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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Jealousy of le Barbouillé + (La Jalousie du Barbouillé) + +Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière + +Translator: Charles Heron Wall + +Release Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #27074] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLÉ *** + + + + +Produced by Delphine Lettau + + + + + +</pre> + + +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<h1>THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLÉ.</h1> + +<h2>(LA JALOUSIE DU BARBOUILLÉ.)</h2> + +<h4>BY</h4> + +<p> </p> + +<h1>MOLIÈRE</h1> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<h4>TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE.</h4> + +<h4><i>WITH SHORT INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES</i></h4> + +<h4>BY</h4> +<p> </p> +<h2>CHARLES HERON WALL</h2> + +<p>Among the small farces said to have been sketched by Molière during +his stay in the provinces, two only which seem genuine have come down +to us, and have been published for the last thirty years with his +comedies. These are, 'La Jalousie du Barbouillé,' and 'Le Médecin +Volant.' Molière has made use of the former in the third act of the +comedy called 'George Dandin.'</p> + +<p>Molière acted the part of Le Barbouillé.</p> + +<hr class="narrow" /> + +<p> </p> + + + + +<h3><a name="PERSONS_REPRESENTED" id="PERSONS_REPRESENTED"></a>PERSONS REPRESENTED.</h3> +<div class="ind6"> +<p class="noindent"><span class="smallcaps">Le Barbouillé</span>, <i>husband to</i> +<span class="smallcaps">Angélique</span>.<br /> + +<span class="smallcaps">The Doctor</span>.<br /> + +<span class="smallcaps">Angélique</span>.<br /> + +<span class="smallcaps">Valère</span>, <i>lover to</i> <span class="smallcaps">Angélique</span>.<br /> + +<span class="smallcaps">Cathau</span>, <i>maid to</i> <span class="smallcaps">Angélique</span>.<br /> + +<span class="smallcaps">Gorgibus</span>, <i>father to</i> <span class="smallcaps">Angélique</span>.<br /> + +<span class="smallcaps">Villebrequin</span>.<br /> + +<span class="smallcaps">La Vallée</span>.</p> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<h2>THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLÉ.</h2> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE I.——LE BARBOUILLÉ.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. Everybody must acknowledge that I am the most unfortunate of men! +I have a wife who plagues me to death; and who, instead of bringing me +comfort and doing things as I like them to be done, makes me swear at +her twenty times a day. Instead of keeping at home, she likes gadding +about, eating good dinners, and passing her time with people of I +don't know what description. Ah! poor Barbouillé, how much you are to +be pitied! But she must be punished. Suppose you killed her?… It +would do no good, for you would be hung afterwards. If you were to +have her sent to prison?… The minx would find means of coming out. +What the deuce are you to do?—But here is the doctor coming out this +way; suppose I ask his advice on my difficulties.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE II.——DOCTOR, LE BARBOUILLÉ.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +I was going to fetch you, to beg for your opinion on a question +of great importance to me.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +You must be very ill-bred, very loutish, and very badly taught, +my friend, to speak to me in that fashion, without first taking off +your hat, without observing <i>rationem loci, temporis et personæ</i>. +What! you begin by an abrupt speech, instead of saying <i>Salve</i>, vel +<i>salvus sis, doctor doctorum eruditissime</i>. What do you take me for, +eh?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Really, doctor, I am very sorry; the fact is that I am almost +beside myself, and did not think of what I was doing; but I know you +are a gallant man.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Do you know what <i>gallant man</i> comes from?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +It matters little to me whether it comes from Villejuif or +Aubervilliers.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Know that the word <i>gallant man</i> comes from <i>elegant</i>. By taking +the <i>g</i> and the <i>a</i> of the last syllable, that makes <i>ga</i>; then by +taking the two <i>ll</i>'s, adding <i>a</i> and the two last letters <i>nt</i>, that +makes <i>gallant</i>; then by adding <i>man</i> you have <i>gallant man</i>. But to +come back to what I said; What do you take me for?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +I take you for a doctor. But let us speak a little of what I have +to propose to you. You must know that …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Let me tell you first that I am not only a doctor, but that I am +one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten times +doctor. Firstly, number one is the base, the foundation, and the first +of all numbers; so am I the first of all doctors, the most learned of +the learned. Secondly, there are two faculties essential for a perfect +knowledge of things: the sense and the understanding; I am all sense, +all understanding: ergo, I am twice doctor.