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- checksums.yaml +4 -4
- data/.github/workflows/tests-6.0.3.yml +49 -0
- data/.github/workflows/tests.yml +47 -0
- data/.gitmodules +3 -0
- data/.idea/dictionaries/gem_terms.xml +5 -0
- data/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml +1 -0
- data/.idea/vcs.xml +1 -0
- data/Gemfile +1 -0
- data/README.md +55 -2
- data/Rakefile +18 -0
- data/bin/init-cluster +62 -0
- data/bin/setup +1 -0
- data/couchbase.gemspec +3 -2
- data/examples/crud.rb +1 -2
- data/examples/managing_buckets.rb +47 -0
- data/examples/managing_collections.rb +58 -0
- data/examples/managing_query_indexes.rb +63 -0
- data/examples/query.rb +3 -2
- data/examples/query_with_consistency.rb +76 -0
- data/examples/subdocument.rb +23 -1
- data/ext/.clang-format +1 -1
- data/ext/.idea/dictionaries/couchbase_terms.xml +2 -0
- data/ext/.idea/vcs.xml +1 -0
- data/ext/CMakeLists.txt +30 -12
- data/ext/build_version.hxx.in +26 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/bucket.hxx +69 -8
- data/ext/couchbase/cluster.hxx +70 -54
- data/ext/couchbase/collections_manifest.hxx +3 -3
- data/ext/couchbase/configuration.hxx +14 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/couchbase.cxx +2044 -383
- data/ext/couchbase/{operations/document_id.hxx → document_id.hxx} +5 -4
- data/ext/couchbase/io/http_message.hxx +5 -1
- data/ext/couchbase/io/http_parser.hxx +2 -1
- data/ext/couchbase/io/http_session.hxx +6 -3
- data/ext/couchbase/io/{binary_message.hxx → mcbp_message.hxx} +15 -12
- data/ext/couchbase/io/mcbp_parser.hxx +99 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/io/{key_value_session.hxx → mcbp_session.hxx} +200 -95
- data/ext/couchbase/io/session_manager.hxx +37 -22
- data/ext/couchbase/mutation_token.hxx +2 -1
- data/ext/couchbase/operations.hxx +38 -8
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_create.hxx +138 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_drop.hxx +65 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_flush.hxx +65 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_get.hxx +69 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_get_all.hxx +62 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_settings.hxx +111 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_update.hxx +115 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/cluster_developer_preview_enable.hxx +60 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/collection_create.hxx +86 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/collection_drop.hxx +82 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/command.hxx +10 -10
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_decrement.hxx +80 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_exists.hxx +80 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/{get.hxx → document_get.hxx} +4 -2
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_get_and_lock.hxx +64 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_get_and_touch.hxx +64 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_increment.hxx +80 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_insert.hxx +74 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/{lookup_in.hxx → document_lookup_in.hxx} +2 -2
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/{mutate_in.hxx → document_mutate_in.hxx} +11 -2
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/{query.hxx → document_query.hxx} +101 -6
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_remove.hxx +67 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_replace.hxx +76 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/{upsert.hxx → document_touch.hxx} +14 -14
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/{remove.hxx → document_unlock.hxx} +12 -10
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_upsert.hxx +74 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/query_index_build_deferred.hxx +85 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/query_index_create.hxx +134 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/query_index_drop.hxx +108 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/query_index_get_all.hxx +106 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/scope_create.hxx +81 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/scope_drop.hxx +79 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/operations/scope_get_all.hxx +72 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/client_opcode.hxx +35 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/client_request.hxx +56 -9
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/client_response.hxx +52 -15
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_cluster_map_change_notification.hxx +81 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_decrement.hxx +187 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_exists.hxx +171 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get.hxx +31 -8
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_and_lock.hxx +142 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_and_touch.hxx +142 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_cluster_config.hxx +16 -3
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_collections_manifest.hxx +16 -3
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_error_map.hxx +16 -3
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_hello.hxx +24 -8
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_increment.hxx +187 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_info.hxx +1 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_insert.hxx +172 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_lookup_in.hxx +28 -13
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_mutate_in.hxx +65 -13
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_remove.hxx +59 -4
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_replace.hxx +172 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_sasl_auth.hxx +15 -3
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_sasl_list_mechs.hxx +15 -3
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_sasl_step.hxx +15 -3
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_select_bucket.hxx +14 -2
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_touch.hxx +102 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_unlock.hxx +95 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_upsert.hxx +50 -14
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/durability_level.hxx +67 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/frame_info_id.hxx +187 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/hello_feature.hxx +137 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/server_opcode.hxx +57 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/server_request.hxx +122 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/protocol/unsigned_leb128.h +15 -15
- data/ext/couchbase/utils/byteswap.hxx +1 -2
- data/ext/couchbase/utils/url_codec.hxx +225 -0
- data/ext/couchbase/version.hxx +3 -1
- data/ext/extconf.rb +4 -1
- data/ext/test/main.cxx +37 -113
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/.appveyor.yml +36 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/.gitignore +8 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/.travis.yml +98 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/AUTHORS +1 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/CMakeLists.txt +345 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/CONTRIBUTING.md +26 -0
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- data/ext/third_party/snappy/NEWS +188 -0
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- data/ext/third_party/snappy/cmake/SnappyConfig.cmake.in +33 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/cmake/config.h.in +59 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/docs/README.md +72 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/format_description.txt +110 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/framing_format.txt +135 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-c.cc +90 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-c.h +138 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-internal.h +315 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-sinksource.cc +121 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-sinksource.h +182 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-stubs-internal.cc +42 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-stubs-internal.h +493 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-stubs-public.h.in +63 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-test.cc +613 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-test.h +526 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy.cc +1770 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy.h +209 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy_compress_fuzzer.cc +60 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy_uncompress_fuzzer.cc +58 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy_unittest.cc +1512 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/alice29.txt +3609 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/asyoulik.txt +4122 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/baddata1.snappy +0 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/baddata2.snappy +0 -0
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- data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/lcet10.txt +7519 -0
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/paper-100k.pdf +600 -2
- data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/plrabn12.txt +10699 -0
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- data/lib/couchbase/binary_collection.rb +33 -76
- data/lib/couchbase/binary_collection_options.rb +94 -0
- data/lib/couchbase/bucket.rb +9 -3
- data/lib/couchbase/cluster.rb +161 -23
- data/lib/couchbase/collection.rb +108 -191
- data/lib/couchbase/collection_options.rb +430 -0
- data/lib/couchbase/errors.rb +136 -134
- data/lib/couchbase/json_transcoder.rb +32 -0
- data/lib/couchbase/management/analytics_index_manager.rb +185 -9
- data/lib/couchbase/management/bucket_manager.rb +84 -33
- data/lib/couchbase/management/collection_manager.rb +166 -1
- data/lib/couchbase/management/query_index_manager.rb +261 -0
- data/lib/couchbase/management/search_index_manager.rb +291 -0
- data/lib/couchbase/management/user_manager.rb +12 -10
- data/lib/couchbase/management/view_index_manager.rb +151 -1
- data/lib/couchbase/mutation_state.rb +11 -1
- data/lib/couchbase/scope.rb +4 -4
- data/lib/couchbase/version.rb +1 -1
- metadata +113 -18
- data/.travis.yml +0 -7
- data/ext/couchbase/io/binary_parser.hxx +0 -64
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DUKE FREDERICK his brother, an usurper of his dominions.
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LE BEAU a courtier attending upon Frederick.
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SCENE Oliver's house; Duke Frederick's court; and the
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blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my
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sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and
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report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part,
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he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more
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bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so
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gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that
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ORLANDO I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My
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education: you have trained me like a peasant,
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CHARLES Good morrow to your worship.
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OLIVER Good Monsieur Charles, what's the new news at the
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CHARLES There's no news at the court, sir, but the old news:
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that is, the old duke is banished by his younger
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brother the new duke; and three or four loving lords
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have put themselves into voluntary exile with him,
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whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke;
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therefore he gives them good leave to wander.
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OLIVER Can you tell if Rosalind, the duke's daughter, be
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banished with her father?
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CHARLES O, no; for the duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves
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her, being ever from their cradles bred together,
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that she would have followed her exile, or have died
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to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no
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less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter; and
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never two ladies loved as they do.
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OLIVER Where will the old duke live?
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CHARLES They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and
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a many merry men with him; and there they live like
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the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young
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gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time
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carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
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OLIVER What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke?
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CHARLES Marry, do I, sir; and I came to acquaint you with a
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matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand
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that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition
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to come in disguised against me to try a fall.
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To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he that
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escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him
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well. Your brother is but young and tender; and,
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for your love, I would be loath to foil him, as I
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must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore,
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out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you
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withal, that either you might stay him from his
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intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall
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run into, in that it is a thing of his own search
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and altogether against my will.
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OLIVER Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which
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thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had
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myself notice of my brother's purpose herein and
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have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from
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it, but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles:
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it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full
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of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's
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good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against
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me his natural brother: therefore use thy
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discretion; I had as lief thou didst break his neck
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as his finger. And thou wert best look to't; for if
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thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not
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mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise
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against thee by poison, entrap thee by some
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treacherous device and never leave thee till he
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hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other;
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for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak
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it, there is not one so young and so villanous this
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day living. I speak but brotherly of him; but
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should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must
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blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder.
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CHARLES I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come
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to-morrow, I'll give him his payment: if ever he go
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alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more: and
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so God keep your worship!
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OLIVER Farewell, good Charles.
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Now will I stir this gamester: I hope I shall see
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an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why,
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hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle, never
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schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of
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all sorts enchantingly beloved, and indeed so much
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in the heart of the world, and especially of my own
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people, who best know him, that I am altogether
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misprised: but it shall not be so long; this
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wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that
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I kindle the boy thither; which now I'll go about.
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SCENE II Lawn before the Duke's palace.
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[Enter CELIA and ROSALIND]
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CELIA I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.
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ROSALIND Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of;
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and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could
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teach me to forget a banished father, you must not
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learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure.
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CELIA Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight
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that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father,
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had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou
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hadst been still with me, I could have taught my
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love to take thy father for mine: so wouldst thou,
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if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously
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tempered as mine is to thee.
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ROSALIND Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to
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rejoice in yours.
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CELIA You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is
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like to have: and, truly, when he dies, thou shalt
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be his heir, for what he hath taken away from thy
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father perforce, I will render thee again in
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affection; by mine honour, I will; and when I break
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that oath, let me turn monster: therefore, my
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sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry.
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ROSALIND From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let
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me see; what think you of falling in love?
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CELIA Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal: but
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love no man in good earnest; nor no further in sport
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neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst
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in honour come off again.
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ROSALIND What shall be our sport, then?
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CELIA Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from
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her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.
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ROSALIND I would we could do so, for her benefits are
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mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman
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doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
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CELIA 'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce
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makes honest, and those that she makes honest she
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makes very ill-favouredly.
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ROSALIND Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to
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Nature's: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world,
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not in the lineaments of Nature.
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[Enter TOUCHSTONE]
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CELIA No? when Nature hath made a fair creature, may she
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not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature
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hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not
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Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?
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ROSALIND Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when
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Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of
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Nature's wit.
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CELIA Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but
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Nature's; who perceiveth our natural wits too dull
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to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this
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natural for our whetstone; for always the dulness of
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the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How now,
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wit! whither wander you?
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TOUCHSTONE Mistress, you must come away to your father.
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CELIA Were you made the messenger?
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TOUCHSTONE No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you.
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ROSALIND Where learned you that oath, fool?
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TOUCHSTONE Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they
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were good pancakes and swore by his honour the
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mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the
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pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and
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yet was not the knight forsworn.
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CELIA How prove you that, in the great heap of your
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knowledge?
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ROSALIND Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.
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TOUCHSTONE Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and
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swear by your beards that I am a knave.
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CELIA By our beards, if we had them, thou art.
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TOUCHSTONE By my knavery, if I had it, then I were; but if you
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swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no
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more was this knight swearing by his honour, for he
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never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away
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before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard.
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CELIA Prithee, who is't that thou meanest?
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TOUCHSTONE One that old Frederick, your father, loves.
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CELIA My father's love is enough to honour him: enough!
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speak no more of him; you'll be whipped for taxation
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one of these days.
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TOUCHSTONE The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what
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wise men do foolishly.
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CELIA By my troth, thou sayest true; for since the little
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wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery
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that wise men have makes a great show. Here comes
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Monsieur Le Beau.
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ROSALIND With his mouth full of news.
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CELIA Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.
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ROSALIND Then shall we be news-crammed.
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CELIA All the better; we shall be the more marketable.
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[Enter LE BEAU]
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Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau: what's the news?
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LE BEAU Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.
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CELIA Sport! of what colour?
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LE BEAU What colour, madam! how shall I answer you?
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ROSALIND As wit and fortune will.
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TOUCHSTONE Or as the Destinies decree.
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CELIA Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.
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TOUCHSTONE Nay, if I keep not my rank,--
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ROSALIND Thou losest thy old smell.
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LE BEAU You amaze me, ladies: I would have told you of good
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wrestling, which you have lost the sight of.
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ROSALIND You tell us the manner of the wrestling.
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LE BEAU I will tell you the beginning; and, if it please
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your ladyships, you may see the end; for the best is
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yet to do; and here, where you are, they are coming
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to perform it.
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CELIA Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried.
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LE BEAU There comes an old man and his three sons,--
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CELIA I could match this beginning with an old tale.
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LE BEAU Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence.
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ROSALIND With bills on their necks, 'Be it known unto all men
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by these presents.'
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LE BEAU The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the
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duke's wrestler; which Charles in a moment threw him
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and broke three of his ribs, that there is little
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hope of life in him: so he served the second, and
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so the third. Yonder they lie; the poor old man,
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their father, making such pitiful dole over them
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that all the beholders take his part with weeping.
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ROSALIND Alas!
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TOUCHSTONE But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies
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have lost?
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LE BEAU Why, this that I speak of.
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TOUCHSTONE Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is the first
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time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport
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for ladies.
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CELIA Or I, I promise thee.
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ROSALIND But is there any else longs to see this broken music
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in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon
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rib-breaking? Shall we see this wrestling, cousin?
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LE BEAU You must, if you stay here; for here is the place
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appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to
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perform it.
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CELIA Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it.
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[Flourish. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, ORLANDO,
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CHARLES, and Attendants]
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DUKE FREDERICK Come on: since the youth will not be entreated, his
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own peril on his forwardness.
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ROSALIND Is yonder the man?
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LE BEAU Even he, madam.
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CELIA Alas, he is too young! yet he looks successfully.
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DUKE FREDERICK How now, daughter and cousin! are you crept hither
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to see the wrestling?
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ROSALIND Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave.
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DUKE FREDERICK You will take little delight in it, I can tell you;
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there is such odds in the man. In pity of the
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challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he
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will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies; see if
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you can move him.
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CELIA Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.
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DUKE FREDERICK Do so: I'll not be by.
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LE BEAU Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you.
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ORLANDO I attend them with all respect and duty.
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ROSALIND Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler?
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ORLANDO No, fair princess; he is the general challenger: I
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come but in, as others do, to try with him the
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strength of my youth.
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CELIA Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your
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years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's
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strength: if you saw yourself with your eyes or
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knew yourself with your judgment, the fear of your
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adventure would counsel you to a more equal
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enterprise. We pray you, for your own sake, to
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embrace your own safety and give over this attempt.
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ROSALIND Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore
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be misprised: we will make it our suit to the duke
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that the wrestling might not go forward.
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ORLANDO I beseech you, punish me not with your hard
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thoughts; wherein I confess me much guilty, to deny
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so fair and excellent ladies any thing. But let
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your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my
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trial: wherein if I be foiled, there is but one
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shamed that was never gracious; if killed, but one
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dead that was willing to be so: I shall do my
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friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me, the
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world no injury, for in it I have nothing; only in
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the world I fill up a place, which may be better
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supplied when I have made it empty.
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ROSALIND The little strength that I have, I would it were with you.
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CELIA And mine, to eke out hers.
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ROSALIND Fare you well: pray heaven I be deceived in you!
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+
CELIA Your heart's desires be with you!
|
580
|
+
|
581
|
+
CHARLES Come, where is this young gallant that is so
|
582
|
+
desirous to lie with his mother earth?
|
583
|
+
|
584
|
+
ORLANDO Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working.
|
585
|
+
|
586
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK You shall try but one fall.
|
587
|
+
|
588
|
+
CHARLES No, I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him
|
589
|
+
to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him
|
590
|
+
from a first.
|
591
|
+
|
592
|
+
ORLANDO An you mean to mock me after, you should not have
|
593
|
+
mocked me before: but come your ways.
|
594
|
+
|
595
|
+
ROSALIND Now Hercules be thy speed, young man!
|
596
|
+
|
597
|
+
CELIA I would I were invisible, to catch the strong
|
598
|
+
fellow by the leg.
|
599
|
+
|
600
|
+
[They wrestle]
|
601
|
+
|
602
|
+
ROSALIND O excellent young man!
|
603
|
+
|
604
|
+
CELIA If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who
|
605
|
+
should down.
|
606
|
+
|
607
|
+
[Shout. CHARLES is thrown]
|
608
|
+
|
609
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK No more, no more.
|
610
|
+
|
611
|
+
ORLANDO Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed.
|
612
|
+
|
613
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK How dost thou, Charles?
|
614
|
+
|
615
|
+
LE BEAU He cannot speak, my lord.
|
616
|
+
|
617
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK Bear him away. What is thy name, young man?
|
618
|
+
|
619
|
+
ORLANDO Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys.
|
620
|
+
|
621
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK I would thou hadst been son to some man else:
|
622
|
+
The world esteem'd thy father honourable,
|
623
|
+
But I did find him still mine enemy:
|
624
|
+
Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed,
|
625
|
+
Hadst thou descended from another house.
|
626
|
+
But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth:
|
627
|
+
I would thou hadst told me of another father.
|
628
|
+
|
629
|
+
[Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK, train, and LE BEAU]
|
630
|
+
|
631
|
+
CELIA Were I my father, coz, would I do this?
|
632
|
+
|
633
|
+
ORLANDO I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,
|
634
|
+
His youngest son; and would not change that calling,
|
635
|
+
To be adopted heir to Frederick.
|
636
|
+
|
637
|
+
ROSALIND My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,
|
638
|
+
And all the world was of my father's mind:
|
639
|
+
Had I before known this young man his son,
|
640
|
+
I should have given him tears unto entreaties,
|
641
|
+
Ere he should thus have ventured.
|
642
|
+
|
643
|
+
CELIA Gentle cousin,
|
644
|
+
Let us go thank him and encourage him:
|
645
|
+
My father's rough and envious disposition
|
646
|
+
Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserved:
|
647
|
+
If you do keep your promises in love
|
648
|
+
But justly, as you have exceeded all promise,
|
649
|
+
Your mistress shall be happy.
|
650
|
+
|
651
|
+
ROSALIND Gentleman,
|
652
|
+
|
653
|
+
[Giving him a chain from her neck]
|
654
|
+
|
655
|
+
Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune,
|
656
|
+
That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.
|
657
|
+
Shall we go, coz?
|
658
|
+
|
659
|
+
CELIA Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman.
|
660
|
+
|
661
|
+
ORLANDO Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts
|
662
|
+
Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up
|
663
|
+
Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.
|
664
|
+
|
665
|
+
ROSALIND He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes;
|
666
|
+
I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?
|
667
|
+
Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown
|
668
|
+
More than your enemies.
|
669
|
+
|
670
|
+
CELIA Will you go, coz?
|
671
|
+
|
672
|
+
ROSALIND Have with you. Fare you well.
