MR. POUR. My father and mother would never have anything to do with remedies; and they both died without the help of doctors. 1ST PHY. I do not wonder if they have begotten a son who is mad. (_To the_ 2ND PHYSICIAN) Come, let us begin the cure; and, through the exhilarating sweetness of harmony, let us dulcify, lenify, and pacify the acrimony of his spirits, which, I see, are ready to be inflamed. (_Exeunt._) SCENE XII.--MR. DE POURCEAUGNAC (_alone_). What the devil is all this? Are the people of this place crazy? I never saw anything like it; and I don't understand it a bit. SCENE XIII.--MR. DE POURCEAUGNAC, TWO PHYSICIANS (_in grotesque clothes_). (_They all three at first sit down; the_ PHYSICIANS _rise up at different times to bow to_ MR. DE POURCEAUGNAC, _who rises up as often to bow to them in return_.) THE TWO PHYSICIANS. Buon dì, buon dì, buon dì! Non vi lasciate uccidere Dal dolor malinconico. Noi vi faremo ridere Col nostro canto armonico; Sol per guarirvi. Siamo venuti quì. Buon dì, buon dì, buon dì! 1ST PHYSICIAN. Altro non è la pazzia Che malinconia. Il malato Non è disperato Se vol pigliar un poco d'allegria, Altro non è la pazzia Che malinconia. 2ND PHYSICIAN. Sù; cantate, ballate, ridete. E, se far meglio volete, Quando sentite il deliro vicino Pigliate del vino, E qualche volta un poco di tabàc. Allegramente, Monsu Pourceaugnàc.[9] SCENE XIV.--BALLET. SCENE XV.--MR. DE POURCEAUGNAC, AN APOTHECARY. APO. Sir, here is a little remedy; a little remedy which you must take, if you please; if you please. MR. POUR. How? I have no occasion for anything of the kind. APO. It was ordered, Sir; it was ordered. MR. POUR. Ah! What noise and bother. APO. Take it, Sir; take it, Sir. It will do you no harm; it will do you no harm, &c. (MR. DE POURCEAUGNAC _runs away, the_ APOTHECARY, _&c. after him_.) SCENE XVI.--MR. DE POURCEAUGNAC, AN APOTHECARY, TWO PHYSICIANS (_in grotesque clothes_). THE TWO PHYSICIANS. Piglialo sù, Signor Monsu; Piglialo, piglialo, piglialo sù, Che non ti fara, male, &c.[10] ACT II. SCENE I.--1ST PHYSICIAN, SBRIGANI. 1ST PHY. He has forced through every obstacle I had placed to hinder him, and has fled from the remedies I was beginning to prepare for him. SBRI. To avoid remedies so salutary as yours is to be a great enemy to oneself. 1ST PHY. It is the mark of a disturbed brain and of a depraved reason to be unwilling to be cured. SBRI. You would have cured him, for certain, in no time. 1ST PHY. Certainly; though there had been the complication of a dozen diseases. SBRI. With all that he makes you lose those fifty well-earned pistoles. 1ST PHY. I have no intention of losing them; and I am determined to cure him in spite of himself. He is bound and engaged to take my remedies; and I will have him seized, wherever I can find him, as a deserter from physic and an infringer of my prescriptions.