1st Phy. Your intended son-in-law was entered as my patient. His disease which was given me to cure is a chattel which belongs to me, and which I reckon among my possessions. I therefore declare to you that I will not allow him to marry before he has rendered due satisfaction to the faculty, and submitted to the remedies which I have ordered for him.
Oro. He is suffering from some disease?
1st Phy. Yes.
Oro. And from what disease, if you please?
1st Phy. Don't trouble yourself about that.
Oro. Is it some disease….?
1st Phy. Doctors are bound to keep things secret. Let it suffice you that I enjoin both you and your daughter not to celebrate the wedding without my consent, upon pain of incurring the displeasure of the faculty, and of undergoing all the diseases which we choose to lay upon you.
Oro. If that is the case, I shall take good care to put a stop to the marriage.
1st Phy. He was entrusted to me, and he is bound to be my patient.
Oro. Very well.