suspected this? You are an
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: errant rogue, and you have deceived me. You promise me,
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: you miscreant. And I expected that you would assist me
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: in my passion for Leander, that your skill and management
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: should find means to break off my match with Lilio,
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: that you would free me from my father's project. And
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: yet you are doing quite the contrary. But you will
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: find yourself mistaken. I know a sure method of breaking
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: off the purchase you have been urging Pandolphice to make,
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: and I will go immediately.
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  Speaker 8: How impetuous you are. You fly into a passion in
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: a moment without inquiring whether you are right or wrong.
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: You fall foul of me. I am in the wrong,
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: and I ought to make your words true without finishing
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: what I began. Since you abused me so outrageously.
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: By what illusion do you think to dazzle my eyes? Traitor?
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: Can you deny what I've just now heard?
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: No?
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: But you must know that all this plotting was only
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: contrived to serve you. That this cunning device, which appeared
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: so sincere, tends to make both old men fall into
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: the snare. That all the pains I have taken for
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: getting Celia into my hands through their means, was to
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: secure her for Lalio, and to arrange matters so that Anselmo,
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: in the very height of passion, and finding himself disappointed
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: of his son in law, might make choice of Leander.
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: What this admirable scheme which has angered me so much
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: was all for my sake, mausquerie.
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: Yes, for your sake. But since I find my good
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: offices met with so bad a return, since I have
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: thus to bear your caprices, and as a reward for
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: my services, you come here with a haughty air and
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: call me knave, cur and cheat. I shall presently go
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: correct the mistake I had committed and undo what I
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: had undertaken to perform.
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: Hippolyta holding him, Nay, do not be so severe upon
• 32:54
  Speaker 13: me and forgive these outbursts of a sudden passion.
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: No, no, let me go. I have it yet in
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: my power to set aside the scheme which offends you
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: so much. Henceforth you shall have no occasion to complain
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: of my zeal. Yes, you shall have my master, I
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: promise you.
• 33:13
  Speaker 11: My good masquery. Be not in such a passion I
• 33:17
  Speaker 11: judged you ill. I was wrong.
• 33:19
  Speaker 13: I confess I was pulls out her purse.
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: But I intend to atone for my fault with this?
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: Could you find it in your heart to abandon me? Thus?
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: No, I cannot do what I will. But your impetuosity
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: was very shocking. Let me tell you that nothing offends
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: a noble mind so much as the smallest imputation upon
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: its honor.
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: It is true I treated you to some very harsh language.
• 33:48
  Speaker 11: But here are two Louis to heal your wounds.
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: Oh all, this is nothing. I am very sensitive on
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: this point, but my passion begins to cool a little.
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: Already we must bear with the failings of our friends.
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  Speaker 11: Can you then bring about what I so earnestly wish for?
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: Do you believe your daring projects will be as favorable
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: to my passion as you imagine?
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: Do not make yourself uneasy on that account. I have
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: several irons in the fire, and though this stratagem should
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: fail us. What this cannot do another shall.
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: Depend upon it. Hippolyta will at least not be ungrateful.
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: It is not the hope of gain that makes me act.
• 34:32
  Speaker 11: Your master beckons and wishes to speak with you. I
• 34:35
  Speaker 11: wilieve you, but remember to do what you can for me.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Scene eleven, Lilio Mascarille.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: What the de so you do here? You promised to
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: perform wonders, But I am sure your dilatory ways are unparalleled.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Had not my good Deenius inspired me, my happiness had
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: been already wholly overthrown. There was an end to my
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: good thought, my joy, I should have been a prey
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: to eternal grief. In short, had I not gone to
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: this place in the very nick of time, ann Selma
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: would have got possession of the captive, and I should
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: have been deprived of her. He was carrying her home.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: But I parried the thrust, warded off the blow, and
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: so worked upon Trafalden's fears as to make him keep
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: the girl.
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: This is the third time. When we come to ten,
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: we will score. It was my contrivance, incorrigible scatter brains,
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: that Anselma undertook this desirable purchase. She should have been
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: placed into my own hands. But your cursed officiousness knocks
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: everything on the head again. Do you think I shall
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: still labor to serve your love? I would sooner a
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: hundred times become a fat old woman, adult, a cabbage,
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: a lantern, a werewolf, and that satan should twist your neck.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Lilio alone, I must take him to some tavern and
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: let him vent his passion on the bottles and glasses.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act one, Act two of the Blunder or
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: the Counterplots by Moliere. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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• 36:19
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• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Scene one, Lilio Mascarille, I have.
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: At length yielded to your desires, in spite of all
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: my protestations I could hold out no longer. I am
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: going to venture upon you dangers to promote your interest
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: which I intended to abandon. So tender hearted am I
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: If Dame Nature had made a girl of masquerrelle, I
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: leave you to guess what would have happened. However, after
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: this assurance, do not deal a backstroke to the project
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: I am about to undertake. Do not make a blunder
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: and frustrate my expectations. Then, as to Enselmo, we shall
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: and you present your excuses to him in order to
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: get what we desire. But should your imprudence burst forth
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: again hereafter, then you may bid farewell to all the
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: trouble I take for the object of your passion.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: No, I shall be careful, I tell you, never fit
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: you shall see.
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: Well mind that you keep your word. I have planned
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: a bold stratagem for your sake. Your father is very
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: backward and satisfying all your wishes by his death. I
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: have just killed him. In words, I mean, I have
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: spread a report that the good man, being suddenly smitten
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: by a fit of apoplexy, has departed this life. But
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: first so that I might the better pretend he was dead,
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: I so managed that he went to his barn. I
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: had a person ready to come and tell him that
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: the workmen employed in his house accidentally discovered a treasure
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: in digging the foundations. He set out in an instant,
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: and as all his people except us too, have gone
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: with him into the country, I shall kill him to
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: day in everybody's imagination, and produce some image which I
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: shall bury under his name. I have already told you
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: what I wish you to do. Play out your part well,
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: and as to the character I have to keep up.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: If you perceive that I miss one word of it,
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: tell me plainly, I am nothing but a fool.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Scene two Lilio alone.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: It is true he has found out a strange way
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: to accomplish my wishes fully. But when we are very
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: much in love with a fair lady, what would we
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: not do to be made happy? If love is said
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: to be an excuse for a crime, it may well
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: serve for a slight piece of imposture which loves order
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: today compels me to comply with an expectation of the
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: happy consequences that may result from it. Bless me how
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: expeditious they are. I see them already talking together about it.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Let us prepare to act all.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Part Scene three, Mascarille and Slmo.
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: The news may well surprise you.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: To die in such a manner.
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: He was certainly much to blame. I can never forgive
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: him for such a freak.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: Not even to take time to be ill.
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: No, never was a man in such a hurry to die.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: How do s Li'll behave?
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: He rains and has lost all command over his temper.
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: He has beaten himself till he is black and blue
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: in several places, and wishes to follow his father into
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: the grave in short, to make an end of this.
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: The excess of his grease has made me with the
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: utmost speed up the corpse in a shroud, for fear
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: the sight which fed his melancholy should tempt him to
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: commit some rash act.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: No matter, you ought to have waited until evening. Besides,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: I should have liked to see Pandolphus once more. He
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: who puts a shroud on a man too hastily very
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: often commits murder. For a man is frequently thought dead
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: when he only seems to be so.
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: I warned him, as dead as dead can be. But now,
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: to return to what we were talking about, lay Lah
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: has resolved, and it will do him good to give
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: his father a fine funeral, and to comfort the deceased
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: a little for his hard fate by pleasure of seeing
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: that we pay him such honors after his death. My
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: master inherits a goodly estate, but as he is only
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: a novice in business and does not see his way
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: clearly in his affairs, since the greater part of his
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: property lies in another part of the country, or what
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: he has here consists in paper, he would beg of you,
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: after having entreated you to excuse the too great violence
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: which he has shown of late, to lend him for
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: this last duty.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: At least you have told me so already, and I
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: will go and see him Mascarville.
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: Alone hitherto at least everything goes on swimmingly. Let us
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: endeavor to make the rest answer as well, unlest we
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: should be wrecked in the very harbor. Let us steer
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: the ship carefully and keep a sharp lookout.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Scene four Anselmo Lilio Mascarville, Anselmo coming out of Pandofice's house.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Let us leave the house. I cannot without great sorrow
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: see him repped up in this strange manner. Alas in
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: so short a time he was alive.
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: This morning we go sometimes over a good deal of
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: gound in a short.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Time, Lilio weeping, Oh.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Dear Lirio, he was but a man, after all. Even
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: Rome can grant no dispensation from death. Oh, death smites
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: men without giving warning, and always has bad designs against them.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: That merciless foe would not loosen one grip of his
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: murderous teeth. However we may entreat him, everybody must feel them.
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: Your preaching will all be in vain. This sorrow is
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: too deep rooted to be plucked up.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: If notwithstanding all these arguments, you will not cast aside
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: your grief, at least, my dear Lilio, endeavor to moderate it.
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: He will not moderate it. I know his temper.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: However, according to your servant's message, I have brought you
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: the money you want so that you might celebrate your
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: father's funeral obsequies.
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: How his grief increases at these words. It will kill
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: him to think of his misfortune.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: I know you will find by the good Man's books
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: that I owe him a much larger sum. But even
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: if I should not owe anything, you could freely command
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: my purse. Here it is I am entirely at your service,
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: and will show.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: It Lilio going away.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, oh, full of grief is my master, Muscoree. I
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: think it right. He should give me some kind of
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: receipt under his hand. Oh, nothing in this world is certain.
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: Oh, oh, get him.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: To sign me the receipt I require.
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: Oh, as, how can he comply with your desire in
• 44:25
  Speaker 8: the condition he now is. Give him but time to
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: get rid of his sorrow, and when his troubles abate
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: a little, I shall take care immediately to get you
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: your security, your servant, sir, my heart is over full
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: of grief, and I shall go to take my fall
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: that weeping with him.
• 44:46
  Speaker 12: Ahi, and so no alone.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, the world is full of crosses. We meet with
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: them every day in different shapes, and never here.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Below Scene five Pandulphus and Pselma.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, oh heavens, how I tremble. It is Pandolphus who
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: has returned to the earth. God grant nothing disturbed his repose.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: How worn his face has grown since his death. Oh,
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: do not come any nearer. I beseech you. I very
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: much detest to Josel a ghost.
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: What can be the reason of this whimsical terror?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Keep your distance, and tell me what business brings you here.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: If you have taken all this trouble to bid me farewell,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: ye do me too much honor. I could really have
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: done very well without your accompliment. If your soul is
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: restless and stands in need of prayers, I promise you
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: shall have them, But do not frighten me. Upon the
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: word of a terrified man. I will immediately set prayers
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: going for you to your very heart's content. Oh dead worship,
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: please to go heaven. If now you disappear, we'll grant
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: you joy down there below, and health as well.
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: For many a year, in spite.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: Of my indignation, I cannot help laughing.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: It is strange, but you are very merry for a
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: dead man.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: Is this a joke, pray tell me? Or is it
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: downright madness to treat a living man as if you
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: were dead?
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: Alas you must be dead? I myself just now saw you.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: What could I die without knowing it?
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: As soon as Masquerie told me the news, I was
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: ready to die of grief.
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: But really, are you a sleeper awake? Don't you know me?
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: You are clothed in an aerial body which imitates your own.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: But which may take another shape at any moment. I
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: am mightily afraid to see you swell up to the
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: size of a giant, and your countenance become frightfully distorted.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: For the love of God, do not assume any hideous form.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: You have scared me sufficiently for the nuns.