|
673
|
+
|
674
|
+
[Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA]
|
675
|
+
|
676
|
+
ORLANDO What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?
|
677
|
+
I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.
|
678
|
+
O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!
|
679
|
+
Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.
|
680
|
+
|
681
|
+
[Re-enter LE BEAU]
|
682
|
+
|
683
|
+
LE BEAU Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
|
684
|
+
To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved
|
685
|
+
High commendation, true applause and love,
|
686
|
+
Yet such is now the duke's condition
|
687
|
+
That he misconstrues all that you have done.
|
688
|
+
The duke is humorous; what he is indeed,
|
689
|
+
More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.
|
690
|
+
|
691
|
+
ORLANDO I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell me this:
|
692
|
+
Which of the two was daughter of the duke
|
693
|
+
That here was at the wrestling?
|
694
|
+
|
695
|
+
LE BEAU Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners;
|
696
|
+
But yet indeed the lesser is his daughter
|
697
|
+
The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,
|
698
|
+
And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,
|
699
|
+
To keep his daughter company; whose loves
|
700
|
+
Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.
|
701
|
+
But I can tell you that of late this duke
|
702
|
+
Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,
|
703
|
+
Grounded upon no other argument
|
704
|
+
But that the people praise her for her virtues
|
705
|
+
And pity her for her good father's sake;
|
706
|
+
And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady
|
707
|
+
Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well:
|
708
|
+
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
|
709
|
+
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
|
710
|
+
|
711
|
+
ORLANDO I rest much bounden to you: fare you well.
|
712
|
+
|
713
|
+
[Exit LE BEAU]
|
714
|
+
|
715
|
+
Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;
|
716
|
+
From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother:
|
717
|
+
But heavenly Rosalind!
|
718
|
+
|
719
|
+
[Exit]
|
720
|
+
|
721
|
+
|
722
|
+
|
723
|
+
|
724
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
725
|
+
|
726
|
+
|
727
|
+
ACT I
|
728
|
+
|
729
|
+
|
730
|
+
|
731
|
+
SCENE III A room in the palace.
|
732
|
+
|
733
|
+
|
734
|
+
[Enter CELIA and ROSALIND]
|
735
|
+
|
736
|
+
CELIA Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word?
|
737
|
+
|
738
|
+
ROSALIND Not one to throw at a dog.
|
739
|
+
|
740
|
+
CELIA No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon
|
741
|
+
curs; throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons.
|
742
|
+
|
743
|
+
ROSALIND Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one
|
744
|
+
should be lamed with reasons and the other mad
|
745
|
+
without any.
|
746
|
+
|
747
|
+
CELIA But is all this for your father?
|
748
|
+
|
749
|
+
ROSALIND No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how
|
750
|
+
full of briers is this working-day world!
|
751
|
+
|
752
|
+
CELIA They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in
|
753
|
+
holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden
|
754
|
+
paths our very petticoats will catch them.
|
755
|
+
|
756
|
+
ROSALIND I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart.
|
757
|
+
|
758
|
+
CELIA Hem them away.
|
759
|
+
|
760
|
+
ROSALIND I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.
|
761
|
+
|
762
|
+
CELIA Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.
|
763
|
+
|
764
|
+
ROSALIND O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself!
|
765
|
+
|
766
|
+
CELIA O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in
|
767
|
+
despite of a fall. But, turning these jests out of
|
768
|
+
service, let us talk in good earnest: is it
|
769
|
+
possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so
|
770
|
+
strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?
|
771
|
+
|
772
|
+
ROSALIND The duke my father loved his father dearly.
|
773
|
+
|
774
|
+
CELIA Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son
|
775
|
+
dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him,
|
776
|
+
for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate
|
777
|
+
not Orlando.
|
778
|
+
|
779
|
+
ROSALIND No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.
|
780
|
+
|
781
|
+
CELIA Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?
|
782
|
+
|
783
|
+
ROSALIND Let me love him for that, and do you love him
|
784
|
+
because I do. Look, here comes the duke.
|
785
|
+
|
786
|
+
CELIA With his eyes full of anger.
|
787
|
+
|
788
|
+
[Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords]
|
789
|
+
|
790
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste
|
791
|
+
And get you from our court.
|
792
|
+
|
793
|
+
ROSALIND Me, uncle?
|
794
|
+
|
795
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK You, cousin
|
796
|
+
Within these ten days if that thou be'st found
|
797
|
+
So near our public court as twenty miles,
|
798
|
+
Thou diest for it.
|
799
|
+
|
800
|
+
ROSALIND I do beseech your grace,
|
801
|
+
Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:
|
802
|
+
If with myself I hold intelligence
|
803
|
+
Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,
|
804
|
+
If that I do not dream or be not frantic,--
|
805
|
+
As I do trust I am not--then, dear uncle,
|
806
|
+
Never so much as in a thought unborn
|
807
|
+
Did I offend your highness.
|
808
|
+
|
809
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK Thus do all traitors:
|
810
|
+
If their purgation did consist in words,
|
811
|
+
They are as innocent as grace itself:
|
812
|
+
Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.
|
813
|
+
|
814
|
+
ROSALIND Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:
|
815
|
+
Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.
|
816
|
+
|
817
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough.
|
818
|
+
|
819
|
+
ROSALIND So was I when your highness took his dukedom;
|
820
|
+
So was I when your highness banish'd him:
|
821
|
+
Treason is not inherited, my lord;
|
822
|
+
Or, if we did derive it from our friends,
|
823
|
+
What's that to me? my father was no traitor:
|
824
|
+
Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much
|
825
|
+
To think my poverty is treacherous.
|
826
|
+
|
827
|
+
CELIA Dear sovereign, hear me speak.
|
828
|
+
|
829
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,
|
830
|
+
Else had she with her father ranged along.
|
831
|
+
|
832
|
+
CELIA I did not then entreat to have her stay;
|
833
|
+
It was your pleasure and your own remorse:
|
834
|
+
I was too young that time to value her;
|
835
|
+
But now I know her: if she be a traitor,
|
836
|
+
Why so am I; we still have slept together,
|
837
|
+
Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,
|
838
|
+
And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,
|
839
|
+
Still we went coupled and inseparable.
|
840
|
+
|
841
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,
|
842
|
+
Her very silence and her patience
|
843
|
+
Speak to the people, and they pity her.
|
844
|
+
Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name;
|
845
|
+
And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous
|
846
|
+
When she is gone. Then open not thy lips:
|
847
|
+
Firm and irrevocable is my doom
|
848
|
+
Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
|
849
|
+
|
850
|
+
CELIA Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege:
|
851
|
+
I cannot live out of her company.
|
852
|
+
|
853
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself:
|
854
|
+
If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,
|
855
|
+
And in the greatness of my word, you die.
|
856
|
+
|
857
|
+
[Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK and Lords]
|
858
|
+
|
859
|
+
CELIA O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?
|
860
|
+
Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.
|
861
|
+
I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.
|
862
|
+
|
863
|
+
ROSALIND I have more cause.
|
864
|
+
|
865
|
+
CELIA Thou hast not, cousin;
|
866
|
+
Prithee be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke
|
867
|
+
Hath banish'd me, his daughter?
|
868
|
+
|
869
|
+
ROSALIND That he hath not.
|
870
|
+
|
871
|
+
CELIA No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love
|
872
|
+
Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one:
|
873
|
+
Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl?
|
874
|
+
No: let my father seek another heir.
|
875
|
+
Therefore devise with me how we may fly,
|
876
|
+
Whither to go and what to bear with us;
|
877
|
+
And do not seek to take your change upon you,
|
878
|
+
To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out;
|
879
|
+
For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,
|
880
|
+
Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.
|
881
|
+
|
882
|
+
ROSALIND Why, whither shall we go?
|
883
|
+
|
884
|
+
CELIA To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden.
|
885
|
+
|
886
|
+
ROSALIND Alas, what danger will it be to us,
|
887
|
+
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
|
888
|
+
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
|
889
|
+
|
890
|
+
CELIA I'll put myself in poor and mean attire
|
891
|
+
And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
|
892
|
+
The like do you: so shall we pass along
|
893
|
+
And never stir assailants.
|
894
|
+
|
895
|
+
ROSALIND Were it not better,
|
896
|
+
Because that I am more than common tall,
|
897
|
+
That I did suit me all points like a man?
|
898
|
+
A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,
|
899
|
+
A boar-spear in my hand; and--in my heart
|
900
|
+
Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will--
|
901
|
+
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,
|
902
|
+
As many other mannish cowards have
|
903
|
+
That do outface it with their semblances.
|
904
|
+
|
905
|
+
CELIA What shall I call thee when thou art a man?
|
906
|
+
|
907
|
+
ROSALIND I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page;
|
908
|
+
And therefore look you call me Ganymede.
|
909
|
+
But what will you be call'd?
|
910
|
+
|
911
|
+
CELIA Something that hath a reference to my state
|
912
|
+
No longer Celia, but Aliena.
|
913
|
+
|
914
|
+
ROSALIND But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal
|
915
|
+
The clownish fool out of your father's court?
|
916
|
+
Would he not be a comfort to our travel?
|
917
|
+
|
918
|
+
CELIA He'll go along o'er the wide world with me;
|
919
|
+
Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,
|
920
|
+
And get our jewels and our wealth together,
|
921
|
+
Devise the fittest time and safest way
|
922
|
+
To hide us from pursuit that will be made
|
923
|
+
After my flight. Now go we in content
|
924
|
+
To liberty and not to banishment.
|
925
|
+
|
926
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
927
|
+
|
928
|
+
|
929
|
+
|
930
|
+
|
931
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
932
|
+
|
933
|
+
|
934
|
+
ACT II
|
935
|
+
|
936
|
+
|
937
|
+
|
938
|
+
SCENE I The Forest of Arden.
|
939
|
+
|
940
|
+
|
941
|
+
[Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords,
|
942
|
+
like foresters]
|
943
|
+
|
944
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
|
945
|
+
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
|
946
|
+
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
|
947
|
+
More free from peril than the envious court?
|
948
|
+
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
|
949
|
+
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
|
950
|
+
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
|
951
|
+
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
|
952
|
+
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say
|
953
|
+
'This is no flattery: these are counsellors
|
954
|
+
That feelingly persuade me what I am.'
|
955
|
+
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
|
956
|
+
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
|
957
|
+
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
|
958
|
+
And this our life exempt from public haunt
|
959
|
+
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
|
960
|
+
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
|
961
|
+
I would not change it.
|
962
|
+
|
963
|
+
AMIENS Happy is your grace,
|
964
|
+
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
|
965
|
+
Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
|
966
|
+
|
967
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
|
968
|
+
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
|
969
|
+
Being native burghers of this desert city,
|
970
|
+
Should in their own confines with forked heads
|
971
|
+
Have their round haunches gored.
|
972
|
+
|
973
|
+
First Lord Indeed, my lord,
|
974
|
+
The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,
|
975
|
+
And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp
|
976
|
+
Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you.
|
977
|
+
To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself
|
978
|
+
Did steal behind him as he lay along
|
979
|
+
Under an oak whose antique root peeps out
|
980
|
+
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:
|
981
|
+
To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,
|
982
|
+
That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,
|
983
|
+
Did come to languish, and indeed, my lord,
|
984
|
+
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans
|
985
|
+
That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
|
986
|
+
Almost to bursting, and the big round tears
|
987
|
+
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
|
988
|
+
In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool
|
989
|
+
Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,
|
990
|
+
Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook,
|
991
|
+
Augmenting it with tears.
|
992
|
+
|
993
|
+
DUKE SENIOR But what said Jaques?
|
994
|
+
Did he not moralize this spectacle?
|
995
|
+
|
996
|
+
First Lord O, yes, into a thousand similes.
|
997
|
+
First, for his weeping into the needless stream;
|
998
|
+
'Poor deer,' quoth he, 'thou makest a testament
|
999
|
+
As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
|
1000
|
+
To that which had too much:' then, being there alone,
|
1001
|
+
Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends,
|
1002
|
+
''Tis right:' quoth he; 'thus misery doth part
|
1003
|
+
The flux of company:' anon a careless herd,
|
1004
|
+
Full of the pasture, jumps along by him
|
1005
|
+
And never stays to greet him; 'Ay' quoth Jaques,
|
1006
|
+
'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
|
1007
|
+
'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look
|
1008
|
+
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'
|
1009
|
+
Thus most invectively he pierceth through
|
1010
|
+
The body of the country, city, court,
|
1011
|
+
Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we
|
1012
|
+
Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse,
|
1013
|
+
To fright the animals and to kill them up
|
1014
|
+
In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.
|
1015
|
+
|
1016
|
+
DUKE SENIOR And did you leave him in this contemplation?
|
1017
|
+
|
1018
|
+
Second Lord We did, my lord, weeping and commenting
|
1019
|
+
Upon the sobbing deer.
|
1020
|
+
|
1021
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Show me the place:
|
1022
|
+
I love to cope him in these sullen fits,
|
1023
|
+
For then he's full of matter.
|
1024
|
+
|
1025
|
+
First Lord I'll bring you to him straight.
|
1026
|
+
|
1027
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
1028
|
+
|
1029
|
+
|
1030
|
+
|
1031
|
+
|
1032
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
1033
|
+
|
1034
|
+
|
1035
|
+
ACT II
|
1036
|
+
|
1037
|
+
|
1038
|
+
|
1039
|
+
SCENE II A room in the palace.
|
1040
|
+
|
1041
|
+
|
1042
|
+
[Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords]
|
1043
|
+
|
1044
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK Can it be possible that no man saw them?
|
1045
|
+
It cannot be: some villains of my court
|
1046
|
+
Are of consent and sufferance in this.
|
1047
|
+
|
1048
|
+
First Lord I cannot hear of any that did see her.
|
1049
|
+
The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,
|
1050
|
+
Saw her abed, and in the morning early
|
1051
|
+
They found the bed untreasured of their mistress.
|
1052
|
+
|
1053
|
+
Second Lord My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
|
1054
|
+
Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.
|
1055
|
+
Hisperia, the princess' gentlewoman,
|
1056
|
+
Confesses that she secretly o'erheard
|
1057
|
+
Your daughter and her cousin much commend
|
1058
|
+
The parts and graces of the wrestler
|
1059
|
+
That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;
|
1060
|
+
And she believes, wherever they are gone,
|
1061
|
+
That youth is surely in their company.
|
1062
|
+
|
1063
|
+
DUKE FREDERICK Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;
|
1064
|
+
If he be absent, bring his brother to me;
|
1065
|
+
I'll make him find him: do this suddenly,
|
1066
|
+
And let not search and inquisition quail
|
1067
|
+
To bring again these foolish runaways.
|
1068
|
+
|
1069
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
1070
|
+
|
1071
|
+
|
1072
|
+
|
1073
|
+
|
1074
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
1075
|
+
|
1076
|
+
|
1077
|
+
ACT II
|
1078
|
+
|
1079
|
+
|
1080
|
+
|
1081
|
+
SCENE III Before OLIVER'S house.
|
1082
|
+
|
1083
|
+
|
1084
|
+
[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting]
|
1085
|
+
|
1086
|
+
ORLANDO Who's there?
|
1087
|
+
|
1088
|
+
ADAM What, my young master? O, my gentle master!
|
1089
|
+
O my sweet master! O you memory
|
1090
|
+
Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here?
|
1091
|
+
Why are you virtuous? why do people love you?
|
1092
|
+
And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant?
|
1093
|
+
Why would you be so fond to overcome
|
1094
|
+
The bonny priser of the humorous duke?
|
1095
|
+
Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.
|
1096
|
+
Know you not, master, to some kind of men
|
1097
|
+
Their graces serve them but as enemies?
|
1098
|
+
No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master,
|
1099
|
+
Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.
|
1100
|
+
O, what a world is this, when what is comely
|
1101
|
+
Envenoms him that bears it!
|
1102
|
+
|
1103
|
+
ORLANDO Why, what's the matter?
|
1104
|
+
|
1105
|
+
ADAM O unhappy youth!
|
1106
|
+
Come not within these doors; within this roof
|
1107
|
+
The enemy of all your graces lives:
|
1108
|
+
Your brother--no, no brother; yet the son--
|
1109
|
+
Yet not the son, I will not call him son
|
1110
|
+
Of him I was about to call his father--
|
1111
|
+
Hath heard your praises, and this night he means
|
1112
|
+
To burn the lodging where you use to lie
|
1113
|
+
And you within it: if he fail of that,
|
1114
|
+
He will have other means to cut you off.
|
1115
|
+
I overheard him and his practises.
|
1116
|
+
This is no place; this house is but a butchery:
|
1117
|
+
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.
|
1118
|
+
|
1119
|
+
ORLANDO Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?
|
1120
|
+
|
1121
|
+
ADAM No matter whither, so you come not here.
|
1122
|
+
|
1123
|
+
ORLANDO What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?
|
1124
|
+
Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce
|
1125
|
+
A thievish living on the common road?
|
1126
|
+
This I must do, or know not what to do:
|
1127
|
+
Yet this I will not do, do how I can;
|
1128
|
+
I rather will subject me to the malice
|
1129
|
+
Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.
|
1130
|
+
|
1131
|
+
ADAM But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,
|
1132
|
+
The thrifty hire I saved under your father,
|
1133
|
+
Which I did store to be my foster-nurse
|
1134
|
+
When service should in my old limbs lie lame
|
1135
|
+
And unregarded age in corners thrown:
|
1136
|
+
Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,
|
1137
|
+
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
|
1138
|
+
Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;
|
1139
|
+
And all this I give you. Let me be your servant:
|
1140
|
+
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
|
1141
|
+
For in my youth I never did apply
|
1142
|
+
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
|
1143
|
+
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
|
1144
|
+
The means of weakness and debility;
|
1145
|
+
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
|
1146
|
+
Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you;
|
1147
|
+
I'll do the service of a younger man
|
1148
|
+
In all your business and necessities.
|
1149
|
+
|
1150
|
+
ORLANDO O good old man, how well in thee appears
|
1151
|
+
The constant service of the antique world,
|
1152
|
+
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
|
1153
|
+
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
|
1154
|
+
Where none will sweat but for promotion,
|
1155
|
+
And having that, do choke their service up
|
1156
|
+
Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
|
1157
|
+
But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,
|
1158
|
+
That cannot so much as a blossom yield
|
1159
|
+
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry
|
1160
|
+
But come thy ways; well go along together,
|
1161
|
+
And ere we have thy youthful wages spent,
|
1162
|
+
We'll light upon some settled low content.
|
1163
|
+
|
1164
|
+
ADAM Master, go on, and I will follow thee,
|
1165
|
+
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
|
1166
|
+
From seventeen years till now almost fourscore
|
1167
|
+
Here lived I, but now live here no more.
|
1168
|
+
At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;
|
1169
|
+
But at fourscore it is too late a week:
|
1170
|
+
Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
|
1171
|
+
Than to die well and not my master's debtor.
|
1172
|
+
|
1173
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
1174
|
+
|
1175
|
+
|
1176
|
+
|
1177
|
+
|
1178
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
1179
|
+
|
1180
|
+
|
1181
|
+
ACT II
|
1182
|
+
|
1183
|
+
|
1184
|
+
|
1185
|
+
SCENE IV The Forest of Arden.
|
1186
|
+
|
1187
|
+
|
1188
|
+
[Enter ROSALIND for Ganymede, CELIA for Aliena,
|
1189
|
+
and TOUCHSTONE]
|
1190
|
+
|
1191
|
+
ROSALIND O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!
|
1192
|
+
|
1193
|
+
TOUCHSTONE I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.
