CYRANO (looking at him):
Had I but
Such an interpreter to speak my soul!

CHRISTIAN (with despair):
Eloquence! Where to find it?

CYRANO (abruptly):
That I lend,
If you lend me your handsome victor-charms;
Blended, we make a hero of romance!

CHRISTIAN:
How so?

CYRANO:
Think you you can repeat what things
I daily teach your tongue?

CHRISTIAN:
What do you mean?

CYRANO:
Roxane shall never have a disillusion!
Say, wilt thou that we woo her, double-handed?
Wilt thou that we two woo her, both together?
Feel’st thou, passing from my leather doublet,
Through thy laced doublet, all my soul inspiring?

CHRISTIAN:
But, Cyrano!. . .

CYRANO:
Will you, I say?

CHRISTIAN:
I fear!