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. Agreed. What I want …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Thirdly, according to Aristotle, the number three is that of +perfection; I am perfect; and every thing I do is perfect: ergo, I am +three times doctor.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. Very well then, doctor….</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Fourthly, philosophy is divided into four parts, logic, morals, +physics, and metaphysics; I possess all four, and know them perfectly: +ergo, I am four times doctor.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Deuce take it, I don't doubt it. Listen to me then.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Fifthly, there are five universals: the genus, the species, the +differentia, the property, and the accident, without knowing which it +is impossible to arrive at any satisfactory conclusions; I make great +use of them, and know how important they are; ergo, I am five times +doctor.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. I must have patience.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Sixthly, number six is the number of work; I work incessantly for +my own glory; ergo, I am six times doctor.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Well, well, speak as long as you like.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Seventhly, the number seven is the number of bliss; I possess a +perfect knowledge of all that can produce happiness, and by my talents +am happy myself. I am therefore forced to say of myself: <i>O ter +quaterque beatum!</i> Eighthly, the number eight is the number of +justice, on account of the equality which is found in it; the justice +and prudence with which I measure and weigh all my actions make me +eight times doctor. Ninthly, there are nine Muses, and I am equally +the favourite of them all. Tenthly, one cannot pass number ten without +repeating all the other numbers, and it is the universal number. +Similarly, when people have found me, they have found the universal +doctor; and I am in myself all the other doctors together. Thus, with +the help of these plausible, true, demonstrative, and convincing +reasons, you see that I am one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, +eight, nine, ten times doctor.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +What the deuce does he mean by all this? I thought I had found a +clever man who would give me good advice, and I find a chimney-sweep, +who, instead of speaking to me, plays at mora.<a href="#flb1"> +<span class="small"><sup>1</sup></span></a> One, two, three, +four—ha! ha!—ha! ha! Come, come, that's not it; you must listen to +me, and remember that I am not a man to make you lose your time; I +shall make it worth your while, and if you can satisfy me in what I +want of you, I will give you what you wish—money, if you like.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. Ha! money?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Yes, money; and whatever you may ask besides.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +(<i>sharply, tucking up his gown behind him</i>). Then you take me for +a man who would do anything for money, for a man fond of money, for a +mercenary soul? Know, my friend, that if you were to give me a purse +full of gold, and that this purse were in a rich box, this box in a +precious case, this case in a superb chest, this chest in a rare +museum, this museum in a magnificent apartment, this apartment in a +gorgeous castle, this castle in a wonderful citadel, this citadel in a +celebrated town, this town in a fertile island, this island in an +opulent province, this province in a flourishing monarchy, this +monarchy in the whole world;<a href="#flb2"><span class="small"><sup>2</sup></span></a> +that if you gave me the world in which +this flourishing monarchy would be, in which this opulent province +would be, in which this fertile island would be, in which this +celebrated town would be, in which this wonderful citadel would be, in +which this gorgeous castle would be, in which this pleasant apartment +would be, in which this rare museum would be, in which this wonderful +chest would be, in which this precious case would be, in which this +rich box would be, in which the purse full of gold would be, I should +care no more for it than this (<i>snaps his fingers and exit</i>).</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Well. I made a mistake. Seeing him dressed as a doctor, I felt +that of necessity I must speak of money to him; but since he does not +want any, nothing can be more easy than to satisfy him. I'll run after +him. (<i>Runs out.</i>)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE III.——ANGÉLIQUE, VALÈRE, CATHAU.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +I assure you, sir, that you will oblige me very much by coming to +see me sometimes: my husband is so ugly, so ill-behaved, and such a +drunkard, that it is perfect martyrdom for me to be with him, and I +ask you what pleasure one can have with such a clown as he is?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Val</span>. +You do me too much honour. I promise you I shall do my utmost to +amuse you, and since you are kind enough to say that my company is not +unpleasant, my care and attentions shall prove to you what pleasure +this good news gives me.