|
1194
|
+
|
1195
|
+
ROSALIND I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's
|
1196
|
+
apparel and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort
|
1197
|
+
the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show
|
1198
|
+
itself courageous to petticoat: therefore courage,
|
1199
|
+
good Aliena!
|
1200
|
+
|
1201
|
+
CELIA I pray you, bear with me; I cannot go no further.
|
1202
|
+
|
1203
|
+
TOUCHSTONE For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear
|
1204
|
+
you; yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you,
|
1205
|
+
for I think you have no money in your purse.
|
1206
|
+
|
1207
|
+
ROSALIND Well, this is the forest of Arden.
|
1208
|
+
|
1209
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was
|
1210
|
+
at home, I was in a better place: but travellers
|
1211
|
+
must be content.
|
1212
|
+
|
1213
|
+
ROSALIND Ay, be so, good Touchstone.
|
1214
|
+
|
1215
|
+
[Enter CORIN and SILVIUS]
|
1216
|
+
|
1217
|
+
Look you, who comes here; a young man and an old in
|
1218
|
+
solemn talk.
|
1219
|
+
|
1220
|
+
CORIN That is the way to make her scorn you still.
|
1221
|
+
|
1222
|
+
SILVIUS O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!
|
1223
|
+
|
1224
|
+
CORIN I partly guess; for I have loved ere now.
|
1225
|
+
|
1226
|
+
SILVIUS No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,
|
1227
|
+
Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
|
1228
|
+
As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow:
|
1229
|
+
But if thy love were ever like to mine--
|
1230
|
+
As sure I think did never man love so--
|
1231
|
+
How many actions most ridiculous
|
1232
|
+
Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?
|
1233
|
+
|
1234
|
+
CORIN Into a thousand that I have forgotten.
|
1235
|
+
|
1236
|
+
SILVIUS O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily!
|
1237
|
+
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
|
1238
|
+
That ever love did make thee run into,
|
1239
|
+
Thou hast not loved:
|
1240
|
+
Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,
|
1241
|
+
Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,
|
1242
|
+
Thou hast not loved:
|
1243
|
+
Or if thou hast not broke from company
|
1244
|
+
Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,
|
1245
|
+
Thou hast not loved.
|
1246
|
+
O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!
|
1247
|
+
|
1248
|
+
[Exit]
|
1249
|
+
|
1250
|
+
ROSALIND Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,
|
1251
|
+
I have by hard adventure found mine own.
|
1252
|
+
|
1253
|
+
TOUCHSTONE And I mine. I remember, when I was in love I broke
|
1254
|
+
my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for
|
1255
|
+
coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the
|
1256
|
+
kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her
|
1257
|
+
pretty chopt hands had milked; and I remember the
|
1258
|
+
wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took
|
1259
|
+
two cods and, giving her them again, said with
|
1260
|
+
weeping tears 'Wear these for my sake.' We that are
|
1261
|
+
true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is
|
1262
|
+
mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
|
1263
|
+
|
1264
|
+
ROSALIND Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.
|
1265
|
+
|
1266
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I
|
1267
|
+
break my shins against it.
|
1268
|
+
|
1269
|
+
ROSALIND Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion
|
1270
|
+
Is much upon my fashion.
|
1271
|
+
|
1272
|
+
TOUCHSTONE And mine; but it grows something stale with me.
|
1273
|
+
|
1274
|
+
CELIA I pray you, one of you question yond man
|
1275
|
+
If he for gold will give us any food:
|
1276
|
+
I faint almost to death.
|
1277
|
+
|
1278
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Holla, you clown!
|
1279
|
+
|
1280
|
+
ROSALIND Peace, fool: he's not thy kinsman.
|
1281
|
+
|
1282
|
+
CORIN Who calls?
|
1283
|
+
|
1284
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Your betters, sir.
|
1285
|
+
|
1286
|
+
CORIN Else are they very wretched.
|
1287
|
+
|
1288
|
+
ROSALIND Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend.
|
1289
|
+
|
1290
|
+
CORIN And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.
|
1291
|
+
|
1292
|
+
ROSALIND I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold
|
1293
|
+
Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
|
1294
|
+
Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed:
|
1295
|
+
Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd
|
1296
|
+
And faints for succor.
|
1297
|
+
|
1298
|
+
CORIN Fair sir, I pity her
|
1299
|
+
And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,
|
1300
|
+
My fortunes were more able to relieve her;
|
1301
|
+
But I am shepherd to another man
|
1302
|
+
And do not shear the fleeces that I graze:
|
1303
|
+
My master is of churlish disposition
|
1304
|
+
And little recks to find the way to heaven
|
1305
|
+
By doing deeds of hospitality:
|
1306
|
+
Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed
|
1307
|
+
Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now,
|
1308
|
+
By reason of his absence, there is nothing
|
1309
|
+
That you will feed on; but what is, come see.
|
1310
|
+
And in my voice most welcome shall you be.
|
1311
|
+
|
1312
|
+
ROSALIND What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?
|
1313
|
+
|
1314
|
+
CORIN That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,
|
1315
|
+
That little cares for buying any thing.
|
1316
|
+
|
1317
|
+
ROSALIND I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,
|
1318
|
+
Buy thou the cottage, pasture and the flock,
|
1319
|
+
And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.
|
1320
|
+
|
1321
|
+
CELIA And we will mend thy wages. I like this place.
|
1322
|
+
And willingly could waste my time in it.
|
1323
|
+
|
1324
|
+
CORIN Assuredly the thing is to be sold:
|
1325
|
+
Go with me: if you like upon report
|
1326
|
+
The soil, the profit and this kind of life,
|
1327
|
+
I will your very faithful feeder be
|
1328
|
+
And buy it with your gold right suddenly.
|
1329
|
+
|
1330
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
1331
|
+
|
1332
|
+
|
1333
|
+
|
1334
|
+
|
1335
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
1336
|
+
|
1337
|
+
|
1338
|
+
ACT II
|
1339
|
+
|
1340
|
+
|
1341
|
+
|
1342
|
+
SCENE V The Forest.
|
1343
|
+
|
1344
|
+
|
1345
|
+
[Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and others]
|
1346
|
+
|
1347
|
+
SONG.
|
1348
|
+
AMIENS Under the greenwood tree
|
1349
|
+
Who loves to lie with me,
|
1350
|
+
And turn his merry note
|
1351
|
+
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
|
1352
|
+
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
|
1353
|
+
Here shall he see No enemy
|
1354
|
+
But winter and rough weather.
|
1355
|
+
|
1356
|
+
JAQUES More, more, I prithee, more.
|
1357
|
+
|
1358
|
+
AMIENS It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.
|
1359
|
+
|
1360
|
+
JAQUES I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck
|
1361
|
+
melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
|
1362
|
+
More, I prithee, more.
|
1363
|
+
|
1364
|
+
AMIENS My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.
|
1365
|
+
|
1366
|
+
JAQUES I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to
|
1367
|
+
sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos?
|
1368
|
+
|
1369
|
+
AMIENS What you will, Monsieur Jaques.
|
1370
|
+
|
1371
|
+
JAQUES Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me
|
1372
|
+
nothing. Will you sing?
|
1373
|
+
|
1374
|
+
AMIENS More at your request than to please myself.
|
1375
|
+
|
1376
|
+
JAQUES Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you;
|
1377
|
+
but that they call compliment is like the encounter
|
1378
|
+
of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily,
|
1379
|
+
methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me
|
1380
|
+
the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will
|
1381
|
+
not, hold your tongues.
|
1382
|
+
|
1383
|
+
AMIENS Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the
|
1384
|
+
duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all
|
1385
|
+
this day to look you.
|
1386
|
+
|
1387
|
+
JAQUES And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is
|
1388
|
+
too disputable for my company: I think of as many
|
1389
|
+
matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make no
|
1390
|
+
boast of them. Come, warble, come.
|
1391
|
+
|
1392
|
+
SONG.
|
1393
|
+
Who doth ambition shun
|
1394
|
+
|
1395
|
+
[All together here]
|
1396
|
+
|
1397
|
+
And loves to live i' the sun,
|
1398
|
+
Seeking the food he eats
|
1399
|
+
And pleased with what he gets,
|
1400
|
+
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
|
1401
|
+
Here shall he see No enemy
|
1402
|
+
But winter and rough weather.
|
1403
|
+
|
1404
|
+
JAQUES I'll give you a verse to this note that I made
|
1405
|
+
yesterday in despite of my invention.
|
1406
|
+
|
1407
|
+
AMIENS And I'll sing it.
|
1408
|
+
|
1409
|
+
JAQUES Thus it goes:--
|
1410
|
+
|
1411
|
+
If it do come to pass
|
1412
|
+
That any man turn ass,
|
1413
|
+
Leaving his wealth and ease,
|
1414
|
+
A stubborn will to please,
|
1415
|
+
Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:
|
1416
|
+
Here shall he see
|
1417
|
+
Gross fools as he,
|
1418
|
+
An if he will come to me.
|
1419
|
+
|
1420
|
+
AMIENS What's that 'ducdame'?
|
1421
|
+
|
1422
|
+
JAQUES 'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a
|
1423
|
+
circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll
|
1424
|
+
rail against all the first-born of Egypt.
|
1425
|
+
|
1426
|
+
AMIENS And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is prepared.
|
1427
|
+
|
1428
|
+
[Exeunt severally]
|
1429
|
+
|
1430
|
+
|
1431
|
+
|
1432
|
+
|
1433
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
1434
|
+
|
1435
|
+
|
1436
|
+
ACT II
|
1437
|
+
|
1438
|
+
|
1439
|
+
|
1440
|
+
SCENE VI The forest.
|
1441
|
+
|
1442
|
+
|
1443
|
+
[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM]
|
1444
|
+
|
1445
|
+
ADAM Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food!
|
1446
|
+
Here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell,
|
1447
|
+
kind master.
|
1448
|
+
|
1449
|
+
ORLANDO Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live
|
1450
|
+
a little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little.
|
1451
|
+
If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I
|
1452
|
+
will either be food for it or bring it for food to
|
1453
|
+
thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers.
|
1454
|
+
For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at
|
1455
|
+
the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently;
|
1456
|
+
and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will
|
1457
|
+
give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I
|
1458
|
+
come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!
|
1459
|
+
thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly.
|
1460
|
+
Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear
|
1461
|
+
thee to some shelter; and thou shalt not die for
|
1462
|
+
lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this
|
1463
|
+
desert. Cheerly, good Adam!
|
1464
|
+
|
1465
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
1466
|
+
|
1467
|
+
|
1468
|
+
|
1469
|
+
|
1470
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
1471
|
+
|
1472
|
+
|
1473
|
+
ACT II
|
1474
|
+
|
1475
|
+
|
1476
|
+
|
1477
|
+
SCENE VII The forest.
|
1478
|
+
|
1479
|
+
|
1480
|
+
[A table set out. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and
|
1481
|
+
Lords like outlaws]
|
1482
|
+
|
1483
|
+
DUKE SENIOR I think he be transform'd into a beast;
|
1484
|
+
For I can no where find him like a man.
|
1485
|
+
|
1486
|
+
First Lord My lord, he is but even now gone hence:
|
1487
|
+
Here was he merry, hearing of a song.
|
1488
|
+
|
1489
|
+
DUKE SENIOR If he, compact of jars, grow musical,
|
1490
|
+
We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.
|
1491
|
+
Go, seek him: tell him I would speak with him.
|
1492
|
+
|
1493
|
+
[Enter JAQUES]
|
1494
|
+
|
1495
|
+
First Lord He saves my labour by his own approach.
|
1496
|
+
|
1497
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Why, how now, monsieur! what a life is this,
|
1498
|
+
That your poor friends must woo your company?
|
1499
|
+
What, you look merrily!
|
1500
|
+
|
1501
|
+
JAQUES A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,
|
1502
|
+
A motley fool; a miserable world!
|
1503
|
+
As I do live by food, I met a fool
|
1504
|
+
Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,
|
1505
|
+
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
|
1506
|
+
In good set terms and yet a motley fool.
|
1507
|
+
'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he,
|
1508
|
+
'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune:'
|
1509
|
+
And then he drew a dial from his poke,
|
1510
|
+
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
|
1511
|
+
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:
|
1512
|
+
Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:
|
1513
|
+
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
|
1514
|
+
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
|
1515
|
+
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
|
1516
|
+
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
|
1517
|
+
And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear
|
1518
|
+
The motley fool thus moral on the time,
|
1519
|
+
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
|
1520
|
+
That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
|
1521
|
+
And I did laugh sans intermission
|
1522
|
+
An hour by his dial. O noble fool!
|
1523
|
+
A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear.
|
1524
|
+
|
1525
|
+
DUKE SENIOR What fool is this?
|
1526
|
+
|
1527
|
+
JAQUES O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,
|
1528
|
+
And says, if ladies be but young and fair,
|
1529
|
+
They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,
|
1530
|
+
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
|
1531
|
+
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
|
1532
|
+
With observation, the which he vents
|
1533
|
+
In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!
|
1534
|
+
I am ambitious for a motley coat.
|
1535
|
+
|
1536
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Thou shalt have one.
|
1537
|
+
|
1538
|
+
JAQUES It is my only suit;
|
1539
|
+
Provided that you weed your better judgments
|
1540
|
+
Of all opinion that grows rank in them
|
1541
|
+
That I am wise. I must have liberty
|
1542
|
+
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
|
1543
|
+
To blow on whom I please; for so fools have;
|
1544
|
+
And they that are most galled with my folly,
|
1545
|
+
They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?
|
1546
|
+
The 'why' is plain as way to parish church:
|
1547
|
+
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
|
1548
|
+
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
|
1549
|
+
Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not,
|
1550
|
+
The wise man's folly is anatomized
|
1551
|
+
Even by the squandering glances of the fool.
|
1552
|
+
Invest me in my motley; give me leave
|
1553
|
+
To speak my mind, and I will through and through
|
1554
|
+
Cleanse the foul body of the infected world,
|
1555
|
+
If they will patiently receive my medicine.
|
1556
|
+
|
1557
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do.
|
1558
|
+
|
1559
|
+
JAQUES What, for a counter, would I do but good?
|
1560
|
+
|
1561
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:
|
1562
|
+
For thou thyself hast been a libertine,
|
1563
|
+
As sensual as the brutish sting itself;
|
1564
|
+
And all the embossed sores and headed evils,
|
1565
|
+
That thou with licence of free foot hast caught,
|
1566
|
+
Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.
|
1567
|
+
|
1568
|
+
JAQUES Why, who cries out on pride,
|
1569
|
+
That can therein tax any private party?
|
1570
|
+
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,
|
1571
|
+
Till that the weary very means do ebb?
|
1572
|
+
What woman in the city do I name,
|
1573
|
+
When that I say the city-woman bears
|
1574
|
+
The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
|
1575
|
+
Who can come in and say that I mean her,
|
1576
|
+
When such a one as she such is her neighbour?
|
1577
|
+
Or what is he of basest function
|
1578
|
+
That says his bravery is not of my cost,
|
1579
|
+
Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits
|
1580
|
+
His folly to the mettle of my speech?
|
1581
|
+
There then; how then? what then? Let me see wherein
|
1582
|
+
My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right,
|
1583
|
+
Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free,
|
1584
|
+
Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies,
|
1585
|
+
Unclaim'd of any man. But who comes here?
|
1586
|
+
|
1587
|
+
[Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn]
|
1588
|
+
|
1589
|
+
ORLANDO Forbear, and eat no more.
|
1590
|
+
|
1591
|
+
JAQUES Why, I have eat none yet.
|
1592
|
+
|
1593
|
+
ORLANDO Nor shalt not, till necessity be served.
|
1594
|
+
|
1595
|
+
JAQUES Of what kind should this cock come of?
|
1596
|
+
|
1597
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress,
|
1598
|
+
Or else a rude despiser of good manners,
|
1599
|
+
That in civility thou seem'st so empty?
|
1600
|
+
|
1601
|
+
ORLANDO You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point
|
1602
|
+
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
|
1603
|
+
Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred
|
1604
|
+
And know some nurture. But forbear, I say:
|
1605
|
+
He dies that touches any of this fruit
|
1606
|
+
Till I and my affairs are answered.
|
1607
|
+
|
1608
|
+
JAQUES An you will not be answered with reason, I must die.
|
1609
|
+
|
1610
|
+
DUKE SENIOR What would you have? Your gentleness shall force
|
1611
|
+
More than your force move us to gentleness.
|
1612
|
+
|
1613
|
+
ORLANDO I almost die for food; and let me have it.
|
1614
|
+
|
1615
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
|
1616
|
+
|
1617
|
+
ORLANDO Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you:
|
1618
|
+
I thought that all things had been savage here;
|
1619
|
+
And therefore put I on the countenance
|
1620
|
+
Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are
|
1621
|
+
That in this desert inaccessible,
|
1622
|
+
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
|
1623
|
+
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time
|
1624
|
+
If ever you have look'd on better days,
|
1625
|
+
If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,
|
1626
|
+
If ever sat at any good man's feast,
|
1627
|
+
If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear
|
1628
|
+
And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied,
|
1629
|
+
Let gentleness my strong enforcement be:
|
1630
|
+
In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
|
1631
|
+
|
1632
|
+
DUKE SENIOR True is it that we have seen better days,
|
1633
|
+
And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church
|
1634
|
+
And sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes
|
1635
|
+
Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd:
|
1636
|
+
And therefore sit you down in gentleness
|
1637
|
+
And take upon command what help we have
|
1638
|
+
That to your wanting may be minister'd.
|
1639
|
+
|
1640
|
+
ORLANDO Then but forbear your food a little while,
|
1641
|
+
Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn
|
1642
|
+
And give it food. There is an old poor man,
|
1643
|
+
Who after me hath many a weary step
|
1644
|
+
Limp'd in pure love: till he be first sufficed,
|
1645
|
+
Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,
|
1646
|
+
I will not touch a bit.
|
1647
|
+
|
1648
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Go find him out,
|
1649
|
+
And we will nothing waste till you return.
|
1650
|
+
|
1651
|
+
ORLANDO I thank ye; and be blest for your good comfort!
|
1652
|
+
|
1653
|
+
[Exit]
|
1654
|
+
|
1655
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
|
1656
|
+
This wide and universal theatre
|
1657
|
+
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
|
1658
|
+
Wherein we play in.
|
1659
|
+
|
1660
|
+
JAQUES All the world's a stage,
|
1661
|
+
And all the men and women merely players:
|
1662
|
+
They have their exits and their entrances;
|
1663
|
+
And one man in his time plays many parts,
|
1664
|
+
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
|
1665
|
+
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
|
1666
|
+
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
|
1667
|
+
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
|
1668
|
+
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
|
1669
|
+
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
|
1670
|
+
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
|
1671
|
+
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
|
1672
|
+
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
|
1673
|
+
Seeking the bubble reputation
|
1674
|
+
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
|
1675
|
+
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
|
1676
|
+
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
|
1677
|
+
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
|
1678
|
+
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
|
1679
|
+
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
|
1680
|
+
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
|
1681
|
+
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
|
1682
|
+
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
|
1683
|
+
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
|
1684
|
+
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
|
1685
|
+
That ends this strange eventful history,
|
1686
|
+
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
|
1687
|
+
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
|
1688
|
+
|
1689
|
+
[Re-enter ORLANDO, with ADAM]
|
1690
|
+
|
1691
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Welcome. Set down your venerable burthen,
|
1692
|
+
And let him feed.
|
1693
|
+
|
1694
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ORLANDO I thank you most for him.
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1695
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+
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1696
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ADAM So had you need:
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1697
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I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.
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1698
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+
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1699
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DUKE SENIOR Welcome; fall to: I will not trouble you
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1700
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As yet, to question you about your fortunes.
