Comedy plays; Hypochondria -- Drama; Molière, 1622-1673 -- Translations into English
BACCALAUREATE HOLDER
Give a clyster,
Afterwards purify,
Then purge.
CHORUS
You answered really, really well,
You really deserve to enter
into our learned group
SEVENTH DOCTOR
The baccalaureate gentleman has marvelously addressed all those
illnesses; but if I do not bore the most learned faculty and the
entire honorable company present here in body and in mind, I will
put one question to him; yesterday a sick person fell into my hands,
a person of rank and rich as Croesus. He has a severe fever that is
ongoing, a serious headache, with trouble breathing and diarrhea
of the stomach, along with a serious problem in his side and real
difficulty and pain breathing. Please tell me, learned baccalaureate
holder, what to do for him.
BACCALAUREATE HOLDER
Give a clyster,
Afterwards purify,
Then purge.
CHORUS
You answered really, really well,
You really deserve to enter
into our learned group
THE SAME DOCTOR
But if, holding off from asking why, the illness about which an
opinion has been furnished, doesn’t want to get well, then what’s to
be done for it?
BACCALAUREATE HOLDER
Give a clyster,
Afterwards purify,
Then purge.
Purify, purge, and clysterize repeatedly.
CHORUS
You answered really, really well,
You really deserve to enter
into our learned group
EIGHTH DOCTOR
I beg leave of you, sir, who are in charge, of the select assembly of
doctors, both practicing and eager to practice, and of the curious
flock of onlookers.
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