(after he has read the note to himself). This note is written in the most fashionable style, Madam, and is worthy of all your attention. ((Reads aloud.)) "Madam, I could not have made you the present I send you if my garden did not bring me more fruit than my love...." (COUN: You see clearly by this that nothing has taken place between us.) "The pears are not quite ripe yet, but they will all the better match the hardness of your heart, the continued disdain of which promises me nothing soft and sweet. Allow me, Madam, without risking an enumeration of your charms, which would be endless, to conclude with begging you to consider that I am as good a Christian as the pears which I send you, (4) for I render good for evil; which is to say, to explain myself more plainly, that I present you with good Christian pears in return for the choke-pears which your cruelty makes me swallow every day. Your unworthy slave, THIBAUDIER." Madam, this letter is worth keeping.

Visc Monologue from The Countess of Escarbagnas

Rehearse Visc's monologue