The Impostures of Scapin (Act 2 Scene 2) lyrics

                                                GÉRONTE (alone).

GER
What can it be? Worse than what his son has done! I am sure I don't know what anyone can do more wrong than that; and to marry without the consent of one's father is the worst thing that I can possibly imagine. {Footnote: No exaggeration, if we consider that this was said two hundred years ago, and by a French father.}