Comedy plays; Hypochondria -- Drama; Molière, 1622-1673 -- Translations into English
in a word, in keeping with the procedures and of killing without
penalty, not just for Parisians but anyone in the world; sir, express
gratitude to these gentlemen.
_Second Entry of the_ BALLET.
_All the_ DOCTORS _and_ APOTHECARIES _come and do him reverence_.
BACCALAUREATE HOLDER
Great teachers in regard to instruction concerning rhubarb and senna,
it would undoubtedly be a foolish, inappropriate and ridiculous thing
for me if I allowed myself to engage in providing you with praises and
undertake to add light to the sun, stars to the sky, flames to hell,
waves to the ocean, and roses to the spring.
Allow me, with just a single word of all my gratitude to say thank
you to such a learned group. To you, to you, I owe much more than to
nature and to my father; nature and my father made me a human being.
But you have made me a doctor (which is much more). Honor, favor, and
gratitude that will definitely remain as feeling in this heart forever.
CHORUS
Live a long life, live a long life, live a long life, live a long
life, a hundred times let the new doctor who speaks so well live a
long life! For a thousand, thousand years let him eat and drink, and
cure and kill.
_Third Entry of the_ BALLET.
_All the _DOCTORS _and_ APOTHECARIES _dance to the sound of
instruments and voices, the clapping of hands, and the beating of
_APOTHECARIES’ _mortars._
SURGEON
May he just see his learned stipulations and fill the offices of
surgeons and apothecaries.
CHORUS
Live a long life, live a long life, live a long life, live a long
life, a hundred times let the new doctor who speaks so well live a
long life! For a thousand, thousand years let him eat and drink, and
cure and kill.
APOTHECARY
May all his years be good and favorable for him and may he never
grapple with plagues or epidemics that are evil beasts.
But always pleurisies, pulmonias in the kidneys and vesical lumps,
one-year rheumatisms, and all kinds of fevers, bloodflows, diabolic
gouts, St. Joan’s problems, Poitou colics, Dutch scurvy, small and
large poxes, good cankers and long brain problems.
CHORUS
Live a long life, live a long life, live a long life, live a long
life, a hundred times let the new doctor who speaks so well live a
long life! For a thousand, thousand years let him eat and drink, and
cure and kill.
_Fourth Entry of the _BALLET.
_ All the_ DOCTORS _and_ APOTHECARIES _go out according to their rank,
as they came in._
THE END
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