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1701
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+
Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing.
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1702
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+
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1703
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+
SONG.
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1704
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AMIENS Blow, blow, thou winter wind.
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1705
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Thou art not so unkind
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1706
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As man's ingratitude;
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1707
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Thy tooth is not so keen,
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1708
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Because thou art not seen,
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1709
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Although thy breath be rude.
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1710
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Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
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1711
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Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
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1712
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+
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
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1713
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+
This life is most jolly.
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1714
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+
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
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1715
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+
That dost not bite so nigh
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1716
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+
As benefits forgot:
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1717
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Though thou the waters warp,
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1718
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Thy sting is not so sharp
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1719
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+
As friend remember'd not.
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1720
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+
Heigh-ho! sing, &c.
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1721
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+
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1722
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+
DUKE SENIOR If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,
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1723
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+
As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,
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1724
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+
And as mine eye doth his effigies witness
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1725
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+
Most truly limn'd and living in your face,
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1726
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+
Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke
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1727
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+
That loved your father: the residue of your fortune,
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1728
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+
Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man,
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1729
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+
Thou art right welcome as thy master is.
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1730
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+
Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,
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1731
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+
And let me all your fortunes understand.
|
1732
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+
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1733
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+
[Exeunt]
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1734
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+
|
1735
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+
|
1736
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+
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1737
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+
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1738
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+
AS YOU LIKE IT
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1739
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+
|
1740
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+
|
1741
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+
ACT III
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1742
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1743
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1744
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1745
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SCENE I A room in the palace.
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1746
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1747
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+
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1748
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+
[Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and OLIVER]
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1749
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+
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1750
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+
DUKE FREDERICK Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be:
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1751
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+
But were I not the better part made mercy,
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1752
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+
I should not seek an absent argument
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1753
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+
Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
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1754
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+
Find out thy brother, wheresoe'er he is;
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1755
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+
Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living
|
1756
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+
Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more
|
1757
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+
To seek a living in our territory.
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1758
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Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine
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1759
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+
Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,
|
1760
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+
Till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth
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1761
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+
Of what we think against thee.
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1762
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+
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1763
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+
OLIVER O that your highness knew my heart in this!
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1764
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+
I never loved my brother in my life.
|
1765
|
+
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1766
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+
DUKE FREDERICK More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors;
|
1767
|
+
And let my officers of such a nature
|
1768
|
+
Make an extent upon his house and lands:
|
1769
|
+
Do this expediently and turn him going.
|
1770
|
+
|
1771
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
1772
|
+
|
1773
|
+
|
1774
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+
|
1775
|
+
|
1776
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
1777
|
+
|
1778
|
+
|
1779
|
+
ACT III
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1780
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+
|
1781
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+
|
1782
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+
|
1783
|
+
SCENE II The forest.
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1784
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+
|
1785
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+
|
1786
|
+
[Enter ORLANDO, with a paper]
|
1787
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+
|
1788
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+
ORLANDO Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love:
|
1789
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+
And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey
|
1790
|
+
With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,
|
1791
|
+
Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway.
|
1792
|
+
O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books
|
1793
|
+
And in their barks my thoughts I'll character;
|
1794
|
+
That every eye which in this forest looks
|
1795
|
+
Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.
|
1796
|
+
Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree
|
1797
|
+
The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she.
|
1798
|
+
|
1799
|
+
[Exit]
|
1800
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+
|
1801
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+
[Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE]
|
1802
|
+
|
1803
|
+
CORIN And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?
|
1804
|
+
|
1805
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good
|
1806
|
+
life, but in respect that it is a shepherd's life,
|
1807
|
+
it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I
|
1808
|
+
like it very well; but in respect that it is
|
1809
|
+
private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it
|
1810
|
+
is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in
|
1811
|
+
respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As
|
1812
|
+
is it a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well;
|
1813
|
+
but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much
|
1814
|
+
against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?
|
1815
|
+
|
1816
|
+
CORIN No more but that I know the more one sickens the
|
1817
|
+
worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money,
|
1818
|
+
means and content is without three good friends;
|
1819
|
+
that the property of rain is to wet and fire to
|
1820
|
+
burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a
|
1821
|
+
great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that
|
1822
|
+
he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may
|
1823
|
+
complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.
|
1824
|
+
|
1825
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in
|
1826
|
+
court, shepherd?
|
1827
|
+
|
1828
|
+
CORIN No, truly.
|
1829
|
+
|
1830
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Then thou art damned.
|
1831
|
+
|
1832
|
+
CORIN Nay, I hope.
|
1833
|
+
|
1834
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all
|
1835
|
+
on one side.
|
1836
|
+
|
1837
|
+
CORIN For not being at court? Your reason.
|
1838
|
+
|
1839
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest
|
1840
|
+
good manners; if thou never sawest good manners,
|
1841
|
+
then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is
|
1842
|
+
sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous
|
1843
|
+
state, shepherd.
|
1844
|
+
|
1845
|
+
CORIN Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners
|
1846
|
+
at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the
|
1847
|
+
behavior of the country is most mockable at the
|
1848
|
+
court. You told me you salute not at the court, but
|
1849
|
+
you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be
|
1850
|
+
uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds.
|
1851
|
+
|
1852
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Instance, briefly; come, instance.
|
1853
|
+
|
1854
|
+
CORIN Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their
|
1855
|
+
fells, you know, are greasy.
|
1856
|
+
|
1857
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? and is not
|
1858
|
+
the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of
|
1859
|
+
a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I say; come.
|
1860
|
+
|
1861
|
+
CORIN Besides, our hands are hard.
|
1862
|
+
|
1863
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again.
|
1864
|
+
A more sounder instance, come.
|
1865
|
+
|
1866
|
+
CORIN And they are often tarred over with the surgery of
|
1867
|
+
our sheep: and would you have us kiss tar? The
|
1868
|
+
courtier's hands are perfumed with civet.
|
1869
|
+
|
1870
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Most shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect of a
|
1871
|
+
good piece of flesh indeed! Learn of the wise, and
|
1872
|
+
perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the
|
1873
|
+
very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd.
|
1874
|
+
|
1875
|
+
CORIN You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest.
|
1876
|
+
|
1877
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man!
|
1878
|
+
God make incision in thee! thou art raw.
|
1879
|
+
|
1880
|
+
CORIN Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get
|
1881
|
+
that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's
|
1882
|
+
happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my
|
1883
|
+
harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes
|
1884
|
+
graze and my lambs suck.
|
1885
|
+
|
1886
|
+
TOUCHSTONE That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes
|
1887
|
+
and the rams together and to offer to get your
|
1888
|
+
living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a
|
1889
|
+
bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a
|
1890
|
+
twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram,
|
1891
|
+
out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not
|
1892
|
+
damned for this, the devil himself will have no
|
1893
|
+
shepherds; I cannot see else how thou shouldst
|
1894
|
+
'scape.
|
1895
|
+
|
1896
|
+
CORIN Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother.
|
1897
|
+
|
1898
|
+
[Enter ROSALIND, with a paper, reading]
|
1899
|
+
|
1900
|
+
ROSALIND From the east to western Ind,
|
1901
|
+
No jewel is like Rosalind.
|
1902
|
+
Her worth, being mounted on the wind,
|
1903
|
+
Through all the world bears Rosalind.
|
1904
|
+
All the pictures fairest lined
|
1905
|
+
Are but black to Rosalind.
|
1906
|
+
Let no fair be kept in mind
|
1907
|
+
But the fair of Rosalind.
|
1908
|
+
|
1909
|
+
TOUCHSTONE I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and
|
1910
|
+
suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is the
|
1911
|
+
right butter-women's rank to market.
|
1912
|
+
|
1913
|
+
ROSALIND Out, fool!
|
1914
|
+
|
1915
|
+
TOUCHSTONE For a taste:
|
1916
|
+
If a hart do lack a hind,
|
1917
|
+
Let him seek out Rosalind.
|
1918
|
+
If the cat will after kind,
|
1919
|
+
So be sure will Rosalind.
|
1920
|
+
Winter garments must be lined,
|
1921
|
+
So must slender Rosalind.
|
1922
|
+
They that reap must sheaf and bind;
|
1923
|
+
Then to cart with Rosalind.
|
1924
|
+
Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,
|
1925
|
+
Such a nut is Rosalind.
|
1926
|
+
He that sweetest rose will find
|
1927
|
+
Must find love's prick and Rosalind.
|
1928
|
+
This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you
|
1929
|
+
infect yourself with them?
|
1930
|
+
|
1931
|
+
ROSALIND Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree.
|
1932
|
+
|
1933
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.
|
1934
|
+
|
1935
|
+
ROSALIND I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it
|
1936
|
+
with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit
|
1937
|
+
i' the country; for you'll be rotten ere you be half
|
1938
|
+
ripe, and that's the right virtue of the medlar.
|
1939
|
+
|
1940
|
+
TOUCHSTONE You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the
|
1941
|
+
forest judge.
|
1942
|
+
|
1943
|
+
[Enter CELIA, with a writing]
|
1944
|
+
|
1945
|
+
ROSALIND Peace! Here comes my sister, reading: stand aside.
|
1946
|
+
|
1947
|
+
CELIA [Reads]
|
1948
|
+
|
1949
|
+
Why should this a desert be?
|
1950
|
+
For it is unpeopled? No:
|
1951
|
+
Tongues I'll hang on every tree,
|
1952
|
+
That shall civil sayings show:
|
1953
|
+
Some, how brief the life of man
|
1954
|
+
Runs his erring pilgrimage,
|
1955
|
+
That the stretching of a span
|
1956
|
+
Buckles in his sum of age;
|
1957
|
+
Some, of violated vows
|
1958
|
+
'Twixt the souls of friend and friend:
|
1959
|
+
But upon the fairest boughs,
|
1960
|
+
Or at every sentence end,
|
1961
|
+
Will I Rosalinda write,
|
1962
|
+
Teaching all that read to know
|
1963
|
+
The quintessence of every sprite
|
1964
|
+
Heaven would in little show.
|
1965
|
+
Therefore Heaven Nature charged
|
1966
|
+
That one body should be fill'd
|
1967
|
+
With all graces wide-enlarged:
|
1968
|
+
Nature presently distill'd
|
1969
|
+
Helen's cheek, but not her heart,
|
1970
|
+
Cleopatra's majesty,
|
1971
|
+
Atalanta's better part,
|
1972
|
+
Sad Lucretia's modesty.
|
1973
|
+
Thus Rosalind of many parts
|
1974
|
+
By heavenly synod was devised,
|
1975
|
+
Of many faces, eyes and hearts,
|
1976
|
+
To have the touches dearest prized.
|
1977
|
+
Heaven would that she these gifts should have,
|
1978
|
+
And I to live and die her slave.
|
1979
|
+
|
1980
|
+
ROSALIND O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love
|
1981
|
+
have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never
|
1982
|
+
cried 'Have patience, good people!'
|
1983
|
+
|
1984
|
+
CELIA How now! back, friends! Shepherd, go off a little.
|
1985
|
+
Go with him, sirrah.
|
1986
|
+
|
1987
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat;
|
1988
|
+
though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
|
1989
|
+
|
1990
|
+
[Exeunt CORIN and TOUCHSTONE]
|
1991
|
+
|
1992
|
+
CELIA Didst thou hear these verses?
|
1993
|
+
|
1994
|
+
ROSALIND O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of
|
1995
|
+
them had in them more feet than the verses would bear.
|
1996
|
+
|
1997
|
+
CELIA That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses.
|
1998
|
+
|
1999
|
+
ROSALIND Ay, but the feet were lame and could not bear
|
2000
|
+
themselves without the verse and therefore stood
|
2001
|
+
lamely in the verse.
|
2002
|
+
|
2003
|
+
CELIA But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name
|
2004
|
+
should be hanged and carved upon these trees?
|
2005
|
+
|
2006
|
+
ROSALIND I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder
|
2007
|
+
before you came; for look here what I found on a
|
2008
|
+
palm-tree. I was never so be-rhymed since
|
2009
|
+
Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I
|
2010
|
+
can hardly remember.
|
2011
|
+
|
2012
|
+
CELIA Trow you who hath done this?
|
2013
|
+
|
2014
|
+
ROSALIND Is it a man?
|
2015
|
+
|
2016
|
+
CELIA And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck.
|
2017
|
+
Change you colour?
|
2018
|
+
|
2019
|
+
ROSALIND I prithee, who?
|
2020
|
+
|
2021
|
+
CELIA O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to
|
2022
|
+
meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes
|
2023
|
+
and so encounter.
|
2024
|
+
|
2025
|
+
ROSALIND Nay, but who is it?
|
2026
|
+
|
2027
|
+
CELIA Is it possible?
|
2028
|
+
|
2029
|
+
ROSALIND Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary vehemence,
|
2030
|
+
tell me who it is.
|
2031
|
+
|
2032
|
+
CELIA O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful
|
2033
|
+
wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that,
|
2034
|
+
out of all hooping!
|
2035
|
+
|
2036
|
+
ROSALIND Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am
|
2037
|
+
caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and hose in
|
2038
|
+
my disposition? One inch of delay more is a
|
2039
|
+
South-sea of discovery; I prithee, tell me who is it
|
2040
|
+
quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst
|
2041
|
+
stammer, that thou mightst pour this concealed man
|
2042
|
+
out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-
|
2043
|
+
mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at
|
2044
|
+
all. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth that
|
2045
|
+
may drink thy tidings.
|
2046
|
+
|
2047
|
+
CELIA So you may put a man in your belly.
|
2048
|
+
|
2049
|
+
ROSALIND Is he of God's making? What manner of man? Is his
|
2050
|
+
head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard?
|
2051
|
+
|
2052
|
+
CELIA Nay, he hath but a little beard.
|
2053
|
+
|
2054
|
+
ROSALIND Why, God will send more, if the man will be
|
2055
|
+
thankful: let me stay the growth of his beard, if
|
2056
|
+
thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin.
|
2057
|
+
|
2058
|
+
CELIA It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler's
|
2059
|
+
heels and your heart both in an instant.
|
2060
|
+
|
2061
|
+
ROSALIND Nay, but the devil take mocking: speak, sad brow and
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2062
|
+
true maid.
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2063
|
+
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2064
|
+
CELIA I' faith, coz, 'tis he.
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2065
|
+
|
2066
|
+
ROSALIND Orlando?
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2067
|
+
|
2068
|
+
CELIA Orlando.
|
2069
|
+
|
2070
|
+
ROSALIND Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and
|
2071
|
+
hose? What did he when thou sawest him? What said
|
2072
|
+
he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes
|
2073
|
+
him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he?
|
2074
|
+
How parted he with thee? and when shalt thou see
|
2075
|
+
him again? Answer me in one word.
|
2076
|
+
|
2077
|
+
CELIA You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first: 'tis a
|
2078
|
+
word too great for any mouth of this age's size. To
|
2079
|
+
say ay and no to these particulars is more than to
|
2080
|
+
answer in a catechism.
|
2081
|
+
|
2082
|
+
ROSALIND But doth he know that I am in this forest and in
|
2083
|
+
man's apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the
|
2084
|
+
day he wrestled?
|
2085
|
+
|
2086
|
+
CELIA It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the
|
2087
|
+
propositions of a lover; but take a taste of my
|
2088
|
+
finding him, and relish it with good observance.
|
2089
|
+
I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn.
|
2090
|
+
|
2091
|
+
ROSALIND It may well be called Jove's tree, when it drops
|
2092
|
+
forth such fruit.
|
2093
|
+
|
2094
|
+
CELIA Give me audience, good madam.
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2095
|
+
|
2096
|
+
ROSALIND Proceed.
|
2097
|
+
|
2098
|
+
CELIA There lay he, stretched along, like a wounded knight.
|
2099
|
+
|
2100
|
+
ROSALIND Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well
|
2101
|
+
becomes the ground.
|
2102
|
+
|
2103
|
+
CELIA Cry 'holla' to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets
|
2104
|
+
unseasonably. He was furnished like a hunter.
|
2105
|
+
|
2106
|
+
ROSALIND O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart.
|
2107
|
+
|
2108
|
+
CELIA I would sing my song without a burden: thou bringest
|
2109
|
+
me out of tune.
|
2110
|
+
|
2111
|
+
ROSALIND Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must
|
2112
|
+
speak. Sweet, say on.
|
2113
|
+
|
2114
|
+
CELIA You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here?
|
2115
|
+
|
2116
|
+
[Enter ORLANDO and JAQUES]
|
2117
|
+
|
2118
|
+
ROSALIND 'Tis he: slink by, and note him.
|
2119
|
+
|
2120
|
+
JAQUES I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had
|
2121
|
+
as lief have been myself alone.
|
2122
|
+
|
2123
|
+
ORLANDO And so had I; but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you
|
2124
|
+
too for your society.
|
2125
|
+
|
2126
|
+
JAQUES God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we can.
|
2127
|
+
|
2128
|
+
ORLANDO I do desire we may be better strangers.
|
2129
|
+
|
2130
|
+
JAQUES I pray you, mar no more trees with writing
|
2131
|
+
love-songs in their barks.
|
2132
|
+
|
2133
|
+
ORLANDO I pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading
|
2134
|
+
them ill-favouredly.
|
2135
|
+
|
2136
|
+
JAQUES Rosalind is your love's name?
|
2137
|
+
|
2138
|
+
ORLANDO Yes, just.
|
2139
|
+
|
2140
|
+
JAQUES I do not like her name.
|
2141
|
+
|
2142
|
+
ORLANDO There was no thought of pleasing you when she was
|
2143
|
+
christened.
|
2144
|
+
|
2145
|
+
JAQUES What stature is she of?
|
2146
|
+
|
2147
|
+
ORLANDO Just as high as my heart.
|
2148
|
+
|
2149
|
+
JAQUES You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been
|
2150
|
+
acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them
|
2151
|
+
out of rings?
|
2152
|
+
|
2153
|
+
ORLANDO Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from
|
2154
|
+
whence you have studied your questions.
|
2155
|
+
|
2156
|
+
JAQUES You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of
|
2157
|
+
Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me? and
|
2158
|
+
we two will rail against our mistress the world and
|
2159
|
+
all our misery.
|
2160
|
+
|
2161
|
+
ORLANDO I will chide no breather in the world but myself,
|
2162
|
+
against whom I know most faults.
|
2163
|
+
|
2164
|
+
JAQUES The worst fault you have is to be in love.
|
2165
|
+
|
2166
|
+
ORLANDO 'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue.
|
2167
|
+
I am weary of you.
|
2168
|
+
|
2169
|
+
JAQUES By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found
|
2170
|
+
you.
|
2171
|
+
|
2172
|
+
ORLANDO He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you
|
2173
|
+
shall see him.
|
2174
|
+
|
2175
|
+
JAQUES There I shall see mine own figure.
|
2176
|
+
|
2177
|
+
ORLANDO Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.
|
2178
|
+
|
2179
|
+
JAQUES I'll tarry no longer with you: farewell, good
|
2180
|
+
Signior Love.
|
2181
|
+
|
2182
|
+
ORLANDO I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur
|
2183
|
+
Melancholy.
|
2184
|
+
|
2185
|
+
[Exit JAQUES]
|
2186
|
+
|
2187
|
+
ROSALIND [Aside to CELIA] I will speak to him, like a saucy
|
2188
|
+
lackey and under that habit play the knave with him.
|
2189
|
+
Do you hear, forester?
|
2190
|
+
|
2191
|
+
ORLANDO Very well: what would you?
|
2192
|
+
|
2193
|
+
ROSALIND I pray you, what is't o'clock?
