MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Not at all, sir.

MADAME JOURDAIN: (Aside) He's a real wheedler!

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Hush.

MADAME JOURDAIN: (Aside) He'll drain you to the last sou.

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Will you be quiet?

DORANTE: I have a number of people who would gladly lend it to me;
but since you are my best friend, I believed I might do you wrong
if I asked someone else for it.

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: It's too great an honor, sir, that you do me.
I'll go get it for you.

MADAME JOURDAIN: (Aside) What! You're going to give it to him
again?

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: What can I do? Do you want me to refuse a man of
this station, who spoke about me this morning in the King's
bedchamber?

MADAME JOURDAIN: (Aside) Go on, you're a true dupe.

ACT THREE

SCENE V (Dorante, Madame Jourdain, Nicole)

DORANTE: You appear to be very melancholy. What is wrong, Madame
Jourdain?

MADAME JOURDAIN: I have a head bigger than my fist, even if it's
not swollen.

DORANTE: Mademoiselle, your daughter, where is she that I don't see
her?

MADAME JOURDAIN: Mademoiselle my daughter is right where she is.

DORANTE: How is she getting on?

MADAME JOURDAIN: She "gets on" on her two legs.

DORANTE: Wouldn't you like to come with her one of these days to
see the ballet and the comedy they are putting on at court?

MADAME JOURDAIN: Yes truly, we have a great desire to laugh, a very
great desire to laugh.

DORANTE: I think, Madame Jourdain, that you must have had many
admirers in your youth, beautiful and good humored as you were.

MADAME JOURDAIN: By Our Lady! Sir, is Madame Jourdain decrepit, and
does her head already shake with palsy?

DORANTE: Ah! My faith, Madame Jourdain, I beg pardon. I did not
remember that you are young. I am often distracted. Pray excuse my
impertinence.

ACT THREE

SCENE VI (Monsieur Jourdain, Madame Jourdain, Dorante, Nicole)
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: There are two hundred louis d'or. DORANTE: I
assure you, Monsieur Jourdain, that I am completely yours, and that
I am eager to render you a service at court. MONSIEUR JOURDAIN:
I'm much obliged to you. DORANTE: If Madame Jourdain desires to
see the royal entertainment, I will have the best places in the
ballroom given to her. MADAME JOURDAIN: Madame Jourdain kisses
your hands [but declines]. DORANTE: (Aside to Monsieur Jourdain)
Our beautiful marchioness, as I sent word to you, in my note, will
come here soon for the ballet and refreshments; I finally brou