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: At any other time and summer, I should have considered
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: the simplicity which accompanies your creduly and excellent joke, and
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: I should have carried on the pleasant conceal a little longer.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: But the story of my death, in the news of
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: the supposed treasure which I was told of the road
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: had not been found at all, raises in my mind
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: a strong suspicion that Mascariea is a rogue, and an
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: arrogant rogue who is proof against fear remorse, and who
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: invents extraordinary stratagems to compass his ends.
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: What am I tricked and made a fool off? Really,
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: this would be a compliment to my good sense. Let
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: me touch him and be satisfied. This is indeed the
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: very man, Oh what an ass I am. Pray do
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: not spread this story about, for they will ride a
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: farce about it and shame me forever. But Pandolphus helped
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: me to get the money back which I lent them
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: to bury you.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: Money. Do you say, huh, oh, that is where the
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: shoe pinches. That is the secret of the whole affair.
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: So much the worse for you. For my part, I
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: shall not trouble myself about it, but will go and
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: lay in information against this mascaria, And if he can
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: be caught, he shall be hanged, whatever the cost may be.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: And Selmo alone.
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: And I, like a ninny, believe a scoundrel, and must
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: in one day lose both my senses and my money.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: Upon my word, it well becomes me to have these
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: gray hairs and to commit an act of folly so
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: readily without examining into the truth of the first story
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: I hear, but I see.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Scene six Lilio and Selmo.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Now with this master Ki, I can easily pay trefousand
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: a visit.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: As far as I can see, your grief has subsided.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: What do you say, No, it to never leave a
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: heart which shall ever cherish it daily.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: I came back to tell you, frankly, of a mistake
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: I made in the money I gave you. Just now
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: amongst these Louis d'Or though they look very good, I
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: carelessly put some which I think are bad. I have
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: brought some money with me to change them. The intolerable
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: audacity of our coiners is grown to such a height
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: in this state that no one can receive any money
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: now without danger of his being imposed upon. It would
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: be doing good service to hang them all.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: I am very much obliged to you for being willing
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: to take them back. But I saw none among them
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: that were bad, as I thought.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: Let me see the money, let me see it, I
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: shall know them again.
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: Is this all?
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Ah, so much the better? Are you back again? My
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: dear money get into my pocket. As for you, my
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: gallant charper, you have no longer got a penny of it.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: You kill people who are in good health, do you?
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: And what would you have done then with me, a
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: poor infirm father in law Upon my word, I was
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: going to get a nice addition to my family, a
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: most discreet son in law. Go go and hang yourself
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: for shame and vexation.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Lilio alone, I really must admit I have been bet
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: this time. What a surprise this is? How can you
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: discover destruction so soon?
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Scene seven, Lilio mascar Real, What.
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: Do you were out. I have been hunting for you everywhere.
• 52:07
  Speaker 8: Well we have succeeded at last. I will give the
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: greatest rogue six trials to do the like. Come give
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: me the money that I may go and buy the slave.
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: Your rival will be very much astonished at this.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear boy, our luck has changed. Can you
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: imagine how ill fortune a serwed me?
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: What? What can it be?
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Anselmo, having found out the trick, just now got back
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: every sou he lent us, pretending some of the gold
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: pieces were bad and that he was going to change them.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: You do but joke, I suppose it is, but too
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: true in good earnest, In good earnest, I am very
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: much grieved about it. It would put you into a
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: furious passion, mease, sir.
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: A fool might, but not I anger hurts, and I
• 52:58
  Speaker 8: am going to take care of myself. Come what will
• 53:01
  Speaker 8: after all, whether Celia be captive or free, whether Leander
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: purchase her, or whether she remains where she is. I
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: do not care one's diver about it.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Ah, do not show such indifference, but be a little
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: more indulgent to my slight imprudence. Had this last misfortune
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: not happened, you would have confessed that I did wonders,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: and that in this pretended decease I deceived everybody and
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: counterfeited grief so admirably that the most sharp sighted would
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: have been taken in.
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: Truly, you have great reason to boast.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Oh I am to blame, and I am willing to
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: acknowledge it. But if ever you care for my happiness,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: repair this mishappen. Help me.
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: I kiss your hands.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I cannot spare the time masquerrel, my dear boy, No,
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: do mean his favor.
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: No, I will not.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: If you are inflexible, I shall kill myself.
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: Do so you may.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Not to soften your hard heart. No, do you see
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: my sword ready drawn?
• 54:05
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: I am going to stab myself.
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: Do just what you please.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Would you not regret to be the cause of my death?
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: No?
• 54:14
  Speaker 12: Farewell, mascaret, goodbye, Master Lilio.
• 54:18
  Speaker 8: What kill yourself? Quick? You are a long while about it?
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Pull my word? You would like me to play the
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: fall and kill myself so that you might get hold
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: of my clothes.
• 54:29
  Speaker 8: I knew this was nothing better, as she am. Whatever
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: people may swear they will do, they are not so
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: hasty nowadays in killing themselves.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Scene eight Trifaldin, Leander, Lilio mascar Real Trifaldin, taking Leander
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: aside and whispering to him.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: What do I see my rival and Trifalden together? He
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: is going to buy Celia. Oh, I tremble for fair.
• 55:00
  Speaker 8: There is no doubt that he will do all he can,
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: and if he has money, he can do all he will.
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: For my part, I am delighted. This is a just
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: reward for your blunders, your impatience.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: What must I do? Advise me?
• 55:16
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Stay, I will go and pick a.
• 55:20
  Speaker 12: Quarrel with him.
• 55:21
  Speaker 8: What good will that do?
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: What would you have me do to ward off this blow?
• 55:26
  Speaker 8: Well, I pardon you. I will yet cast an eye
• 55:30
  Speaker 8: of pity on you. Leave me to watch them. I
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: believe I shall discover what he intends to do by
• 55:36
  Speaker 8: fairer means.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Exit Lilo Trifalden to Leander when.
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: You send by, and by it shall be done.
• 55:47
  Speaker 8: I must trap him and become his confidant in order
• 55:50
  Speaker 8: to baffle his designs, the more.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Easily Leander alone.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: Thanks to Heaven, my happiness is complete. I have found
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: the way to secure it, and fear nothing more whatever
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: my rival may henceforth, attempt. It is no longer in
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: his power to do me any harm.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Scene nine Leander Mascarille.
• 56:14
  Speaker 14: Oh oh oh, murder, Hell, they're killing me? Oh oh oh, oh,
• 56:23
  Speaker 14: traitor barbarian?
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: Whence comes that noise? What is the matter? What are
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: they doing to you?
• 56:32
  Speaker 8: He has just given me two hundred blows with a cudgel.
• 56:36
  Speaker 8: Who lately? Oh?
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: And for what reason?
• 56:40
  Speaker 8: For a mere trifle? He has turned me away and
• 56:43
  Speaker 8: meets me most unmercifully.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: He is really much to blame.
• 56:49
  Speaker 8: But I swear, if ever it lies by power, I
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: will be revenged on him. I will let you know,
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: mister Thrasher, with a vengeance, that people's bones are not
• 57:02
  Speaker 8: to be broken for nothing. Though I but a servant,
• 57:07
  Speaker 8: yet I am a man of honor, after having been
• 57:10
  Speaker 8: in your service for four years. You shall not pay
• 57:13
  Speaker 8: me with a switch, nor affront me in so sensible
• 57:17
  Speaker 8: a part as my shoulders. I tell you once more,
• 57:22
  Speaker 8: I shall find a way to be revenged. You are
• 57:26
  Speaker 8: in love with a certain slave. You would fain induce
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: me to get her for you, But I will manage
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: matters so that somebody else shall carry her off the
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: deuce take me if I.
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: Don't hear me, Masquerille, and moderate your passion. I always
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: liked you, and often wish that a young fellow, faithful
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: and clever like you might one day or rather take
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: a fancy to end to my service. In a word,
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: if you think my offer worthy of acceptance, and if
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: you have a mind to serve me from the moment,
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: I engage.
• 58:01
  Speaker 8: You with all my heart, sir, and so much the rather,
• 58:06
  Speaker 8: because good fortune and serving you offers me an opportunity
• 58:11
  Speaker 8: of being revenged, and because in my endeavors to please you,
• 58:17
  Speaker 8: I shall at the same time punish that wretch, and
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: a word, by my dexterity, I hope to get Celia.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: For my love has provided already for that smitten by
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: a faultless fair one. I have just now bought her
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: for less than of value.
• 58:35
  Speaker 8: What Celia belongs to you, then you.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Should see her this minute if I were the master
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: of my own actions. But alas it is my father
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: who is so, since he is resolved, so I understand
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: by a letter brought me to make me marry Hippolyta,
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: I would not have this affair come to his knowledge,
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: list it should exasperate him. Therefore, in my arrangement with
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: true from whom I just now parted. I acted purposely
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: in the name of another. When the affair was settled,
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: my ring was chosen as a token on the side
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: of which trufaldanace to deliver Celia. But I must first
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: arrange the ways and means to conceal from the eyes
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: of others the girl who so much charms my own,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: and then find some retired place where this lovely captive
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: may be secreted.
• 59:27
  Speaker 8: A little way out of town lives an old relative
• 59:30
  Speaker 8: of mine, whose house I can take the freedom to
• 59:33
  Speaker 8: offer you. There you may safely lodge her, and not
• 59:37
  Speaker 8: a creature know anything of the matter.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: Indeed, so I can you have delighted me with the
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: very thing I wanted here, Take this and go and
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: get possession of the fair one. As soon as ever
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: trifaldanacy is my ring, my girl will be immediately delivered
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: into hands. You can then take it to that house
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: when but yes, here comes Hippolyta.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Scene ten, Hippolyta, Leander Mascariel.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 11: I have some news for you, Leander, But will you
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 11: be pleased or displeased with it?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: To judge of that and make answer off hand? I
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: should know it.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 11: Give me your hand then as far as the church,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 11: and I will tell it you as.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: We go leander to Mascariel, go.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: Make haste and serve me in that business without delay.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Scene eleven Mascariel.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 8: Alone, Yes, I will serve you up a dish of
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 8: my own dressing. Was there ever in the world so
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 8: lucky a fellow, how delighted Liliol will be soon his
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 8: mistress to fall into our hands by these means to
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 8: derive his whole happiness from the man he would have
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: expected to ruin him to become happy by the hands
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: of arrival. After this great exploit, I desire that do
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: preparations be made to paint me as hero crowned with Laurel,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: and that underneath the portrait be inscribed in letters of
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: gold vivet mascarilis rogum imperator.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Scene twelve Trifaldin Mascariel, soho.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: There, what do you want this ring, which you know
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 8: will inform you what business brings me hither?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 6: Yes, I recognize that ring perfectly. Stay a little, I
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: will fetch you the slave.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Scene thirteen Trifaldin a messenger Mascariel messenger to Trifaldin.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 8: Do me the favor, sir, to tell me where lives
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 8: a gentleman.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: What a gentleman I think his name is Trifaldin, and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 6: what is your business with him?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 9: Pray?
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 6: I am here he only to deliver this letter to.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Him Trifold and reads.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: Providence, whose goodness watches over my life, has just brought
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: to my ears a most welcome report that my daughter,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: who was stolen from me by some robbers when she
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 6: was four years old, is now a slave at your
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: house under the name of Celia. If ever you knew
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: what it was to be a father, and if natural
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 6: affection makes an impression on your heart, then keep in
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: your house this child so dear to me, and treat
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: her as if she were your own flesh and blood.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: I am preparing to set out myself in order to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 6: fetch her. You shall be so well rewarded for your
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 6: trouble that in everything relates to your happiness, which I
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: am determined to advance. You shall have reason to bless
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 6: the day in which you caused mine. Dantetro de gussemin
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 6: for Madrid, Marquess of Montalcana. Though the Gypsies can be
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: seldom believed, yet they who sold her to me, told
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: me she would soon be fetched by somebody, and that
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: I should have no reason to complain. Yet here I
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: was going, all through my impatience to lose the fruits
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: of a great expectation to the messenger. Had you come
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: but one moment later, your journey would have been in vain.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: I was going this very instant to give the girl
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  Speaker 6: up into this gentleman's hands. But it is well, I
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 6: shall take great care of her exit.
