The Dramatic Works of Molière

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...richest agricultural parts of France--Beauce having for Ger. Bless me, nurse, how you chatter! Hold your tongue, let me beg of you; you take too much upon yourself, and you will spoil your milk. Luc. (Slapping Geronte's shoulder at every word). Indeed, be silent; you are too saucy. The master does not want your speeches, and he knows what he is about. All you have got to do is to suckle your baby, without arguing so much. Our master is the girl's father, and he is good and clever enough to know what she wants. Ger. Gently, gently. Luc. (Stillslapping Geronte's shoulder). I wish to show her her place, and teach her the respect due to you, Sir. Ger. Very well. But it does not need all this gesticulating. Scene III.--Valere, Sganarelle, Geronte, Lucas, Jacqueline. Val. Look out, Sir, here is our physician coming. Ger. (To Sganarelle). Iam delighted to see you, Sir, at my house, and we have very great need of you. Sgan. (In a physician's gown with a very pointed cap). Hippocrates says... that we should both put our hats on. Ger. Hippocrates says that? Sgan. Yes. Ger. In which chapter, if you please? Sgan. In his chapter... on hats. Ger. Since Hippocrates says so, we must obey. Sgan. Doctor, having heard of the marvellous things... Ger. To whom are you speaking, pray? Sgan. To you. Ger. I am not a physician Sgan. You are not a physician? Ger. Indeed I am not. its principal towns Dreux, Chartres, and Chateaudun. Rabelais, in his Gargantua, Book I., Chapter 16, relates how the huge mare on which Gargantua rode destroyed the ox-flies of the Beauce with her enormous tail, " and felled everywhere the wood with as much ease, as the mower doth the grass, in such sort that never since hath there been there neither wood nor dorflies: for all the country was thereby ...