{"id":40,"date":"2020-05-12T17:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/tartuffe\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=40"},"modified":"2020-05-12T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:11:42","slug":"scene-iv-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/tartuffe\/chapter\/scene-iv-2\/","title":{"raw":"Scene IV","rendered":"Scene IV"},"content":{"raw":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>ORGON, CLEANTE<\/span><\/p>\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Brother, she ridicules you to your face;<\/span>\r\n<span>And I, though I don't want to make you angry,<\/span>\r\n<span>Must tell you candidly that she's quite right.<\/span>\r\n<span>Was such infatuation ever heard of?<\/span>\r\n<span>And can a man to-day have charms to make you<\/span>\r\n<span>Forget all else, relieve his poverty,<\/span>\r\n<span>Give him a home, and then . . .\u00a0?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Stop there, good brother,<\/span>\r\n<span>You do not know the man you're speaking of.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Since you will have it so, I do not know him;<\/span>\r\n<span>But after all, to tell what sort of man<\/span>\r\n<span>He is . . .<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Dear brother, you'd be charmed to know him;<\/span>\r\n<span>Your raptures over him would have no end.<\/span>\r\n<span>He is a man . . . who . . . ah! . . . in fact . . .a man<\/span>\r\n<span>Whoever does his will, knows perfect peace,<\/span>\r\n<span>And counts the whole world else, as so much dung.<\/span>\r\n<span>His converse has transformed me quite; he weans<\/span>\r\n<span>My heart from every friendship, teaches me<\/span>\r\n<span>To have no love for anything on earth;<\/span>\r\n<span>And I could see my brother, children, mother,<\/span>\r\n<span>And wife, all die, and never care\u2014a snap.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Your feelings are humane, I must say, brother!<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Ah! If you'd seen him, as I saw him first,<\/span>\r\n<span>You would have loved him just as much as I.<\/span>\r\n<span>He came to church each day, with contrite mien,<\/span>\r\n<span>Kneeled, on both knees, right opposite my place,<\/span>\r\n<span>And drew the eyes of all the congregation,<\/span>\r\n<span>To watch the fervour of his prayers to heaven;<\/span>\r\n<span>With deep-drawn sighs and great ejaculations,<\/span>\r\n<span>He humbly kissed the earth at every moment;<\/span>\r\n<span>And when I left the church, he ran before me<\/span>\r\n<span>To give me holy water at the door.<\/span>\r\n<span>I learned his poverty, and who he was,<\/span>\r\n<span>By questioning his servant, who is like him,<\/span>\r\n<span>And gave him gifts; but in his modesty<\/span>\r\n<span>He always wanted to return a part.<\/span>\r\n<span>\"It is too much,\" he'd say, \"too much by half;<\/span>\r\n<span>I am not worthy of your pity.\" Then,<\/span>\r\n<span>When I refused to take it back, he'd go,<\/span>\r\n<span>Before my eyes, and give it to the poor.<\/span>\r\n<span>At length heaven bade me take him to my home,<\/span>\r\n<span>And since that day, all seems to prosper here.<\/span>\r\n<span>He censures everything, and for my sake<\/span>\r\n<span>He even takes great interest in my wife;<\/span>\r\n<span>He lets me know who ogles her, and seems<\/span>\r\n<span>Six times as jealous as I am myself.<\/span>\r\n<span>You'd not believe how far his zeal can go:<\/span>\r\n<span>He calls himself a sinner just for trifles;<\/span>\r\n<span>The merest nothing is enough to shock him;<\/span>\r\n<span>So much so, that the other day I heard him<\/span>\r\n<span>Accuse himself for having, while at prayer,<\/span>\r\n<span>In too much anger caught and killed a flea.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Zounds, brother, you are mad, I think! Or else<\/span>\r\n<span>You're making sport of me, with such a speech.<\/span>\r\n<span>What are you driving at with all this nonsense . . .\u00a0?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Brother, your language smacks of atheism;<\/span>\r\n<span>And I suspect your soul's a little tainted<\/span>\r\n<span>Therewith. I've preached to you a score of times<\/span>\r\n<span>That you'll draw down some judgment on your head.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>That is the usual strain of all your kind;<\/span>\r\n<span>They must have every one as blind as they.<\/span>\r\n<span>They call you atheist if you have good eyes;<\/span>\r\n<span>And if you don't adore their vain grimaces,<\/span>\r\n<span>You've neither faith nor care for sacred things.<\/span>\r\n<span>No, no; such talk can't frighten me; I know<\/span>\r\n<span>What I am saying; heaven sees my heart.<\/span>\r\n<span>We're not the dupes of all your canting mummers;<\/span>\r\n<span>There are false heroes\u2014and false devotees;<\/span>\r\n<span>And as true heroes never are the ones<\/span>\r\n<span>Who make much noise about their deeds of honour,<\/span>\r\n<span>Just so true devotees, whom we should follow,<\/span>\r\n<span>Are not the ones who make so much vain show.<\/span>\r\n<span>What! Will you find no difference between<\/span>\r\n<span>Hypocrisy and genuine devoutness?<\/span>\r\n<span>And will you treat them both alike, and pay<\/span>\r\n<span>The self-same honour both to masks and faces<\/span>\r\n<span>Set artifice beside sincerity,<\/span>\r\n<span>Confuse the semblance with reality,<\/span>\r\n<span>Esteem a phantom like a living person,<\/span>\r\n<span>And counterfeit as good as honest coin?<\/span>\r\n<span>Men, for the most part, are strange creatures, truly!<\/span>\r\n<span>You never find them keep the golden mean;<\/span>\r\n<span>The limits of good sense, too narrow for them,<\/span>\r\n<span>Must always be passed by, in each direction;<\/span>\r\n<span>They often spoil the noblest things, because<\/span>\r\n<span>They go too far, and push them to extremes.<\/span>\r\n<span>I merely say this by the way, good brother.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>You are the sole expounder of the doctrine;<\/span>\r\n<span>Wisdom shall die with you, no doubt, good brother,<\/span>\r\n<span>You are the only wise, the sole enlightened,<\/span>\r\n<span>The oracle, the Cato, of our age.<\/span>\r\n<span>All men, compared to you, are downright fools.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>I'm not the sole expounder of the doctrine,<\/span>\r\n<span>And wisdom shall not die with me, good brother.<\/span>\r\n<span>But this I know, though it be all my knowledge,<\/span>\r\n<span>That there's a difference 'twixt false and true.