Act II, Scene ii | The same. Two children, who have just trotted into the shop. |
| FIRST CHILD: |  Three pies. |
| RAGUENEAU (serving them): | | See, hot and well browned. |
| SECOND CHILD: | | If it please you, Sir, will you wrap them up for us? |
| RAGUENEAU (aside, distressed): | | Alas! one of my bags! | | (To the children): | | What? Must I wrap them up? | | (He takes a bag, and just as he is about to put in the pies, he reads): | | 'Ulysses thus, on leaving fair Penelope. . .' | | Not that one! | | (He puts it aside, and takes another, and as he is about to put in the pies, | | he reads): | | 'The gold-locked Phoebus. . .' | | Nay, nor that one!. . . |
| LISE (impatiently): | | What are you dallying for? |
| RAGUENEAU: | | Here! here! here | | (He chooses a third, resignedly): | | The sonnet to Phillis!. . .but 'tis hard to part with it! |
| LISE: | | By good luck he has made up his mind at last! | | (Shrugging her shoulders): | | Nicodemus! |
| (She mounts on a chair, and begins to range plates on a dresser.) |
| RAGUENEAU (taking advantage of the moment she turns her back, calls back the | | children, who are already at the door): | | Hist! children!. . .render me back the sonnet to Phillis, and you shall have | | six pies instead of three. |
| (The children give him back the bag, seize the cakes quickly, and go out.) |
| RAGUENEAU (smoothing out the paper, begins to declaim): | | 'Phillis!. . .' On that sweet name a smear of butter! 'Phillis!. . .' |
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