The Magician Soldier

Of a frightful marriage
To support the bonds,
And despite your desires
To renounce pleasures.
In separating yourself from him, etc.

You are talking nonsense, Mr. Blondineau.

No, Madam, no. It is therefore better to go straight to the point, to attack the evil at its source, and even if the affair were to suffer some difficulties, I am not a Prosecutor for nothing. I will lift them, I will lift them, I promise you.

Eh! What is your goal?

To make you contract a better-matched marriage.

ARIETTE.

Marriage is to be feared,
A heart is to be pitied
For feeling its blows;
Of its false intoxication,
Of the shafts with which it wounds,
One is little jealous:
But of its charming and sweet bonds
How light the chain would be
For a tender and sincere Lover,
Who would carry it with you!

Just let my zeal act.

You are pushing it too far.

Ah! If you knew the one for whom I am interceding on your behalf, perhaps you would change your sentiment.

Think then of the scandal that would cause in the world, I would see myself timpanisée drummed out/publicly shamed.