<\/span>\r\n<span>And as I find no kind of hero more<\/span>\r\n<span>To be admired than men of true religion,<\/span>\r\n<span>Nothing more noble or more beautiful<\/span>\r\n<span>Than is the holy zeal of true devoutness;<\/span>\r\n<span>Just so I think there's naught more odious<\/span>\r\n<span>Than whited sepulchres of outward unction,<\/span>\r\n<span>Those barefaced charlatans, those hireling zealots,<\/span>\r\n<span>Whose sacrilegious, treacherous pretence<\/span>\r\n<span>Deceives at will, and with impunity<\/span>\r\n<span>Makes mockery of all that men hold sacred;<\/span>\r\n<span>Men who, enslaved to selfish interests,<\/span>\r\n<span>Make trade and merchandise of godliness,<\/span>\r\n<span>And try to purchase influence and office<\/span>\r\n<span>With false eye-rollings and affected raptures;<\/span>\r\n<span>Those men, I say, who with uncommon zeal<\/span>\r\n<span>Seek their own fortunes on the road to heaven;<\/span>\r\n<span>Who, skilled in prayer, have always much to ask,<\/span>\r\n<span>And live at court to preach retirement;<\/span>\r\n<span>Who reconcile religion with their vices,<\/span>\r\n<span>Are quick to anger, vengeful, faithless, tricky,<\/span>\r\n<span>And, to destroy a man, will have the boldness<\/span>\r\n<span>To call their private grudge the cause of heaven;<\/span>\r\n<span>All the more dangerous, since in their anger<\/span>\r\n<span>They use against us weapons men revere,<\/span>\r\n<span>And since they make the world applaud their passion,<\/span>\r\n<span>And seek to stab us with a sacred sword.<\/span>\r\n<span>There are too many of this canting kind.<\/span>\r\n<span>Still, the sincere are easy to distinguish;<\/span>\r\n<span>And many splendid patterns may be found,<\/span>\r\n<span>In our own time, before our very eyes<\/span>\r\n<span>Look at Ariston, Periandre, Oronte,<\/span>\r\n<span>Alcidamas, Clitandre, and Polydore;<\/span>\r\n<span>No one denies their claim to true religion;<\/span>\r\n<span>Yet they're no braggadocios of virtue,<\/span>\r\n<span>They do not make insufferable display,<\/span>\r\n<span>And their religion's human, tractable;<\/span>\r\n<span>They are not always judging all our actions,<\/span>\r\n<span>They'd think such judgment savoured of presumption;<\/span>\r\n<span>And, leaving pride of words to other men,<\/span>\r\n<span>'Tis by their deeds alone they censure ours.<\/span>\r\n<span>Evil appearances find little credit<\/span>\r\n<span>With them; they even incline to think the best<\/span>\r\n<span>Of others. No caballers, no intriguers,<\/span>\r\n<span>They mind the business of their own right living.<\/span>\r\n<span>They don't attack a sinner tooth and nail,<\/span>\r\n<span>For sin's the only object of their hatred;<\/span>\r\n<span>Nor are they over-zealous to attempt<\/span>\r\n<span>Far more in heaven's behalf than heaven would have 'em.<\/span>\r\n<span>That is my kind of man, that is true living,<\/span>\r\n<span>That is the pattern we should set ourselves.<\/span>\r\n<span>Your fellow was not fashioned on this model;<\/span>\r\n<span>You're quite sincere in boasting of his zeal;<\/span>\r\n<span>But you're deceived, I think, by false pretences.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>My dear good brother-in-law, have you quite done?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Yes.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>I'm your humble servant.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>(Starts to go.)<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Just a word.<\/span>\r\n<span>We'll drop that other subject. But you know<\/span>\r\n<span>Valere has had the promise of your daughter.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Yes.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>You had named the happy day.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>'Tis true.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Then why put off the celebration of it?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>I can't say.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Can you have some other plan<\/span>\r\n<span>In mind?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Perhaps.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>You mean to break your word?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>I don't say that.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>I hope no obstacle<\/span>\r\n<span>Can keep you from performing what you've promised.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Well, that depends.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Why must you beat about?<\/span>\r\n<span>Valere has sent me here to settle matters.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Heaven be praised!<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>What answer shall I take him?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Why, anything you please.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>But we must know<\/span>\r\n<span>Your plans. What are they?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>I shall do the will<\/span>\r\n<span>Of Heaven.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE<\/span>\r\n<span>Come, be serious. You've given<\/span>\r\n<span>Your promise to Valere. Now will you keep it?<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>ORGON<\/span>\r\n<span>Good-bye.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span>CLEANTE (alone)<\/span>\r\n<span>His love, methinks, has much to fear;<\/span>\r\n<span>I must go let him know what's happening here.<\/span>","rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>ORGON, CLEANTE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Brother, she ridicules you to your face;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And I, though I don&#8217;t want to make you angry,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Must tell you candidly that she&#8217;s quite right.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Was such infatuation ever heard of?<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And can a man to-day have charms to make you<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Forget all else, relieve his poverty,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Give him a home, and then . . .\u00a0?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Stop there, good brother,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You do not know the man you&#8217;re speaking of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Since you will have it so, I do not know him;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>But after all, to tell what sort of man<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He is . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Dear brother, you&#8217;d be charmed to know him;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Your raptures over him would have no end.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He is a man . . . who . . . ah! . . . in fact . . .a man<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Whoever does his will, knows perfect peace,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And counts the whole world else, as so much dung.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>His converse has transformed me quite; he weans<\/span><br \/>\n<span>My heart from every friendship, teaches me<\/span><br \/>\n<span>To have no love for anything on earth;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And I could see my brother, children, mother,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And wife, all die, and never care\u2014a snap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Your feelings are humane, I must say, brother!