For the rest, to raise your fame
to the skies, give me your name and surname in writing, and I will make
a poem, in which the first letters of your name shall appear at both
ends of the lines, and in each half measure.
ER. Yes, you shall have it to-morrow, Mr. Caritides. (_Alone_).
Upon my word, such learned men are perfect asses. Another time I should
have heartily laughed at his folly.
SCENE III.--ORMIN, ERASTE.
ORM. Though a matter of great consequence brings me here, I wished that
man to leave before speaking to you.
ER. Very well. But make haste; for I wish to be gone.
ORM. I almost fancy that the man who has just left you has vastly
annoyed you, sir, by his visit. He is a troublesome old man whose mind
is not quite right, and for whom I have always some excuse ready to get
rid of him. On the Mall, in the Luxembourg,
[Footnote: The Mall was a promenade in Paris, shaded by trees, near the
Arsenal.]
[Footnote: The Luxembourg was in Moliere's time the most fashionable
promenade of Paris.]
and in the Tuileries he wearies people with his fancies; men like you
should avoid the conversation of all those good-for-nothing pedants.
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