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Cat</span>. +Ay! quick, talk of something else; here's our old bugbear coming.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE IV.——LE BARBOUILLÉ, VALÈRE, ANGÉLIQUE, CATHAU.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Val</span>. +Mademoiselle,<a href="#flb3"><span class="small"><sup>3</sup></span></a> +I am very sorry to bring you such bad news, but, +you would have heard it from some one else, and since your brother is +ill….</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Ah! say no more, sir, I am your servant, and thank you very much +for the trouble you have taken.</p> + +<p>(<i>Exit</i> <span class="smallcaps">Valère</span>.)</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Well! what need is there of my having a certificate of my +cuckledom from the notary? So! so! you trollop! I find you with a man +in spite of all my remonstrances, and you want to send me from Gemini +to Capricornus.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Are you going to scold me for that? This gentleman only just came +to tell me of my brother's serious illness: why should you make that a +subject of quarrel?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Cat</span>. +Ah, directly I saw him, I wondered if we should be long in peace.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +You spoil one another, you women; you, Cathau, you corrupt my +wife; she is not half as good now as she was before she had you to +wait upon her.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Cat</span>. +Really you treat me in a nice manner.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Leave the drunkard alone; don't you see that he is so muddled +that he does not even know what he says.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE V.——GORGIBUS, VILLEBREQUIN, ANGÉLIQUE, +CATHAU, LE BARBOUILLÉ.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +Now, there's my cursed son-in-law scolding my daughter again!</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Vill</span>. +We must see what is the matter.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +What! will you always be quarrelling! Will you never have peace +at home?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +This hussy calls me drunkard. +(<i>to</i> <span class="smallcaps">Angélique</span>) Here, I have a +great mind to give you a good dressing<a href="#flb4"><span class="small"><sup>4</sup></span></a> +before your relations.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +May the dev … may his money be blessed, if you have done as he +says.<a href="#flb5"><span class="small"><sup>5</sup></span></a> </p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +It is always he who begins to …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Cat</span>. +Cursed be the hour when you chose that sordid wretch!</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE VI.——GORGIBUS, VILLEBREQUIN, ANGÉLIQUE, +CATHAU, LE BARBOUILLÉ, DOCTOR.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Why, what is the meaning of this? what a disorder! what a +quarrel! what a racket! what a row! what a noise! what a dispute! what +a combustion! What is the matter, gentlemen? what is the matter? what +is the matter? Come, come, is there no way of making you agree, let me +be your pacificator; suffer me to bring peace among you.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +It is my son-in-law and my daughter who have had words together.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +But what can it be? Now, come, let me know the cause of their +dispute.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. Sir …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. But in a few words …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. Yes, yes; but put on your hat.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Hat; that is bonnet. Do you know what bonnet comes from?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. No.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +It comes from <i>bonum est, it is good, a thing which is good</i>, +because it saves one from colds and coughs.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +Indeed! I did not know that.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Now quick, the subject of your quarrel?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. This is what happened.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +I hope you are not a man to keep me long when I pray you not to +do so. I have some pressing business which calls me to town; still, if +I can bring peace to your family, I am willing to stop a moment.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. I shall soon have done.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. Be quick, then.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. It will be said in a moment.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +We must acknowledge, Mr. Gorgibus, that it is a wonderful gift to +be able to say things in a few words, and that great talkers, instead +of being heard, become often so wearisome that one cannot listen to +them; <i>virtutem primam esse puta compescere linguam.</i> Yes, the best +quality of an honest man is silence.