cyrano de bergerac-第8章
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LE BRET (entering; and running up to Cyrano): They're looking for you! Here's a crazy mob Led by the men who followed you last night。 。 。
CYRANO (alarmed): What! Have you told them where to find me?
LE BRET (rubbing his hands): Yes!
A BURGHER (entering; followed by a group of men): Sir; all the Marais is a…coming here!
(Outside the street has filled with people。 Chaises a porteurs and carriages have drawn up。)
LE BRET (in a low voice; smiling; to Cyrano): And Roxane?
CYRANO (quickly): Hush!
THE CROWD (calling outside): Cyrano!。 。 。
(A crowd rush into the shop; pushing one another。 Acclamations。)
RAGUENEAU (standing on a table): Lo! my shop Invaded! They break all! Magnificent!
PEOPLE (crowding round Cyrano): My friend!。 。 。my friend。 。 。
Cyrano: Meseems that yesterday I had not all these friends!
LE BRET (delighted): Success!
A YOUNG MARQUIS (hurrying up with his hands held out): My friend; Didst thou but know。 。 。
CYRANO: Thou!。 。 。Marry!。 。 。thou!。 。 。Pray when Did we herd swine together; you and I!
ANOTHER: I would present you; Sir; to some fair dames Who in my carriage yonder。 。 。
CYRANO (coldly): Ah! and who Will first present you; Sir; to me?
LE BRET (astonished): What's wrong?
CYRANO: Hush!
A MAN OF LETTERS (with writing…board): A few details?。 。 。
CYRANO: No。
LE BRET (nudging his elbow): 'Tis Theophrast; Renaudet;。 。 。of the 'Court Gazette'!
CYRANO: Who cares?
LE BRET: This paperbut it is of great importance!。 。 。 They say it will be an immense success!
A POET (advancing): Sir。 。 。
CYRANO: What; another!
THE POET: 。 。 。Pray permit I make A pentacrostic on your name。 。 。
SOME ONE (also advancing): Pray; Sir。 。 。
CYRANO: Enough! Enough!
(A movement in the crowd。 De Guiche appears; escorted by officers。 Cuigy; Brissaille; the officers who went with Cyrano the night before。 Cuigy comes rapidly up to Cyrano。)
CUIGY (to Cyrano): Here is Monsieur de Guiche? (A murmurevery one makes way): He comes from the Marshal of Gassion!
DE GUICHE (bowing to Cyrano): 。 。 。Who would express his admiration; Sir; For your new exploit noised so loud abroad。
THE CROWD: Bravo!
CYRANO (bowing): The Marshal is a judge of valor。
DE GUICHE: He could not have believed the thing; unless These gentlemen had sworn they witnessed it。
CUIGY: With our own eyes!
LE BRET (aside to Cyrano; who has an absent air): But。 。 。you。 。 。
CYRANO: Hush!
LE BRET: But。 。 。You suffer?
CYRANO (starting): Before this rabble?I?。 。 。 (He draws himself up; twirls his mustache; and throws back his shoulders): Wait!。 。 。You shall see!
DE GUICHE (to whom Cuigy has spoken in a low voice): In feats of arms; already your career Abounded。You serve with those crazy pates Of Gascons?
CYRANO: Ay; with the Cadets。
A CADET (in a terrible voice): With us!
DE GUICHE (looking at the cadets; ranged behind Cyrano): Ah!。 。 。All these gentlemen of haughty mien; Are they the famous?。 。 。
CARBON: Cyrano!
CYRANO: Ay; Captain!
CARBON: Since all my company's assembled here; Pray favor me;present them to my lord!