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  Speaker 1: Messenger to Mascariel.
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  Speaker 6: You yourself have heard what this letter says, So you
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 6: may tell the person who sent you that I cannot
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  Speaker 6: keep my word, and that he had better come and
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  Speaker 6: receive his money back.
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  Speaker 8: But the way you insult him.
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  Speaker 6: Go about your business, and no more.
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  Speaker 1: Words, Mouscariel alone.
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  Speaker 8: Oh what a curse that this letter came now. Fate
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: is indeed against me. What bad luck for this messenger
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 8: to come from Spain when he was not wanted. May
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 8: thunder and hail go with him. Never certainly had so
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 8: happy a beginning, such a sad ending, in so short
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  Speaker 8: a time.
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  Speaker 1: Scene fourteen Lilio laughing Mascarial, What.
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  Speaker 8: May be the cause of all thy mirth?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, let me have my laugh out before I tell you.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 8: Let us laugh, then heartily, we have abundant cause so
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  Speaker 8: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I shall no longer be the object of your expostulations.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: You who always reproach me, shall no longer say that
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: I am marrying all your schemes like a busybody.
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  Speaker 12: As I am.
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  Speaker 2: I myself have played one of the cleverest tricks in
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: the world. It is true I am quick tempered, and
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: now and then rather too hasty. But yet when I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: have a mind to it, I can plan as many
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: tricks as any man alive. Even you shall own that
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: what I have done shows an amount of sharpness rarely
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: to be met with.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 8: Let us hear what tricks you have invented? Just now.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: Being terribly frightened upon Seint Trifalden along with my rival,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: I was casting about to find a remedy for that mischief.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: When calling all my invention to my aid, I conceived, digested,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: and perfected a stratagem before which you're yours. However vain
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: you may be of them ought undoubtedly to lower their colors.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 8: But what may this be?
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: May it's pleasing to have a little patience Without much delay,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: I invented a letter written by an imaginary nobleman to Trifalden,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: setting forth that, having fortunately heard that a certain slave
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: he lives in the latter's house and is named Celia,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: was this grandee's daughter, formerly kidnapped by thieves. It was
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: his intention to come and fetch her, and he entreats
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: him at least to keep her and take great care
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: her for that on her account, he was setting out
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: from Spain, and would acknowledge his civility by such handsome presence,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: that he should never regret being the means to making
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: him happy.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 8: Mighty well, hear me.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: Out here is something much cleverest, though the letter I
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: speak of was delivered to him. But can you imagine how,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: only just in time for the messenger told me, had
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: it not been for this droll device, a fellow who
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: looked a very foolish was waiting to carry her off
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: that identical moment.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 8: And you did all this without the help of the devil.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, would you have believed me capable of such a
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: subtle piece of wit? At least praise my skill and
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: the dexterity of which I have utterly disconcerted the scheme
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: of my arrival.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 8: To praise you as you deserve. I lack eloquence and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: fil unequal to the task. Yes, sufficiently to commend this
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 8: lofty effort, this fine stratagem of war achieved before our eyes,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 8: this grand and rare effect of a mind which plans
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 8: as many tricks as any man, which for smartness yields
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 8: to none alive. My tongue wants words. I wish I
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 8: had the abilities of the most refined scholar, so that
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 8: I might tell you, in the noblest verse, or else
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 8: in learned prose, that you will always be, in spite
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 8: of everything that may be done, the very same you
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 8: have been all your life. That is to say, a
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 8: scatter brain, a man of distempered reason, always perplexed, wanting
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 8: common sense, a man of left handed judgment, A meddler,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 8: an ass, a blindering, hair brained giddy fellow. What can
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: I think of? A hundred times worse than anything I
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 8: can say? This is only an abridgment of your panegyric A.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: Tell me what puts you in such a passion with me?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Have I done anything? Clear up this matter?
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 8: No, you have done nothing at all. But do not
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 8: come after me.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: I will follow you all over the world to find
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: out this mystery do so.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 8: Come on, then get your legs in order I shall
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 8: give you an opportunity to exercise them.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: Lilio alone, he has got away from me, Oh misfortune
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: which cannot be allayed. What am I to understand by
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: his discourse? And what harm can I possibly have done
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: to myself?
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  Speaker 1: End of Act two, Act three of The Blunderer or
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: the Counterplots by Moliere. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, Mascarille alone, silence my.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 8: Good nature and plead no more. You are a fool
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 8: and I am determined not to do it. Yes, my anger,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 8: you are right. I confess it to be forever. Doing
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 8: what a meddler undoes is showing too much patience, and
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 8: I ought to give it up after the glorious attempts
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 8: he has marred. But let us argue the matter. Awhile,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 8: without passion. If I should now give way to my
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 8: just impatience, the world will say I sank under difficulties,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 8: that my cunning was completely exhausted. What then becomes of
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: that public esteem which extols you everywhere as a first
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: rate rogue, and which you have acquired upon so many occasions,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 8: because you never yet were found wanting in invenece honor.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 8: Masqueril is a fine thing. Do not pause in your
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 8: noble labors, and whatever a master may have done to
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 8: incense you, complete your work for your own glory, and
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 8: not to oblige him. But what success can you expect
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 8: if you are thus continually crossed by your evil genius?
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 8: You see, he compels you every moment to change your tone.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 8: You may as well hold water in a sieve as
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 8: to try to stop that resistless torrent, which in a
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 8: moment overturns the most beautiful structures raised by your art. Well,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 8: once more, out of kindness, and whatever may happen, let
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 8: us take some pains, even if they are in vain. Yet,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 8: if he still persists in baffling my designs, then I
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 8: shall withdraw all assistance. After all, your affairs are not
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 8: going on badly. If we could but supplant our rival,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 8: and if Leander, at last, weary of his pursuit, would
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 8: leave us one whole day for my intended operations. Yes,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 8: I have a most ingenious plot in my head, from
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 8: which I expect a glorious success if I had no
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 8: longer that obstacle in my way. Well, let us see
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 8: if he still persists in his love.
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  Speaker 1: Scene to Leander Mascarille.
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  Speaker 8: Sir, I have lost my labor. Trufaldin will not keep
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 8: his word.
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  Speaker 3: He himself has told me her affair. But what is more,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: I have discovered that all this pretty rigmarole about Celia
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: being carried off by gypsies and having a great nobleman
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: for a father who is setting out from Spain to
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: come hither, is nothing but a mere stratagem, a merry trick,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: a made up story, a tale raised by Lelia to
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: prevent my buying Celia.
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  Speaker 8: Here is roguery for you.
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  Speaker 3: And yet this ridiculous story has produced such an impression
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: on Trufaldin, and he has swallowed the bait of this
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: shadow device so greedily that he will not allow himself
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: to be undeceived.
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  Speaker 8: So that henceforth he will watch her carefully. I do
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 8: not see we can do anything more.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: If at first I thought this girl amiable, I now
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: find her absolutely adorable. And I am in doubt whether
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: I ought not to employ extreme measures to make her
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: my own thwart her ill fortune by plighting her my troth,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: and turn her present chains into matrimonial ones.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 8: Would you marry her?
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: I am not yet determined, But if her origin is
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: somewhat obscure, her charms and her virtue are gentle attractions
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: which have incredible force to allure every heart.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: Did you not mention her virtue?
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: Ha? What is that your matter? Out with it? Explain
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: what you mean by repeating the word virtue.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 8: Sir, your countenances, all of a sudden, perhaps I had
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 8: much better hold my tongue.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, speak out.
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  Speaker 8: Well, then, out of charity, I will cure you of
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 8: your blindness. That girl proceed so far from being merciless,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 8: makes no difficulty in obliging some people in private. You
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 8: may believe me, after all, she is not stony hearted
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 8: to any one who knows how to take her in
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 8: the right mood. She looks demure, but would fain pass
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 8: for a prude. But I can speak of her on
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 8: shore grounds. You know I understand something of the craft,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 8: and ought to know that kind of cattle. What Celia, Yes,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 8: her modesty is nothing but a mere sham, the semblance
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 8: of a virtue which will never hold out, but vanishes,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 8: as one may discover before the shining rays emitted from heavens.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: What do you tell me? Can I believe such words?
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  Speaker 9: Sir?
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  Speaker 8: There is no convulsion. What does it matter to me?
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 9: No?
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 8: Pray, do not believe me? Follow your own inclination. Take
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 8: the sly girl and marry her. The whole city in
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 8: a body will acknowledge this favor. You marry the public
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 8: good in her. What a strange surprise he has taken.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 8: Debate courage, my lad. If he does but swallow it
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 8: in good earnest, we shall have got rid of a
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 8: very awkward obstruction on your path.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: This astonishing account nearly kills me. What can you go
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: to the post office and see if there is.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 12: A letter for me alone?
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: And for a while lost in thought?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: Who would not have been imposed upon? If what he
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: says be true, then there never was any countenance moll deceiving.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: Scene three, liliel Leander, What may be the cause of.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Your looking so sad? Who? I, yes, yourself?
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: I have however no occasion to be so?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: I see well enough what it is, Celia is the
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: cause of it.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: My mind does not run upon such trifles.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: And yet you had formed some grand scheme to get
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: her into your hands. But you must speak thus, as
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: your stratagem has miscarried.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: Were I fool enough to be enamored of her? I
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: should laugh at all your finess?
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: What phiness?
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: Pray good heavens, sir? We know all? Or what are
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: your actions from beginning to end?
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: This is all Greek to me. I do not understand
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: one word of it.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: Pretend if you please not understand me, but believe me.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: Do not apprehend that I shall take a property which
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: I should be sorry to dispute with you. I adore
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: a beauty has not been sullied, and do not wish
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: to love a deprave to woman?
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: Gently, gently, Leander.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, how credulous you are. I tell you once more.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: You may attend on her now without suspecting anybody. You
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: may call yourself a lady killer. It is true her
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: beauty is very uncommon, But to make amends for that
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: the rest is common enough.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: Leander, no more of this provoking language. Strive against me
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: as much as you like in order to obtain her,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: But above all things do not produce her so vilely.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: I should consider myself a great coward if I could
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: tamely submit to hear my earthly deity slandered. I can
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: much better bear your rivalry than listen to any speech
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: that touches her character.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: What I state here I have from very good authority.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: Whoever told you so is a scoundrel and a rascal.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: Nobody can discover the least blemish in this young lady.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: I know a heart well.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: But yet Mascaria is a very confident judgement such a course.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: He thinks her guilty. He he himself does.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: He pretend impudently to slander a most respectable young lady,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: thinking perhaps, oh, he'd only laugh at it. I will
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: lay you a wager he eats his words.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: I will lay you a wager he does not death.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: I would break every bone in his body should he
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: dare as such such lies.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: To me, And I will crop his ears if he
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: does not prove every syllable he has told me.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: Scene four Lilio, Leander mascariel.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: Oh that's lucky. There he is, come hire the cursed
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: hang dog. What is the matter your serpent's tongue so
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: full of lies? Dare you fasten your stings on Celia
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: and slander the most consummate virtue that ever added luster
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: to misfortune.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 8: Gently I told him so on purpose.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: No, No, none of your winking, and none of your jokes.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: I am blind and deaf to all you do or say.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: If it's were my own brother, he should pay dere
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: for it. For to dare to fame her whom I adore,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: is to wound me in the most tender part. You
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: make all these signs in vain. What was it you
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: said to him?
