The singers' heads were droll; their faces were discovered to be in keeping with the phrase, especially that of a fat man which was as round as the moon.

Meanwhile Vulcan arrived in a towering rage, demanding back his wife who had slipped away three days ago.

The chorus resumed their plaint, calling on Vulcan, the god of the cuckolds.

Vulcan's part was played by Fontan, a comic actor of talent, at once vulgar and original, and he had a role of the wildest whimsicality and was got up as a village blacksmith, fiery red wig, bare arms tattooed with arrow-pierced hearts and all the rest of it.

A woman's voice cried in a very high key, "Oh, isn't he ugly ?" and all the ladies laughed and applauded.
Then followed a scene which seemed interminable.