A monologue from the enjoy by Moliere
NOTE: This kind of monologue is reprinted by The Remarkable Works of Moliere, Vol. II. Ed. Charles Heron Wall membrane. London: George Bell Daughters, 1898.
CELIMENE: Madam, I have many thanks inturn to you, and such advice lies me beneath great obligation. Far from currently taking it unkindly, I i am only as well anxious at the same time to prove my gratitude by giving you on my component a certain sugestion, which, great to say, closely concerns the honour, and as I see you prove your self my friend by informing myself of the reports that people spread about me personally, I wish, during my turn, to adhere to so desirable an example simply by acquainting you with what has been said of you. In a selected house, where I was visiting the other working day, I met with people of the the majority of striking value, and they, speaking of the tasks of a individual that leads a virtuous your life, turned the conversation, madam, upon you. There, the prudishness as well as the vehemence of your zeal were by no means cited as a good example. That affectation of the grave demeanour, your eternal speeches on discretion and honour, your simpering, and your outcries at the shadow of any impropriety which an innocent although ambiguous phrase may present, the substantial esteem in which you hold yourself, and the looks of shame you cast upon other folks, your repeated lectures and your sharp arrêt on items which are benign and pure, all this, madam, if I may possibly speak the plain truth, was blamed by common accord. What signify, stated they, that modest mien and that burial plot manner, that happen to be belied by all the relax? She is many exact at all her prayers, but the girl beats her servants and pays them no pay. She makes the greatest screen of fervour in all locations of praise, but the girl paints and wishes to appear beautiful. She gets all nudities covered in her pictures, but the girl delights inside the reality. Pertaining to my portion, I undertook your security against everyone, and guaranteed them it absolutely was all libel, but the general opinion gone against me, and the realization was that you should do well to get less solicitous about other peoples actions and have more aches and pains about your individual, that we ought to examine ourself a great deal before thinking of condemning others, that we ought to add the excess weight of an exemplary life to the corrections we pretend to make in our neighbors, and that, all things considered, it would be better still to leave that treatment to those who had been ordained by Heaven for it. Madam, In my opinion that you are also too reasonable not to ingest good part this kindly-meant advice, rather than to characteristic it towards the earnestness associated with an affection which makes me troubled for your wellbeing.