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 8: Good heavens, do not quarrel, or I shall leave you.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: You shall not stir a step. Oh, speak, then confess.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 8: Let me alone. I tell you it is a stratagem.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: Make haste. What was it you said? Clear up this
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: dispute between us?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 8: I said what I said. Pray, do not put yourself
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 8: in a passion.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Lilio drawing his sword, I shall make you talk in
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: another strain, Leander stopping him.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: Steal your hand a little, moderate.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: Your ardor mascariel aside, Was there.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 8: Ever in the world a creature's soul dull of understanding?
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Allow me to wreak my just vengeance on him?
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: It is rather too much to wish to chastise him
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: in my presence.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: What have I no right then to chastise my own servant.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: What do you mean by saying your servant?
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Mascariel aside, He is at it again.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 8: He will discover all.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: Suppose I had a mind of thrashing within an inch
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: of his life? What then he is my own servant
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: at present?
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: He is mine?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: That is an admirable little joke. How comes he to
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: be yours?
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: Surely?
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 8: Gently?
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 12: What are you whispering, Mascariel aside, Oh the confounded blockhead.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 8: He is going to spoil everything. He understands, not one
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 8: of my signs.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: You are dreaming, Leander, You are telling me a pretty story?
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: Is he not my servant?
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: Did you not discharge him from your service for some fault?
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Do not know what this means?
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: And did you not, in the violence of your passion,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: make his back smart most unmercifully.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: No such thing. I discharge him, cuddle him. Either you
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: make a just of me, Leander, or he has been
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: making a just of you.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 12: Mascariel Aside, go on, go on, numb scol You will
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 12: do your own business.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Effectually, Leander to Mascariel, then.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: All this cudgeling is purely imaginary.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 8: He does not know what he says.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: His memory no, no, all these signs do not look
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: well for you. I suspect some prettily contrived trick here,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: But for the ingenuity of the invention, go your ways.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: I forgive you. Is quite enough that I am undeceived.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: And see now are you imposed upon me? I come
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: off cheap because I trusted myself to your hypocritical zeal.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 3: A word to the wise is enough. Farewell, Lilio, farewell
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: you most obedient servant.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: Scene five, Lilio mascarille.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 8: Take courage, my boy, may fortune ever attend us. Let
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 8: us draw and bravely take the field. Let us act
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 8: olibrious the slayer of the innocence.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: He accused you slaundering.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 8: And you could not let the artifice pass nor let
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 8: him remain in his error, which did you good service,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 8: and which pretty nearly extinguished his passion. No, honest soul,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 8: he cannot bear dissimulation. I cunningly get a footing at
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 8: his rivals, who, like adult, was going to place his
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 8: mistress in my hands. But he lelio evince me, getting
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 8: hold of her by a fictitious letter. I try to
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 8: obeit the passion of his rival. My hero presently comes
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 8: and undeceives him. In vain. I make signs to him
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 8: and show him it was all a contrivance of mind
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 8: that signifies nothing. He continues to the end and never
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 8: rest satisfied till he has discovered all grand and sublime
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 8: effect of a mind which is not inferior to any
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 8: man living. It is an exquisite piece, and worthy entroth
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 8: to be made a present of to the King's private museum.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: I am not surprised that I do not come up
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: to your expectations. If I am not acquainted with the
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: designs you are setting on foot, I shall be forever.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 12: Making mistakes, so much the worse.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: At least, if you would be justly angry with me,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: give me a little insight into your plan. But if
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: I have kept ignorant of every contrivance, I must always
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: be caught napping.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 8: I believe you would make a very good fencing master,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 8: because you are so skillful at making feints and at
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 8: parrying of a thrust.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: Since the thing is done, let us think know more
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: about it. My rival, however, will not have it in
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: his power to cross me, and provided you will but
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: exert your skill in which I trust.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 8: Let us drop this discourse and talk of something else.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 8: I am not so easily pacified. Not I I am
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 8: in too great a passion for that. In the first place,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 8: you must do to me a service, and then we
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 8: shall see whether I ought to undertake the management of
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 8: your amours.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: If it only depends on that, I will do it.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: Tell me, have you eat of my blood of my sword?
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 8: Oh cracked brained he is. You are just like thosewashbucklers
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 8: who are always more ready to draw their sword, lord
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 8: than to produce a tester, if it were necessary to
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 8: give it.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: What can I do then?
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: For you?
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 8: You must, without delay endeavor to appease your father's anger.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: We have become reconciled already.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 8: Yes, but I am not. I killed him this morning
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 8: for your sake. The very idea of it shocks him.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 8: Those sorts of jokes are severely felt by such old
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 8: fellows as he, which much against their will, make them
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 8: reflect sadly on the near approach of death. The good Sire,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 8: notwithstanding his age, is very fond of life and cannot
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 8: bear jesting upon that subject. He is alarmed at the prognostication,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 8: and so very angry that I hear he has lodge
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 8: a complaint against me. I am afraid that if I
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 8: am once housed at the expense of the king, I
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 8: may like it so well after the first quarter of
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 8: an hour that I shall find it very difficult afterwards
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 8: to get away. There have been several warrants out against
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 8: me this good while for virtue is always envied and
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 8: persecuted in this abominable age. Therefore, go and make my
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 8: peace with your father.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, I shall soften his anger, but you must promise me.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 8: Then we shall see what there is to be done.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: Exit Lilio.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 8: Now let us take a little breath. After so many fatigues.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 8: Let us stop for a while the current of our intrigues,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 8: and not move about hither and thither as if we
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 8: were hobgoblins. Leander cannot hurt us now, and Celia cannot
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 8: be removed through the contrivance.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: Of Scene six.
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  Speaker 9: I gust Mascarille, I was looking for you everywhere to
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 9: render you a service. I have a secret of importance
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 9: to disclose what may that me. Can no one overhear us,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 9: not at all. We are as intimate as two people
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 9: can be. I am acquainted with all your projects and
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 9: the love of your master mind. What you are about.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 9: By and by, Leander has formed a plot to carry
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 9: off Celia. I have been told he has arranged everything
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 9: and designs to get into Truffledean's house in disguise. Having
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 9: heard that at this time of the year some ladies
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 9: of the neighborhood often visit him in the evening in masks.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 8: I will he has not yet reached the height of
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 8: his happiness. I may perhaps be beforehand with him, And
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 8: as to this thrust, I know how to give him
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 8: a counter thrust by which he may run himself through.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 8: He is not aware with what gifts I am endowed. Farewell,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 8: We shall take a cup together next time we meet.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: Scene seven Moscoille alone.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 8: We must, we must reap all possible benefit from this
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 8: amorous scheme, and, by a dexterous and uncommon counterplot, endeavor
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 8: to make the success our own without any danger. If
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 8: I put on a mask and be beforehand with Leander,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 8: he will certainly not laugh at us. If we take
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 8: the prize ere he comes up, he will have paid
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 8: for us the expenses of the expedition, For as his
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 8: project has already become known, suspicion will fall upon him,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 8: and we, being safe from all pursuit, need not fear
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: the consequences of that dangerous enterprise. Thus we shall not
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 8: show ourselves, but use a cat's pot to take the
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 8: chestnuts out of the fire. Now, then let us go
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 8: and disguise ourselves with some good fellows. We must not
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 8: delay if we wish to be beforehand with our gentry.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 8: I love to strike when the iron is hot, and
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 8: can without much difficulty provide in one moment. Men and
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 8: dresses depend on it. I do not let my skill
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 8: I dormant if Heaven has endowed me with the gift
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 8: of knavery. I am not one of those degenerate minds
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 8: who hide the talents they have received.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Scene eight, Lilio a guest. He intends to carry your
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: off during a masquerade.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 9: There is nothing more certain. One of his band informed
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 9: me of his design, upon which I instantly ran to
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 9: Mascarille and told him the whole affair. He said he
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 9: would spoil their sport by some counter scheme, which he
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 9: planned in an instant. So meeting with you by chance,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 9: I thought I ought to let you know the whole.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: I am very much obliged to you for this piece
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: of news.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 8: Go.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: I shall not forget this faithful service.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: Exit our guest. Scene nine, Lilio alone, my.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: Rascal will certainly play them some trick or other. But
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: I too have a mind to assist him in this project.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: It shall never be said that in a business which
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: so nearly concerns me, I stirred no more than a post.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: This is the time they will be surprised at the
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: sight of me. Why did I not take my blonderbuss
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: with me? But let anybody'd attack me? Who likes? I
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: have two good pistols and a trusty sword. So ho
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: within there a word with you?
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: Scene ten, Trifaldin at his window, Lilio, why.
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  Speaker 6: Is the matter? Who comes to pay me a visit?
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: Keep your door carefully shot tonight? Why there are certain
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: people coming masked to give you a sorry kind of
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: serenade They intend to carry off, Celia, good heavens, no
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: doubt they will soon be here. Keep where you are.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: You may see everything from your window. Hey did I
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: not tell you so? Do you not see them already?
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 12: Hissed?
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: I will affront them before your face. We shall see
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: some fine fun if they do not give way.
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  Speaker 1: Scene eleven, lili Oh, Trifaldin, Mascarriel and his company masked.
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  Speaker 6: Oh the funny blades who think to surprise me?
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: Maskers weather, so fast? Will you let me into the secret?
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: Shrifaldin pray open the door to these gentry, that they
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: may challenge us for a throw with the.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: Dice to mascar Reel disguised as a woman.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: Oh good heavens, what a pretty creature. Oh what a
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: darling she looks? How now what are you mumbling? Without offense?
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: May I remove your mask and see your face?
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 6: And you wicked rogues be gone, ye ragamuffins, and you sir,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 6: good night and many thanks.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Scene twelve, Lilio Masceriel. Lilio, after having taken the mask
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: from Masceriel's face, masqueron is that you.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 8: No, not at all? It is somebody else.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: Alas, how astonished I am? How adverse is our fate?
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: Could I possibly have guessed this? As you did not
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: secretly inform me that you are going to disguise yourself, wretch,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: that I am thoughtlessly to play you such a trick
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: while you wore this mask. I am in an awful
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: passion with myself and have a good mind to give
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: myself a sound beating farewell.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 8: Most refined, whipped, unparalleled invitive genius.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: Alas if your anger deprives me of your assistance, what
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: saint shall I invoke?
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 8: Beel zebab Ah?
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: If your heart is not made of stern or iron,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: do once more at least forgive my imprudence. If it
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: is necessary to be pardoned, then I should kneel before you.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 8: Behold fiddle sticks. Come my boys, let us away. I
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 8: hear some other people coming closely behind us.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: Scene thirteen. Leander and his company masked. Trifalden at the window.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 3: Softly, let us do nothing but in the gentlest manner.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: Trifalden at the window.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 7: Howhe is this?
