COVIELLE: He says that you should go with him quickly to prepare
yourself for the ceremony; then you can see your daughter and
conclude the marriage.

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: So many things in two words?

COVIELLE: Yes; the Turkish language is like that, it says much in
few words. Go quickly where he wants.

ACT FOUR

SCENE V (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.]

ACT FIVE

SCENE I (Madame Jourdaine, Monsieur Jourdain)

MADAME JOURDAIN: Ah, My God! Mercy! What is all of this? What a
spectacle! Are you dressed for a masquerade, and is this a time to
go masked? Speak then, what is this? Who has bundled you up like
that?

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: See the impertinent woman, to speak in this way
to a Mamamouchi!

MADAME JOURDAIN: How's that?

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Yes, you must show me respect now, as I've just
been made a Mamamouchi.

MADAME JOURDAIN: What are you trying to say with your Mamamouchi?

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Mamamouchi, I tell you. I'm a Mamamouchi.

MADAME JOURDAIN: What animal is that?

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Mamamouchi, that is to say, in our language,
Paladin.

MADAME JOURDAIN: Baladin! Are you of an age to dance in ballets?

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Wh