Sganarelle Monologue from The School for Husbands

From The School for Husbands by Molière

male · sarcastic · 48 sec

Where is your Léonor, pray? (AR: Why this question? She is, as I think, at a friend's house at a ball.) Eh! Oh yes! Follow me; you shall see to what ball Missy is gone. (AR: What do you mean?) You have brought her up very well indeed. It is not good to be always finding fault; the mind is captivated by much tenderness; and suspicious precautions, bolts, and bars, make neither wives nor maids virtuous; we cause them to do evil by so much austerity; their sex demands a little freedom. Of a verity she has taken her fill of it, the artful girl; and with her, virtue has grown very complaisant.

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