Mascarille Monologue from The Blunderer

From The Blunderer by Molière

male · dramatic · 1:15 min

You are very romantic with all your fancies. But what will Pandolphus do in this case? He is your father, at least he says so. You know very well that his bile is pretty often stirred up; that he can rage against you finely, when your behaviour offends him. He is now in treaty with Anselmo about your marriage with his daughter, Hippolyta; imagining that it is marriage alone that mayhap can steady you: now, should he discover that you reject his choice, and that you entertain a passion for a person nobody knows anything about; that the fatal power of this foolish love causes you to forget your duty and disobey him; Heaven knows what a storm will then burst forth, and what fine lectures you will be treated to. (LEL: A truce, I pray, to your rhetoric.) Rather a truce to your manner of loving, it is none of the best, and you ought to endeavour.

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