(Dorante, Covielle)
       COVIELLE
       Ha, ha, ha! My faith, that was hilarious. What a dupe! If he had learned his role by heart, he could not have played it better. Ah! Ah! Excuse me, Sir, Wouldn't you like to help us here in an affair that is taking place.
       DORANTE
       Ah! Ah! Covielle, who would have recognized you? How you are made up!
       COVIELLE
       You see, ha, ha!
       DORANTE
       What are you laughing at?
       COVIELLE
       At a thing, Sir, that well deserves it.
       DORANTE
       What?
       COVIELLE
       I'll give you many chances, Sir, to guess the stratagem we are using on Monsieur Jourdain to get him to give his daughter to my master.
       DORANTE
       I can't begin to guess the stratagem, but I guess it will not fail in its effect, since you are undertaking it.
       COVIELLE
       I see, Sir, that you know me too well.
       DORANTE
       Tell me what it is.
       COVIELLE
       Come over here a little to make room for what I see coming. You can see part of the story, while I tell you the rest.
       (The Turkish ceremony for ennobling Monsieur Jourdain is performed in dance and music, and comprises the Fourth Interlude.) [The ceremony is a burlesque full of comic gibberish in pseudo-Turkish and nonsensical French, in which Monsieur Jourdain is made to appear ludicrous and during which he is outfitted with an extravagant costume, turban, and sword.]

The Cast
act one
   Scene I
   Scene II
act two
   Scene I
   Scene II
   Scene III
   Scene IV
   Scene V
act three
   Scene I
   Scene II
   Scene III
   Scene IV
   Scene V
   Scene VI
   Scene VII
   Scene VIII
   Scene IX
   Scene X
   Scene XI
   Scene XII
   Scene XIII
   Scene XIV
   Scene XV
   Scene XVI
act four
   Scene I
   Scene II
   Scene III
   Scene IV
   Scene V
act five
   Scene I
   Scene II
   Scene III
   Scene IV
   Scene V
   Scene VI