

You adopt my cause: I’d like to feel that your actionĭe Guiche ( showing her some sealed papers) His soul away, his friends their fists, without a battle: You want to punish him? Deprive him of danger. Of means to inspire a man of his kind to anger. Sits here with folded arms!.That’s the true manner Here with his beloved Cadets, for the whole war: Roxane Why, if when the regiment leaves, he must remain I know the way, myself, to hurt him more! To expose him to what he loves, gunfire?.Hopeless! Your revenge on Cyrano? That would be, I’d guess, When one’s attached to someone – knowing they’re at war!įor the first time, you speak to me words so sweet, Roxane ( falling seated on the bench-aside) ĭe Guiche In which your cousin serves, a man of boastful words. You know I’m named commander of all those men?. My departure seems to leave you cold indeed.ĭe Guiche I’m desolate. Roxane, De Guiche, the duenna standing a little way off.ĭe Guiche Yes. He could well deal my love a true deathblow! He loves me, he’s powerful, he mustn’t know! If he doesn’t find you here: that would maybe set ( To Cyrano, pushing him toward the house) Madame, you’d read my letter with your lips!.’Ĭyrano ( smiling approvingly in spite of himself)Ĭyrano What can I say: you flatter his art! ‘ Hear my heart utter a single cry towards you,Īnd if kisses in these words might travel too, And this, isn’t this the last thing in tenderness? If you’ll have my heart, give me yours to keep!’Ĭyrano One moment he has too much, then not enough: I see! Roxane And then: ‘ Since I need another one, to weep, ‘ The more you steal my heart, the more I have!’

Roxane Better still! Listen a moment or two: Roxane He doesn’t speak, Sir, he gives a dissertation!
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He can’t have wit, because he’s beautiful!Ĭyrano He knows how to speak his heart in expert fashion? Roxane That’s too much! You men are always cruel: Then, suddenly, he says something ravishing! Those pretty nothings that are everything.Īt times he’s distracted: his Muse is sleeping: How handsome he is, how witty, how I love him!

if the friend of her soul is still quite faultless! Ho there! Go, instead of me, and play a pavane! Harmonious accompaniment to all I’m doing!.Ĭharming at first, but it’s already palling. I’ve got these two lute players in my paw, Till Phoebus starts on his daily round once more ‘You’ll pay me a whole day’s music!’ Lost instead! Whom he always has for escorts: then he said: Used to scratching lute-strings with their claws, Suddenly he shows me these two gangly jaws, Your lilies, and present my greetings to your ro.ses!Ĭyrano It’s a wager I had with D’Assoucy, and I won. They’re demi-semi-quavers, demi-semi-fool!Ĭan you tell, Sir, if they are demisemiquavers?Ĭyrano I’m a musician too, like all the others,Ĭyrano ( snatching the lute from him, and going on with the phrase)Ĭyrano ( going on with the air, and singing to it) ( A sound of stringed instruments approaching.)Ĭyrano's Voice ( behind the scenes, singing)Ĭyrano ( followed by two pages with large lutes) We’ll miss the discourse on the Tender Passion! They’re reading a discourse on the Tender Passion. It’s there they’re waiting for us, opposite,Īt Clomire’s. The Duenna ( to Ragueneau, showing him the door opposite) The Duenna ( rising, and calling up to the open window) So it didn’t take too long, if you follow!

Mars ate the cakes remaining from Apollo: Ragueneau Lise loved soldiers, and I loved the poets! The Duenna But what was the reason for all your debts? Then comes an offer from his cousin, to be her steward. HereĬomes Monsieur de Bergerac! He draws me earthward, And then, she takes herself off with a musketeer!Īlone, ruined, I hang myself. He has just finished relating something to the duenna, and is wiping his eyes. Ragueneau is standing near the door in a sort of livery. The window onto Roxane’s balcony is wide open. The knocker of this door is bandaged with linen like a sore thumb.Īt the rising of the curtain the duenna is seated on the bench. A bench in front.įrom the bench and the stones jutting out of the wall it is easy to climb to the balcony.įacing, an old house in the same style of brick and stone. On the right Roxane’s house and her garden wall overhung with thick foliage.
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