THE WORKS O F MOLIERE. VOLUME THE THIRD. GLASGOW: Printed by ROBERT URIE, And fold by JoHN GILMOUR, Bookfeller in the ACTORS. SGANAR E L, Lucinda's father. Mr. WILL FA M, a feller of tapistry. Mr. T HOMES, Mr. FoN ANDRES, Mr. MA CROTON, Mr. BA HY S, Mr. FILLERIN, A SCRIVEN ER, Physicians. CHAMPAGNE, fervant to Sganarel. THE OPERATOR. SCENE PARI S. LOVE's the beft DOCTOR.. ACT I. SCENE I. SGANAREL, AMINTA, LUCRETIA, Mr. WILLIAM, Mr. JOSSE. W SGANAR EL. HAT a strange thing is life! and how well may I fay with the great philofopher of antiquity, that "he who hath wealth hath "warfare ;" and that " one misfortune never comes "without another." I had but one wife, and the is dead. Mr. William. How many then would you have had? Sganarel. She is dead, friend William; this lofs is very grievous to me, and I can't think of it without weeping. I was not mighty well fatisfy'd with her conduct, and we had very often difputes together, but in short death fettles all things. She is dead, I lament her. If she was alive we should quarrel. Of all the children that heaven has given me, it has only left me one daughter, and this daughter is all my trouble; for in short she is in the most difinal melancholy in the world, in a terrible fadnefs, out of which there is no way of getting her, and the caufe of which I can't learn. For my part, I'm out of my wits about it, and have need of good advice on this matter. [To Lucretia.] You are my niece, [To Aminta.] My neighbour. [To |