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Title: The Jealousy of le Barbouille
(La Jalousie du Barbouille)

Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere

Translator: Charles Heron Wall

Release Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #27074]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLE.

(LA JALOUSIE DU BARBOUILLE.)

Among the small farces said to have been sketched by Moliere during
his stay in the provinces, two only which seem genuine have come down
to us, and have been published for the last thirty years with his
comedies. These are, 'La Jalousie du Barbouille,' and 'Le Medecin
Volant.' Moliere has made use of the former in the third act of the
comedy called 'George Dandin.'

Moliere acted the part of Le Barbouille.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

LE BARBOUILLE, _husband to_ ANGELIQUE.
THE DOCTOR.
ANGELIQUE.
VALERE, _lover to_ ANGELIQUE.
CATHAU, _maid to_ ANGELIQUE.
GORGIBUS, _father to_ ANGELIQUE.
VILLEBREQUIN.
LA VALLEE.

THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLE.

SCENE I.--LE BARBOUILLE.

BAR. Everybody must acknowledge that I am the most unfortunate of men!
I have a wife who plagues me to death; and who, instead of bringing me
comfort and doing things as I like them to be done, makes me swear at
her twenty times a day. Instead of keeping at home, she likes gadding
about, eating good dinners, and passing her time with people of I
don't know what description. Ah! poor Barbouille, how much you are to
be pitied! But she must be punished. Suppose you killed her?... It
would do no good, for you would be hung afterwards. If you were to
have her sent to prison?... The minx would find means of coming out.
What the deuce are you to do?--But here is the doctor coming out this
way; suppose I ask his advice on my difficulties.

SCENE II.--DOCTOR, LE BARBOUILLE.

BAR. I was going to fetch you, to beg for your opinion on a question
of great importance to me.

DOC. You must be very ill-bred, very loutish, and very badly taught,
my friend,