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. You must know then …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +There are three things which Socrates used to recommend +particularly to his disciples: to be careful of one's actions, to be +sober in eating, and to say things in a few words. Begin, Mr. +Gorgibus.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. It is my wish to do so.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +In a few words, without ceremony, without indulging in a long +speech: cut it short with an apophthegm<a href="#flb6"><span class="small"><sup>6</sup></span></a>; +quick, quick, Mr. Gorgibus, make haste, avoid prolixity.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. Suffer me to speak then….</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +That's enough Mr. Gorgibus, you speak too much. Somebody else +must tell me what was the cause of their quarrel.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Vill</span>. You must know, sir, that …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +You are an ignoramus, an unlearned man, ignorant of all good +rules; an ass, in plain English. What! you begin a discourse without a +word of exordium! Some one else must tell me what happened; will you, +young lady, tell me the particulars of all this noise?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Do you see here my fat rascal, my wine-barrel of a husband …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Gently, if you please, speak with respect of your husband when +you are under the nose of a doctor like me.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Ah! I should just think so, doctor! I care little for you or your +doctrine, and I am a doctor whenever I please.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +You, a doctor when you please. A nice doctor you make. You seem +to me to do much as you wish…. But, I say, tell me the subject of +your uproar.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. Sir, your honour …</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +You begin well. "Your honour!" this word has something flattering +to the ear, something full of magniloquence; "your honour!"</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. According to my will.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Quite right…. "According to my will!" the will speaks of a +wish, the wish presupposes means to come to one's ends, and the end +presupposes an object. It is well said, "according to my will!"</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. I am bursting with rage.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Cut out this word "bursting." It is a low, vulgar expression.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. But, doctor, listen to me for mercy's sake.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. <i>Audi, quæso</i>, would Cæsar have +said.<a href="#flb7"><span class="small"><sup>7</sup></span></a></p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Seize her, or don't seize her, you will listen to me or I will +break your doctoral neck! What the devil do you mean by all this?</p> + + +<div class="ind4"> +(<span class="smallcaps">Le Barbouillé, Angélique, Gorgibus, Cathau, Villebrequin</span>, <i>wish +to explain the cause of the quarrel; the</i> <span class="smallcaps">Doctor</span> <i>explains that +peace is a fine thing. They all talk together, and make a dreadful +noise. In the midst of all this</i>, <span class="smallcaps">Le Barbouillé</span> <i>ties the</i> <span class="smallcaps">Doctor</span> +<i>by the legs with a rope, throws him down on his back, and drags +him away; the</i> <span class="smallcaps">Doctor</span> <i>goes on talking all the time, and counts +all his arguments on his fingers, as if he were not on the +ground.</i>) +</div> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +Now, my daughter, go back to your home and live in peace with +your husband.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Vill</span>. Your servant; good night.</p> + +<p>(<i>Exeunt</i> <span class="smallcaps">Villebrequin, Gorgibus</span>, +<i>and</i> <span class="smallcaps">Angélique</span>.)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE VII.——VALÈRE, LA VALLÉE.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Val</span>. +I am extremely obliged to you, sir, for the trouble you have +taken, and I promise you that in about an hour's time I shall be at +the place of rendezvous you give me.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">La Val</span>. +It cannot be put off so long, in a quarter of an hour the ball +will be over, and you will miss the pleasure of meeting there the +person you love.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Val</span>. Let us go together then.</p> + +<p>(<i>Exeunt</i> <span class="smallcaps">Valère</span> <i>and</i> +<span class="smallcaps">La Vallée.</span>)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE VIII.——ANGÉLIQUE (<i>alone</i>).</h3> + +<p>While my husband is absent, I will just go round to a ball given by +one of our neighbours. I shall be back before him, for he is somewhere +drinking; he will not even know that I am gone out. The wretched knave +always leaves me alone at home, as if I were his dog. +(<i>Exit</i> <span class="smallcaps">Angélique</span>.)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE IX.——LE BARBOUILLÉ.