Act,  scene

 1   Ch     |    Mariane, daughter of Orgon, in love with Valere~Cleante, brother-inlaw
 2    1,   1|     brother, I esteem you highly,~Love and respect you. But, sir,
 3    1,   1|           should train you all to love him well.~Damis~No, madam,
 4    1,   1|         The slightest hint of any love affair,~And spread the news
 5    1,   4|        concerned in it myself;~If love unites my sister and Valere,~
 6    1,   4|           my sister and Valere,~I love his sister too; and if this
 7    1,   6| friendship, teaches me~To have no love for anything on earth;~And
 8    1,   6|     Good-bye.~Cleante [alone]~His love, methinks, has much to fear;~
 9    2,   1|        And gentle. So I’ve always love you dearly.~Mariane~I’m
10    2,   2|          your tongue.~Dorine~’Tis love of you ...~Orgon~I want
11    2,   2|         Orgon~I want none of your love.~Dorine~Then I will love
12    2,   2|          love.~Dorine~Then I will love you in your own despite.~
13    2,   3|       Dorine~Tell him one doesn’t love by proxy;~Tell him you’ll
14    2,   3|       asked your hand:~Now do you love him, pray, or do you not?~
15    2,   3|      Dorine! How can you wrong my love so much,~And ask me such
16    2,   3|           you know how ardently I love him?~Dorine~How do I know
17    2,   3|           honest truth you really love him?~Mariane~Dorine, you
18    2,   3|      plainly.~Dorine~So then, you love him?~Mariane~Yes, devotedly.~
19    2,   3|        Dorine~And he returns your love, apparently?~Mariane~I think
20    2,   3|        timid?—~Dorine~But what is love worth, if it has no courage?~
21    2,   3|           Am I not constant in my love for him?~Is’t not his place
22    2,   3|         make it plain that I’m in love?~Shall I cast off for him,
23    2,   3|          You ask me to display my love in public ... ?~Dorine~No,
24    2,   3|     Dorine~No.~Mariane~If I say I love Valere ...~Dorine~No, no.
25    2,   4|           Valere~So,~That is your love? And it was all deceit~When
26    2,   4|        heart~Has never known true love for me.~Mariane~Alas!~You’
27    2,   4|         think so; and my outraged love~May yet forestall you in
28    2,   4|       Mariane~No doubt of it; the love your high deserts~May win ...~
29    2,   4|       lover scorned, and still in love.~Mariane~In faith, a high
30    2,   4|         Would you have me keep my love alive,~And see you fly into
31    2,   4|           There, both of you—~You love each other better than you
32    3,   3|        Elmire~You mean you cannot love terrestrial things.~Tartuffe~
33    3,   3|           your thoughts.~Tartuffe~Love for the beauty of eternal
34    3,   3|         things~Cannot destroy our love for earthly beauty;~Our
35    3,   3|        all my heart inflamed with love~For you, His fairest image
36    3,   3|         trembled lest this secret love~Might be the Evil Spirit’
37    3,   3|         the offer of my heart;~My love hopes all things from your
38    3,   3|        like me are so discreet in love,~That you may trust their
39    3,   3|        fully guarantee the one we love;~So you may find, with hearts
40    3,   3|         hearts like ours sincere,~Love without scandal, pleasure
41    3,   4|           rascal caught at making love to you.~Elmire~No, no; it
42    3,   4|           And crossed my sister’s love, and mine as well.~The traitor
43    3,   5|       fine gentleman rewards your love~Most handsomely, with zeal
44    3,   5|        shameful offer of a guilty love.~She, somewhat over gentle
45    4,   1|       guilt~I feigned a Christian love for my accuser,~But feared
46    4,   3|      paternal rights,~And free my love from this obedience!~Oh,
47    4,   3|          one~Whom I have dared to love, at least, I beg you~Upon
48    4,   3|          I am not jealous of your love for him;~Display it freely;
49    4,   3|           mere mention of illicit love?~Or can we answer no attack
50    4,   4|          shall feign to share his love,~I can leave off as soon
51    4,   5|      cause we find to justify~The love that masters us, we still
52    4,   5|       please you,~And counts your love its one beatitude;~And yet
53    4,   5|         at once~Exhaust the whole love of a woman’s heart?~She
54    4,   5|       This dear confession of her love, and you~Are not yet satisfied,
55    4,   5|         alone~Can ill assuage our love’s desires. A fate~Too full
56    4,   5|        till~You have convinced my love by something real.~Elmire~
57    4,   5|         real.~Elmire~Ah! How your love enacts the tyrant’s role,~
58    5,   5|       proves his good intentions.~Love for his neighbour makes
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