MONTFLEURY.
But....
THE VOICE IN THE PIT.
You recalcitrate?[8]
VOICES IN THE PIT (and in the boxes).
Silence! Enough! Go on, Montfleury! Montfleury, have no fear!....
MONTFLEURY (in shaking tone).
"Oh! happy he who far from courts, in sol...."
THE VOICE IN THE PIT (more threatening).
Well, you king of knaves, shall I be forced to plant a grove of these upon your shoulders?