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 6: What mommers besieging my door all night? Gentlemen, do not
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 6: catch a cold gratuitous lee. Every One who is catching
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 6: it here must have plenty of time to lose. It
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 6: is rather a little too late to take Celia along
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 6: with you. She begs you will excuse her to night.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 6: The girl is in bed and cannot speak to you.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 6: I am very sorry, but you repay you for all
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 6: the trouble you have taken for her sake. She begs
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 6: you will be pleased to accept this part of perfume,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 6: poor that does.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: Not smell nicely. My clothes are all spoiled. We are discovered.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 3: Let us be gone this way.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: End of Act three, Act four of The Blunderer or
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: the Counterplots by Moliere. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 1:33:36
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• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: Scene one, Lilio disguised as an Armenian mascarial.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 8: You are dressed in the most comical fashion.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: I had abandoned all hope, but you have revived it
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: again by this contrivance.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 8: My anger is always too soon over. It is vain
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 8: to swear and cura. I can never keep to my oaths.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: Be assured that, if ever it lies in my power,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: you shall be satisfied with the proofs of my gratitude.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: And though I have one piece of bread, enough, study.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 8: Well this new project. For if you commit now any blunder,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 8: you cannot lay the blame upon ignorance of the plot.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 8: You ought to know your part in the play perfectly
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 8: by heart.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: But how did Trafalson receive you.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 8: I coozened the good fellow with a pretended zeal for
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 8: his interests. I went with alacrity to tell him that
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 8: unless he took very great care. Some people would come
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 8: and surprise him that from different quarters they had designs
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 8: upon her, of whose origin a letter had given a
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 8: false account, that they would have liked to draw me
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 8: in for a share of the business, but that I
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 8: kept well out of it, and that, being full of
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 8: zeal for what's so nearly concerned him, I came to
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 8: give him timely notice that he might take his precautions.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 8: He then, moralizing, I discoursed solemnly about the many rogueries
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 8: one sees every day here below, that as for me,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 8: being tired with the world and its infamies, I wished
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 8: to work out my soul's salvation, retire from all its noise,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 8: and live with some worthy, honest man with whom I
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 8: could spend the rest of my days in peace. That
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 8: if he had no objection, I should desire nothing more
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 8: than to pass the remainder of my life with him.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 8: That I had taken such a liking to him, that,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 8: without asking for any wages to serve him, I was
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 8: ready to place in his hands, knowing it to be safe.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 8: There some property my father had left me, as well
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 8: as my savings, which I was fully determined to leave
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 8: to him alone. If it pleased Heaven to take me.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 8: Hence that was the right way to gain his affection.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 8: You and your beloved assured to decide what means to
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 8: use to attain your wishes. I was anxious to arrange
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 8: a secret interview between you two. He himself has contrived
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 8: to show me a most excellent method by which you
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 8: may fairly and openly stay in her house happening to
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 8: talk to me about a son he had lost and
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 8: whom he dreamt last night had come to life again.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 8: He told me the following story upon which just now
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 8: I founded my stratagem.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: Enough, I hear it all. You've told me twice already.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: Though Lilio says to Mascariel, enough, I know it all.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: He has not been listening to the speech of his servant,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: but in the meanwhile is arranging his dress and smoothing
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: his ruffles, and making it clear to the spectator that
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: he knows nothing and that he will be a bad
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: performer of the part assigned to him. This explains the
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: blunders he makes afterwards in the second and fifth scenes
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: of the same act.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, but even if I should tell it thrice,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 8: it may happen still that with all your conceit, you
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 8: might break down in some minor detail.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: I long to be at it already.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 8: Pray not quite so fast, for we might stumble. Your
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 8: skull is rather thick. Therefore you should be perfectly well
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 8: instructed in your part. Some time ago Twofoudon left Naples.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 8: His name was then Zenobio Roberti. Being suspected in his
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 8: native town of having participated in a certain rebellion raised
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 8: by some political faction, though really he is not a
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 8: man to disturb any state, he was obliged to quit
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 8: it stealthily by night, leave him behind him his daughter,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 8: who was very young, and his wife. Some time afterwards,
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 8: he received the news that they were both dead, and,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 8: in this perplexity, wishing to take with him to some
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 8: other town not only his property, but also the only
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 8: one who was left of all his family, his young son,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 8: a schoolboy called Horatio. He went to Bologna, where a
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 8: certain tutor named Alberto had taken the boy when very young,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 8: to finish there his education. But though for two whole
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 8: years he appointed several times to meet them, they never
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 8: made their appearance. Believing them to be dead. After so
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 8: long a time, he came to this city, where he
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 8: took the name he now bears, without for twelve years,
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 8: ever having discovered any traces of this Alberto or of
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 8: his son Horatio. This is the substance of the story,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 8: which I have repeated so that you may better remember
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 8: the groundwork of the plot. Now you are to personate
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 8: an ar meaning merchant who has seen them both safe
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 8: and sound in Turkey. If I have invented this scheme
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 8: in preference to any other of bringing them to life
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 8: again according to his dream, it is because it is
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 8: very common in adventures for people to be taken at
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 8: sea by some Turkish pirate, and afterwards restored to their
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 8: families in the very nick of time, when thought lost
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 8: for fifteen or twenty years. For my part, I have
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 8: heard a hundred of that kind of stories, without giving
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 8: ourselves the trouble of inviitting something fresh. Let us make
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 8: use of this one. What does it matter? You must
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 8: say you heard the story of their being made slaves
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 8: from their own mouths, and also that you lent them
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 8: money to pay their ransom, and that as urgent business
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 8: obliged you to set out before them. Horatio asked you
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 8: to go and visit his father here whose adventures he
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 8: was acquainted with, and with whom you were to stay
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 8: a few days till their arrival. I have given you
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 8: a long lesson.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: Now these repetitions are superfluous from the very beginning, I honest,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: did it all.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 8: I shall go in and prepare the way.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: Listen, Matre, there was only one thing that troubles me.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: I suppose he should ask me to describe his son's countenance.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 8: There is no difficulty in answering that. You know he
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 8: was very little when he saw him last. Besides, it
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 8: is very likely that increase of years and slavery have
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 8: completely changed him.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: That is true. But pray, if he should remember my face,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: what must I do?
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 8: Then you have no memory at all. I told you
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 8: just now that he has merely seen you for a minute,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 8: that therefore you could only have produced a very tranchant
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 8: impression on his mind. Besides, your beard and dress disguise
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 8: you completely very well.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: But now I think of it, what part of Turkey?
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 8: It is all the same, I tell you, Turkey or Barbary.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, but what is the name of the town I
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: saw them in?
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 8: Tunis? I think he will keep me till night, he
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 8: tells me it is useless to repeat that name so often,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 8: and I have already mentioned it a dozen times.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: Go go in and Pa matters. I want nothing more.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 8: Be cautious, at least enact wisely. Let us have none
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 8: of your inventions here.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 2: Let me alone. Trust to me, I say once more.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 8: Observe Horatio, a schoolboy in Bologna, trufaldin his true name
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 8: Zanobio Roberti, a citizen in Naples. The tutor was called Alberto.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: You make me blush by preaching so much to me?
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: Do you think I am a fool?
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 8: No, not completely, but something very like it.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: Scene two Lilio alone.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: When I do not stand in need of him, he cringes.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: But now, because he very well knows of how much
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: use he is to me, his familiarity indulges in such
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: remarks as he just now made. I shall bask in
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: the Sanchoine, in those beautiful eyes which hold me in
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: so sweet captivity, and without hindrance, depict in the most
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 2: glaring colors that torches. I feel I shall then know
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: my fate. But heavey a.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: Scene three Trifaldin Lilio Mascariel.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Righteous Heaven for this favorable turn of my fortune.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 8: You are the man to see visions and dreams dreams.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 8: Since you prove how untrue is the saying that dreams
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 8: are falsehoods?
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 6: How can I thank you? What returns can I make you? Sir,
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 6: you whom I ought to style the messenger sent from
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 6: heaven to announce my happiness.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: These compliments are superfluous. I can dispense with them.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: Trifaldin to Mascariel.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 6: I have seen somebody like this Armenian, but I do
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 6: not know where.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 8: That is what I was saying. But one sees surprising likenesses.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 6: Sometimes you have seen that son of mine in whom
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 6: all my hopes are centered.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, Signu Trifaldin. And he was as well as well
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: can be.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 6: He related to you his life and spoke much about me,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 6: did he not.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: More than ten thousand times?
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 8: Not quite so much, I should say.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: He described it just as I see you your face
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: your gaze.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 6: Is that possible? He has not seen me since he
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 6: was seven years old, and even his tutor, after so
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 6: long a time would scarcely know my face again.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 8: One's own flesh and blood, never forget the image of
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 8: one's relations. This likeness is imprinted so deeply that my.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 6: Father, hold your tongue. Where was it you left him
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 6: in Turkey? A turin Turin? But I thought that town
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 6: was in Piedmont.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 12: Oh that dunce to Trifaldin, you.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 8: Do not understand him. He means Tunis. It was in
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 8: reality there he left your son. But the Armenians always
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 8: have a certain vicious pronunciation which seems very harsh to us.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 8: The reason of it is because in all their words
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 8: they change nis into urin, and so instead of saying tunis,
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 8: they pronounced turin.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 6: I ought to know this in order to understand him.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 6: Did he tell you in what way you could meet
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 6: with his father?
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 8: What answer will he give?
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: Trifaldin, having found out that Mascarille makes signs to his master,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: the servant pretends to fence. To Trifaldin. After pretending to fence, I.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 8: Was just practicing some passes I have handled the foils
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 8: in many a fencing.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: School, Trifaldin to Mascariel.
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  Speaker 6: That is not the thing I wish to know. Now, Telilio,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 6: what other name did you say? I went by ah.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 8: As senor as a Robert. How glad you ought to
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 8: be for what heaven sends you?
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 2: That is your real name the others assumed.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 6: But where did he tell you he first saw the light?
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 8: Naples seems a very nice place, but you must feel
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 8: a decided aversion to it.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 6: Can you not let us go on with our conversation
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 6: without interrupting us?
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: Naples is the place where he first drew his breath?
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 6: Whither did I send him in his infancy? And under whose.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 8: Care that poor Albert behaved? Very well? For having accompanied
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 8: your son from Bologna, whom you committed to his care.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: Pshaw Mascarille aside.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 8: Oh, we are undone. If this conversation lasts long, I.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 6: Should very much like to know their adventures aboard what
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 6: ship did my adverse fate?
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 8: I do not know what is the matter with me?
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 8: I do nothing but yond but signor Trufalden. Perhaps this
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 8: stranger may want some refreshment. Besides, it grows late.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: No refreshment for me.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 8: Oh, sir, you are more hungry than you imagine.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 6: Please to walk in then after you.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: Sir Mascarille, to Trifaldin.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 8: Sir in Armenia, the masters of the house use no
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 8: ceremony to.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: Lilio after Trafalden has gone in.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 8: Poor fellow, have you not a word to say for yourself.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: He surprised me at first, but never fear. I have
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: rallied my spirits and am going to rattle away boldly.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 8: Here comes our rival, who knows nothing of our plot.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: They go into Trafaldin's house seene for Anselmo Leander.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 4: Stay leander, and allow me to tell you something which
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 4: concerns your peace and reputation. I do not speak to
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 4: you as the father of Hippolyta, as a man interested
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 4: for my own family, but as your father, anxious for
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 4: your welfare, without wishing to flatter you or to disguise anything.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 4: In short, openly and honestly, as I would wish a
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 4: child of mind to be treated upon the like occasion.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 4: Do you know how everybody regards this amour of yours,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 4: which in one night has burst forth, How your yesterday's
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 4: undertaking is everywhere talked of and ridiculed. What people think
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 4: of the whim which they say has made you select
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 4: for a wife a gipsy outcast, a strolling wench whose
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 4: noble occupation was only begging. I really blushed for you,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 4: even than I did for myself, who am also compromised
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 4: by this public scandal. Yes, I am compromised. I say, I,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 4: whose daughter, being engaged to you, cannot bear to see
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 4: her slight it without taking offense at it for shamely
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 4: and arise from your humiliation, consider well your infatuation. If
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 4: none of us are wise at all times, Yet the
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 4: shortest errors are always the best. When a man receives
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 4: no dowry with his wife, but beauty only, repentance follows
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 4: soon after wedlock, and the handsomest woman in the world
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 4: can hardly defend herself against the look warmness caused by possession.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 4: I repeat it. Those ferv interruptures, so youthful orders and
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: ecstasies may make us pass a few agreeable nights, but
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 4: this bliss is not at all lasting, And as our
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 4: passions grow cool, very unpleasant days follow those pleasant nights.
