Encyclopedia), arrives, selling his bottled cure-all to the townspeople. The traveling quack doctor, Dulcamara (the self-proclaimed Dr. Nemorino declares that his feelings will never change. Adina rebuffs him, saying that she wants a different lover every day and that Nemorino would do well to follow her example. Nemorino becomes anxious (although, Adina meanwhile secretly derides Belcore's complacency) and, alone with Adina, reveals his love for her. The self-important Sergeant Belcore appears with his regiment and immediately sets about courting Adina in front of everyone. When Nemorino hears Adina reading to her workers the story of Tristan and Isolde, he is convinced that a magic potion will help him to gain Adina's love. Nemorino, a poor peasant, is in love with Adina, a beautiful landowner, who torments him with her indifference.
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