CYRANO (in fierce tones, showing him the lighted lantern held by the Janitor, who has been listening).
Take that lantern!
(Lignière seizes the lantern.)
And walk on boldly. I swear to you that I to-night will make your bed for you. (To the officers.) You, gentlemen, be good enough to follow .... at a distance. You'll be witnesses.
CUIGY.
Yes, but one hundred men!....
CYRANO.
To-night I would not have them fewer by a single man!
(The comedians and comediennes, who have, in their costumes, come down from the stage into the pit, crowd around Cyrano.)
LE BRET.