|
2194
|
+
|
2195
|
+
ORLANDO You should ask me what time o' day: there's no clock
|
2196
|
+
in the forest.
|
2197
|
+
|
2198
|
+
ROSALIND Then there is no true lover in the forest; else
|
2199
|
+
sighing every minute and groaning every hour would
|
2200
|
+
detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock.
|
2201
|
+
|
2202
|
+
ORLANDO And why not the swift foot of Time? had not that
|
2203
|
+
been as proper?
|
2204
|
+
|
2205
|
+
ROSALIND By no means, sir: Time travels in divers paces with
|
2206
|
+
divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles
|
2207
|
+
withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops
|
2208
|
+
withal and who he stands still withal.
|
2209
|
+
|
2210
|
+
ORLANDO I prithee, who doth he trot withal?
|
2211
|
+
|
2212
|
+
ROSALIND Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the
|
2213
|
+
contract of her marriage and the day it is
|
2214
|
+
solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight,
|
2215
|
+
Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of
|
2216
|
+
seven year.
|
2217
|
+
|
2218
|
+
ORLANDO Who ambles Time withal?
|
2219
|
+
|
2220
|
+
ROSALIND With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that
|
2221
|
+
hath not the gout, for the one sleeps easily because
|
2222
|
+
he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because
|
2223
|
+
he feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean
|
2224
|
+
and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden
|
2225
|
+
of heavy tedious penury; these Time ambles withal.
|
2226
|
+
|
2227
|
+
ORLANDO Who doth he gallop withal?
|
2228
|
+
|
2229
|
+
ROSALIND With a thief to the gallows, for though he go as
|
2230
|
+
softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there.
|
2231
|
+
|
2232
|
+
ORLANDO Who stays it still withal?
|
2233
|
+
|
2234
|
+
ROSALIND With lawyers in the vacation, for they sleep between
|
2235
|
+
term and term and then they perceive not how Time moves.
|
2236
|
+
|
2237
|
+
ORLANDO Where dwell you, pretty youth?
|
2238
|
+
|
2239
|
+
ROSALIND With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the
|
2240
|
+
skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.
|
2241
|
+
|
2242
|
+
ORLANDO Are you native of this place?
|
2243
|
+
|
2244
|
+
ROSALIND As the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled.
|
2245
|
+
|
2246
|
+
ORLANDO Your accent is something finer than you could
|
2247
|
+
purchase in so removed a dwelling.
|
2248
|
+
|
2249
|
+
ROSALIND I have been told so of many: but indeed an old
|
2250
|
+
religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was
|
2251
|
+
in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship
|
2252
|
+
too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard
|
2253
|
+
him read many lectures against it, and I thank God
|
2254
|
+
I am not a woman, to be touched with so many
|
2255
|
+
giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their
|
2256
|
+
whole sex withal.
|
2257
|
+
|
2258
|
+
ORLANDO Can you remember any of the principal evils that he
|
2259
|
+
laid to the charge of women?
|
2260
|
+
|
2261
|
+
ROSALIND There were none principal; they were all like one
|
2262
|
+
another as half-pence are, every one fault seeming
|
2263
|
+
monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.
|
2264
|
+
|
2265
|
+
ORLANDO I prithee, recount some of them.
|
2266
|
+
|
2267
|
+
ROSALIND No, I will not cast away my physic but on those that
|
2268
|
+
are sick. There is a man haunts the forest, that
|
2269
|
+
abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on
|
2270
|
+
their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies
|
2271
|
+
on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of
|
2272
|
+
Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger I would
|
2273
|
+
give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the
|
2274
|
+
quotidian of love upon him.
|
2275
|
+
|
2276
|
+
ORLANDO I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you tell me
|
2277
|
+
your remedy.
|
2278
|
+
|
2279
|
+
ROSALIND There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he
|
2280
|
+
taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage
|
2281
|
+
of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
|
2282
|
+
|
2283
|
+
ORLANDO What were his marks?
|
2284
|
+
|
2285
|
+
ROSALIND A lean cheek, which you have not, a blue eye and
|
2286
|
+
sunken, which you have not, an unquestionable
|
2287
|
+
spirit, which you have not, a beard neglected,
|
2288
|
+
which you have not; but I pardon you for that, for
|
2289
|
+
simply your having in beard is a younger brother's
|
2290
|
+
revenue: then your hose should be ungartered, your
|
2291
|
+
bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe
|
2292
|
+
untied and every thing about you demonstrating a
|
2293
|
+
careless desolation; but you are no such man; you
|
2294
|
+
are rather point-device in your accoutrements as
|
2295
|
+
loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.
|
2296
|
+
|
2297
|
+
ORLANDO Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.
|
2298
|
+
|
2299
|
+
ROSALIND Me believe it! you may as soon make her that you
|
2300
|
+
love believe it; which, I warrant, she is apter to
|
2301
|
+
do than to confess she does: that is one of the
|
2302
|
+
points in the which women still give the lie to
|
2303
|
+
their consciences. But, in good sooth, are you he
|
2304
|
+
that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind
|
2305
|
+
is so admired?
|
2306
|
+
|
2307
|
+
ORLANDO I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of
|
2308
|
+
Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he.
|
2309
|
+
|
2310
|
+
ROSALIND But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?
|
2311
|
+
|
2312
|
+
ORLANDO Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.
|
2313
|
+
|
2314
|
+
ROSALIND Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves
|
2315
|
+
as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and
|
2316
|
+
the reason why they are not so punished and cured
|
2317
|
+
is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers
|
2318
|
+
are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.
|
2319
|
+
|
2320
|
+
ORLANDO Did you ever cure any so?
|
2321
|
+
|
2322
|
+
ROSALIND Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to imagine me
|
2323
|
+
his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to
|
2324
|
+
woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish
|
2325
|
+
youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing
|
2326
|
+
and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow,
|
2327
|
+
inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles, for every
|
2328
|
+
passion something and for no passion truly any
|
2329
|
+
thing, as boys and women are for the most part
|
2330
|
+
cattle of this colour; would now like him, now loathe
|
2331
|
+
him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep
|
2332
|
+
for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor
|
2333
|
+
from his mad humour of love to a living humour of
|
2334
|
+
madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of
|
2335
|
+
the world, and to live in a nook merely monastic.
|
2336
|
+
And thus I cured him; and this way will I take upon
|
2337
|
+
me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's
|
2338
|
+
heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in't.
|
2339
|
+
|
2340
|
+
ORLANDO I would not be cured, youth.
|
2341
|
+
|
2342
|
+
ROSALIND I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind
|
2343
|
+
and come every day to my cote and woo me.
|
2344
|
+
|
2345
|
+
ORLANDO Now, by the faith of my love, I will: tell me
|
2346
|
+
where it is.
|
2347
|
+
|
2348
|
+
ROSALIND Go with me to it and I'll show it you and by the way
|
2349
|
+
you shall tell me where in the forest you live.
|
2350
|
+
Will you go?
|
2351
|
+
|
2352
|
+
ORLANDO With all my heart, good youth.
|
2353
|
+
|
2354
|
+
ROSALIND Nay you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you go?
|
2355
|
+
|
2356
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
2357
|
+
|
2358
|
+
|
2359
|
+
|
2360
|
+
|
2361
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
2362
|
+
|
2363
|
+
|
2364
|
+
ACT III
|
2365
|
+
|
2366
|
+
|
2367
|
+
|
2368
|
+
SCENE III The forest.
|
2369
|
+
|
2370
|
+
|
2371
|
+
[Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY; JAQUES behind]
|
2372
|
+
|
2373
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Come apace, good Audrey: I will fetch up your
|
2374
|
+
goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey? am I the man yet?
|
2375
|
+
doth my simple feature content you?
|
2376
|
+
|
2377
|
+
AUDREY Your features! Lord warrant us! what features!
|
2378
|
+
|
2379
|
+
TOUCHSTONE I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most
|
2380
|
+
capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.
|
2381
|
+
|
2382
|
+
JAQUES [Aside] O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove
|
2383
|
+
in a thatched house!
|
2384
|
+
|
2385
|
+
TOUCHSTONE When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a
|
2386
|
+
man's good wit seconded with the forward child
|
2387
|
+
Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a
|
2388
|
+
great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would
|
2389
|
+
the gods had made thee poetical.
|
2390
|
+
|
2391
|
+
AUDREY I do not know what 'poetical' is: is it honest in
|
2392
|
+
deed and word? is it a true thing?
|
2393
|
+
|
2394
|
+
TOUCHSTONE No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most
|
2395
|
+
feigning; and lovers are given to poetry, and what
|
2396
|
+
they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign.
|
2397
|
+
|
2398
|
+
AUDREY Do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical?
|
2399
|
+
|
2400
|
+
TOUCHSTONE I do, truly; for thou swearest to me thou art
|
2401
|
+
honest: now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some
|
2402
|
+
hope thou didst feign.
|
2403
|
+
|
2404
|
+
AUDREY Would you not have me honest?
|
2405
|
+
|
2406
|
+
TOUCHSTONE No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for
|
2407
|
+
honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
|
2408
|
+
|
2409
|
+
JAQUES [Aside] A material fool!
|
2410
|
+
|
2411
|
+
AUDREY Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods
|
2412
|
+
make me honest.
|
2413
|
+
|
2414
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut
|
2415
|
+
were to put good meat into an unclean dish.
|
2416
|
+
|
2417
|
+
AUDREY I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.
|
2418
|
+
|
2419
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness!
|
2420
|
+
sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may
|
2421
|
+
be, I will marry thee, and to that end I have been
|
2422
|
+
with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next
|
2423
|
+
village, who hath promised to meet me in this place
|
2424
|
+
of the forest and to couple us.
|
2425
|
+
|
2426
|
+
JAQUES [Aside] I would fain see this meeting.
|
2427
|
+
|
2428
|
+
AUDREY Well, the gods give us joy!
|
2429
|
+
|
2430
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart,
|
2431
|
+
stagger in this attempt; for here we have no temple
|
2432
|
+
but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what
|
2433
|
+
though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are
|
2434
|
+
necessary. It is said, 'many a man knows no end of
|
2435
|
+
his goods:' right; many a man has good horns, and
|
2436
|
+
knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of
|
2437
|
+
his wife; 'tis none of his own getting. Horns?
|
2438
|
+
Even so. Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer
|
2439
|
+
hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man
|
2440
|
+
therefore blessed? No: as a walled town is more
|
2441
|
+
worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a
|
2442
|
+
married man more honourable than the bare brow of a
|
2443
|
+
bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no
|
2444
|
+
skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to
|
2445
|
+
want. Here comes Sir Oliver.
|
2446
|
+
|
2447
|
+
[Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT]
|
2448
|
+
|
2449
|
+
Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met: will you
|
2450
|
+
dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go
|
2451
|
+
with you to your chapel?
|
2452
|
+
|
2453
|
+
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT Is there none here to give the woman?
|
2454
|
+
|
2455
|
+
TOUCHSTONE I will not take her on gift of any man.
|
2456
|
+
|
2457
|
+
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful.
|
2458
|
+
|
2459
|
+
JAQUES [Advancing]
|
2460
|
+
|
2461
|
+
Proceed, proceed I'll give her.
|
2462
|
+
|
2463
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Good even, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you,
|
2464
|
+
sir? You are very well met: God 'ild you for your
|
2465
|
+
last company: I am very glad to see you: even a
|
2466
|
+
toy in hand here, sir: nay, pray be covered.
|
2467
|
+
|
2468
|
+
JAQUES Will you be married, motley?
|
2469
|
+
|
2470
|
+
TOUCHSTONE As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and
|
2471
|
+
the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and
|
2472
|
+
as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.
|
2473
|
+
|
2474
|
+
JAQUES And will you, being a man of your breeding, be
|
2475
|
+
married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to
|
2476
|
+
church, and have a good priest that can tell you
|
2477
|
+
what marriage is: this fellow will but join you
|
2478
|
+
together as they join wainscot; then one of you will
|
2479
|
+
prove a shrunk panel and, like green timber, warp, warp.
|
2480
|
+
|
2481
|
+
TOUCHSTONE [Aside] I am not in the mind but I were better to be
|
2482
|
+
married of him than of another: for he is not like
|
2483
|
+
to marry me well; and not being well married, it
|
2484
|
+
will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife.
|
2485
|
+
|
2486
|
+
JAQUES Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.
|
2487
|
+
|
2488
|
+
TOUCHSTONE 'Come, sweet Audrey:
|
2489
|
+
We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.
|
2490
|
+
Farewell, good Master Oliver: not,--
|
2491
|
+
O sweet Oliver,
|
2492
|
+
O brave Oliver,
|
2493
|
+
Leave me not behind thee: but,--
|
2494
|
+
Wind away,
|
2495
|
+
Begone, I say,
|
2496
|
+
I will not to wedding with thee.
|
2497
|
+
|
2498
|
+
[Exeunt JAQUES, TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]
|
2499
|
+
|
2500
|
+
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT 'Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them
|
2501
|
+
all shall flout me out of my calling.
|
2502
|
+
|
2503
|
+
[Exit]
|
2504
|
+
|
2505
|
+
|
2506
|
+
|
2507
|
+
|
2508
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
2509
|
+
|
2510
|
+
|
2511
|
+
ACT III
|
2512
|
+
|
2513
|
+
|
2514
|
+
|
2515
|
+
SCENE IV The forest.
|
2516
|
+
|
2517
|
+
|
2518
|
+
[Enter ROSALIND and CELIA]
|
2519
|
+
|
2520
|
+
ROSALIND Never talk to me; I will weep.
|
2521
|
+
|
2522
|
+
CELIA Do, I prithee; but yet have the grace to consider
|
2523
|
+
that tears do not become a man.
|
2524
|
+
|
2525
|
+
ROSALIND But have I not cause to weep?
|
2526
|
+
|
2527
|
+
CELIA As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep.
|
2528
|
+
|
2529
|
+
ROSALIND His very hair is of the dissembling colour.
|
2530
|
+
|
2531
|
+
CELIA Something browner than Judas's marry, his kisses are
|
2532
|
+
Judas's own children.
|
2533
|
+
|
2534
|
+
ROSALIND I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.
|
2535
|
+
|
2536
|
+
CELIA An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour.
|
2537
|
+
|
2538
|
+
ROSALIND And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch
|
2539
|
+
of holy bread.
|
2540
|
+
|
2541
|
+
CELIA He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun
|
2542
|
+
of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously;
|
2543
|
+
the very ice of chastity is in them.
|
2544
|
+
|
2545
|
+
ROSALIND But why did he swear he would come this morning, and
|
2546
|
+
comes not?
|
2547
|
+
|
2548
|
+
CELIA Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.
|
2549
|
+
|
2550
|
+
ROSALIND Do you think so?
|
2551
|
+
|
2552
|
+
CELIA Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a
|
2553
|
+
horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do
|
2554
|
+
think him as concave as a covered goblet or a
|
2555
|
+
worm-eaten nut.
|
2556
|
+
|
2557
|
+
ROSALIND Not true in love?
|
2558
|
+
|
2559
|
+
CELIA Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in.
|
2560
|
+
|
2561
|
+
ROSALIND You have heard him swear downright he was.
|
2562
|
+
|
2563
|
+
CELIA 'Was' is not 'is:' besides, the oath of a lover is
|
2564
|
+
no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are
|
2565
|
+
both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends
|
2566
|
+
here in the forest on the duke your father.
|
2567
|
+
|
2568
|
+
ROSALIND I met the duke yesterday and had much question with
|
2569
|
+
him: he asked me of what parentage I was; I told
|
2570
|
+
him, of as good as he; so he laughed and let me go.
|
2571
|
+
But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a
|
2572
|
+
man as Orlando?
|
2573
|
+
|
2574
|
+
CELIA O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses,
|
2575
|
+
speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks
|
2576
|
+
them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of
|
2577
|
+
his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse
|
2578
|
+
but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble
|
2579
|
+
goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly
|
2580
|
+
guides. Who comes here?
|
2581
|
+
|
2582
|
+
[Enter CORIN]
|
2583
|
+
|
2584
|
+
CORIN Mistress and master, you have oft inquired
|
2585
|
+
After the shepherd that complain'd of love,
|
2586
|
+
Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,
|
2587
|
+
Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
|
2588
|
+
That was his mistress.
|
2589
|
+
|
2590
|
+
CELIA Well, and what of him?
|
2591
|
+
|
2592
|
+
CORIN If you will see a pageant truly play'd,
|
2593
|
+
Between the pale complexion of true love
|
2594
|
+
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,
|
2595
|
+
Go hence a little and I shall conduct you,
|
2596
|
+
If you will mark it.
|
2597
|
+
|
2598
|
+
ROSALIND O, come, let us remove:
|
2599
|
+
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
|
2600
|
+
Bring us to this sight, and you shall say
|
2601
|
+
I'll prove a busy actor in their play.
|
2602
|
+
|
2603
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
2604
|
+
|
2605
|
+
|
2606
|
+
|
2607
|
+
|
2608
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
2609
|
+
|
2610
|
+
|
2611
|
+
ACT III
|
2612
|
+
|
2613
|
+
|
2614
|
+
|
2615
|
+
SCENE V Another part of the forest.
|
2616
|
+
|
2617
|
+
|
2618
|
+
[Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE]
|
2619
|
+
|
2620
|
+
SILVIUS Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe;
|
2621
|
+
Say that you love me not, but say not so
|
2622
|
+
In bitterness. The common executioner,
|
2623
|
+
Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard,
|
2624
|
+
Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
|
2625
|
+
But first begs pardon: will you sterner be
|
2626
|
+
Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?
|
2627
|
+
|
2628
|
+
[Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and CORIN, behind]
|
2629
|
+
|
2630
|
+
PHEBE I would not be thy executioner:
|
2631
|
+
I fly thee, for I would not injure thee.
|
2632
|
+
Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye:
|
2633
|
+
'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,
|
2634
|
+
That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,
|
2635
|
+
Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
|
2636
|
+
Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!
|
2637
|
+
Now I do frown on thee with all my heart;
|
2638
|
+
And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee:
|
2639
|
+
Now counterfeit to swoon; why now fall down;
|
2640
|
+
Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,
|
2641
|
+
Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers!
|
2642
|
+
Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee:
|
2643
|
+
Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains
|
2644
|
+
Some scar of it; lean but upon a rush,
|
2645
|
+
The cicatrice and capable impressure
|
2646
|
+
Thy palm some moment keeps; but now mine eyes,
|
2647
|
+
Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not,
|
2648
|
+
Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes
|
2649
|
+
That can do hurt.
|
2650
|
+
|
2651
|
+
SILVIUS O dear Phebe,
|
2652
|
+
If ever,--as that ever may be near,--
|
2653
|
+
You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,
|
2654
|
+
Then shall you know the wounds invisible
|
2655
|
+
That love's keen arrows make.
|
2656
|
+
|
2657
|
+
PHEBE But till that time
|
2658
|
+
Come not thou near me: and when that time comes,
|
2659
|
+
Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not;
|
2660
|
+
As till that time I shall not pity thee.
|
2661
|
+
|
2662
|
+
ROSALIND And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother,
|
2663
|
+
That you insult, exult, and all at once,
|
2664
|
+
Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,--
|
2665
|
+
As, by my faith, I see no more in you
|
2666
|
+
Than without candle may go dark to bed--
|
2667
|
+
Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?
|
2668
|
+
Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?
|
2669
|
+
I see no more in you than in the ordinary
|
2670
|
+
Of nature's sale-work. 'Od's my little life,
|
2671
|
+
I think she means to tangle my eyes too!
