Valère Monologue from The School for Husbands

From The School for Husbands by Molière

male · anguished · 57 sec

But I could never find one moment to speak to her in the four months that I have ardently loved her. (ERG: Love quickens people's wits, though it has little effect on yours. If I had been...) Why, what could you have done? For one never sees her without that brute; in the house there are neither maids nor men-servants whom I might influence to assist me by the alluring temptation of some reward. (ERG: Then she does not yet know that you love her?) It is a point on which I am not informed. Wherever the churl took this fair one, she always saw me like a shadow behind her; my looks daily tried to explain to her the violence of my love. My eyes have spoken much; but who can tell whether, after all, their language could be understood?

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