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 4: Hence precede cares, anxieties, miseries, sons disinherited through their father's
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 4: or wrath.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 3: Or that I now hear from you is no more
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 3: than what my own reason has already suggested to me.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 3: I know how much I am obliged to you for
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 3: the great honor you are inclined to pay me the
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 3: which I am unworthy in spite of the passion which
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 3: sways me. I have ever retained the just sense of
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 3: your daughter's merit and virtue. Therefore I will endeavor.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 4: Somebody is opening this door. Let us retire to a distance,
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 4: lest some contagions spreads from it, which may attack you suddenly.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: Scene five milio, mascarille.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 8: We shall soon see our roguery miscarry if you persist
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 8: in such palpable blunders.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: Must I always hear your rupprimands? What can you complain of?
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 2: Have I noted on adorably since only middling?
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 8: For example, you called the Turks heretics, and you affirmed
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 8: on your corporal oath that they worshiped the Sun and
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 8: Moon as their gods. Let that pass. What vexes me
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 8: most is that when you are with Celia you strangely
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 8: forget yourself. Your love is like porridge, which, by too
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 8: fierce a fire swells, bounce up to the brim, and
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 8: runs over everywhere.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: Could anyone be more resolved as yet I have hardly
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: spoken to her.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 8: You are right, but it is not enough to be silent.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 8: You had not been a moment at table till your
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 8: gestures roused more suspicion than other people would have excited
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 8: in a whole twelvemonth hausea. How so everybody might have
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 8: seen it. At table where Trufaldin made her sit down,
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 8: you never kept your eyes off her, blushed, looked quite silly,
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 8: cast sheep eyes at her, without ever minding what you
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 8: were helped to. You were never thirsty, But when she
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 8: drank and took the glass eagerly from her hands, and
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 8: without rinsing it or throwing the drop of it away,
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 8: you drank what was left in it, and seemed to
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 8: choose in preference that side of the glass which her
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 8: lips had touched. Upon every piece which her slender hand
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 8: had touched, or which she had bit, you laid your
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 8: paws quickly as a cat does upon a mouse, and
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 8: you swallowed it as glibly as if you were a
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 8: regular glutton. Then, besides all this, you made an intolerable
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 8: noise shuffling with your feet under the table, for which Trufaldin,
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 8: who received two lusty kicks twice, punished a couple of
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 8: innocent dogs who would have growled at you if they dared.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 8: And yet in spite of all of this, you say
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 8: you behaved. Finally, for my part, I set upon forms
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 8: all the time notwithstanding the cold I feel even now
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 8: in a perspiration. I hung over you, just as a
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 8: bowler does over his bowl after he has thrown it,
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 8: and thought to restrain your actions by contorting my body.
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 8: Ever so many times.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: Lack a day. How easy it is for you to
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 2: condemn things of which you do not feel the enchanting
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: cause in order to humor you. For once, I have
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: nevertheless a good mind to put a restraint upon that
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: love which sways me.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: Henceforth, Scene six, Trifaldin Lilio Mascarille.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 8: We were speaking about your son's adventures.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 6: Then, to Lilio, you did quite right. Will you do
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 6: me the favor of letting me have one word when
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 6: private with him?
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 2: I should be very rude if I did not.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: Lilio goes in to Trifalden's house. Scene seven, Trafalden Mascarille.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 6: Hark ye, do you know what I have just been doing?
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 9: No?
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 8: But if you think it proper, I shall certainly not
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 8: remain long in ignorance.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 6: I have just now cut off from a large and
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 6: sturdy oak of about two hundred years old, an admirable
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 6: branch selected on purpose of tolerable thickness, of which immediately
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 6: upon the spot, I made a cudgel about yes.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: Of this size, showing his arm not so.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 6: Thick at one end as at the other, but fitter,
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 6: I imagine than thirty switches to belabor the shoulders withal.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 6: For it is well poised, green, naughty and heavy.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 8: But pray for whom is all this preparation?
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 6: For yourself, first of all, and then secondly for that
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 6: fellow who wishes to palm one person upon me and
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 6: took me out of another. For this Armenian, this merchant
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 6: in disguise, introduced by a lying and pretended story. What
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 6: you do not believe, do not try to find an excuse.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 6: He himself fortunately discovered his own stratagem by telling Celia
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 6: while he squeezed her hand at the same time, that
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 6: it was for her sake alone. He came disguised in
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 6: this manner. He did not perceive Jeannette, my little god daughter,
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 6: who overheard every word he said. Though your name was
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 6: not mentioned. I do not doubt, but you are a
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 6: cursed accomplice in all this.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 8: Indeed, you wrong me. If you are real deceived, believe me.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 8: I was the first imposed upon with his story.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 6: Would you convince me you speak the truth, assist me
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 6: in giving him a sound drubbing and driving him away.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 6: Let us give it the rascal well, and then I
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 6: will acquit you of all participation in this piece of rascality.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 8: I I with all my soul, I will dust his
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 8: jacket for him so soundly that you shall see I
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 8: had no hand in the matter.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: Aside, ah, you shall have a.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 8: Good looking mister Armenian who always spoil everything.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: Scene eight Lilio Trufaldin. Mascarille Trufaldin knocks at his door
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: and then addresses Lilio a word.
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 6: With you, if you please, so, mister cheat, you have
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 6: the assurance to fool the respectable man and make a
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 6: game of him.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 8: To pretend to have seen his son abroad in order
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 8: to get the more easily into his house.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: Trifalden beating Lilo, go away, Go away immediately, Lilio.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: To Mascariel, who beats him likewise, Oh, you scoundrel.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 8: It is thus the rogue's villain I've served here. Keep
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 8: that for my sake.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: What is a gentleman Mascariel beating him and driving him off?
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 8: March off, be gone, I tell you, or I shall
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 8: break all the bones in your body.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 6: I am delighted with this. Come in, I am satisfied.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: Mascariel follows Trifalden into his house, Lilio returning this to me, to.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: Be as affronted by a servant. Could I have thought
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: the wretch would have Dad thost Ill treat.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: His master Mascariel from Trifalden's window.
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 8: May I take the liberty to ask how your shoulders are?
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 9: What?
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: How the impudence still to address me?
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 8: Now see what it is not to have perceived Jeannette
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 8: and to have always a babbling tongue in your head. However,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 8: this time I am not angry with you. I have
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 8: done cursing and swearing at you, though you behave very imprudently.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 8: Yet my hand has made your shoulders pay for your fault.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 9: Ha.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: I shall be revenged on you for your treacherous behavior.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 8: You yourself, were the cause of all this mischief. I ah,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 8: if you had a grain of sense when you were
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 8: talking to your idol, you would have perceived Jeannette at
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 8: your heels, whose sharp ears overheard the whole affair?
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: Could anybody possibly catch one word I spoke to Celia?
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 8: And what else was the cause? Why? You were suddenly
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 8: turned out of doors. Yes, you are shut out by
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 8: your own tittle tattle. I do not know whether you
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 8: play often at piquet. You at least throw your cards
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 8: away in an admirable manner.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: Oh are you are the most unhappy of all men?
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 2: But why did you drive me away? Also?
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 8: I never did better than in acting thus by these means,
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 8: at least I prevent all suspicion of my being the
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 8: inventor or an accomplice of this stratagem.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: But you should have laid it on more gently.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 8: I was no such fool, tufoald, and watch me most narrowly. Besides,
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 8: I must tell you, under the pretense of being of
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 8: use to you, I was not at all displeased to
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 8: vent my spleen. However, the thing is done, And if
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 8: you will give me your word of honor, never directly
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 8: or indirectly to be revenged on me for the blows
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 8: on the back I so heartily gave you, I promise you,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 8: by the help of my present station, to satisfy your
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 8: wishes within these two nights.
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 2: Though you have treated me very harshly. Yet what would
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 2: not such a promise prevail.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 8: Upon me to do you promise, then, yes, I do,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 8: But that is not all. Promise never to meddle in
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 8: anything I take in hand I do. If you break
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 8: your word, may you get the cold shivers?
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 2: Then keep it with me, and don't forget my uneasiness.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 8: Go and change your dress and rub something on your back.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 2: Lilio alone, will oh luck always follow me and heave
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 2: upon me one misfortune after another.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: Mascariel coming out of Trifaldin's house.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 8: What not gone yet? Hints immediately, But above all, be
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 8: sure you don't trouble your head about anything. Be satisfied
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 8: that I am on your side. Do not make the
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 8: least attempt to assist me.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 2: Remain quiet, Lilio going, yes, to be sure, I will
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 2: remain quiet.
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: Mascariel alone.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 8: Now let me see what course I am to steer.
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: Scene nine August, Mascarille.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 9: Mascarille, I come to tell you a piece of news
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 9: which will give a cruel blow to your projects. At
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  Speaker 9: the very moment I am talking to you, a young
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  Speaker 9: gipsy who nevertheless is no black and looks like a gentleman,
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  Speaker 9: has arrived with a very wan looking old woman, and
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  Speaker 9: is to call upon truffledan to purchase the slave you
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  Speaker 9: wish to redeem. He seems to be very anxious to
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  Speaker 9: get possession of her.
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  Speaker 8: Doubtless it is the lover Celias book about wherever fortunes
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  Speaker 8: so tangled us ours. No sooner have we got rid
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  Speaker 8: of one trouble than we fall into another. In vain
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  Speaker 8: do we hear that Leander and tends to abandon his
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  Speaker 8: pursuit and to give us no further trouble. That the
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  Speaker 8: unexpected arrival of his father has turned the skills in
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  Speaker 8: favor of Hippolyta. That the old gentleman has employed his
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  Speaker 8: parental authority to make a thorough change, And that the
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  Speaker 8: marriage contract is going to be signed this very day,
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  Speaker 8: as soon as one rival withdraws another, and a more
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  Speaker 8: dangerous one starts up to destroy what little hope there
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  Speaker 8: was left. However, by a wonderful strateagem, I believe I
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  Speaker 8: shall be able to delay their departure and gain what
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  Speaker 8: time I want to put the Vinishi stroke to this
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  Speaker 8: famous affair, A great robbery has lately been committed by
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  Speaker 8: whom nobody knows. These gypsies have not generally the reputation
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  Speaker 8: of being very honest. Upon this slight suspicion. I will
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  Speaker 8: cleverly get the fellow imprisoned for a few days. I
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  Speaker 8: know some officers of justice open to a bride, who
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  Speaker 8: will not hesitate on such an occasion. Reedy and expecting
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  Speaker 8: some present, there is nothing they will not attempt with
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  Speaker 8: their eyes shut. Be the accused, ever so innocent. The
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  Speaker 8: purse is always criminal and must pay for the offense.
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  Speaker 1: And of Act four, Act five of the Blunderer or
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  Speaker 1: Scene one mascarille er.
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  Speaker 8: Guest ah blockhead, numskull, idiot. Will you never leave off
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 8: persecuting me?
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  Speaker 9: The Constable took great care. Everything was going on smoothly.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 9: The fellow would have been in jail had not your
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  Speaker 9: master come up at very moment and like a madman,
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  Speaker 9: spoiled your plot. I cannot suffer, says he in a
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 9: loud voice, that a respectable man should be dragged to
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  Speaker 9: prison in this disgraceful manner. I will be responsible for
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 9: him from his very looks, and will be his bail,
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  Speaker 9: and as they refuse to let him go, he immediately
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  Speaker 9: and so vigorously attacked the officers, who are a kind
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  Speaker 9: of people much afraid of their carcasses, that even at
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 9: this very moment they are running, and every man thinks
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 9: he has got a Lailio at his heels.
