BELINE, _second wife to_ ARGAN.

ANGELIQUE, _daughter to_ ARGAN, _in love with_ CLEANTE.

LOUISON; ARGAN'S _young daughter, sister to_ ANGELIQUE.

BERALDE, _brother to_ ARGAN.

CLEANTE, _lover to_ ANGELIQUE.

MR. DIAFOIRUS, _a physician_.

THOMAS DIAFOIRUS, _his son, in love with_ ANGELIQUE.

MR. PURGON, _physician to_ ARGAN.

MR. FLEURANT, _an apothecary_.

MR. DE BONNEFOI, _a notary_.

TOINETTE, _maid-servant to_ ARGAN.




ACT I.

SCENE I.--ARGAN (_sitting at a table, adding up his apothecary's
bill with counters_).