|
2672
|
+
No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it:
|
2673
|
+
'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
|
2674
|
+
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
|
2675
|
+
That can entame my spirits to your worship.
|
2676
|
+
You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,
|
2677
|
+
Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain?
|
2678
|
+
You are a thousand times a properer man
|
2679
|
+
Than she a woman: 'tis such fools as you
|
2680
|
+
That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children:
|
2681
|
+
'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her;
|
2682
|
+
And out of you she sees herself more proper
|
2683
|
+
Than any of her lineaments can show her.
|
2684
|
+
But, mistress, know yourself: down on your knees,
|
2685
|
+
And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love:
|
2686
|
+
For I must tell you friendly in your ear,
|
2687
|
+
Sell when you can: you are not for all markets:
|
2688
|
+
Cry the man mercy; love him; take his offer:
|
2689
|
+
Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer.
|
2690
|
+
So take her to thee, shepherd: fare you well.
|
2691
|
+
|
2692
|
+
PHEBE Sweet youth, I pray you, chide a year together:
|
2693
|
+
I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.
|
2694
|
+
|
2695
|
+
ROSALIND He's fallen in love with your foulness and she'll
|
2696
|
+
fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as
|
2697
|
+
she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her
|
2698
|
+
with bitter words. Why look you so upon me?
|
2699
|
+
|
2700
|
+
PHEBE For no ill will I bear you.
|
2701
|
+
|
2702
|
+
ROSALIND I pray you, do not fall in love with me,
|
2703
|
+
For I am falser than vows made in wine:
|
2704
|
+
Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,
|
2705
|
+
'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.
|
2706
|
+
Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard.
|
2707
|
+
Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better,
|
2708
|
+
And be not proud: though all the world could see,
|
2709
|
+
None could be so abused in sight as he.
|
2710
|
+
Come, to our flock.
|
2711
|
+
|
2712
|
+
[Exeunt ROSALIND, CELIA and CORIN]
|
2713
|
+
|
2714
|
+
PHEBE Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,
|
2715
|
+
'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'
|
2716
|
+
|
2717
|
+
SILVIUS Sweet Phebe,--
|
2718
|
+
|
2719
|
+
PHEBE Ha, what say'st thou, Silvius?
|
2720
|
+
|
2721
|
+
SILVIUS Sweet Phebe, pity me.
|
2722
|
+
|
2723
|
+
PHEBE Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.
|
2724
|
+
|
2725
|
+
SILVIUS Wherever sorrow is, relief would be:
|
2726
|
+
If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
|
2727
|
+
By giving love your sorrow and my grief
|
2728
|
+
Were both extermined.
|
2729
|
+
|
2730
|
+
PHEBE Thou hast my love: is not that neighbourly?
|
2731
|
+
|
2732
|
+
SILVIUS I would have you.
|
2733
|
+
|
2734
|
+
PHEBE Why, that were covetousness.
|
2735
|
+
Silvius, the time was that I hated thee,
|
2736
|
+
And yet it is not that I bear thee love;
|
2737
|
+
But since that thou canst talk of love so well,
|
2738
|
+
Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
|
2739
|
+
I will endure, and I'll employ thee too:
|
2740
|
+
But do not look for further recompense
|
2741
|
+
Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.
|
2742
|
+
|
2743
|
+
SILVIUS So holy and so perfect is my love,
|
2744
|
+
And I in such a poverty of grace,
|
2745
|
+
That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
|
2746
|
+
To glean the broken ears after the man
|
2747
|
+
That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then
|
2748
|
+
A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon.
|
2749
|
+
|
2750
|
+
PHEBE Know'st now the youth that spoke to me erewhile?
|
2751
|
+
|
2752
|
+
SILVIUS Not very well, but I have met him oft;
|
2753
|
+
And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
|
2754
|
+
That the old carlot once was master of.
|
2755
|
+
|
2756
|
+
PHEBE Think not I love him, though I ask for him:
|
2757
|
+
'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well;
|
2758
|
+
But what care I for words? yet words do well
|
2759
|
+
When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
|
2760
|
+
It is a pretty youth: not very pretty:
|
2761
|
+
But, sure, he's proud, and yet his pride becomes him:
|
2762
|
+
He'll make a proper man: the best thing in him
|
2763
|
+
Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue
|
2764
|
+
Did make offence his eye did heal it up.
|
2765
|
+
He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall:
|
2766
|
+
His leg is but so so; and yet 'tis well:
|
2767
|
+
There was a pretty redness in his lip,
|
2768
|
+
A little riper and more lusty red
|
2769
|
+
Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference
|
2770
|
+
Between the constant red and mingled damask.
|
2771
|
+
There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him
|
2772
|
+
In parcels as I did, would have gone near
|
2773
|
+
To fall in love with him; but, for my part,
|
2774
|
+
I love him not nor hate him not; and yet
|
2775
|
+
I have more cause to hate him than to love him:
|
2776
|
+
For what had he to do to chide at me?
|
2777
|
+
He said mine eyes were black and my hair black:
|
2778
|
+
And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me:
|
2779
|
+
I marvel why I answer'd not again:
|
2780
|
+
But that's all one; omittance is no quittance.
|
2781
|
+
I'll write to him a very taunting letter,
|
2782
|
+
And thou shalt bear it: wilt thou, Silvius?
|
2783
|
+
|
2784
|
+
SILVIUS Phebe, with all my heart.
|
2785
|
+
|
2786
|
+
PHEBE I'll write it straight;
|
2787
|
+
The matter's in my head and in my heart:
|
2788
|
+
I will be bitter with him and passing short.
|
2789
|
+
Go with me, Silvius.
|
2790
|
+
|
2791
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
2792
|
+
|
2793
|
+
|
2794
|
+
|
2795
|
+
|
2796
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
2797
|
+
|
2798
|
+
|
2799
|
+
ACT IV
|
2800
|
+
|
2801
|
+
|
2802
|
+
|
2803
|
+
SCENE I The forest.
|
2804
|
+
|
2805
|
+
|
2806
|
+
[Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES]
|
2807
|
+
|
2808
|
+
JAQUES I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted
|
2809
|
+
with thee.
|
2810
|
+
|
2811
|
+
ROSALIND They say you are a melancholy fellow.
|
2812
|
+
|
2813
|
+
JAQUES I am so; I do love it better than laughing.
|
2814
|
+
|
2815
|
+
ROSALIND Those that are in extremity of either are abominable
|
2816
|
+
fellows and betray themselves to every modern
|
2817
|
+
censure worse than drunkards.
|
2818
|
+
|
2819
|
+
JAQUES Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.
|
2820
|
+
|
2821
|
+
ROSALIND Why then, 'tis good to be a post.
|
2822
|
+
|
2823
|
+
JAQUES I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is
|
2824
|
+
emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical,
|
2825
|
+
nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the
|
2826
|
+
soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's,
|
2827
|
+
which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor
|
2828
|
+
the lover's, which is all these: but it is a
|
2829
|
+
melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,
|
2830
|
+
extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's
|
2831
|
+
contemplation of my travels, in which my often
|
2832
|
+
rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness.
|
2833
|
+
|
2834
|
+
ROSALIND A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to
|
2835
|
+
be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see
|
2836
|
+
other men's; then, to have seen much and to have
|
2837
|
+
nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.
|
2838
|
+
|
2839
|
+
JAQUES Yes, I have gained my experience.
|
2840
|
+
|
2841
|
+
ROSALIND And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have
|
2842
|
+
a fool to make me merry than experience to make me
|
2843
|
+
sad; and to travel for it too!
|
2844
|
+
|
2845
|
+
[Enter ORLANDO]
|
2846
|
+
|
2847
|
+
ORLANDO Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!
|
2848
|
+
|
2849
|
+
JAQUES Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse.
|
2850
|
+
|
2851
|
+
[Exit]
|
2852
|
+
|
2853
|
+
ROSALIND Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and
|
2854
|
+
wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your
|
2855
|
+
own country, be out of love with your nativity and
|
2856
|
+
almost chide God for making you that countenance you
|
2857
|
+
are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a
|
2858
|
+
gondola. Why, how now, Orlando! where have you been
|
2859
|
+
all this while? You a lover! An you serve me such
|
2860
|
+
another trick, never come in my sight more.
|
2861
|
+
|
2862
|
+
ORLANDO My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise.
|
2863
|
+
|
2864
|
+
ROSALIND Break an hour's promise in love! He that will
|
2865
|
+
divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but
|
2866
|
+
a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the
|
2867
|
+
affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid
|
2868
|
+
hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant
|
2869
|
+
him heart-whole.
|
2870
|
+
|
2871
|
+
ORLANDO Pardon me, dear Rosalind.
|
2872
|
+
|
2873
|
+
ROSALIND Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I
|
2874
|
+
had as lief be wooed of a snail.
|
2875
|
+
|
2876
|
+
ORLANDO Of a snail?
|
2877
|
+
|
2878
|
+
ROSALIND Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he
|
2879
|
+
carries his house on his head; a better jointure,
|
2880
|
+
I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings
|
2881
|
+
his destiny with him.
|
2882
|
+
|
2883
|
+
ORLANDO What's that?
|
2884
|
+
|
2885
|
+
ROSALIND Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be
|
2886
|
+
beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in
|
2887
|
+
his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife.
|
2888
|
+
|
2889
|
+
ORLANDO Virtue is no horn-maker; and my Rosalind is virtuous.
|
2890
|
+
|
2891
|
+
ROSALIND And I am your Rosalind.
|
2892
|
+
|
2893
|
+
CELIA It pleases him to call you so; but he hath a
|
2894
|
+
Rosalind of a better leer than you.
|
2895
|
+
|
2896
|
+
ROSALIND Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday
|
2897
|
+
humour and like enough to consent. What would you
|
2898
|
+
say to me now, an I were your very very Rosalind?
|
2899
|
+
|
2900
|
+
ORLANDO I would kiss before I spoke.
|
2901
|
+
|
2902
|
+
ROSALIND Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were
|
2903
|
+
gravelled for lack of matter, you might take
|
2904
|
+
occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are
|
2905
|
+
out, they will spit; and for lovers lacking--God
|
2906
|
+
warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
|
2907
|
+
|
2908
|
+
ORLANDO How if the kiss be denied?
|
2909
|
+
|
2910
|
+
ROSALIND Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter.
|
2911
|
+
|
2912
|
+
ORLANDO Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?
|
2913
|
+
|
2914
|
+
ROSALIND Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress, or
|
2915
|
+
I should think my honesty ranker than my wit.
|
2916
|
+
|
2917
|
+
ORLANDO What, of my suit?
|
2918
|
+
|
2919
|
+
ROSALIND Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit.
|
2920
|
+
Am not I your Rosalind?
|
2921
|
+
|
2922
|
+
ORLANDO I take some joy to say you are, because I would be
|
2923
|
+
talking of her.
|
2924
|
+
|
2925
|
+
ROSALIND Well in her person I say I will not have you.
|
2926
|
+
|
2927
|
+
ORLANDO Then in mine own person I die.
|
2928
|
+
|
2929
|
+
ROSALIND No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is
|
2930
|
+
almost six thousand years old, and in all this time
|
2931
|
+
there was not any man died in his own person,
|
2932
|
+
videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains
|
2933
|
+
dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he
|
2934
|
+
could to die before, and he is one of the patterns
|
2935
|
+
of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair
|
2936
|
+
year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been
|
2937
|
+
for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went
|
2938
|
+
but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being
|
2939
|
+
taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
|
2940
|
+
coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.'
|
2941
|
+
But these are all lies: men have died from time to
|
2942
|
+
time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
|
2943
|
+
|
2944
|
+
ORLANDO I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind,
|
2945
|
+
for, I protest, her frown might kill me.
|
2946
|
+
|
2947
|
+
ROSALIND By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now
|
2948
|
+
I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on
|
2949
|
+
disposition, and ask me what you will. I will grant
|
2950
|
+
it.
|
2951
|
+
|
2952
|
+
ORLANDO Then love me, Rosalind.
|
2953
|
+
|
2954
|
+
ROSALIND Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and all.
|
2955
|
+
|
2956
|
+
ORLANDO And wilt thou have me?
|
2957
|
+
|
2958
|
+
ROSALIND Ay, and twenty such.
|
2959
|
+
|
2960
|
+
ORLANDO What sayest thou?
|
2961
|
+
|
2962
|
+
ROSALIND Are you not good?
|
2963
|
+
|
2964
|
+
ORLANDO I hope so.
|
2965
|
+
|
2966
|
+
ROSALIND Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
|
2967
|
+
Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us.
|
2968
|
+
Give me your hand, Orlando. What do you say, sister?
|
2969
|
+
|
2970
|
+
ORLANDO Pray thee, marry us.
|
2971
|
+
|
2972
|
+
CELIA I cannot say the words.
|
2973
|
+
|
2974
|
+
ROSALIND You must begin, 'Will you, Orlando--'
|
2975
|
+
|
2976
|
+
CELIA Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?
|
2977
|
+
|
2978
|
+
ORLANDO I will.
|
2979
|
+
|
2980
|
+
ROSALIND Ay, but when?
|
2981
|
+
|
2982
|
+
ORLANDO Why now; as fast as she can marry us.
|
2983
|
+
|
2984
|
+
ROSALIND Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'
|
2985
|
+
|
2986
|
+
ORLANDO I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.
|
2987
|
+
|
2988
|
+
ROSALIND I might ask you for your commission; but I do take
|
2989
|
+
thee, Orlando, for my husband: there's a girl goes
|
2990
|
+
before the priest; and certainly a woman's thought
|
2991
|
+
runs before her actions.
|
2992
|
+
|
2993
|
+
ORLANDO So do all thoughts; they are winged.
|
2994
|
+
|
2995
|
+
ROSALIND Now tell me how long you would have her after you
|
2996
|
+
have possessed her.
|
2997
|
+
|
2998
|
+
ORLANDO For ever and a day.
|
2999
|
+
|
3000
|
+
ROSALIND Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando;
|
3001
|
+
men are April when they woo, December when they wed:
|
3002
|
+
maids are May when they are maids, but the sky
|
3003
|
+
changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous
|
3004
|
+
of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,
|
3005
|
+
more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more
|
3006
|
+
new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires
|
3007
|
+
than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana
|
3008
|
+
in the fountain, and I will do that when you are
|
3009
|
+
disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and
|
3010
|
+
that when thou art inclined to sleep.
|
3011
|
+
|
3012
|
+
ORLANDO But will my Rosalind do so?
|
3013
|
+
|
3014
|
+
ROSALIND By my life, she will do as I do.
|
3015
|
+
|
3016
|
+
ORLANDO O, but she is wise.
|
3017
|
+
|
3018
|
+
ROSALIND Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the
|
3019
|
+
wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's
|
3020
|
+
wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and
|
3021
|
+
'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly
|
3022
|
+
with the smoke out at the chimney.
|
3023
|
+
|
3024
|
+
ORLANDO A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say
|
3025
|
+
'Wit, whither wilt?'
|
3026
|
+
|
3027
|
+
ROSALIND Nay, you might keep that cheque for it till you met
|
3028
|
+
your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.
|
3029
|
+
|
3030
|
+
ORLANDO And what wit could wit have to excuse that?
|
3031
|
+
|
3032
|
+
ROSALIND Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall
|
3033
|
+
never take her without her answer, unless you take
|
3034
|
+
her without her tongue. O, that woman that cannot
|
3035
|
+
make her fault her husband's occasion, let her
|
3036
|
+
never nurse her child herself, for she will breed
|
3037
|
+
it like a fool!
|
3038
|
+
|
3039
|
+
ORLANDO For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee.
|
3040
|
+
|
3041
|
+
ROSALIND Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours.
|
3042
|
+
|
3043
|
+
ORLANDO I must attend the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I
|
3044
|
+
will be with thee again.
|
3045
|
+
|
3046
|
+
ROSALIND Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew what you
|
3047
|
+
would prove: my friends told me as much, and I
|
3048
|
+
thought no less: that flattering tongue of yours
|
3049
|
+
won me: 'tis but one cast away, and so, come,
|
3050
|
+
death! Two o'clock is your hour?
|
3051
|
+
|
3052
|
+
ORLANDO Ay, sweet Rosalind.
|
3053
|
+
|
3054
|
+
ROSALIND By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend
|
3055
|
+
me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous,
|
3056
|
+
if you break one jot of your promise or come one
|
3057
|
+
minute behind your hour, I will think you the most
|
3058
|
+
pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover
|
3059
|
+
and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind that
|
3060
|
+
may be chosen out of the gross band of the
|
3061
|
+
unfaithful: therefore beware my censure and keep
|
3062
|
+
your promise.
|
3063
|
+
|
3064
|
+
ORLANDO With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my
|
3065
|
+
Rosalind: so adieu.
|
3066
|
+
|
3067
|
+
ROSALIND Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such
|
3068
|
+
offenders, and let Time try: adieu.
|
3069
|
+
|
3070
|
+
[Exit ORLANDO]
|
3071
|
+
|
3072
|
+
CELIA You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate:
|
3073
|
+
we must have your doublet and hose plucked over your
|
3074
|
+
head, and show the world what the bird hath done to
|
3075
|
+
her own nest.
|
3076
|
+
|
3077
|
+
ROSALIND O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou
|
3078
|
+
didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But
|
3079
|
+
it cannot be sounded: my affection hath an unknown
|
3080
|
+
bottom, like the bay of Portugal.
|
3081
|
+
|
3082
|
+
CELIA Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour
|
3083
|
+
affection in, it runs out.
|
3084
|
+
|
3085
|
+
ROSALIND No, that same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot
|
3086
|
+
of thought, conceived of spleen and born of madness,
|
3087
|
+
that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes
|
3088
|
+
because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I
|
3089
|
+
am in love. I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out
|
3090
|
+
of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a shadow and
|
3091
|
+
sigh till he come.
|
3092
|
+
|
3093
|
+
CELIA And I'll sleep.
|
3094
|
+
|
3095
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
3096
|
+
|
3097
|
+
|
3098
|
+
|
3099
|
+
|
3100
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
3101
|
+
|
3102
|
+
|
3103
|
+
ACT IV
|
3104
|
+
|
3105
|
+
|
3106
|
+
|
3107
|
+
SCENE II The forest.
|
3108
|
+
|
3109
|
+
|
3110
|
+
[Enter JAQUES, Lords, and Foresters]
|
3111
|
+
|
3112
|
+
JAQUES Which is he that killed the deer?
|
3113
|
+
|
3114
|
+
A Lord Sir, it was I.
|
3115
|
+
|
3116
|
+
JAQUES Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman
|
3117
|
+
conqueror; and it would do well to set the deer's
|
3118
|
+
horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have
|
3119
|
+
you no song, forester, for this purpose?
|
3120
|
+
|
3121
|
+
Forester Yes, sir.
|
3122
|
+
|
3123
|
+
JAQUES Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it
|
3124
|
+
make noise enough.
|
3125
|
+
|
3126
|
+
SONG.
|
3127
|
+
Forester What shall he have that kill'd the deer?
|
3128
|
+
His leather skin and horns to wear.
|
3129
|
+
Then sing him home;
|
3130
|
+
|
3131
|
+
[The rest shall bear this burden]
|
3132
|
+
|
3133
|
+
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;
|
3134
|
+
It was a crest ere thou wast born:
|
3135
|
+
Thy father's father wore it,
|
3136
|
+
And thy father bore it:
|
3137
|
+
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
|
3138
|
+
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
|
3139
|
+
|
3140
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
3141
|
+
|
3142
|
+
|
3143
|
+
|
3144
|
+
|
3145
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
3146
|
+
|
3147
|
+
|
3148
|
+
ACT IV
|
3149
|
+
|
3150
|
+
|
3151
|
+
|
3152
|
+
SCENE III The forest.
