Act,  scene

 1  Not     |              Jean Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name
 2  Not     | characteristic qualities are nowhere better exhibited than in “Tartuffe.”
 3    1,   1|             departed mother did much better.~You are extravagant; and
 4    1,   1|         sakes alive! Things would go better~If all were governed by
 5    2,   2|           know, the less he has,~The better cause have we to honour
 6    2,   3|          fate is fine. What could be better!~You’ll take the stage-coach
 7    2,   4|          obeyed.~Mariane~So much the better.~Valere [coming back again]~
 8    2,   4|         pains him, makes him go,~I’d better go myself, and leave him
 9    2,   4|             to her;~No doubt, t’were better I should free her from it.~
10    2,   4|             you—~You love each other better than you think.~[Valere
11    2,   4|       nonsense.~[To Mariane]~You had better humour~His notions by a
12    3,   3|              of all kinds were never better made.~Elmire~Yes, very true.
13    3,   3|          surprising.~You should have better armed your heart, methinks,~
14    3,   6|             wrongfully;~You’d do far better to believe his tales.~Why
15    3,   6|         judge therefrom that I’m the better man?~No, no; you let appearances
16    3,   7|          hours~And what is more, the better to defy them,~I’ll have
17    4,   1|             peril;~Consider, it were better he misused it,~Than you
18    4,   1|           together here,~Were it not better you should quietly~And honourably
19    4,   3|             Tis well thought out; no better can be had;~But you’ll allow
20    4,   5|            Things turned out all the better, as it happened,~And now