</h3> + +<p>I knew that I should master that brute of a doctor and his stupid +doctrine. Devil take the ignorant ass! I soon brought all his science +to the ground. I must now go and see if our good wife has prepared +anything for my supper. (<i>Exit.</i>)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE X.——ANGÉLIQUE.</h3> + +<p>How unlucky! I went too late, the party was over. I arrived just as +everybody was leaving. But never mind, it shall be for another time. I +will go home as if nothing was the matter. Bless me! the door is +locked; Cathau! Cathau!</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE XI.——LE BARBOUILLÉ (<i>at the window</i>), ANGÉLIQUE.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +"Cathau! Cathau!" Well! what is the matter with Cathau? And where +do you come from at this time of night, and in such weather?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Where I come from? Just open the door, and I will tell you.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Yes, you catch me! You may go and sleep where you come from; I +shall not open to a gad-about like you. What! alone at this time of +night! I don't know if it is fancy, but my forehead seems to me +already rougher by half.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Well, what do you mean by scolding me because I am alone? You +scold me if I have anybody near me; what am I to do?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Stop at home, give orders for the supper, take care of the +household, and of the children; but it is no use talking so much; +good-bye, good night, go to the devil and leave me in peace.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. You won't open to me?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. No. I shall not open to you.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Ah! my dear little husband, I beg of you open the door; do, my +darling little heart.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Ah! crocodile! Ah! dangerous serpent! you caress me to betray me.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. Open, do open.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Farewell! <i>Vade retro, Satanas!</i></p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. What, you won't open.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. No!</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +You have no pity for the wife who loves you so much?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +No, I am inflexible. You have offended me, I am revengeful like +the very devil! that is to say plainly that I am inexorable.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Do you know that if you push me too far, and put me in a passion, +I may do something which will make you repent your unkindness.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +And what will you do, dear little vixen?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +I declare that if you do not open to me, I will kill myself +before the door; my parents will no doubt come here before going to +bed, to see if we are all right together, and they will find me dead, +and you will be hanged.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Ha! ha! ha! ha! the silly creature! Tell me who would lose the +most? Nonsense, you are not so foolish as to play such a trick.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +You don't believe me. See, here is my knife all ready, if you do +not open at once I will pierce myself to the heart with it.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Take care, it is very sharp.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. You won't open to me?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +I have told you twenty times that I shall not open; kill +yourself, die, go to the devil, I care not.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. (<i>pretending to stab herself</i>). +Farewell then…. Ay! I am dead.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Can she be stupid enough to do such a thing? I must go down with +the light and see.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. (<i>aside</i>). +I will pay you back. If I can only slip into the house +while you are looking for me, it shall be my turn. (<i>She runs past</i> +<span class="smallcaps">Barbouillé</span>, +<i>and manages to get into the house without his knowledge.</i>)</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Well! I knew she was not so stupid as all that! She is dead, and +yet she runs like Pacolet's horse.<a href="#flb8"><span class="small"><sup>8</sup></span></a> +To say the truth, she really +frightened me, she did right to run away, for if I had found her alive +after she had given me such a fright, my boot would have taught her +not to play the fool. I must go to bed now. Hallo! the wind must have +shut the door to, I fear. Hi! Cathau, Cathau, open the door.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. (<i>at the window</i>). +"Cathau, Cathau! well what is the matter with +Cathau?" and where do you come from, you drunkard? Well, well, my +parents will soon be here, and will hear all about you. You wine-tap, +you infamous wretch, you do not stir from the public-house; but leave +a poor wife with little children waiting for you all day at home +without caring to know if they want anything.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Open quickly, she-devil! or I'll break your head open.