Third Entry of the Ballet.
All the Doctors and Apothecaries dance to the sound of instruments and voices, the clapping of hands, and the beating of Apothecaries’ mortars.
Surgeon
May he just see his learned stipulations and fill the offices of surgeons and apothecaries.
Chorus
Live a long life, live a long life, live a long life, live a long life, a hundred times let the new doctor who speaks so well live a long life! For a thousand, thousand years let him eat and drink, and cure and kill.
Apothecary
May all his years be good and favorable for him and may he never grapple with plagues or epidemics that are evil beasts.
But always pleurisies, pulmonias in the kidneys and vesical lumps, one-year rheumatisms, and all kinds of fevers, bloodflows, diabolic gouts, St. Joan’s problems, Poitou colics, Dutch scurvy, small and large poxes, good cankers and long brain problems.
Chorus