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A Merry Death
9

Doctor: What are you laughing at?

Harlequin: You! (Bursts with laughter.)

Doctor (to Pierrot): He doesn’t believe in medicine?

Pierrot: No, apparently only in you.

Doctor: What a curious invalid! Your pulse, please. Oho, I can't count quickly enough! Show your tongue.

Harlequin: To whom?

Doctor: To me!

Harlequin: Oh, to you? Delighted! (Shows his tongue.)

Doctor: Thank you.

Harlequin: Please. (Shows his tongue again.)

Doctor: Enough, enough!

Harlequin: Oh, that's quite all right! (Shows it again.)

Doctor: I’ve seen it already.

Harlequin: Just as you like. (Puts in his tongue.)

Doctor: I’ve got to listen to you.

Harlequin: What shall I talk about?

Doctor: No, I say: I’ve got to listen to you.

Harlequin: Well, and I ask you, what about?

Doctor: You don’t understand me.

Harlequin: You? No, no, no, never! People like me can see right through you; but people