I cannot believe Alceste broke-up with me! I do admit, I have wronged Alceste; but I didn’t want to move away, and forget the entirety of existence of the human race! Oh well, I am only twenty-one, and there are other suitors out there waiting for me.
" Alas, at twenty-one is...
Stop being so lumpatious, Celimene. I think you've done it enough.
Ah, if you really loved me as you ought, you wouldn't give the world a moment's thought. (Act 5, Scene 7) I'm so done with you now.
I could excuse everything else, but since you thus refuse to love me wholly, as a wife should do, and see the world in me, as I in you, go! I reject your hand, and disenthrall my heart from your enchantments, once for all. (Act 5, Scene 5)Â










