The Learned Women by Molière
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PHI. One feels, at hearing these verses, an indescribable something
which goes through one's inmost soul, and makes one feel quite faint. ARM. _Will she, nill she, quick, out she goes From your apartment richly lined_. How prettily _rich apartment_ is said here, and with what wit the metaphor is introduced! PHI. _Will she, nill she, quick, out she goes!_ Ah! in what admirable taste that _will she, nill she_, is! To my mind the passage is invaluable. ARM. My heart is also in love with _will she, nill she_. BEL. I am of your opinion; _will she, nill she_, is a happy expression. ARM. I wish I had written it. BEL. It is worth a whole poem! PHI. But do you, like me, understand thoroughly the wit of it? ARM. _and_ BEL. Oh! oh PHIL. _Will she, nill she, quick, out she goes_! Although another should take the fever's part, pay no attention; laugh at the gossips; _will she, nill she, quick, out she goes. Will she, nill she, will she, nill she_. This _will she, nill she_, says a great deal |
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