text: In one scene, this character offers up licorice to sooth another character, who is deliberately coughing to signal to her hiding husband.
full_question: In one scene, this character offers up licorice to sooth another character, who is deliberately coughing to signal to her hiding husband. This character does not appear until Act III and is ironically described as "the poor man" by a man who is told by Dorine that his own wife is sick. The play in which he appears was banned due to this character's similarities to Madame de Maintenon. (*) Damis is banished from the house after revealing to his father that this character tried to seduce Elmire, while Mariane is told by her father that she must marry this character rather than Valere. An agent of King Louis XIV prevents this title character from seizing the house of Orgon and his family. For 10 points, name this title religious hypocrite of a Moliere play.
first_sentence: In one scene, this character offers up licorice to sooth another character, who is deliberately coughing to signal to her hiding husband.
raw_answer: Tartuffe