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Keep those wops out of here! There’s been enough noise already with this bigoted old soak.

You heretical, blasphemin’

Padre, Madonna mia, don’ fight no more! [To the crowd]: Eh!

[Still holding the crowd back in the doorway]: No, you can’t come in here!

Si, si, dottore! Si, si, dottore! Prego, dottore!

No! Tony’s too sick!

Tak’ a pinch-a snuff, Doc, an’ sit down.

[The guests surge in as calls to them]:

Vieni! Vieni qui! Venite tutti! Venite tutti!

Come va? Sta bene? Sta meglio, Antonio? Ha tanto sofferto, poveretto! Poveretto!