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Translator: Charles Heron Wall
THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILL?.
Among the small farces said to have been sketched by Moli?re during his stay in the provinces, two only which seem genuine have come down to us, and have been published for the last thirty years with his comedies. These are, 'La Jalousie du Barbouill?,' and 'Le M?decin Volant.' Moli?re has made use of the former in the third act of the comedy called 'George Dandin.'
Moli?re acted the part of Le Barbouill?.
PERSONS REPRESENTED.
THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILL?.
BAR. Everybody must acknowledge that I am the most unfortunate of men! I have a wife who plagues me to death; and who, instead of bringing me comfort and doing things as I like them to be done, makes me swear at her twenty times a day. Instead of keeping at home, she likes gadding about, eating good dinners, and passing her time with people of I don't know what description. Ah! poor Barbouill?, how much you are to be pitied! But she must be punished. Suppose you killed her?... It would do no good, for you would be hung afterwards. If you were to have her sent to prison?... The minx would find means of coming out. What the deuce are you to do?--But here is the doctor coming out this way; suppose I ask his advice on my difficulties.
BAR. I was going to fetch you, to beg for your opinion on a question of great importance to me.
BAR. Really, doctor, I am very sorry; the fact is that I am almost beside myself, and did not think of what I was doing; but I know you are a gallant man.
BAR. It matters little to me whether it comes from Villejuif or Aubervilliers.
BAR. I take you for a doctor. But let us speak a little of what I have to propose to you. You must know that ...
DOC. Let me tell you first that I am not only a doctor, but that I am one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten times doctor. Firstly, number one is the base, the foundation, and the first of all numbers; so am I the first of all doctors, the most learned of the learned. Secondly, there are two faculties essential for a perfect knowledge of things: the sense and the understanding; I am all sense, all understanding: ergo, I am twice doctor.
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