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ACT 3
At Argan’s, Toinette welcomes Béralde.
TOINETTE: “You must stop your niece’s marriage.”
BÉRALDE: “Yes!”
TOINETTE: “I have an idea!”
BÉRALDE: “Well brother, how are you?”
ARGAN: “Oh, very badly.”
BÉRALDE: “You are not dead!”
BÉRALDE: “The body is a great mystery…”
ARGAN: “But doctors know a lot!”
BÉRALDE: “Great speeches.”
ARGAN: “I feel sick.”
Toinette, as a doctor, enters the room.
TOINETTE: “We have to cut off your right arm.”
ARGAN: “Why?”
TOINETTE: “Your left eye.
We have to remove it.”
ARGAN: “There is no hurry…”
Toinette leaves. She returns as a servant.
BÉRALDE: “A competent doctor.”
ARGAN: “Yes, but he’s going a bit fast…”
BÉRALDE: “You are giving my niece in marriage?”
ARGAN:”She will end up in a convent!
My wife agrees.”
BÉRALDE: “Your wife manipulates you.”
ARGAN: “She worries.”
BÉRALDE: “Act dead.”
TOINETTE takes Béline: “Your husband is dead!”
BÉLINE: “Free at last!”
BÉLINE: “His money.”
Argan gets up.
Béline runs out.
TOINETTE: “Sir, your daughter.
Act dead.”
TOINETTE: “Your father is dead.”
ANGÉLIQUE: “My dear father!…
I am so sad.”
ARGAN: “Ah my daughter!”
ANGÉLIQUE: “I love Cléante.”
Cléante enters the room.
CLÉANTE: “Sir, we are in love.”
BÉRALDE: “So brother?”
TOINETTE: “Sir?”
ARGAN: “All right, but he must be a doctor.”
BÉRALDE: “Become a doctor!”
ARGAN: “But medicines…”
BÉRALDE: “A doctor’s coat!”
BÉRALDE: “Doctors to give you a degree.”
ARGAN: “Well… Ok!”
A group of people enter the house: doctors, surgeons, and pharmacists.
They dance and sing in Latin to funny music.
The End