CHIRURGUS. Puisse-t-il voir doctas Suas ordonnancias, Omnium chirurgorum, Et apothicarum Remplire boutiquas! CHORUS. Vivat, vivat, vivat, vivat, cent fois vivat, Novus doctor, qui tam bene parlat! Mille, mille annis, et manget et bibat, Et seignet et tuat! APOTHICARIUS. Puissent toti anni Lui essere boni Et favorabiles Et n’habere jamais Entre ses mains, pestas, epidemias Quae sunt malas bestias; Mais semper pluresias, pulmonias In renibus et vessia pierras, Rhumatismos d’un anno, et omnis generis fievras, Fluxus de sanguine, gouttas diabolicas, Mala de sancto Joanne, Poitevinorum colicas Scorbutum de Hollandia, verolas parvas et grossas Bonos chancros atque longas callidopissas. BACHELIERUS. Amen. CHORUS. Vivat, vivat, vivat, vivat, cent fois vivat, Novus doctor, qui tam bene parlat! Mille, mille annis, et manget et bibat, Et seignet et tuat! _Fourth Entry of the_ BALLET. _All the_ DOCTORS _and_ APOTHECARIES _go out according to their rank, as they came in._ THE END. FOOTNOTES: [1] As usual, Argan only counts half; even after he has reduced the charge. [2] Thomas Diafoirus is evidently going to base some compliment on the _belle-mère_. The only way out of the difficulty in English seems to be to complete the sentence somewhat. [3] Harvey’s treatise on the circulation of the blood was published in 1628. His discovery was violently opposed for a long time afterwards. [4] Molière seems to refer to Dr. Guenaut, who was said to have killed with antimony (his favourite remedy) his wife, his daughter, his nephew, and two of his sons-in-law.—AIMÉ MARTIN. [5] _Oubliés_; now called _plaisirs_. “Wafers” would perhaps have been the right rendering in Molière’s time. [6] This piece is composed of a mixture of dog-Latin, French, &c. and is utterly untranslateable. [7] It is said that it was when uttering this word that Molière gave way to the illness from which he had long suffered. [TN] TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE (from a reader): The above was a litteral rendition of the text. After this eBook was published in PG we received the following: Dear sir or madam: The original translator of the Moliere’s play “The Imaginary Invalid” did not translate the third interlude into English, simply declaring that it was “utterly untranslateable”(sic). My father (Duane Larrieu, retired linguist) has translated this third Interlude and requested that I submit it to Project Gutenberg on his behalf. His translation of the Third Interlude follows: THIRD INTERLUDE. [6] BURLESQUE CEREMONY _representing the Admission of_ MR. GERONTE _to the Degree of Doctor of Medicine_. _First Entry of the_ BALLET