The man in uniform is the Marshal's Sergeant-at-Arms. Alceste is being summoned to the royal court. Philinte thinks it is in reference to Alceste insulting Oronte's sonnet. Alceste swears he won't back down, that the verse was horrible. Philinte goes with him to help.....
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