couchbase 3.0.0.alpha.1 → 3.0.0.alpha.2

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  1. checksums.yaml +4 -4
  2. data/.github/workflows/tests-6.0.3.yml +49 -0
  3. data/.github/workflows/tests.yml +47 -0
  4. data/.gitmodules +3 -0
  5. data/.idea/dictionaries/gem_terms.xml +5 -0
  6. data/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml +1 -0
  7. data/.idea/vcs.xml +1 -0
  8. data/Gemfile +1 -0
  9. data/README.md +55 -2
  10. data/Rakefile +18 -0
  11. data/bin/init-cluster +62 -0
  12. data/bin/setup +1 -0
  13. data/couchbase.gemspec +3 -2
  14. data/examples/crud.rb +1 -2
  15. data/examples/managing_buckets.rb +47 -0
  16. data/examples/managing_collections.rb +58 -0
  17. data/examples/managing_query_indexes.rb +63 -0
  18. data/examples/query.rb +3 -2
  19. data/examples/query_with_consistency.rb +76 -0
  20. data/examples/subdocument.rb +23 -1
  21. data/ext/.clang-format +1 -1
  22. data/ext/.idea/dictionaries/couchbase_terms.xml +2 -0
  23. data/ext/.idea/vcs.xml +1 -0
  24. data/ext/CMakeLists.txt +30 -12
  25. data/ext/build_version.hxx.in +26 -0
  26. data/ext/couchbase/bucket.hxx +69 -8
  27. data/ext/couchbase/cluster.hxx +70 -54
  28. data/ext/couchbase/collections_manifest.hxx +3 -3
  29. data/ext/couchbase/configuration.hxx +14 -0
  30. data/ext/couchbase/couchbase.cxx +2044 -383
  31. data/ext/couchbase/{operations/document_id.hxx → document_id.hxx} +5 -4
  32. data/ext/couchbase/io/http_message.hxx +5 -1
  33. data/ext/couchbase/io/http_parser.hxx +2 -1
  34. data/ext/couchbase/io/http_session.hxx +6 -3
  35. data/ext/couchbase/io/{binary_message.hxx → mcbp_message.hxx} +15 -12
  36. data/ext/couchbase/io/mcbp_parser.hxx +99 -0
  37. data/ext/couchbase/io/{key_value_session.hxx → mcbp_session.hxx} +200 -95
  38. data/ext/couchbase/io/session_manager.hxx +37 -22
  39. data/ext/couchbase/mutation_token.hxx +2 -1
  40. data/ext/couchbase/operations.hxx +38 -8
  41. data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_create.hxx +138 -0
  42. data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_drop.hxx +65 -0
  43. data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_flush.hxx +65 -0
  44. data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_get.hxx +69 -0
  45. data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_get_all.hxx +62 -0
  46. data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_settings.hxx +111 -0
  47. data/ext/couchbase/operations/bucket_update.hxx +115 -0
  48. data/ext/couchbase/operations/cluster_developer_preview_enable.hxx +60 -0
  49. data/ext/couchbase/operations/collection_create.hxx +86 -0
  50. data/ext/couchbase/operations/collection_drop.hxx +82 -0
  51. data/ext/couchbase/operations/command.hxx +10 -10
  52. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_decrement.hxx +80 -0
  53. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_exists.hxx +80 -0
  54. data/ext/couchbase/operations/{get.hxx → document_get.hxx} +4 -2
  55. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_get_and_lock.hxx +64 -0
  56. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_get_and_touch.hxx +64 -0
  57. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_increment.hxx +80 -0
  58. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_insert.hxx +74 -0
  59. data/ext/couchbase/operations/{lookup_in.hxx → document_lookup_in.hxx} +2 -2
  60. data/ext/couchbase/operations/{mutate_in.hxx → document_mutate_in.hxx} +11 -2
  61. data/ext/couchbase/operations/{query.hxx → document_query.hxx} +101 -6
  62. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_remove.hxx +67 -0
  63. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_replace.hxx +76 -0
  64. data/ext/couchbase/operations/{upsert.hxx → document_touch.hxx} +14 -14
  65. data/ext/couchbase/operations/{remove.hxx → document_unlock.hxx} +12 -10
  66. data/ext/couchbase/operations/document_upsert.hxx +74 -0
  67. data/ext/couchbase/operations/query_index_build_deferred.hxx +85 -0
  68. data/ext/couchbase/operations/query_index_create.hxx +134 -0
  69. data/ext/couchbase/operations/query_index_drop.hxx +108 -0
  70. data/ext/couchbase/operations/query_index_get_all.hxx +106 -0
  71. data/ext/couchbase/operations/scope_create.hxx +81 -0
  72. data/ext/couchbase/operations/scope_drop.hxx +79 -0
  73. data/ext/couchbase/operations/scope_get_all.hxx +72 -0
  74. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/client_opcode.hxx +35 -0
