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Caritidès Monologue from The Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts

From The Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts by Molière

male · comedic · 1:10 min

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Sir, it is an unseasonable time to do myself the honour of waiting upon you; morning would be more fit for performing such a duty, but it is not very easy to meet you, for you are always asleep, or in town. At least your servants so assure me. I have chosen this opportunity to see you. And yet this is a great happiness with which fortune favours me, for a couple of moments later I should have missed you. (ER: Sir, do you desire something of me?) I acquit myself, sir, of what I owe you; and come to you... Excuse the boldness which inspires me, if... (ER: Without so much ceremony, what have you to say to me?) As the rank, wit, and generosity which every one extols in you...

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30s · anticipation · honor · power · identity · fate

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