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  Speaker 8: The fool does not know that this gypsy is in
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 8: the house already to carry off his treasure.
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  Speaker 9: Goodbye, business obliges me to leave.
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  Speaker 1: You, seem too Mascoville alone.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, this less marvelous accident quite stuns me, one would think,
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  Speaker 8: and I have no doubt of it, that this bungling
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 8: devil which possesses Lilio takes delight in defying me and
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  Speaker 8: leads him into every place where his presence can do mischief.
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 8: Yet I shall go on, and notwithstanding all these buffets
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 8: of fortune, try who will carry the day. Celia has
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 8: no aversion to him, and looks upon her departure with
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 8: great regret. I must endeavor to improve this opportunity. Ah,
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  Speaker 8: but here they come. Let me consider how I shall
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  Speaker 8: execute my plan. Yonder furnished house is at my disposal,
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 8: and I can do what I like with it. If
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 8: fortune but favors us, all will go well. Nobody lives
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  Speaker 8: there but myself, and I keep the key. Good Heavens,
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  Speaker 8: what a great many adventures have befallen us, and so
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  Speaker 8: shorter time, and what numerous disguises a rogue is obliged
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  Speaker 8: to put.
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  Speaker 1: On scene three, Celia Andres And you know.
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  Speaker 7: It, Celia, I have left nothing and done to approve
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  Speaker 7: the depth of my passion. When I was but very young,
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  Speaker 7: my courage in the wars gained me some consideration among
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 7: the Venetians, and one time or rather, and without having
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 7: too great an opinion of myself, I might had I
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  Speaker 7: continued in their service, have risen to some employment of distinction.
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 7: But for your sake I abandoned everything. The sudden change
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 7: you produced in my heart was quickly followed by your
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 7: lover joining the Gypsies. Neither a great many adventures nor
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  Speaker 7: your indifference have been able to make me abandoned my pursuit.
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  Speaker 7: Since your time, being by an accident, separated from you
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  Speaker 7: much longer than I could have foreseen, I spared neither
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 7: time nor pains to meet with you again. At last
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 7: I discovered the Gypsy woman and heard from her that
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  Speaker 7: for a certain sum of money, which was then of
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  Speaker 7: great consequence to the Gypsies, and prevented the dissolution of
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  Speaker 7: the whole band. You are left in, pledged in this neighborhood.
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  Speaker 7: Full of impatience, I flew hither immediately to break these
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  Speaker 7: mercenary chains and to receive from you whatever commands you
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  Speaker 7: might be pleased to give. But when I thought to Sigio,
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 7: sparkle in your eyes, I've found your pensive and melancholy.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 7: If quietness has charms for you, I have sufficient means
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 7: that venus of the spoils taken in war for us
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  Speaker 7: both to live there. But if I must still follow
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  Speaker 7: you as before, I will do so, and my heart
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  Speaker 7: shall have no other ambition than to surreal in whatever
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  Speaker 7: manner you please.
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  Speaker 10: You openly display your affection for me. I should be
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 10: ungrateful not to be sensible of it. Besides, just now
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  Speaker 10: my countenance does not bear the impress of the feelings
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  Speaker 10: of my heart. My looks show that I have a
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  Speaker 10: violent headache. If I have the least influence over you, you
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  Speaker 10: would allay our voyage for at least three or four
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  Speaker 10: days until my indisposition has passed away.
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  Speaker 7: I shall stay as long as you like. I only
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  Speaker 7: wish to please you. Let us look for a house
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  Speaker 7: where you may be comfortable. Oh, here is a bill.
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  Speaker 7: Just stop at the right time.
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  Speaker 1: Scene four Celia Andres Mascarille disguised as a Swiss.
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  Speaker 7: Monsieur, are you the master of the house?
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  Speaker 8: I am at your service.
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  Speaker 7: Can do we lodge here?
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  Speaker 8: Yes? I let furnished lodging too. Strangers, but only two
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  Speaker 8: respectable people.
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  Speaker 7: Suppose your house has a very good reputation.
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  Speaker 8: I see by your face you are a stranger in
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 8: this town.
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  Speaker 7: I yum.
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  Speaker 8: Are you the husband of this lady?
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  Speaker 7: Sir?
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  Speaker 8: Is she your wife or your sister?
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  Speaker 7: Neither?
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  Speaker 8: Upon my words, he is very pretty. Do you do
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 8: you come on business? Or have you a lossuit going
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  Speaker 8: on before the court? A lowsuit is a very bad thing.
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  Speaker 8: It costs so much money. The solicitor is a thief
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  Speaker 8: and a barrister a rogue.
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  Speaker 7: I do not come for either of these.
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  Speaker 8: You have brought this young lady then to walk about
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  Speaker 8: and to see the town.
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  Speaker 7: What is that to you? To Celia, I shall be
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 7: with you again in the one moment. I am going
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  Speaker 7: to fetch the old woman presently and tell them not
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  Speaker 7: to send a traveling carriage, which she was ready.
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  Speaker 8: Is the lady quite well?
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 7: She has an headache.
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  Speaker 8: I have some good wine and cheese within. Walk in.
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  Speaker 8: Go into my small house.
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  Speaker 1: Celia Andres and askarial go into the house. Scene five
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  Speaker 1: Lilio alone.
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  Speaker 2: However impatient and excited, I may feel, yet I my
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 2: word to do nothing but wait quietly, to let another
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  Speaker 2: work for me, and to see without daring to stir
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: in what manner heaven will change my destiny?
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  Speaker 1: Scene six Andres Lilio. Lilio addressing Andres, who is coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the house?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to see anybody in this house?
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  Speaker 7: I have just taken some furnished apartments. They are the.
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  Speaker 2: House belongs to my father, and my servant sleeps there
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  Speaker 2: every night to take.
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  Speaker 4: Care of it.
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  Speaker 7: I know nothing of that. The bill at least shows
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  Speaker 7: it to be let read it.
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  Speaker 2: Truly, this surprises me. I confess who the deuce can
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 2: have put that bill up? And why? Oh faith, I
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: can guess pretty near what it means. This cannot possibly proceed,
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 2: but from the quarter, I surmise.
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  Speaker 7: Nay, I ask what affair this may be.
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  Speaker 2: I would keep it careful from anybody else, but it
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 2: can be of no consequence to you, and you will
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 2: not mention it to anyone without doubt that Bill can
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 2: be nothing else but an invention of the servant. I
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 2: spoke of nothing but some cunning plot he has hatched
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 2: to place into my hands a certain gipsy girl with
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 2: whom I'm smitten and of whom I wish to obtain possession.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 2: I have already attempted this several times, but until now
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 2: in vain.
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  Speaker 7: What is her name?
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 2: Celia?
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 7: What do you say? Had you but mentioned this? Nor
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 7: that I should have said? You all the trouble this
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 7: project costs you?
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  Speaker 2: How so do you know her?
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 7: It is I who just now bought her from her master.
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  Speaker 2: You surprise me, as the.
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 7: State of her health did not allow her to live
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 7: this town. I just took these apartments for her, and
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  Speaker 7: I am very glad that on this occasion you have
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 7: me with your intentions.
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  Speaker 2: What shall I obtain the happiness I hope for by
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 2: your means?
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  Speaker 4: Could you?
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  Speaker 1: Andres knocks at.
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  Speaker 7: The door, Your shall'll be satisfied immediately?
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  Speaker 2: What can I say to you?
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  Speaker 9: And what?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks?
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  Speaker 7: No? Give me none? I will have none?
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: Scene seven Lilio Andres mascaril mascariel aside.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, is this not my mad cap master. He will
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 8: make another blunder who would have known him.
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: In this grotesque dress. Come hither, Mascarrel, You are welcome.
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  Speaker 8: I am a man of honor. I am not Mascaril.
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  Speaker 8: I have never debauched any married or unmarried woman.
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 2: What funny, gibbrush, It is really very good.
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 8: Go about your business and do not laugh at me.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 2: You can take off your dress, recognize your master.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 8: Upon my word, by other saints, I never knew you.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 2: Everything is settled. Disguise yourself no longer.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 8: If you do not go away, I will give you
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 8: a slap in the face.
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 2: Your Swiss jargon is needless, I tell you, for we
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: are agreed, and his generosity lays me under an obligation.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 2: I have all I can wish, for you have no
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 2: reason to be under any farther apprehension.
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 8: If you are agreed, by great good luck, I will
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 8: no longer play the Swiss and become myself again.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 7: This valet of yours serves you with much zeal. Stay little,
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 7: I will return presently.
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: Scene eight liliel Mascarille.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what do you.
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  Speaker 8: Say now that I am delighted to see our labors
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 8: crowned with success?
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 2: You are hesitating to doff your disguise. I could hardly
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 2: believe me.
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 8: As I know you. I was rather afraid, and still
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 8: find the adventure very astonishing.
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 2: But confess, however, that I have done great things. At
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 2: least I have now made demands for all my blonders.
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 2: My will be the honor of having finished the work.
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 8: Be it so you have been much more lucky than wise.
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  Speaker 1: See nine, Celia Andres Lilio Mascarille.
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  Speaker 7: Is not this the lady you was speaking of? Tolnay?
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 2: Heavens, what happiness can be equal to mine?
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 7: It is true. I am indebted to you for the
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 7: kindness you have shown me. I should be much to
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 7: blame if I did not acknowledge it. But this kindness
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 7: would be too dearly bought, were I to repair it
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 7: at the expense of my heart. Judge by the rapture
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 7: her beauty causes me whether I oughte to this, Judge,
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 7: my tip to you. You're at such a price. You
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 7: are generous and would not have me at Thus, farewell,
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 7: let us return whence we came, and stay there for
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 7: a few days.
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  Speaker 1: He leads Celia away. Scene ten.
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  Speaker 12: Lilie Mascoville, I am laughing, and yet I have little
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  Speaker 12: inclination to it.
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  Speaker 8: You too, are quite of the same mind. He gives
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 8: Celia to you him. You understand me, sir, this.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 2: Is too much. I am determined no longer to ask
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  Speaker 2: you to assist me. It is useless. I'm a puppy,
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 2: a ratch, a detestable blockhead, not worthy of anyone taking
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 2: any trouble for me, incapable of doing anything. Abandon all
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 2: endeavors to aid an unfortunate wretch who will not allow
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 2: himself to be made happy after so many misfortunes, after
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 2: all my imprudent actions, death alone shall aid.
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  Speaker 1: Me Scene eleven Mascariel alone.
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 8: That is the true way of putting the finishing stroke
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 8: to his fate. He wants nothing now but to die,
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 8: to crown all his follies. But in vain, his indignation
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 8: for all the faults he has committed, urges him to
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 8: renounce my aid and my support. I intend happen what
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 8: will to serve him in spite of himself, and vanquish
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 8: the very devil that possesses him. The greater the obstacle,
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 8: the greater the glory, And the difficulties which beset us
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 8: are but a kind of tire women who deck and
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 8: adorn Virtue.
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: Scene twelve, Celia Mascariel, Celia to Mascariel, who has been
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: whispering to her.
