The Jealousy of le Barbouillé

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Жан-Батист Мольер. The Jealousy of le Barbouillé

WITH SHORT INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES BY CHARLES HERON WALL

SCENE I. – LE BARBOUILLÉ

SCENE II. – DOCTOR, LE BARBOUILLÉ

SCENE III. – ANGÉLIQUE, VALÈRE, CATHAU

SCENE IV. – LE BARBOUILLÉ, VALÈRE, ANGÉLIQUE, CATHAU

SCENE V. – GORGIBUS, VILLEBREQUIN, ANGÉLIQUE, CATHAU, LE BARBOUILLÉ

SCENE VI. – GORGIBUS, VILLEBREQUIN, ANGÉLIQUE, CATHAU, LE BARBOUILLÉ, DOCTOR

SCENE VII. – VALÈRE, LA VALLÉE

SCENE VIII. – ANGÉLIQUE (alone)

SCENE IX. – LE BARBOUILLÉ

SCENE X. – ANGÉLIQUE

SCENE XI. – LE BARBOUILLÉ (at the window), ANGÉLIQUE

SCENE XII. – GORGIBUS, VILLEBREQUIN, ANGÉLIQUE, LE BARBOUILLÉ

SCENE XIII. – THE DOCTOR (in night-gear at another window)

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Bar. 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.

Doc. 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 rationem loci, temporis et personæ. What! you begin by an abrupt speech, instead of saying Salve, vel salvus sis, doctor doctorum eruditissime. What do you take me for, eh?

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Doc. 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.

Bar. Very well then, doctor…

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