Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (alias Molière)
Tartuffe

ACT III

SCENE VII Orgon, Tartuffe

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SCENE VII

Orgon, Tartuffe

Orgon
What! So insult a saintly man of God!

Tartuffe
Heaven, forgive him all the pain he gives me!4




4 Some modern editions have adopted the reading, preserved by tradition as that of the earliest stage version: Heaven, forgive him even as I forgive him! Voltaire gives still another reading: Heaven, forgive me even as I forgive him! Whichever was the original version, it appears in none of the early editions, and Moliere probably felt forced to change it on account of its too close resemblance to the Biblical phrase.



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