Arg. To take this little clyster; it will soon be done.
Ber. Are you joking? Can you not spend one moment without clysters or physic? Put it off to another time, and be quiet.
Arg. Mr. Fleurant, let it be for to-night or to-morrow morning.
Mr. Fleu. (to Béralde). What right have you to interfere? How dare you oppose yourself to the prescription of the doctors, and prevent the gentleman from taking my clyster? You are a nice fellow to show such boldness.
Ber. Go, Sir, go; it is easy to see that you are not accustomed to speak face to face with men.
Mr. Fleu. You ought not thus to sneer at physic, and make me lose my precious time. I came here for a good prescription, and I will go and tell Mr. Purgon that I have been prevented from executing his orders, and that I have been stopped in the performance of my duty. You’ll see, you’ll see....
SCENE V.—ARGAN, BÉRALDE.
Arg. Brother, you’ll be the cause that some misfortune will happen here.
Ber. What a misfortune not to take a clyster prescribed by Mr. Purgon! Once more, brother, is it possible that you can’t be cured of this doctor disease, and that you will thus bring yourself under their remedies?
Arg. Ah! brother. You speak like a man who is quite well, but if you were in my place, you would soon change your way of speaking. It is easy to speak against medicine when one is in perfect health.