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flonroe des maifloniH nobles. Les hommes hnmbles, dont les actions forent grandes, ont illustré l'avenir. . . . Mais yons, mon fils, si vos actions Tons déshonorent, yons n^êtes pins noble. Ecnsaons paternels, antiques aïenx, qu'importe 1 Yons, noble I Yous n'ôtrâ rien. Yons qui mentez sans cesse, yons n'êtes rien ! Noble on plébéien, qui peut mentir sans être la fable du peuple ? C'est-ce que tous disent de toL As-tu donc Tèpée assez large et la poitrine assez dure pour faire face à tous ceux qui t'accusent ? Oh ! le triste yice, le stérile et misérable yioe ! Les voluptés apportent des jouissances, l'argent donne le pouvoir et le plaisir. . . . Mais le mensonge I le mensonge !~Qui dit que je mens a menti. — ^Tu mens encore ; tn ne sais démentir qu'en mentant. . . . Pense donc, malheureux, que Dieu t'a fait homme, que ton visage est visage d'homme, que tu as barbe virile, que ton flanc est ceint de l'épée, que tu es noble et que je suis ton père ! '* n est diflScile en comparant à ce morceau la scène de Corneille, de décider qui 1 emporte, et le poète espagnol a pour lui l'originalité de l'invention. Et comme ces remontrances produisent un bon effet sur Garcia I Son 'père lui propose de le marier et, pour rester fidèle à sa chère Lucrèce, il invente aussitôt ce mariage si prodigieux auquel il aurait été forcé de souscrire. " A moi tontes mes ressources, s'écrie-t-il ; c'est le moment de montrer tonte la finesse de mon génie." — M. Yignieb.

Imitations of Cobneille's "Le Menteub."

Le Menteur, by Goldoni, a comedy in three aots, in prose^ (1750). — ^The scène is at Yenice. Dr. Balanzoni bas two marriageable daughters, Beatrix and Bosaure, courted each by a timid lover ; Beatrix by Octavio, a Paduan nobleman, and Bosaure by Florindo, a Bolognese student. The latter spares nothing to obtain the &your of Bosaure : sérénades, présents, sonnets, love episties, he avaîls himself of every jKwsible means ; but ail this only helpe the chances of Lelio, the liar, who, though the son of a simple merchant, prétends to be a NeapoUtan nobleman, and appropriâtes to hiinself and of course reaps aU the benefits of the anonymous gallantries of his shy rival. Cleverly seconded by his valet, Arlequin, Lelio sucoeeds at first in imposing npon the fair Bosaure, whenPantolon, Lelio'sf ather, unexpectedly eomes, anxious to get him married. Hoping to win the heart of Bosaure, Lelio tries to check his father's plan of marriage by saying that he is already married, and fortifies this new he by a thousand ingénions falsehoods, in which he displays a gxeat f ertility of imagination. But, hearing that the lady whom his f ather wanted him to many was the veiy Bosaure whom he loved, Lelio dénies as energetically his being married as he had denied

a f ew moments bef ore his œlibacy. Bat he retams too late to tmth. Florindo bas taken npon himeelf to propose openly and to demand Bosanre's hand f rom her father, and the fables of Lelio having^ been made ont, the lady rewards the faithful lover, and tbe plaj ends bj Lelio*8 complète confusion.

Hère is also an eztraot of the English adaptation of le Menteur, by Samuel Foote (1762) :—

Tounff 7F, : One fatal evening, the twentieth of September, if I mistake not, we are in a retired room, innocently ezchanging mntual yows, when her father, whom we ezpected to snp abroad, came eaddenly npon ns. I had just time to conceal myself in a closet

Old W, : What, nnobserved by him ?

Tounff W. : Entirely. But, as my ill stars wonld hâve it, a cat, of whom my wif e is vastly fond, had a f ew days bef ore lodged a litter of kittens in the same place ; I nnhappily trod npon one of the brood, which so provoked the implacable mother, that she flew at me with the f ary of a tiger.

Old W, : I bave observed those créatures very fieroe in defence of their young.

Fap. : I shall hâte a cat as long as I live.

Younff W. : The noise ronsed the old gentleman*s attention ; he opened tbe door, and there discovered your son.

Pap, : XJnlucky I

Tounff W. : I rushed to thedoor ; but fatally my foot slipt at the top of the stairs, and down I came tumbling to the bottom. The pistol in my hand went off by accident ; this alarmed her three brothers in the parlour, who, with alL their serrants, rushed with united force upon me.

Old W. : And so surprised you I

Toung W, : No, sir ; with my sword I for some time made a gallant defence, and should bave inevitably escaped ; but a rawboned, overgrown, clumsy cook-wench struck at my sword with a kitchen poker, broke it in two. and compell^-d me to surrender at discrétion ; the conséquence of which is obvions enough.

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