The Dramatic Works Of Jb Poquelin Moliere

Author : Molière
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230029337
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Works of J. B. Poquelin-Molière Volume 1 written by Molière and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...Dan A. You would undo her for a night's lodging. Don L. Undo her, sir! Don A. Yes, that 's the word. You knew it was against her interest to marry you, therefore you endeavoured to win her to't in private; you knew her friends would make a better bargain for her, therefore you kept your designs from their knowledge, and yet you love her to that excess----Don L. I'd readily lay down my life to serve her. Dan A. Could you readily lay down fifty thousand pistoles to serve her, your excessive love would come with better credentials: an offer of life is very proper for the attack of a counterscarp, but a thousand ducats will sooner carry a lady's heart. You are a young man, but will learn this when you are older. Lopez. But since things have succeeded better this once, sir, and that my master will prove a most incomparable good husband (for that he'll do, I'll answer for him), and that 'tis too late to re(-nl what's already done, sir--Don A. What 's done, villain? Lopez. Sir, I mean, that since my master and my lady are married, and Dan A. Thou liest! they are not married. Lopez. Sir, I say--that since they are married, and that they love each other so passing dearly--indeed, I fancy--that Dan A. Why, this impudence is beyond all bearing! Sir, do you put your rascal upon this? Don L. Sir, I am in a wood! I don't know what it is you mean. Don A. And I am in a plain, sir, and think I may be understood. Do you pretend you are married to my daughter? Don L. Sir, 'tis my happiness on one side, as it is my misfortune on another. P, Page 148. The way Don Lorenzo urges Donna Leonora in The Mistake (iii. 9) to acknowledge their marriage, differs slightly from a similar scene be" tween...