ORGON And how about Tartuffe? DORINE He plucked up courage properly, Bravely entrenched his soul against all evils, And to replace the blood that she had lost, He drank at breakfast four huge draughts of wine. ORGON Poor man! DORINE So now they both are doing well; And I'll go straightway and inform my mistress How pleased you are at her recovery. SCENE VI ORGON, CLEANTE CLEANTE Brother, she ridicules you to your face; And I, though I don't want to make you angry, Must tell you candidly that she's quite right. Was such infatuation ever heard of? And can a man to-day have charms to make you Forget all else, relieve his poverty, Give him a home, and then . . . ? ORGON Stop there, good brother, You do not know the man you're speaking of. CLEANTE Since you will have it so, I do not know him; But after all, to tell what sort of man He is . . . ORGON Dear brother, you'd be charmed to know him; Your raptures over him would have no end. He is a man . . . who . . . ah! . .
always been interested in these secrets of nature," Dato said. "What do you think of these decipherers? Have you tried your hand at it, as much as you know how to?" Alberti smiled. He knew that Date's duties included ciphers (it was before the curia had a separate cipher secretary). "You're the head of the papel secretariat," he teased. "Could it be that you had to use these things a few times in matters of great importance to His Holiness?" "That's why I brought it up," Dato replied candidly. "And because of the post I have, I want to be able to do it myself without having to use outside interpreters. For when they bring me letters in cipher intercepted by spies, it's no joking matter. So please—if you've thought up any new ideas having to do with this business, tell me about them." So Alberti promised that he would do some work on it so that Dato would see that it was profitable to have asked him, and the result was the essay that he
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