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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
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Le Bret.
Forty, no less, not counting ladies.
Cyrano.
Forty, no less, not counting ladies. Count!
Le Bret.
Montfleury first, the bourgeois, then De Guiche,
The Viscount, Baro, the Academy…
Cyrano.
Enough! I am o'erjoyed!
Le Bret.
Enough! I am o’erjoyed! But these strange ways,
Where will they lead you, at the end? Explain
Your system—come!
Cyrano.
Your system—come! I in a labyrinth
Was lost—too many different paths to choose;
I took…
Le Bret.
I took… Which?
Cyrano.
I took… Which? Oh! by far the simplest path…
Decided to be admirable in all!
Le Bret
[shrugging his shoulders].
So be it! But the motive of your hate
To Montfleury—come, tell me!
