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See, he approaches, what a noble figure!
Off hats! Off berets !
Hear!
Hear!
Peasants!
Attention!
Don't even breathe !
I suppose and imagine...
...that you already know as well as I...
...that I am that grand healer,
...encyclopedic doctor...
...called Dulcamara...
...whose illustrious virtue...
...and infinite wonders...
...are known in all the world and ...
...in other places too.
Benefactor of mankind, curer of ills...
...in a few days I empty hospitals...
...I sell health and travel the world over.
Buy it now! I'll give it to you for a small price!
It's this marvelous medicine, wondrous liquor...
...the mighty destroyer of mice and bed bugs ...
...whose certificates, authentic and labelled ...
...I will allow each of you to touch, see and read.
Thanks to my specialty, a lovely wonder...
...a man, in his seventies and sickly...
...yet became the grandfather of ten babes!
Well... ten to twenty babes he had!
Thanks to this touch and health, in a brief week...
...more than one afflicted widow stopped crying!
O all of you, stiff matrons ...
...do you yearn to be rejuvenated?
Your inconvenient wrinkles...
...will be erased with this.
Do you want, damsels, to have smooth skin?
You, young gallant men, to always have lovers?
Buy my specialty! I'll give it to you for a small price!
It moves the paralytics, finishes off apoplectics ...
...asthmatics, asphyxiation, hysteria, diabetes ...
...it cures tympanitis and tuberculosis and rickets ...
...and even liver trouble, which used to be fashionable.
Removes bed bugs! Wonderful for the liver!
Cure for paralytics! Finishes off apoplectics!
Buy my specialty, widows and young ladies,
you, young gallant men, I'll give it to you for a small price!
Come on widows! Come on children!
Buy my specialty! I'll give it to you for a small price! Yes!
I brought it by post from a thousand miles away...
...you'll ask me: How much is it? How much is that bottle worth?
100 scudi?... 30?... 20?
No... nobody shall be dismayed!
To prove to you my gladness, that I am accepted as a friend ...
...I want from you, O good people, to give you 1 scudo!
1 scudo , that is impossible!
Here it is: stupendous ...
...truly balsamic elixir ...
All of Europe knows that I sell nothing under 9 lire ...
But since it is all so clear that I was born in this country ...
I'll give it to you for 3 lire, I ask only 3 lire!
Trumpet!
It is as clear as the sun, that to everyone who wants it ...
...1 scudo, nice and neat, I'll put in his pocket!
"It is true! I want one!" ... This way! 3 lire only!
"What a grand doctor!" ... Come on! This way!
"We will always remember this day!"
Ah! The sweet affection of home can do great miracles!
Ah! The sweet affection of home can do great miracles!