M. Jourdain. Yet I have never studied, and I did all that right off at the first shot. I thank you with all my heart, and I beg you to come early again to-morrow morning.
Professor of Philosophy.—I shall not fail you.
Paul Scarron, described as a “pure bird of pleasure,” wrote plays, novels, epigrams, letters, and best known of all, a classic burlesque called Virgile Travesti.
Quotations cannot be made from his longer works, but two poems are given.
FAREWELL TO CHLORIS
Adieu, fair Chloris, adieu:
’Tis time that I speak,
After many and many a week,
(’Tis not thus that at Paris we woo)