CYRANO (making two steps toward De Guiche): My Lord de Guiche; permit that I present (pointing to the cadets): The bold Cadets of Gascony; Of Carbon of Castel…Jaloux! Brawling and swaggering boastfully; The bold Cadets of Gascony! Spouting of Armory; Heraldry; Their veins a…brimming with blood so blue; The bold Cadets of Gascony; Of Carbon of Castel…Jaloux:
Eagle…eye; and spindle…shanks; Fierce mustache; and wolfish tooth! Slash…the…rabble and scatter…their…ranks; Eagle…eye and spindle…shanks; With a flaming feather that gayly pranks; Hiding the holes in their hats; forsooth! Eagle…eye and spindle…shanks; Fierce mustache; and wolfish tooth!
'Pink…your…Doublet' and 'Slit…your…Trunk' Are their gentlest sobriquets; With Fame and Glory their soul is drunk! 'Pink…your…Doublet' and 'Slit…your…Trunk;' In brawl and skirmish they show their spunk; Give rendezvous in broil and fray; 'Pink…your…Doublet' and 'Slit…your…Trunk' Are their gentlest sobriquets!
What; ho! Cadets of Gascony! All jealous lovers are sport for you! O Woman! dear divinity! What; ho! Cadets of Gascony! Whom scowling husbands quake to see。 Blow; 'taratara;' and cry 'Cuckoo。' What; ho! Cadets of Gascony! Husbands and lovers are game for you!
DE GUICHE (seated with haughty carelessness in an armchair brought quickly by Ragueneau): A poet! 'Tis the fashion of the hour! Will you be mine?
CYRANO: No; Sir;no man's!
DE GUICHE: Last night Your fancy pleased my uncle Richelieu。 I'll gladly say a word to him for you。
LE BRET (overjoyed): Great Heavens!
DE GUICHE: I imagine you have rhymed Five acts; or so?
LE BRET (in Cyrano's ear): Your play!your 'Agrippine!' You'll see it staged at last!
DE GUICHE: Take them to him。
CYRANO (beginning to be tempted and attracted): In sooth;I would。 。 。
DE GUICHE: He is a critic skilled: He may correct a line or two; at most。
CYRANO (whose face stiffens at once): Impossible! My blood congeals to think That other hand should change a comma's dot。
DE GUICHE: But when a verse approves itself to him He pays it dear; good friend。
CYRANO: He pays less dear Than I myself; when a verse pleases me I pay myself; and sing it to myself!
DE GUICHE: You are proud。
CYRANO: Really? You have noticed that?
A CADET (entering; with a string of old battered plumed beaver hats; full of holes; slung on his sword): See; Cyrano;this morning; on the quay What strange bright…feathered game we caught! The hats O' the fugitives。 。 。
CARBON: 'Spolia opima!'
ALL (laughing): Ah! ah! ah!
CUIGY: He who laid that ambush; 'faith! Must curse and swear!
BRISSAILLE: Who was it?
DE GUICHE: I myself。 (The laughter stops): I charged themwork too dirty for my sword; To punish and chastise a rhymster sot。
(Constrained silence。)
The CADET (in a low voice; to Cyrano; showing him the beavers): What do with them? They're full of grease!a stew?
CYRANO (taking the sword and; with a salute; dropping the hats at De Guiche's feet): Sir; pray be good enough to render them Back to your friends。
DE GUICHE (rising; sharply): My chair therequick!I go! (To Cyrano passionately): As to you; sirrah!。 。 。
VOICE (in the street): Porters for my lord De Guiche!
DE GUICHE (who has controlled himselfsmiling): Have you read 'Don Quixote'?
CYRANO: I have! And doff my hat at th' mad knight…errant's name。
DE GUICHE: I counsel you to study。 。 。
A PORTER (appearing at back): My lord's chair!
DE GUICHE: 。 。 。The windmill chapter!
CYRANO (bowing): Chapter the Thirteenth。
DE GUICHE: For when one tilts 'gainst windmillsit may chance。 。 。
CYRANO: Tilt I 'gainst those who change with every breeze?
DE GUICHE: 。 。 。That windmill sails may sweep you with their arm Downin the mire!。 。 。
CYRANO: Or upwardto the stars!
