Scene 3 by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Lyrics
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CARISE, EGLÉ
CARISE: Eglé, come, follow me; there's a new place here you’ve never seen. You can run around; it's safe.
EGLÉ: What am I seeing? What a lot of new worlds!
CARISE: It's still the same world, you just never knew its full extent.
EGLÉ: What a lot of country! What a lot of house! I don’t think I've been in such a big space ever, I like it and I'm frightened.
(She looks at and stops at a puddle.)
What's this water, what's it doing lying on the ground? I never saw anything like that in the world I've come from.
CARISE: No you didn't. That's what they call a puddle.
EGLÉ (Looking.): Ah! Carise, come here, come and look at this; there’s something living in the puddle that’s made like a person, and she looks as surprised about me as I am about her.
CARISE (Laughing.): No, that's you you’re seeing; all puddles can do that trick.
EGLÉ: What, that's me in there, that's my face?
CARISE: Sure.
EGLÉ: But do you know that's very pretty, that’s a lovely thing that is. What a shame I never knew that sooner!
CARISE: It's true you're pretty.
EGLÉ: What do you mean, 'pretty'? Wonderful! What I've found, it's magic... (She looks at herself some more.) The puddle's doing all my faces, and I like them all. It must have been lovely for you, Mesrou and you, having me to look at. I'm going to spend my whole life staring at myself; I'm going to love myself in a minute!
CARISE: Run around if you want to, I'm going to leave you and go back inside your house, there's something I have to see to in there.
EGLÉ: Go, go, I won't get bored, with the puddle.
CARISE, EGLÉ
CARISE: Eglé, come, follow me; there's a new place here you’ve never seen. You can run around; it's safe.
EGLÉ: What am I seeing? What a lot of new worlds!
CARISE: It's still the same world, you just never knew its full extent.
EGLÉ: What a lot of country! What a lot of house! I don’t think I've been in such a big space ever, I like it and I'm frightened.
(She looks at and stops at a puddle.)
What's this water, what's it doing lying on the ground? I never saw anything like that in the world I've come from.
CARISE: No you didn't. That's what they call a puddle.
EGLÉ (Looking.): Ah! Carise, come here, come and look at this; there’s something living in the puddle that’s made like a person, and she looks as surprised about me as I am about her.
CARISE (Laughing.): No, that's you you’re seeing; all puddles can do that trick.
EGLÉ: What, that's me in there, that's my face?
CARISE: Sure.
EGLÉ: But do you know that's very pretty, that’s a lovely thing that is. What a shame I never knew that sooner!
CARISE: It's true you're pretty.
EGLÉ: What do you mean, 'pretty'? Wonderful! What I've found, it's magic... (She looks at herself some more.) The puddle's doing all my faces, and I like them all. It must have been lovely for you, Mesrou and you, having me to look at. I'm going to spend my whole life staring at myself; I'm going to love myself in a minute!
CARISE: Run around if you want to, I'm going to leave you and go back inside your house, there's something I have to see to in there.
EGLÉ: Go, go, I won't get bored, with the puddle.