The Flying Doctor

by Molière

Val. We come to ask you to forgive us.

Gor. I forgive you; and, on seeing such a good son-in-law, think myself happily deceived by Sganarelle. Now, let us all go to the wedding, and drink the health of the company.

THE END

FOOTNOTES

[1] The actor seems in this place to have been left to add any nonsense that came into his head. The MS. has "… &c. ( galimatias )."

[2] Compare 'Le Dépit Amoureux,' Act i. Sc. i.

[3] A scrap from 'Le Cid' of Corneille.

[4] Je dédonne au diable is apparently a euphemism for Je donne au diable. In French, compare parbleu, corbleu, &c., and deuce, zounds, egad, &c., in English. Dédonne is not given by Littré. It occurs again in 'La Jalousie du Barbouillé,' Sc. v., but does not seem to have been employed elsewhere by Molière.

[5] I.e. brand.