Chantecler
I do not see that the forest thinks so poorly of me after all!
The Big Toad
Played out, the Nightingale!
Chantecler
[More and more surprised.] Really?
Second Toad
More and more his song confesses itself effete—
The Big Toad
Mawkish!
Third Toad
Null!
Fourth
[Contemptuously.] And his old-fashioned pretense of inspiration!
Fifth Toad
And the name he has adopted: Bul-bul!
All the Toads
[Puffing with laughter.] Bul-bul!
The Big Toad
This is the way he goes on: [Parodying the song of the Nightingale.] Tio! Tio!