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SGAN. NO.

LUC. You ain't a doctor?
SGAN. No, I tell you.

VAL. Since you will have it, it must

be so.

(They each take a stick and beat him.) SGAN. Oh! oh! oh! Gentlemen, I am anything you please.

VAL. Why do you force us to use such violence, sir?

Luc. Why give us the trouble of beating you?

VAL. I assure you that I am exceedingly sorry for it.

Luc. And so am I, 'pon my word, uncommonly.

SGAN. What the deuce are you at, sirs? Tell me, pray, is it a joke, or are you both crazy, that you persist in calling me a doctor?

VAL. What you have not made up your mind yet, and you still persist in denying that you are a doctor?

SGAN. Devil take me, if I am! Luc. It ain't true that you are a doctor?

SGAN. No; choke me if I am. (They beat him again.) Oh! oh! gentlemen! Yes, since you wish it, I am a doctor; I am a doctor; an apothecary, also, if you have a mind to it. I'd rather consent to anything than to have my brains knocked out. VAL. Ah! all right, sir; I am delighted to see you come back to reason. Luc. It makes me quite happy like to hear you speak like that.

VAL. I sincerely beg of you to forgive

me.

LUC. Pray excuse the liberty we've took. SGAN. (aside). H'm! Is it I who am deceived, and have I not become a doctor without knowing it?

SGAN. Bless me!

VAL. A woman was thought to be dead for six hours; they were going to put her in a shroud, when, with a drop of something, you brought her back to life again and made her at once walk about the

room.

SGAN. The plague I did!

Luc. A child twelve years old had fallen from the top of a steeple, and broke his head, legs, and arms. You, with I don't know what ointment, made him jump on his feet, and he went to play at pitch-farthing.

SGAN. The deuce I did!

VAL. In short, sir, you will be satisfied with us; and you will gain all the money you like by coming with us where we want to take you.

SGAN. I shall gain all the money I like? VAL. Yes.

SGAN. Ah! I am a doctor most certainly. I had forgotten all about it, but I remember it now. What is there to be done? Where must I go?

VAL. We will go with you. We want you to come and see a young lady who has lost her speech.

SGAN. Faith! I have not found it. VAL. (aside to LUCAS). He likes a joke, (aloud) Now, sir!

SGAN. Without a doctor's gown?
VAL. We will find you one.

SGAN. (giving his bottle to VALÈRE). Hold this, you; it is in this I put my julep. (Then turning towards LUCAS, and spitting on the ground) You, put your foot upon this, by the doctor's order.

LUC. This doctor just suits me, and no mistake; he's safe to get on, 'cause he's a bit of a larker.

ACT II.

VAL. You will have no cause to repent, sir, of having told us the truth; and you SCENE I.-GERONTE, VALÈRE, LUCAS, will be sure to be satisfied.

SGAN. But, gentlemen, tell me, are you not deceiving yourselves? Is it quite certain that I am a doctor?

LUC. Yes, that you are, and no mistake neither.

SGAN. Really?

VAL. Undoubtedly.

SGAN. Deuce take me, if I knew it. VAL. HOW! you are the most clever

doctor in the world.

SGAN. Ah! ah!

LUC. A doctor what has cured I don't know how many diseases.

VOL. V.-W. H.

JACQUELINE.

(The stage represents a room in GE-
RONTE's house.)

VAL. Yes, sir, I think you will be pleased, for we have brought you the greatest doctor in the world.

Luc. Oh, my eyes! we must shut up shop beside him, and all the rest are not fit to wipe his shoes.

VAL. He is a man who has performed wonderful cures.

LUC. Why, he's cured people after they were dead.

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