Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme;The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman by Molière
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PUP. Yes.
MUS. MAS. Let me see. Very good. DAN. MAS. Is it anything new? MUS. MAS. Yes; it is an air for a serenade that I made him compose while we are waiting for our gentleman to wake up. DAN. MAS. Will you allow me to see what it is? MUS. MAS. You shall hear it, as well as the dialogue, when he comes; he won't be long. DAN. MAS. We both have plenty to do now; have we not? MUS. MAS. Indeed we have. We have found the very man we both wanted. He brings us in a comfortable little income, with his notions of gentility and gallantry which he has taken into his head; and it would be well for your dancing and my music if everybody were like him. DAN. MAS. No; not altogether. I wish, for his sake, that he would appreciate better than he does the things we give him. MUS. MAS. He certainly understands them but little; but he pays well, and that is nowadays what our arts require above all things. DAN. MAS. I must confess, for my part, that I rather hunger after glory. Applause finds a very ready answer in my heart, and I think it mortifying enough that in the fine arts we should have to exhibit |
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