The Learned Women by Molière
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CHRY. Yes, yes. PHI. I should like to see you excuse her. CHRY. Heaven forbid! BEL. It is really pitiful. All constructions are destroyed by her; yet she has a hundred times been told the laws of the language. MAR. All that you preach there is no doubt very fine, but I don't understand your jargon, not I. PHI. Did you ever see such impudence? To call a language founded on reason and polite custom a jargon! MAR. Provided one is understood, one speaks well enough, and all your fine speeches don't do me no good. PHI. You see! Is not that her way of speaking, _don't do me no good!_ BEL. O intractable brains! How is it that, in spite of the trouble we daily take, we cannot teach you to speak with congruity? In putting _not_ with _no_, you have spoken redundantly, and it is, as you have been told, a negative too many. MAR. Oh my! I ain't no scholar like you, and I speak straight out as they speaks in our place. |
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