DORANTE: I think, Madame Jourdain, that you must have had many admirers in your youth, beautiful and good humored as you were.
MADAME JOURDAIN: By Our Lady! Sir, is Madame Jourdain decrepit, and does her head already shake with palsy?
DORANTE: Ah! My faith, Madame Jourdain, I beg pardon. I did not remember that you are young. I am often distracted. Pray excuse my impertinence.
SCENE VI (Monsieur Jourdain, Madame Jourdain, Dorante, Nicole)
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: There are two hundred louis d'or.
DORANTE: I assure you, Monsieur Jourdain, that I am completely yours, and that I am eager to render you a service at court.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: I'm much obliged to you.
DORANTE: If Madame Jourdain desires to see the royal entertainment, I will have the best places in the ballroom given to her.
MADAME JOURDAIN: Madame Jourdain kisses your hands [but declines].
DORANTE: (Aside to Monsieur Jourdain) Our beautiful marchioness, as I sent word to you, in my note, will come here soon for the ballet and refreshments; I finally brought her to consent to the entertainment you wish to give her.