COMEDY.

When I have dined, when I have slept,
Of so much wealth, alas! what to do?
Oh! I know well what to do with it:
A good deed:
To make a friend out of an unhappy one.
One loses all the gold that one hoards.
It is to spread it that I amass.
Around me I hear, I want
Everyone to be happy.

It is a very sure way to be happy oneself.

I know of no other.
My folly is that everyone loves me.
I would give all the gold of Peru for that.
Come, hurry up, my daughter. And you, Julie,
Do you think she will look pretty?

I take Monsieur as the judge: he shall decide.

Is your father awake?

I do not know.

The nobility
Is lazy in times of peace.
This is not a reproach, at least, that I make to him;
For I would like it if laziness
Were the reward for martial labors;
And I respect the old age
That rests upon its laurels.
Here he is. His health shines upon his face.

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