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  Speaker 10: Whatever you may say, and whatever they intend doing, I
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 10: have no great expectation from this delay. What we have
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 10: seen hitherto may indeed convince us that they are not
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 10: as yet likely to agree. I have already told you
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 10: that a heart like mine will not, for the sake
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 10: of one do an injustice to another, and that I
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 10: find myself strongly attached to both, though by different ties.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 10: If Lilio has love and its power on his side,
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 10: Andre has gratitude pleading for him, which will not permit
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 10: even my most secret thoughts ever to harbor anything against
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 10: his interests. Yes, if he has no longer a place
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 10: in my heart, if the gift of my hand must
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 10: not crown his love, I ought at least to reward
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 10: that which he has done for me by not choosing
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 10: another in contempt of his flame, and suppress my own
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 10: inclinations in the same manner as I do his. You
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 10: have heard the difficulties which duty throws in my way,
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 10: and you can judge now whether your expectation will be realized.
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 8: To speak the truth They are very formidable obstacles in
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 8: our way, and I have not the neck of working miracles.
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 8: But I will do my utmost move heaven and earth,
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 8: leave no stone unturned to try and discover some happy expedient.
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 8: I shall soon let you know what can be done.
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: Scene thirteen, Hippolyta Celia.
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 11: Ever since you came among us, the ladies of this
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 11: neighborhood may well complain of the have it caused by
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 11: your eyes, since you deprive them of the greatest part
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 11: of their conquests and make all their lovers faithless. There
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 11: is not a heart which can escape the darts with
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 11: which you pierce them. As soon as they see you.
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 11: Many thousands load themselves with your chains and seem to
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 11: enrich you daily at our expense. However, as regards myself,
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 11: I should make no complaints of the irresistible sway of
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 11: your exquisite charms, had they left me one of my
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 11: lovers to console me for the loss of the others.
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 2: But it is.
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 11: Inhuman in you that without mercy you deprive me of all.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 11: I cannot forbear complaining to you.
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 10: You rarely in a charming manner, but I beseech you
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 10: to spare me a little. Those eyes, those very eyes
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 10: of yours, know their own power too well ever to
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 10: dread anything that I am able to do. They are
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 10: too conscious of their own charms, and will never entertain
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 10: similar feelings of fear.
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 11: Yet I advance nothing in what I have said which
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 11: has not already entered the mind of every one, And
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 11: without mentioning anything else, it is well known that Celia
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 11: has made a deep impression on the Ender and on Lilio.
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 10: I believe you will easily console yourself about their loss,
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 10: since they have become so infatuated. Nor can you regret
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 10: a lover who could make so ill a choice.
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 11: On the contrary, I am of quite a different opinion,
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 11: and discover such great merits in your beauty, and seeing
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 11: it's so many reasons sufficient to excuse the inconstancy of
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 11: those who allow themselves to be attracted by it, that
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 11: I cannot blame Leander for having changed his love and
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 11: broken his plighted trophe in a short time, and without
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 11: either hatred or anger. I shall see him again brought
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  Speaker 11: under my sway, when his father shall have exercised his authority.
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  Speaker 1: Scene fourteen Celia Hippolyta Mascarielle.
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  Speaker 8: Great news great news, a wonderful event. I am now
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  Speaker 8: going to tell you what means this. Listen, this is,
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  Speaker 8: without any compliments, what the last scene of a true
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  Speaker 8: and genuine comedy. The old gipsy woman was but this
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  Speaker 8: very moment, well crossing the marketplace, thinking about nothing at all,
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  Speaker 8: when another old woman, very haggard looking, after having closely
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  Speaker 8: stared at her for some time, hoarsely broke out in
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  Speaker 8: a torrent of abusive language, and thus gave the signal
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  Speaker 8: for a furious combat, in which instead of swords, muskets,
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  Speaker 8: daggers or arrows, nothing was seen but four withered paws
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  Speaker 8: brandished in the air, with which these two combatants endeavored
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  Speaker 8: to tear off the little flesh old age had left
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  Speaker 8: on their bones. Not a word was heard, but drab
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  Speaker 8: wretch troll their caps to begin with, were flying about
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  Speaker 8: and left a couple of bald pates exposed to view,
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  Speaker 8: which rendered the battle ridiculously horrible. The noise in the
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  Speaker 8: hubbub andres and to Frawden, as well as many others
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  Speaker 8: ran to see what was the matter, and had much
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  Speaker 8: ado to part them, so excited were they by passion. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 8: each of them, when the storm was abated endeavored to
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  Speaker 8: hide her head with shame. Everybody wished to know the
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  Speaker 8: cause of this ridiculous pray. She who first began it, having,
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  Speaker 8: notwithstanding the wrath of her passion, looked for some time
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  Speaker 8: at Trufaldin, said in a loud voice, it is you,
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  Speaker 8: Unless my sight misgives me who I was informed lived
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  Speaker 8: privately in this town. Most happy meeting, Yes, signor Zanobio
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  Speaker 8: ROBERTI fortune made me find you out at the very
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  Speaker 8: moment I was giving myself so much trouble for your
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  Speaker 8: sake when you left your family at Naples. Your daughter,
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  Speaker 8: as you know, remained under my care. I brought her
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  Speaker 8: up from her youth when she was only four years old.
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  Speaker 8: She showed already in a thousand different ways what charms
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  Speaker 8: and beauty she would have. That woman you see there,
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  Speaker 8: that infamous hag, who had rather become intimate with us,
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  Speaker 8: robbed me of that treasure. Your good lady Alas felt
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  Speaker 8: so much grief at this misfortune that, as I have
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  Speaker 8: reason to believe, it shortened her days, so that, fearing
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  Speaker 8: your severe reproaches because your daughter had been stolen from me,
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  Speaker 8: I sence you word that both were dead. But now
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  Speaker 8: as I have found out the thief, she must tell
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  Speaker 8: us what has become of your child? At the name
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  Speaker 8: of Zambonio Roberte, which she repeated several times throughout the story,
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  Speaker 8: andres after changing color, often addressed to the surprise Trifoul
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  Speaker 8: in these words, what has Heaven most happily brought me
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  Speaker 8: to him whom I have hitherto sought in Vain? Can
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  Speaker 8: I possibly have beheld my father, the author of my being?
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  Speaker 8: Without knowing him? Yes, Father, I am Horatio, your son,
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  Speaker 8: my tutor Albert. Having died, I felt a new certain
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  Speaker 8: uneasiness in my mind. Left Bologna, and, abandoning my studies,
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  Speaker 8: wandered about for six years in different places, according as
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  Speaker 8: my curiosity led me. However, after the expiration of that time,
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  Speaker 8: a secret impulse drove me to revisit my kindred and
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  Speaker 8: my native country. But in Naples, Alas, I could no
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  Speaker 8: longer find you, and could only hear vague reports concerning you,
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  Speaker 8: So that, having in Vain tried to meet with you,
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  Speaker 8: I ceased to roam about idly and stopped for a
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  Speaker 8: while in Venice. From that time to this I have
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  Speaker 8: lived without receiving any other information about my family. Except
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  Speaker 8: knowing its name, you may judge whether to Falden was
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  Speaker 8: not more than ordinarily moved all this while in one word,
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  Speaker 8: to tell you shortly that which you will have an
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  Speaker 8: opportunity of learning afterwards, more to your leisure, from the
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  Speaker 8: confession of the old gipsy woman. To Foul then owns
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  Speaker 8: you now for his daughter. Andres is your brother. And
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  Speaker 8: as he can no longer think of marrying his sister,
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  Speaker 8: and as he acknowledges he is under some obligation to
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  Speaker 8: my master Lelio, he has obtained for him your hand Pandulphus,
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  Speaker 8: being present at this discovery, gives his full consent to
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  Speaker 8: the marriage, and to complete the happiness of the family,
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  Speaker 8: proposes that the newly found Horatio should marry his daughter.
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  Speaker 8: See how many incidents are produced at one and the
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  Speaker 8: same time.
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  Speaker 10: Such tidings perfectly amaze me.
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  Speaker 8: The whole company followed me, except the two female champions,
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  Speaker 8: who are adjusting their toilet. After the fray. Leander and
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  Speaker 8: your father are also coming. I shall go and inform
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  Speaker 8: my master of this, and let him know that what
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  Speaker 8: we thought obstacles were increasing, Heaven almost wrought a miracle
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  Speaker 8: in his favor.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Mascarille.
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  Speaker 11: Ah, this fortunate event fills me with as much as
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  Speaker 11: joy as if it were my own case.
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  Speaker 1: But here they come Scene fifteen, Trifalden Anselmo andres Celia,
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  Speaker 1: Hippolyta Leander.
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  Speaker 6: My child father, Do you already know how Heaven has
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  Speaker 6: blessed us?
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  Speaker 10: I have just now heard this wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Event, Hippolyta to Leander, you need.
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  Speaker 11: Not find excuses for your past infidelity. The cause of it,
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  Speaker 11: which I have before my eyes, is a sufficient excuse.
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  Speaker 3: I crave nothing but a generous pardon. I call Heaven
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  Speaker 3: to witness that though I returned to my duty suddenly,
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  Speaker 3: my father's authority has influenced me less than my own inclination.
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  Speaker 1: Andres to Celia.
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  Speaker 7: Oh Kodevra had supposed that sour chest all all would
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  Speaker 7: one day be condemned by nature. However, honor swayed it
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  Speaker 7: always so much that with a little alteration it may
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  Speaker 7: still continue.
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  Speaker 10: As for me, I blamed myself and thought I was wrong,
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  Speaker 10: because I felt nothing but a very sincere esteem for you.
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  Speaker 10: I couldnot tell what powerful obstacles stopped me in a
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  Speaker 10: path so agreeable and so dangerous, and averted my heart
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  Speaker 10: from acknowledging a love which my senses endeavored to communicate
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  Speaker 10: to my soul.
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  Speaker 6: Trifaldin to Celia, but what would you say of me if,
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  Speaker 6: as soon as I have found you, I should be
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  Speaker 6: thinking of parting with you? I promised your hand to
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  Speaker 6: this gentleman's son.
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  Speaker 10: I know no will but yours.
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  Speaker 1: Scene sixteen Triufaldin, Anselmo Pandulphus, Celia, Hippolyogi, Lilio Leander Andres Mascariel.
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  Speaker 8: Now let us see whether this devil of yours will
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  Speaker 8: have the power to destroy so solid a foundation is this,
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  Speaker 8: and whether your inventive powers will again strive against this
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  Speaker 8: great good luck that befalls you through a most unexpected
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  Speaker 8: favorable turn of fortune. Your desires are crowned with success,
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  Speaker 8: and Celia is yours?
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  Speaker 9: Am.
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  Speaker 2: I to believe that the omnipotence of heaven.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, son in law, it is really so.
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  Speaker 1: The matter is settled, Andres to Lilio.
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  Speaker 7: By this I repay the obligation you'll.
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  Speaker 2: Lay me on the Lilio to Mascariel, I must embrace
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  Speaker 2: you have so many times in this great joy.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, oh gently, I beseech you. He has almost choked
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  Speaker 8: me I am very much afraid for Celia. If if
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  Speaker 8: you embrace her so forcibly, one can do very well
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  Speaker 8: without such proofs of affection.
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  Speaker 1: Trifalden to Lilia.
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  Speaker 6: You know the happiness with which Heaven has blessed me.
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  Speaker 6: But since the same day has caused us all to rejoice.
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  Speaker 6: Let us not part until it is ended, and that
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  Speaker 6: Leander's father also be sent four quickly you are.
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  Speaker 8: All provided for. Is there not some girl who might
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  Speaker 8: suit poor Mascarille? As I see every jack has his jill.
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  Speaker 8: I also want to be married.
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  Speaker 4: I have a wife for you.
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  Speaker 8: Let us go then, and may propitious Heaven give us
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  Speaker 8: children whose fathers we really are.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act five, end of The Blunderer or the
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  Speaker 1: Counterplots by Moliere