Cle Monologue from The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman

From The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman by Molière

male · anguished · 1:24 min

What! to treat a lover in that fashion, and the most faithful and affectionate of all lovers! (COV: It is shameful what they have done to both of us!) I show her all possible ardour and tenderness; I love nothing in the world better, and have nothing in my thoughts but her; she is all my care, all my desire, all my joy; I speak of nothing but her, think of nothing but her, dream of nothing but her. I live but for her; my heart beats but for her; and, behold the reward of so much devotion! I am two whole days without seeing her, two days which seem to me centuries of frightful length; I meet her by accident, my heart at the sight of her feels transported; joy sparkles in my face. I fly to her with delight, and the faithless one turns away her eyes, and passes by me hastily, as if she had never seen me before in her life! (COV: I can only repeat the same story.) Can anything be compared, Covielle, to the perfidy of the ungrateful Lucile?

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