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE XII.——GORGIBUS, VILLEBREQUIN, ANGÉLIQUE, LE BARBOUILLÉ.</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +Why, what is it now? still quarrelling and fighting?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Vill</span>. +What? will you never agree?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Ang</span>. +Only just look at him! he is drunk, and returns at this time of +night to make a noise and threaten to kill me.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +She is right: it is not at this hour of night you should come +home. Why can you not, like a good father of a family, come home early +and live at peace with your wife?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +Deuce take me, if I left the house! Ask those gentlemen who are +on the terrace there. It is she who has only just come home. Ah! how +innocence is always oppressed!</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +Well! Come, come, try to agree together, and ask her to forgive +you.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. +I ask her to forgive me! I had rather the devil flew off with +her. I am in such a terrible rage, I hardly know what to do.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. +Come, daughter, kiss your husband, and be friends.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>SCENE XIII.——THE DOCTOR (<i>in night-gear at another window</i>).</h3> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +What! always noise, disorder, dissension, quarrels, strife, +disputes, uproar, everlasting altercations? What is it? What can it +be? One can have no rest.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Vill</span>. It is nothing, Mr. Doctor, every one is agreed.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Ah! about being agreed, shall I read you a chapter of Aristotle, +where he proves that all the different parts of the universe subsist +only through the concord which exists between them?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Vill</span>. Will it be long?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +No, it's not a bit long, only about sixty or eighty pages.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Vill</span>. Thanks, good night, good night!</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. It is not necessary.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. Do you wish for it?</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Gor</span>. No.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Doc</span>. +Good night, then, since it is so—<i>latine, bona nox</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="smallcaps">Vill</span>. Let us all go and have some supper together.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h4>THE END</h4> + +<hr class="narrow" /> + +<p> </p> + + +<h3><a name="FOOTNOTES" id="FOOTNOTES"></a>FOOTNOTES</h3> + +<p class="noindent"><a name="flb1" id="flb1"></a>[1] +An Italian game (Latin, <i>micare digitis</i>), in which one player +suddenly raises the hand of which some fingers are shut, and some are +open. The other players have to guess the number of fingers raised.</p> + +<p class="noindent"><a name="flb2" id="flb2"></a>[2] +In most editions we find "<i>et que tout le monde où serait cette +monarchie florissante</i>," which has no meaning. The correct reading is +"<i>et que tu me donnerais le monde où serait</i>," &c.</p> + +<p class="noindent"><a name="flb3" id="flb3"></a>[3] See 'Impromptu de Versailles,' Sc. i.</p> + +<p class="noindent"><a name="flb4" id="flb4"></a>[4] +<i>Je suis bien tenté de te bâiller une quinte major.</i> Quinte major is +a term of piquet. It is here employed figuratively. Compare its use +in 'Les Fâcheux,' Act ii. Sc. ii.</p> + +<p class="noindent"><a name="flb5" id="flb5"></a>[5] +This seems to be the meaning of <i>"Je dédonne au diable l'escarcelle, +si vous l'aviez fait." Je dédonne au diable</i> is apparently a euphemism +for <i>Je donne au diable.</i> In French, compare <i>parbleu, corbleu</i>, &c., and +<i>deuce, zounds, egad</i>, &c., in English. <i>Dédonne</i> is not given by Littré. +It occurs again in 'Le Médecin Volant,' Sc. x., but does not seem to +have been employed elsewhere by Molière.</p> + +<p class="noindent"><a name="flb6" id="flb6"></a>[6] Compare Sc. iv. 'Le Mariage Forcé.'</p> + +<p class="noindent"><a name="flb7" id="flb7"></a>[7] <span class="smallcaps"> +Doc</span>. 'Audi, quæso,' aurait dit Cicéron.<br /> +<span class="smallcaps">Bar</span>. Si ce rompt, si ce brise, &c.</p> + +<p class="noindent">It seems necessary to ascribe the saying to Cæsar, rather than to +Cicero, in order to render to some extent this fearful pun.</p> + +<p class="noindent"><a name="flb8" id="flb8"></a>[8] +An enchanted dwarf in the old romance of 'Valentine and Orson,' +who manufactured a wooden horse, which could go very fast "<i>Courir +comme le cheval de Pacolet,</i>" remains as a proverb.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jealousy of le Barbouillé, by +Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLÉ *** + +***** This file should be named 27074-h.htm or 27074-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/0/7/27074/ + +Produced by Delphine Lettau + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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