Monsieur De Pourceaugnac. Жан-Батист Мольер

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СКАЧАТЬ handsomely. By the bye, I shall not allow you to go to any other house but mine.

      Mr. Pour. I would not…

      Era. Nonsense! I will not allow one of my best friends to go anywhere but to my house.

      Mr. Pour. It would be disturb…

      Era. No; deuce take it all. You shall stay with me.

      Sbri. (to Mr. de Pourceaugnac). Since he will have it so, I advise you to accept.

      Era. Where is your luggage?

      Mr. Pour. With my servant, where we stopped.

      Era. Send somebody to fetch it.

      Mr. Pour. No. I forbade him to let it go out of his sight, for fear of swindlers.

      Sbri. You did quite right.

      Mr. Pour. It is good to be cautious in this place.

      Era. We always know a man of sense.

      Sbri. I will accompany this gentleman, and bring him back where you wish.

      Era. Do so. I have a few orders to give; but you only need come to that house yonder.

      Sbri. We will come back presently.

      Era. (to Mr. de Pourceaugnac). I shall expect you with great impatience.

      Mr. Pour. (to Sbrigani). I find an acquaintance when I little expected to meet with one.

      Sbri. He looks like an honest man. (Exeunt.)

      Era. (alone). Ah! ah! Mr. de Pourceaugnac, you will get it hot! Everything is ready, and I have only to give the word. Soho! there.

      SCENE VII. – ÉRASTE, AN APOTHECARY

      Era. I think, Sir, that you are the doctor to whom somebody went to speak in my name.

      Apo. No, Sir. I am not the doctor; such an honour does not belong to me. I am only an unworthy apothecary; at your service.

      Era. Is the doctor at home, then.

      Apo. Yes; he is in there, trying to get rid quickly of some patients. I will tell him that you are here.

      Era. No; you need not disturb him; I will wait till he has done. I have to entrust to his care a certain relation of mine he was told about today. He is attacked with a sort of madness that we should like to see cured before we marry him to anyone.

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      1

      Pourceaugnac equals pourceau, "a young pig," plus the local ending -gnac.

      2

      Compare the "royal cautery" in 'The Flying Doctor'.

      3

1

Pourceaugnac equals pourceau, "a young pig," plus the local ending -gnac.

2

Compare the "royal cautery" in 'The Flying Doctor'.

3

Sbrigani and Nérine are merely the conventional rogues of the stage. Compare Mascarille, Scapin.

4

Compare act ii. scene xii.

5

The Neapolitans had no great reputation for sincerity.

6

Mode de la cour pour la campagne.

7

Consul in the south equalled échevin in the north. Both words are obsolete in this sense.