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Ah! If you&#8217;d seen him, as I saw him first,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You would have loved him just as much as I.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He came to church each day, with contrite mien,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Kneeled, on both knees, right opposite my place,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And drew the eyes of all the congregation,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>To watch the fervour of his prayers to heaven;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>With deep-drawn sighs and great ejaculations,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He humbly kissed the earth at every moment;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And when I left the church, he ran before me<\/span><br \/>\n<span>To give me holy water at the door.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I learned his poverty, and who he was,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>By questioning his servant, who is like him,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And gave him gifts; but in his modesty<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He always wanted to return a part.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>&#8220;It is too much,&#8221; he&#8217;d say, &#8220;too much by half;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I am not worthy of your pity.&#8221; Then,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>When I refused to take it back, he&#8217;d go,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Before my eyes, and give it to the poor.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>At length heaven bade me take him to my home,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And since that day, all seems to prosper here.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He censures everything, and for my sake<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He even takes great interest in my wife;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He lets me know who ogles her, and seems<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Six times as jealous as I am myself.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You&#8217;d not believe how far his zeal can go:<\/span><br \/>\n<span>He calls himself a sinner just for trifles;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The merest nothing is enough to shock him;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>So much so, that the other day I heard him<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Accuse himself for having, while at prayer,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>In too much anger caught and killed a flea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Zounds, brother, you are mad, I think! Or else<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You&#8217;re making sport of me, with such a speech.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>What are you driving at with all this nonsense . . .\u00a0?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Brother, your language smacks of atheism;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And I suspect your soul&#8217;s a little tainted<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Therewith. I&#8217;ve preached to you a score of times<\/span><br \/>\n<span>That you&#8217;ll draw down some judgment on your head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>That is the usual strain of all your kind;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They must have every one as blind as they.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They call you atheist if you have good eyes;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And if you don&#8217;t adore their vain grimaces,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You&#8217;ve neither faith nor care for sacred things.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>No, no; such talk can&#8217;t frighten me; I know<\/span><br \/>\n<span>What I am saying; heaven sees my heart.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>We&#8217;re not the dupes of all your canting mummers;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>There are false heroes\u2014and false devotees;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And as true heroes never are the ones<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Who make much noise about their deeds of honour,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Just so true devotees, whom we should follow,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Are not the ones who make so much vain show.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>What! Will you find no difference between<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Hypocrisy and genuine devoutness?<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And will you treat them both alike, and pay<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The self-same honour both to masks and faces<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Set artifice beside sincerity,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Confuse the semblance with reality,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Esteem a phantom like a living person,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And counterfeit as good as honest coin?<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Men, for the most part, are strange creatures, truly!<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You never find them keep the golden mean;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The limits of good sense, too narrow for them,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Must always be passed by, in each direction;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They often spoil the noblest things, because<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They go too far, and push them to extremes.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I merely say this by the way, good brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You are the sole expounder of the doctrine;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Wisdom shall die with you, no doubt, good brother,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You are the only wise, the sole enlightened,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The oracle, the Cato, of our age.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>All men, compared to you, are downright fools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I&#8217;m not the sole expounder of the doctrine,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And wisdom shall not die with me, good brother.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>But this I know, though it be all my knowledge,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>That there&#8217;s a difference &#8216;twixt false and true.