|
3153
|
+
|
3154
|
+
|
3155
|
+
[Enter ROSALIND and CELIA]
|
3156
|
+
|
3157
|
+
ROSALIND How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? and
|
3158
|
+
here much Orlando!
|
3159
|
+
|
3160
|
+
CELIA I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he
|
3161
|
+
hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to
|
3162
|
+
sleep. Look, who comes here.
|
3163
|
+
|
3164
|
+
[Enter SILVIUS]
|
3165
|
+
|
3166
|
+
SILVIUS My errand is to you, fair youth;
|
3167
|
+
My gentle Phebe bid me give you this:
|
3168
|
+
I know not the contents; but, as I guess
|
3169
|
+
By the stern brow and waspish action
|
3170
|
+
Which she did use as she was writing of it,
|
3171
|
+
It bears an angry tenor: pardon me:
|
3172
|
+
I am but as a guiltless messenger.
|
3173
|
+
|
3174
|
+
ROSALIND Patience herself would startle at this letter
|
3175
|
+
And play the swaggerer; bear this, bear all:
|
3176
|
+
She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
|
3177
|
+
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
|
3178
|
+
Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will!
|
3179
|
+
Her love is not the hare that I do hunt:
|
3180
|
+
Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,
|
3181
|
+
This is a letter of your own device.
|
3182
|
+
|
3183
|
+
SILVIUS No, I protest, I know not the contents:
|
3184
|
+
Phebe did write it.
|
3185
|
+
|
3186
|
+
ROSALIND Come, come, you are a fool
|
3187
|
+
And turn'd into the extremity of love.
|
3188
|
+
I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand.
|
3189
|
+
A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think
|
3190
|
+
That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands:
|
3191
|
+
She has a huswife's hand; but that's no matter:
|
3192
|
+
I say she never did invent this letter;
|
3193
|
+
This is a man's invention and his hand.
|
3194
|
+
|
3195
|
+
SILVIUS Sure, it is hers.
|
3196
|
+
|
3197
|
+
ROSALIND Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style.
|
3198
|
+
A style for-challengers; why, she defies me,
|
3199
|
+
Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain
|
3200
|
+
Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention
|
3201
|
+
Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect
|
3202
|
+
Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?
|
3203
|
+
|
3204
|
+
SILVIUS So please you, for I never heard it yet;
|
3205
|
+
Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty.
|
3206
|
+
|
3207
|
+
ROSALIND She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes.
|
3208
|
+
|
3209
|
+
[Reads]
|
3210
|
+
|
3211
|
+
Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,
|
3212
|
+
That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?
|
3213
|
+
Can a woman rail thus?
|
3214
|
+
|
3215
|
+
SILVIUS Call you this railing?
|
3216
|
+
|
3217
|
+
ROSALIND [Reads]
|
3218
|
+
|
3219
|
+
Why, thy godhead laid apart,
|
3220
|
+
Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?
|
3221
|
+
Did you ever hear such railing?
|
3222
|
+
Whiles the eye of man did woo me,
|
3223
|
+
That could do no vengeance to me.
|
3224
|
+
Meaning me a beast.
|
3225
|
+
If the scorn of your bright eyne
|
3226
|
+
Have power to raise such love in mine,
|
3227
|
+
Alack, in me what strange effect
|
3228
|
+
Would they work in mild aspect!
|
3229
|
+
Whiles you chid me, I did love;
|
3230
|
+
How then might your prayers move!
|
3231
|
+
He that brings this love to thee
|
3232
|
+
Little knows this love in me:
|
3233
|
+
And by him seal up thy mind;
|
3234
|
+
Whether that thy youth and kind
|
3235
|
+
Will the faithful offer take
|
3236
|
+
Of me and all that I can make;
|
3237
|
+
Or else by him my love deny,
|
3238
|
+
And then I'll study how to die.
|
3239
|
+
|
3240
|
+
SILVIUS Call you this chiding?
|
3241
|
+
|
3242
|
+
CELIA Alas, poor shepherd!
|
3243
|
+
|
3244
|
+
ROSALIND Do you pity him? no, he deserves no pity. Wilt
|
3245
|
+
thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an
|
3246
|
+
instrument and play false strains upon thee! not to
|
3247
|
+
be endured! Well, go your way to her, for I see
|
3248
|
+
love hath made thee a tame snake, and say this to
|
3249
|
+
her: that if she love me, I charge her to love
|
3250
|
+
thee; if she will not, I will never have her unless
|
3251
|
+
thou entreat for her. If you be a true lover,
|
3252
|
+
hence, and not a word; for here comes more company.
|
3253
|
+
|
3254
|
+
[Exit SILVIUS]
|
3255
|
+
|
3256
|
+
[Enter OLIVER]
|
3257
|
+
|
3258
|
+
OLIVER Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, if you know,
|
3259
|
+
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
|
3260
|
+
A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees?
|
3261
|
+
|
3262
|
+
CELIA West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom:
|
3263
|
+
The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream
|
3264
|
+
Left on your right hand brings you to the place.
|
3265
|
+
But at this hour the house doth keep itself;
|
3266
|
+
There's none within.
|
3267
|
+
|
3268
|
+
OLIVER If that an eye may profit by a tongue,
|
3269
|
+
Then should I know you by description;
|
3270
|
+
Such garments and such years: 'The boy is fair,
|
3271
|
+
Of female favour, and bestows himself
|
3272
|
+
Like a ripe sister: the woman low
|
3273
|
+
And browner than her brother.' Are not you
|
3274
|
+
The owner of the house I did inquire for?
|
3275
|
+
|
3276
|
+
CELIA It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are.
|
3277
|
+
|
3278
|
+
OLIVER Orlando doth commend him to you both,
|
3279
|
+
And to that youth he calls his Rosalind
|
3280
|
+
He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?
|
3281
|
+
|
3282
|
+
ROSALIND I am: what must we understand by this?
|
3283
|
+
|
3284
|
+
OLIVER Some of my shame; if you will know of me
|
3285
|
+
What man I am, and how, and why, and where
|
3286
|
+
This handkercher was stain'd.
|
3287
|
+
|
3288
|
+
CELIA I pray you, tell it.
|
3289
|
+
|
3290
|
+
OLIVER When last the young Orlando parted from you
|
3291
|
+
He left a promise to return again
|
3292
|
+
Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,
|
3293
|
+
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
|
3294
|
+
Lo, what befell! he threw his eye aside,
|
3295
|
+
And mark what object did present itself:
|
3296
|
+
Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age
|
3297
|
+
And high top bald with dry antiquity,
|
3298
|
+
A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,
|
3299
|
+
Lay sleeping on his back: about his neck
|
3300
|
+
A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,
|
3301
|
+
Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd
|
3302
|
+
The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,
|
3303
|
+
Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
|
3304
|
+
And with indented glides did slip away
|
3305
|
+
Into a bush: under which bush's shade
|
3306
|
+
A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,
|
3307
|
+
Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,
|
3308
|
+
When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis
|
3309
|
+
The royal disposition of that beast
|
3310
|
+
To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead:
|
3311
|
+
This seen, Orlando did approach the man
|
3312
|
+
And found it was his brother, his elder brother.
|
3313
|
+
|
3314
|
+
CELIA O, I have heard him speak of that same brother;
|
3315
|
+
And he did render him the most unnatural
|
3316
|
+
That lived amongst men.
|
3317
|
+
|
3318
|
+
OLIVER And well he might so do,
|
3319
|
+
For well I know he was unnatural.
|
3320
|
+
|
3321
|
+
ROSALIND But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,
|
3322
|
+
Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness?
|
3323
|
+
|
3324
|
+
OLIVER Twice did he turn his back and purposed so;
|
3325
|
+
But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,
|
3326
|
+
And nature, stronger than his just occasion,
|
3327
|
+
Made him give battle to the lioness,
|
3328
|
+
Who quickly fell before him: in which hurtling
|
3329
|
+
From miserable slumber I awaked.
|
3330
|
+
|
3331
|
+
CELIA Are you his brother?
|
3332
|
+
|
3333
|
+
ROSALIND Wast you he rescued?
|
3334
|
+
|
3335
|
+
CELIA Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?
|
3336
|
+
|
3337
|
+
OLIVER 'Twas I; but 'tis not I I do not shame
|
3338
|
+
To tell you what I was, since my conversion
|
3339
|
+
So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.
|
3340
|
+
|
3341
|
+
ROSALIND But, for the bloody napkin?
|
3342
|
+
|
3343
|
+
OLIVER By and by.
|
3344
|
+
When from the first to last betwixt us two
|
3345
|
+
Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed,
|
3346
|
+
As how I came into that desert place:--
|
3347
|
+
In brief, he led me to the gentle duke,
|
3348
|
+
Who gave me fresh array and entertainment,
|
3349
|
+
Committing me unto my brother's love;
|
3350
|
+
Who led me instantly unto his cave,
|
3351
|
+
There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm
|
3352
|
+
The lioness had torn some flesh away,
|
3353
|
+
Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted
|
3354
|
+
And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind.
|
3355
|
+
Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound;
|
3356
|
+
And, after some small space, being strong at heart,
|
3357
|
+
He sent me hither, stranger as I am,
|
3358
|
+
To tell this story, that you might excuse
|
3359
|
+
His broken promise, and to give this napkin
|
3360
|
+
Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth
|
3361
|
+
That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.
|
3362
|
+
|
3363
|
+
[ROSALIND swoons]
|
3364
|
+
|
3365
|
+
CELIA Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede!
|
3366
|
+
|
3367
|
+
OLIVER Many will swoon when they do look on blood.
|
3368
|
+
|
3369
|
+
CELIA There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede!
|
3370
|
+
|
3371
|
+
OLIVER Look, he recovers.
|
3372
|
+
|
3373
|
+
ROSALIND I would I were at home.
|
3374
|
+
|
3375
|
+
CELIA We'll lead you thither.
|
3376
|
+
I pray you, will you take him by the arm?
|
3377
|
+
|
3378
|
+
OLIVER Be of good cheer, youth: you a man! you lack a
|
3379
|
+
man's heart.
|
3380
|
+
|
3381
|
+
ROSALIND I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would
|
3382
|
+
think this was well counterfeited! I pray you, tell
|
3383
|
+
your brother how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho!
|
3384
|
+
|
3385
|
+
OLIVER This was not counterfeit: there is too great
|
3386
|
+
testimony in your complexion that it was a passion
|
3387
|
+
of earnest.
|
3388
|
+
|
3389
|
+
ROSALIND Counterfeit, I assure you.
|
3390
|
+
|
3391
|
+
OLIVER Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man.
|
3392
|
+
|
3393
|
+
ROSALIND So I do: but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by right.
|
3394
|
+
|
3395
|
+
CELIA Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw
|
3396
|
+
homewards. Good sir, go with us.
|
3397
|
+
|
3398
|
+
OLIVER That will I, for I must bear answer back
|
3399
|
+
How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.
|
3400
|
+
|
3401
|
+
ROSALIND I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend
|
3402
|
+
my counterfeiting to him. Will you go?
|
3403
|
+
|
3404
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
3405
|
+
|
3406
|
+
|
3407
|
+
|
3408
|
+
|
3409
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
3410
|
+
|
3411
|
+
|
3412
|
+
ACT V
|
3413
|
+
|
3414
|
+
|
3415
|
+
|
3416
|
+
SCENE I The forest.
|
3417
|
+
|
3418
|
+
|
3419
|
+
[Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]
|
3420
|
+
|
3421
|
+
TOUCHSTONE We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.
|
3422
|
+
|
3423
|
+
AUDREY Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old
|
3424
|
+
gentleman's saying.
|
3425
|
+
|
3426
|
+
TOUCHSTONE A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile
|
3427
|
+
Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the
|
3428
|
+
forest lays claim to you.
|
3429
|
+
|
3430
|
+
AUDREY Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in
|
3431
|
+
the world: here comes the man you mean.
|
3432
|
+
|
3433
|
+
TOUCHSTONE It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my
|
3434
|
+
troth, we that have good wits have much to answer
|
3435
|
+
for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold.
|
3436
|
+
|
3437
|
+
[Enter WILLIAM]
|
3438
|
+
|
3439
|
+
WILLIAM Good even, Audrey.
|
3440
|
+
|
3441
|
+
AUDREY God ye good even, William.
|
3442
|
+
|
3443
|
+
WILLIAM And good even to you, sir.
|
3444
|
+
|
3445
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy
|
3446
|
+
head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend?
|
3447
|
+
|
3448
|
+
WILLIAM Five and twenty, sir.
|
3449
|
+
|
3450
|
+
TOUCHSTONE A ripe age. Is thy name William?
|
3451
|
+
|
3452
|
+
WILLIAM William, sir.
|
3453
|
+
|
3454
|
+
TOUCHSTONE A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here?
|
3455
|
+
|
3456
|
+
WILLIAM Ay, sir, I thank God.
|
3457
|
+
|
3458
|
+
TOUCHSTONE 'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich?
|
3459
|
+
|
3460
|
+
WILLIAM Faith, sir, so so.
|
3461
|
+
|
3462
|
+
TOUCHSTONE 'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and
|
3463
|
+
yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise?
|
3464
|
+
|
3465
|
+
WILLIAM Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.
|
3466
|
+
|
3467
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying,
|
3468
|
+
'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man
|
3469
|
+
knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen
|
3470
|
+
philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape,
|
3471
|
+
would open his lips when he put it into his mouth;
|
3472
|
+
meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and
|
3473
|
+
lips to open. You do love this maid?
|
3474
|
+
|
3475
|
+
WILLIAM I do, sir.
|
3476
|
+
|
3477
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Give me your hand. Art thou learned?
|
3478
|
+
|
3479
|
+
WILLIAM No, sir.
|
3480
|
+
|
3481
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it
|
3482
|
+
is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out
|
3483
|
+
of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty
|
3484
|
+
the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse
|
3485
|
+
is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he.
|
3486
|
+
|
3487
|
+
WILLIAM Which he, sir?
|
3488
|
+
|
3489
|
+
TOUCHSTONE He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you
|
3490
|
+
clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the
|
3491
|
+
society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this
|
3492
|
+
female,--which in the common is woman; which
|
3493
|
+
together is, abandon the society of this female, or,
|
3494
|
+
clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better
|
3495
|
+
understanding, diest; or, to wit I kill thee, make
|
3496
|
+
thee away, translate thy life into death, thy
|
3497
|
+
liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with
|
3498
|
+
thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy
|
3499
|
+
with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with
|
3500
|
+
policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways:
|
3501
|
+
therefore tremble and depart.
|
3502
|
+
|
3503
|
+
AUDREY Do, good William.
|
3504
|
+
|
3505
|
+
WILLIAM God rest you merry, sir.
|
3506
|
+
|
3507
|
+
[Exit]
|
3508
|
+
|
3509
|
+
[Enter CORIN]
|
3510
|
+
|
3511
|
+
CORIN Our master and mistress seeks you; come, away, away!
|
3512
|
+
|
3513
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend.
|
3514
|
+
|
3515
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
3516
|
+
|
3517
|
+
|
3518
|
+
|
3519
|
+
|
3520
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
3521
|
+
|
3522
|
+
|
3523
|
+
ACT V
|
3524
|
+
|
3525
|
+
|
3526
|
+
|
3527
|
+
SCENE II The forest.
|
3528
|
+
|
3529
|
+
|
3530
|
+
[Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER]
|
3531
|
+
|
3532
|
+
ORLANDO Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you
|
3533
|
+
should like her? that but seeing you should love
|
3534
|
+
her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should
|
3535
|
+
grant? and will you persever to enjoy her?
|
3536
|
+
|
3537
|
+
OLIVER Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the
|
3538
|
+
poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden
|
3539
|
+
wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me,
|
3540
|
+
I love Aliena; say with her that she loves me;
|
3541
|
+
consent with both that we may enjoy each other: it
|
3542
|
+
shall be to your good; for my father's house and all
|
3543
|
+
the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I
|
3544
|
+
estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd.
|
3545
|
+
|
3546
|
+
ORLANDO You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow:
|
3547
|
+
thither will I invite the duke and all's contented
|
3548
|
+
followers. Go you and prepare Aliena; for look
|
3549
|
+
you, here comes my Rosalind.
|
3550
|
+
|
3551
|
+
[Enter ROSALIND]
|
3552
|
+
|
3553
|
+
ROSALIND God save you, brother.
|
3554
|
+
|
3555
|
+
OLIVER And you, fair sister.
|
3556
|
+
|
3557
|
+
[Exit]
|
3558
|
+
|
3559
|
+
ROSALIND O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee
|
3560
|
+
wear thy heart in a scarf!
|
3561
|
+
|
3562
|
+
ORLANDO It is my arm.
|
3563
|
+
|
3564
|
+
ROSALIND I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws
|
3565
|
+
of a lion.
|
3566
|
+
|
3567
|
+
ORLANDO Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
|
3568
|
+
|
3569
|
+
ROSALIND Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to
|
3570
|
+
swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?
|
3571
|
+
|
3572
|
+
ORLANDO Ay, and greater wonders than that.
|
3573
|
+
|
3574
|
+
ROSALIND O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was
|
3575
|
+
never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams
|
3576
|
+
and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and
|
3577
|
+
overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner
|
3578
|
+
met but they looked, no sooner looked but they
|
3579
|
+
loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner
|
3580
|
+
sighed but they asked one another the reason, no
|
3581
|
+
sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;
|
3582
|
+
and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs
|
3583
|
+
to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or
|
3584
|
+
else be incontinent before marriage: they are in
|
3585
|
+
the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs
|
3586
|
+
cannot part them.
|
3587
|
+
|
3588
|
+
ORLANDO They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the
|
3589
|
+
duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it
|
3590
|
+
is to look into happiness through another man's
|
3591
|
+
eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at
|
3592
|
+
the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall
|
3593
|
+
think my brother happy in having what he wishes for.
|
3594
|
+
|
3595
|
+
ROSALIND Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
|
3596
|
+
|
3597
|
+
ORLANDO I can live no longer by thinking.
|
3598
|
+
|
3599
|
+
ROSALIND I will weary you then no longer with idle talking.
|
3600
|
+
Know of me then, for now I speak to some purpose,
|
3601
|
+
that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit: I
|
3602
|
+
speak not this that you should bear a good opinion
|
3603
|
+
of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are;
|
3604
|
+
neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in
|
3605
|
+
some little measure draw a belief from you, to do
|
3606
|
+
yourself good and not to grace me. Believe then, if
|
3607
|
+
you please, that I can do strange things: I have,
|
3608
|
+
since I was three year old, conversed with a
|
3609
|
+
magician, most profound in his art and yet not
|
3610
|
+
damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart
|
3611
|
+
as your gesture cries it out, when your brother
|
3612
|
+
marries Aliena, shall you marry her: I know into
|
3613
|
+
what straits of fortune she is driven; and it is
|
3614
|
+
not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient
|
3615
|
+
to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human
|
3616
|
+
as she is and without any danger.
|
3617
|
+
|
3618
|
+
ORLANDO Speakest thou in sober meanings?
|
3619
|
+
|
3620
|
+
ROSALIND By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I
|
3621
|
+
say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your
|
3622
|
+
best array: bid your friends; for if you will be
|
3623
|
+
married to-morrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.
|
3624
|
+
|
3625
|
+
[Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE]
|
3626
|
+
|
3627
|
+
Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
|
3628
|
+
|
3629
|
+
PHEBE Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,
|
3630
|
+
To show the letter that I writ to you.
