Chapter 15

Val. We come to ask you to forgive us.

Gor. I forgive you; and, on seeing such a good son-in-law, think myself happily deceived by Sganarelle. Now, let us all go to the wedding, and drink the health of the company.

THE END

FOOTNOTES

[1] The actor seems in this place to have been left to add any nonsense that came into his head. The MS. has "... &c. (_galimatias_)."

[2] Compare 'Le Dépit Amoureux,' Act i. So. i.

[3] A scrap from 'Le Cid' of Corneille.

[4] _Je dédonne au diable_ is apparently a euphemism for _Je donne au diable._ In French, compare _parbleu, corbleu_, &c., and _deuce, zounds, egad_, &c., in English.

[5] _I.e._ brand.