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And as I find no kind of hero more<\/span><br \/>\n<span>To be admired than men of true religion,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Nothing more noble or more beautiful<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Than is the holy zeal of true devoutness;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Just so I think there&#8217;s naught more odious<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Than whited sepulchres of outward unction,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Those barefaced charlatans, those hireling zealots,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Whose sacrilegious, treacherous pretence<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Deceives at will, and with impunity<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Makes mockery of all that men hold sacred;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Men who, enslaved to selfish interests,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Make trade and merchandise of godliness,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And try to purchase influence and office<\/span><br \/>\n<span>With false eye-rollings and affected raptures;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Those men, I say, who with uncommon zeal<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Seek their own fortunes on the road to heaven;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Who, skilled in prayer, have always much to ask,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And live at court to preach retirement;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Who reconcile religion with their vices,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Are quick to anger, vengeful, faithless, tricky,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And, to destroy a man, will have the boldness<\/span><br \/>\n<span>To call their private grudge the cause of heaven;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>All the more dangerous, since in their anger<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They use against us weapons men revere,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And since they make the world applaud their passion,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And seek to stab us with a sacred sword.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>There are too many of this canting kind.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Still, the sincere are easy to distinguish;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And many splendid patterns may be found,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>In our own time, before our very eyes<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Look at Ariston, Periandre, Oronte,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Alcidamas, Clitandre, and Polydore;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>No one denies their claim to true religion;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Yet they&#8217;re no braggadocios of virtue,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They do not make insufferable display,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And their religion&#8217;s human, tractable;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They are not always judging all our actions,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They&#8217;d think such judgment savoured of presumption;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And, leaving pride of words to other men,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>&#8216;Tis by their deeds alone they censure ours.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Evil appearances find little credit<\/span><br \/>\n<span>With them; they even incline to think the best<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Of others. No caballers, no intriguers,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They mind the business of their own right living.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>They don&#8217;t attack a sinner tooth and nail,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>For sin&#8217;s the only object of their hatred;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Nor are they over-zealous to attempt<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Far more in heaven&#8217;s behalf than heaven would have &#8217;em.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>That is my kind of man, that is true living,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>That is the pattern we should set ourselves.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Your fellow was not fashioned on this model;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You&#8217;re quite sincere in boasting of his zeal;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>But you&#8217;re deceived, I think, by false pretences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>My dear good brother-in-law, have you quite done?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I&#8217;m your humble servant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>(Starts to go.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Just a word.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>We&#8217;ll drop that other subject. But you know<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Valere has had the promise of your daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You had named the happy day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>&#8216;Tis true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Then why put off the celebration of it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I can&#8217;t say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Can you have some other plan<\/span><br \/>\n<span>In mind?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Perhaps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You mean to break your word?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I don&#8217;t say that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I hope no obstacle<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Can keep you from performing what you&#8217;ve promised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Well, that depends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Why must you beat about?<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Valere has sent me here to settle matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Heaven be praised!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>What answer shall I take him?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ORGON<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Why, anything you please.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CLEANTE<\/span><br \/>\n<span>But we must know<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Your plans. 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