Literature/Molière/Tartuffe

Tartuffe

Molière, 1664–1669

Act IScene IV

Cleante, Damis, Dorine

Damis

I wish you’d say a word to him aboutMy sister’s marriage; I suspect TartuffeOpposes it, and puts my father upTo all these wretched shifts. You know, besides,How nearly I’m concerned in it myself;If love unites my sister and Valere,I love his sister too; and if this marriageWere to ...

Dorine

He’s coming.