Act,  scene

 1   Ch        |           mother of Orgon~Orgon, husband of Elmire~Elmire, wife of
 2    1,   1   |       woman who would please her husband’s eyes~Alone, wants no such
 3    1,   1   |          I were in my son’s, her husband’s, place,~I’d urgently entreat
 4    1,   1   | neighbour Daphne, and her little husband,~Must be the ones who slander
 5    1,   3   |         us at the door. I see my husband~Is home again. He hasn’t
 6    2,   2   |        by my choice, become your husband.~Eh?~Mariane~Eh?~Orgon~What
 7    2,   2   |     would like to have~Become my husband, by your choice?~Orgon~Tartuffe.~
 8    2,   2   |       family.~So he must be your husband. That I’ve settled.~And
 9    2,   2   |    honest woman~Depends upon the husband’s being human,~And men whose
10    2,   2(3)|     Orgon goes on, “Think of the husband ...” and stops before the
11    2,   2   |         design....~Think of this husband ... I have chosen for you...~[
12    2,   3   |        happy, sure, with him for husband.~Mariane~Oh dear! ...~Dorine~
13    2,   3   |         and Judy;~Though if your husband ...~Mariane~Oh, you’ll kill
14    2,   4   |         sir, I should accept~The husband that is offered me; and
15    3,   3   |         to business.~They say my husband means to break his word.~
16    3,   3   |          take a fancy~To tell my husband of your gallant passion,~
17    3,   3   |          repeat the matter to my husband;~But in return, I’ll ask
18    3,   4   |      follies,~And never fret her husband’s ears with them.~Damis~
19    3,   5   |         should never trouble~Her husband’s peace of mind with such
20    3,   7   |     woman~May easily mislead her husband’s mind.~Orgon~No, no.~Tartuffe~
21    4,   3   |        follow it.~Elmire [to her husband]~I can’t find words to cope
22    4,   4   |          no more to say.~[To her husband, who is now under the table.]~
23    4,   5   |      held in, laid the storm;~My husband can have no suspicion of
24    4,   5   |     Elmire [coughing to draw her husband’s attention]~What! Must
25    4,   5   |          and just see~Whether my husband’s not there, in the hall.~
26    4,   6   |   Tartuffe enters, she makes her husband stand behind her.]~
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