(De Guiche goes out; and mounts into his chair。 The other lords go away whispering together。 Le Bret goes to the door with them。 The crowd disperses。)
Scene 2。VIII。
Cyrano; Le Bret; the cadets; who are eating and drinking at the tables right and left。
CYRANO (bowing mockingly to those who go out without daring to salute him): Gentlemen。 。 。Gentlemen。 。 。
LE BRET (coming back; despairingly): Here's a fine coil!
CYRANO: Oh! scold away!
LE BRET: At least; you will agree That to annihilate each chance of Fate Exaggerates。 。 。
CYRANO: Yes!I exaggerate!
LE BRET (triumphantly): Ah!
CYRANO: But for principleexample too; I think 'tis well thus to exaggerate。
LE BRET: Oh! lay aside that pride of musketeer; Fortune and glory wait you!。 。 。
CYRANO: Ay; and then?。 。 。 Seek a protector; choose a patron out; And like the crawling ivy round a tree That licks the bark to gain the trunk's support; Climb high by creeping ruse instead of force? No; grammercy! What! I; like all the rest Dedicate verse to bankers?play buffoon In cringing hope to see; at last; a smile Not disapproving; on a patron's lips? Grammercy; no! What! learn to swallow toads? With frame aweary climbing stairs?a skin Grown grimed and horny;here; about the knees? And; acrobat…like; teach my back to bend? No; grammercy! Or;double…faced and sly Run with the hare; while hunting with the hounds; And; oily…tongued; to win the oil of praise; Flatter the great man to his very nose? No; grammercy! Steal soft from lap to lap; A little great man in a circle small; Or navigate; with madrigals for sails; Blown gently windward by old ladies' sighs? No; grammercy! Bribe kindly editors To spread abroad my verses? Grammercy! Or try to be elected as the pope Of tavern…councils held by imbeciles? No; grammercy! Toil to gain reputation By one small sonnet; 'stead of making many? No; grammercy! Or flatter sorry bunglers? Be terrorized by every prating paper? Say ceaselessly; 'Oh; had I but the chance Of a fair notice in the 〃Mercury〃!' Grammercy; no! Grow pale; fear; calculate? Prefer to make a visit to a rhyme? Seek introductions; draw petitions up? No; grammercy! and no! and no again! Butsing? Dream; laugh; go lightly; solitary; free; With eyes that look straight forwardfearless voice! To cock your beaver just the way you choose; For 'yes' or 'no' show fight; or turn a rhyme! To work without one thought of gain or fame; To realize that journey to the moon! Never to pen a line that has not sprung Straight from the heart within。 Embracing then Modesty; say to oneself; 'Good my friend; Be thou content with flowers;fruit;nay; leaves; But pluck them from no garden but thine own!' And then; if glory come by chance your way; To pay no tribute unto Caesar; none; But keep the merit all your own! In short; Disdaining tendrils of the parasite; To be content; if neither oak nor elm Not to mount high; perchance; but mount alone!
LE BRET: Alone; an if you will! But not with hand 'Gainst every man! How in the devil's name Have you conceived this lunatic idea; To make foes for yourself at every turn?
CYRANO: By dint of seeing you at every turn Make friends;and fawn upon your frequent friends With mouth wide smiling; slit from ear to ear! I pass; still unsaluted; joyfully; And cry;What; ho! another enemy?
LE BRET: Lunacy!
CYRANO: Well; what if it be my vice; My pleasure to displeaseto love men hate me! Ah; friend of mine; believe me; I march better 'Neath the cross…fire of glances inimical! How droll the stains one sees on fine…laced doublets; From gall of envy; or the poltroon's drivel! The enervating friendship which enfolds you Is like an open…laced Italian collar; Floating around your neck in woman's fashion; One is at ease thus;but less proud the carriage! The forehead; free from mainstay or coercion; Bends here; there; everywhere。 But I; embracing Hatred; she lends;