|
3631
|
+
|
3632
|
+
ROSALIND I care not if I have: it is my study
|
3633
|
+
To seem despiteful and ungentle to you:
|
3634
|
+
You are there followed by a faithful shepherd;
|
3635
|
+
Look upon him, love him; he worships you.
|
3636
|
+
|
3637
|
+
PHEBE Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.
|
3638
|
+
|
3639
|
+
SILVIUS It is to be all made of sighs and tears;
|
3640
|
+
And so am I for Phebe.
|
3641
|
+
|
3642
|
+
PHEBE And I for Ganymede.
|
3643
|
+
|
3644
|
+
ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
|
3645
|
+
|
3646
|
+
ROSALIND And I for no woman.
|
3647
|
+
|
3648
|
+
SILVIUS It is to be all made of faith and service;
|
3649
|
+
And so am I for Phebe.
|
3650
|
+
|
3651
|
+
PHEBE And I for Ganymede.
|
3652
|
+
|
3653
|
+
ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
|
3654
|
+
|
3655
|
+
ROSALIND And I for no woman.
|
3656
|
+
|
3657
|
+
SILVIUS It is to be all made of fantasy,
|
3658
|
+
All made of passion and all made of wishes,
|
3659
|
+
All adoration, duty, and observance,
|
3660
|
+
All humbleness, all patience and impatience,
|
3661
|
+
All purity, all trial, all observance;
|
3662
|
+
And so am I for Phebe.
|
3663
|
+
|
3664
|
+
PHEBE And so am I for Ganymede.
|
3665
|
+
|
3666
|
+
ORLANDO And so am I for Rosalind.
|
3667
|
+
|
3668
|
+
ROSALIND And so am I for no woman.
|
3669
|
+
|
3670
|
+
PHEBE If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
|
3671
|
+
|
3672
|
+
SILVIUS If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
|
3673
|
+
|
3674
|
+
ORLANDO If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
|
3675
|
+
|
3676
|
+
ROSALIND Who do you speak to, 'Why blame you me to love you?'
|
3677
|
+
|
3678
|
+
ORLANDO To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.
|
3679
|
+
|
3680
|
+
ROSALIND Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling
|
3681
|
+
of Irish wolves against the moon.
|
3682
|
+
|
3683
|
+
[To SILVIUS]
|
3684
|
+
|
3685
|
+
I will help you, if I can:
|
3686
|
+
|
3687
|
+
[To PHEBE]
|
3688
|
+
|
3689
|
+
I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together.
|
3690
|
+
|
3691
|
+
[To PHEBE]
|
3692
|
+
|
3693
|
+
I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be
|
3694
|
+
married to-morrow:
|
3695
|
+
|
3696
|
+
[To ORLANDO]
|
3697
|
+
|
3698
|
+
I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you
|
3699
|
+
shall be married to-morrow:
|
3700
|
+
|
3701
|
+
[To SILVIUS]
|
3702
|
+
|
3703
|
+
I will content you, if what pleases you contents
|
3704
|
+
you, and you shall be married to-morrow.
|
3705
|
+
|
3706
|
+
[To ORLANDO]
|
3707
|
+
|
3708
|
+
As you love Rosalind, meet:
|
3709
|
+
|
3710
|
+
[To SILVIUS]
|
3711
|
+
|
3712
|
+
as you love Phebe, meet: and as I love no woman,
|
3713
|
+
I'll meet. So fare you well: I have left you commands.
|
3714
|
+
|
3715
|
+
SILVIUS I'll not fail, if I live.
|
3716
|
+
|
3717
|
+
PHEBE Nor I.
|
3718
|
+
|
3719
|
+
ORLANDO Nor I.
|
3720
|
+
|
3721
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
3722
|
+
|
3723
|
+
|
3724
|
+
|
3725
|
+
|
3726
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
3727
|
+
|
3728
|
+
|
3729
|
+
ACT V
|
3730
|
+
|
3731
|
+
|
3732
|
+
|
3733
|
+
SCENE III The forest.
|
3734
|
+
|
3735
|
+
|
3736
|
+
[Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]
|
3737
|
+
|
3738
|
+
TOUCHSTONE To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will
|
3739
|
+
we be married.
|
3740
|
+
|
3741
|
+
AUDREY I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is
|
3742
|
+
no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the
|
3743
|
+
world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages.
|
3744
|
+
|
3745
|
+
[Enter two Pages]
|
3746
|
+
|
3747
|
+
First Page Well met, honest gentleman.
|
3748
|
+
|
3749
|
+
TOUCHSTONE By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.
|
3750
|
+
|
3751
|
+
Second Page We are for you: sit i' the middle.
|
3752
|
+
|
3753
|
+
First Page Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or
|
3754
|
+
spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only
|
3755
|
+
prologues to a bad voice?
|
3756
|
+
|
3757
|
+
Second Page I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two
|
3758
|
+
gipsies on a horse.
|
3759
|
+
|
3760
|
+
SONG.
|
3761
|
+
It was a lover and his lass,
|
3762
|
+
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
|
3763
|
+
That o'er the green corn-field did pass
|
3764
|
+
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
|
3765
|
+
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:
|
3766
|
+
Sweet lovers love the spring.
|
3767
|
+
|
3768
|
+
Between the acres of the rye,
|
3769
|
+
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino
|
3770
|
+
These pretty country folks would lie,
|
3771
|
+
In spring time, &c.
|
3772
|
+
|
3773
|
+
This carol they began that hour,
|
3774
|
+
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
|
3775
|
+
How that a life was but a flower
|
3776
|
+
In spring time, &c.
|
3777
|
+
|
3778
|
+
And therefore take the present time,
|
3779
|
+
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;
|
3780
|
+
For love is crowned with the prime
|
3781
|
+
In spring time, &c.
|
3782
|
+
|
3783
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great
|
3784
|
+
matter in the ditty, yet the note was very
|
3785
|
+
untuneable.
|
3786
|
+
|
3787
|
+
First Page You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time.
|
3788
|
+
|
3789
|
+
TOUCHSTONE By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear
|
3790
|
+
such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend
|
3791
|
+
your voices! Come, Audrey.
|
3792
|
+
|
3793
|
+
[Exeunt]
|
3794
|
+
|
3795
|
+
|
3796
|
+
|
3797
|
+
|
3798
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
3799
|
+
|
3800
|
+
|
3801
|
+
ACT V
|
3802
|
+
|
3803
|
+
|
3804
|
+
|
3805
|
+
SCENE IV The forest.
|
3806
|
+
|
3807
|
+
|
3808
|
+
[Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER,
|
3809
|
+
and CELIA]
|
3810
|
+
|
3811
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
|
3812
|
+
Can do all this that he hath promised?
|
3813
|
+
|
3814
|
+
ORLANDO I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not;
|
3815
|
+
As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.
|
3816
|
+
|
3817
|
+
[Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE]
|
3818
|
+
|
3819
|
+
ROSALIND Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged:
|
3820
|
+
You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,
|
3821
|
+
You will bestow her on Orlando here?
|
3822
|
+
|
3823
|
+
DUKE SENIOR That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.
|
3824
|
+
|
3825
|
+
ROSALIND And you say, you will have her, when I bring her?
|
3826
|
+
|
3827
|
+
ORLANDO That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.
|
3828
|
+
|
3829
|
+
ROSALIND You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing?
|
3830
|
+
|
3831
|
+
PHEBE That will I, should I die the hour after.
|
3832
|
+
|
3833
|
+
ROSALIND But if you do refuse to marry me,
|
3834
|
+
You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?
|
3835
|
+
|
3836
|
+
PHEBE So is the bargain.
|
3837
|
+
|
3838
|
+
ROSALIND You say, that you'll have Phebe, if she will?
|
3839
|
+
|
3840
|
+
SILVIUS Though to have her and death were both one thing.
|
3841
|
+
|
3842
|
+
ROSALIND I have promised to make all this matter even.
|
3843
|
+
Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter;
|
3844
|
+
You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter:
|
3845
|
+
Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,
|
3846
|
+
Or else refusing me, to wed this shepherd:
|
3847
|
+
Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her.
|
3848
|
+
If she refuse me: and from hence I go,
|
3849
|
+
To make these doubts all even.
|
3850
|
+
|
3851
|
+
[Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA]
|
3852
|
+
|
3853
|
+
DUKE SENIOR I do remember in this shepherd boy
|
3854
|
+
Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.
|
3855
|
+
|
3856
|
+
ORLANDO My lord, the first time that I ever saw him
|
3857
|
+
Methought he was a brother to your daughter:
|
3858
|
+
But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,
|
3859
|
+
And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
|
3860
|
+
Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
|
3861
|
+
Whom he reports to be a great magician,
|
3862
|
+
Obscured in the circle of this forest.
|
3863
|
+
|
3864
|
+
[Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]
|
3865
|
+
|
3866
|
+
JAQUES There is, sure, another flood toward, and these
|
3867
|
+
couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of
|
3868
|
+
very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
|
3869
|
+
|
3870
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Salutation and greeting to you all!
|
3871
|
+
|
3872
|
+
JAQUES Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the
|
3873
|
+
motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in
|
3874
|
+
the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears.
|
3875
|
+
|
3876
|
+
TOUCHSTONE If any man doubt that, let him put me to my
|
3877
|
+
purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flattered
|
3878
|
+
a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth
|
3879
|
+
with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have
|
3880
|
+
had four quarrels, and like to have fought one.
|
3881
|
+
|
3882
|
+
JAQUES And how was that ta'en up?
|
3883
|
+
|
3884
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the
|
3885
|
+
seventh cause.
|
3886
|
+
|
3887
|
+
JAQUES How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow.
|
3888
|
+
|
3889
|
+
DUKE SENIOR I like him very well.
|
3890
|
+
|
3891
|
+
TOUCHSTONE God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I
|
3892
|
+
press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country
|
3893
|
+
copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as
|
3894
|
+
marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin,
|
3895
|
+
sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor
|
3896
|
+
humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else
|
3897
|
+
will: rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a
|
3898
|
+
poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
|
3899
|
+
|
3900
|
+
DUKE SENIOR By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.
|
3901
|
+
|
3902
|
+
TOUCHSTONE According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases.
|
3903
|
+
|
3904
|
+
JAQUES But, for the seventh cause; how did you find the
|
3905
|
+
quarrel on the seventh cause?
|
3906
|
+
|
3907
|
+
TOUCHSTONE Upon a lie seven times removed:--bear your body more
|
3908
|
+
seeming, Audrey:--as thus, sir. I did dislike the
|
3909
|
+
cut of a certain courtier's beard: he sent me word,
|
3910
|
+
if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the
|
3911
|
+
mind it was: this is called the Retort Courteous.
|
3912
|
+
If I sent him word again 'it was not well cut,' he
|
3913
|
+
would send me word, he cut it to please himself:
|
3914
|
+
this is called the Quip Modest. If again 'it was
|
3915
|
+
not well cut,' he disabled my judgment: this is
|
3916
|
+
called the Reply Churlish. If again 'it was not
|
3917
|
+
well cut,' he would answer, I spake not true: this
|
3918
|
+
is called the Reproof Valiant. If again 'it was not
|
3919
|
+
well cut,' he would say I lied: this is called the
|
3920
|
+
Counter-cheque Quarrelsome: and so to the Lie
|
3921
|
+
Circumstantial and the Lie Direct.
|
3922
|
+
|
3923
|
+
JAQUES And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?
|
3924
|
+
|
3925
|
+
TOUCHSTONE I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial,
|
3926
|
+
nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we
|
3927
|
+
measured swords and parted.
|
3928
|
+
|
3929
|
+
JAQUES Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?
|
3930
|
+
|
3931
|
+
TOUCHSTONE O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have
|
3932
|
+
books for good manners: I will name you the degrees.
|
3933
|
+
The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the
|
3934
|
+
Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the
|
3935
|
+
fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the
|
3936
|
+
Countercheque Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with
|
3937
|
+
Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All
|
3938
|
+
these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may
|
3939
|
+
avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven
|
3940
|
+
justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the
|
3941
|
+
parties were met themselves, one of them thought but
|
3942
|
+
of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and
|
3943
|
+
they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the
|
3944
|
+
only peacemaker; much virtue in If.
|
3945
|
+
|
3946
|
+
JAQUES Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at
|
3947
|
+
any thing and yet a fool.
|
3948
|
+
|
3949
|
+
DUKE SENIOR He uses his folly like a stalking-horse and under
|
3950
|
+
the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
|
3951
|
+
|
3952
|
+
[Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND, and CELIA]
|
3953
|
+
|
3954
|
+
[Still Music]
|
3955
|
+
|
3956
|
+
HYMEN Then is there mirth in heaven,
|
3957
|
+
When earthly things made even
|
3958
|
+
Atone together.
|
3959
|
+
Good duke, receive thy daughter
|
3960
|
+
Hymen from heaven brought her,
|
3961
|
+
Yea, brought her hither,
|
3962
|
+
That thou mightst join her hand with his
|
3963
|
+
Whose heart within his bosom is.
|
3964
|
+
|
3965
|
+
ROSALIND [To DUKE SENIOR] To you I give myself, for I am yours.
|
3966
|
+
|
3967
|
+
[To ORLANDO]
|
3968
|
+
|
3969
|
+
To you I give myself, for I am yours.
|
3970
|
+
|
3971
|
+
DUKE SENIOR If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.
|
3972
|
+
|
3973
|
+
ORLANDO If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.
|
3974
|
+
|
3975
|
+
PHEBE If sight and shape be true,
|
3976
|
+
Why then, my love adieu!
|
3977
|
+
|
3978
|
+
ROSALIND I'll have no father, if you be not he:
|
3979
|
+
I'll have no husband, if you be not he:
|
3980
|
+
Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.
|
3981
|
+
|
3982
|
+
HYMEN Peace, ho! I bar confusion:
|
3983
|
+
'Tis I must make conclusion
|
3984
|
+
Of these most strange events:
|
3985
|
+
Here's eight that must take hands
|
3986
|
+
To join in Hymen's bands,
|
3987
|
+
If truth holds true contents.
|
3988
|
+
You and you no cross shall part:
|
3989
|
+
You and you are heart in heart
|
3990
|
+
You to his love must accord,
|
3991
|
+
Or have a woman to your lord:
|
3992
|
+
You and you are sure together,
|
3993
|
+
As the winter to foul weather.
|
3994
|
+
Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,
|
3995
|
+
Feed yourselves with questioning;
|
3996
|
+
That reason wonder may diminish,
|
3997
|
+
How thus we met, and these things finish.
|
3998
|
+
|
3999
|
+
SONG.
|
4000
|
+
Wedding is great Juno's crown:
|
4001
|
+
O blessed bond of board and bed!
|
4002
|
+
'Tis Hymen peoples every town;
|
4003
|
+
High wedlock then be honoured:
|
4004
|
+
Honour, high honour and renown,
|
4005
|
+
To Hymen, god of every town!
|
4006
|
+
|
4007
|
+
DUKE SENIOR O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me!
|
4008
|
+
Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree.
|
4009
|
+
|
4010
|
+
PHEBE I will not eat my word, now thou art mine;
|
4011
|
+
Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.
|
4012
|
+
|
4013
|
+
[Enter JAQUES DE BOYS]
|
4014
|
+
|
4015
|
+
JAQUES DE BOYS Let me have audience for a word or two:
|
4016
|
+
I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,
|
4017
|
+
That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.
|
4018
|
+
Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
|
4019
|
+
Men of great worth resorted to this forest,
|
4020
|
+
Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot,
|
4021
|
+
In his own conduct, purposely to take
|
4022
|
+
His brother here and put him to the sword:
|
4023
|
+
And to the skirts of this wild wood he came;
|
4024
|
+
Where meeting with an old religious man,
|
4025
|
+
After some question with him, was converted
|
4026
|
+
Both from his enterprise and from the world,
|
4027
|
+
His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,
|
4028
|
+
And all their lands restored to them again
|
4029
|
+
That were with him exiled. This to be true,
|
4030
|
+
I do engage my life.
|
4031
|
+
|
4032
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Welcome, young man;
|
4033
|
+
Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding:
|
4034
|
+
To one his lands withheld, and to the other
|
4035
|
+
A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
|
4036
|
+
First, in this forest, let us do those ends
|
4037
|
+
That here were well begun and well begot:
|
4038
|
+
And after, every of this happy number
|
4039
|
+
That have endured shrewd days and nights with us
|
4040
|
+
Shall share the good of our returned fortune,
|
4041
|
+
According to the measure of their states.
|
4042
|
+
Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity
|
4043
|
+
And fall into our rustic revelry.
|
4044
|
+
Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all,
|
4045
|
+
With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall.
|
4046
|
+
|
4047
|
+
JAQUES Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,
|
4048
|
+
The duke hath put on a religious life
|
4049
|
+
And thrown into neglect the pompous court?
|
4050
|
+
|
4051
|
+
JAQUES DE BOYS He hath.
|
4052
|
+
|
4053
|
+
JAQUES To him will I : out of these convertites
|
4054
|
+
There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.
|
4055
|
+
|
4056
|
+
[To DUKE SENIOR]
|
4057
|
+
|
4058
|
+
You to your former honour I bequeath;
|
4059
|
+
Your patience and your virtue well deserves it:
|
4060
|
+
|
4061
|
+
[To ORLANDO]
|
4062
|
+
|
4063
|
+
You to a love that your true faith doth merit:
|
4064
|
+
|
4065
|
+
[To OLIVER]
|
4066
|
+
|
4067
|
+
You to your land and love and great allies:
|
4068
|
+
|
4069
|
+
[To SILVIUS]
|
4070
|
+
|
4071
|
+
You to a long and well-deserved bed:
|
4072
|
+
|
4073
|
+
[To TOUCHSTONE]
|
4074
|
+
|
4075
|
+
And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage
|
4076
|
+
Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures:
|
4077
|
+
I am for other than for dancing measures.
|
4078
|
+
|
4079
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Stay, Jaques, stay.
|
4080
|
+
|
4081
|
+
JAQUES To see no pastime I what you would have
|
4082
|
+
I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave.
|
4083
|
+
|
4084
|
+
[Exit]
|
4085
|
+
|
4086
|
+
DUKE SENIOR Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites,
|
4087
|
+
As we do trust they'll end, in true delights.
|
4088
|
+
|
4089
|
+
[A dance]
|
4090
|
+
|
4091
|
+
|
4092
|
+
|
4093
|
+
|
4094
|
+
AS YOU LIKE IT
|
4095
|
+
|
4096
|
+
EPILOGUE
|
4097
|
+
|
4098
|
+
|
4099
|
+
ROSALIND It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue;
|
4100
|
+
but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord
|
4101
|
+
the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs
|
4102
|
+
no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no
|
4103
|
+
epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes,
|
4104
|
+
and good plays prove the better by the help of good
|
4105
|
+
epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am
|
4106
|
+
neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with
|
4107
|
+
you in the behalf of a good play! I am not
|
4108
|
+
furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not
|
4109
|
+
become me: my way is to conjure you; and I'll begin
|
4110
|
+
with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love
|
4111
|
+
you bear to men, to like as much of this play as
|
4112
|
+
please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love
|
4113
|
+
you bear to women--as I perceive by your simpering,
|
4114
|
+
none of you hates them--that between you and the
|
4115
|
+
women the play may please. If I were a woman I
|
4116
|
+
would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased
|
4117
|
+
me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I
|
4118
|
+
defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good
|
4119
|
+
beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my
|
4120
|
+
kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
|
4121
|
+
|
4122
|
+
[Exeunt]
|