The Farrier

Again? By death, it is a shame:
That will never pass.

Peace.
We will settle that later.
You are making difficulties there like an honest man
who would have you pass for a Prosecutor's clerk.
When one is in a certain house, must one be so
scrupulous?

A Great man must allow himself to be robbed,
It is an air that smells of opulence:
It would be dishonoring him,
To have too much conscience.

My faith, my dear, I have always been a Coachman; I would
perhaps have been a rogue, like so many others, if
I had been in the situation: but the profits of the stable
do not fatten like those of the kitchen & the
offices.

It is that the dishes one consumes there are not prepared
with spices. To your health, friend: I have
a business matter to propose to you.

I believe you have zeal for me.

Do not doubt that at all.

Does Jeannette seem to you
To have charms?

Yes, indeed.

So much so that without distrust
One could propose her.