  75. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/client_request.hxx +56 -9
  76. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/client_response.hxx +52 -15
  77. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_cluster_map_change_notification.hxx +81 -0
  78. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_decrement.hxx +187 -0
  79. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_exists.hxx +171 -0
  80. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get.hxx +31 -8
  81. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_and_lock.hxx +142 -0
  82. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_and_touch.hxx +142 -0
  83. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_cluster_config.hxx +16 -3
  84. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_collections_manifest.hxx +16 -3
  85. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_get_error_map.hxx +16 -3
  86. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_hello.hxx +24 -8
  87. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_increment.hxx +187 -0
  88. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_info.hxx +1 -0
  89. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_insert.hxx +172 -0
  90. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_lookup_in.hxx +28 -13
  91. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_mutate_in.hxx +65 -13
  92. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_remove.hxx +59 -4
  93. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_replace.hxx +172 -0
  94. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_sasl_auth.hxx +15 -3
  95. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_sasl_list_mechs.hxx +15 -3
  96. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_sasl_step.hxx +15 -3
  97. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_select_bucket.hxx +14 -2
  98. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_touch.hxx +102 -0
  99. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_unlock.hxx +95 -0
  100. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/cmd_upsert.hxx +50 -14
  101. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/durability_level.hxx +67 -0
  102. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/frame_info_id.hxx +187 -0
  103. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/hello_feature.hxx +137 -0
  104. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/server_opcode.hxx +57 -0
  105. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/server_request.hxx +122 -0
  106. data/ext/couchbase/protocol/unsigned_leb128.h +15 -15
  107. data/ext/couchbase/utils/byteswap.hxx +1 -2
  108. data/ext/couchbase/utils/url_codec.hxx +225 -0
  109. data/ext/couchbase/version.hxx +3 -1
  110. data/ext/extconf.rb +4 -1
  111. data/ext/test/main.cxx +37 -113
  112. data/ext/third_party/snappy/.appveyor.yml +36 -0
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  115. data/ext/third_party/snappy/AUTHORS +1 -0
  116. data/ext/third_party/snappy/CMakeLists.txt +345 -0
  117. data/ext/third_party/snappy/CONTRIBUTING.md +26 -0
  118. data/ext/third_party/snappy/COPYING +54 -0
  119. data/ext/third_party/snappy/NEWS +188 -0
  120. data/ext/third_party/snappy/README.md +148 -0
  121. data/ext/third_party/snappy/cmake/SnappyConfig.cmake.in +33 -0
  122. data/ext/third_party/snappy/cmake/config.h.in +59 -0
  123. data/ext/third_party/snappy/docs/README.md +72 -0
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  127. data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-c.h +138 -0
  128. data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-internal.h +315 -0
  129. data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-sinksource.cc +121 -0
  130. data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-sinksource.h +182 -0
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  133. data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-stubs-public.h.in +63 -0
  134. data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-test.cc +613 -0
  135. data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy-test.h +526 -0
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  140. data/ext/third_party/snappy/snappy_unittest.cc +1512 -0
  141. data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/alice29.txt +3609 -0
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  147. data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/geo.protodata +0 -0
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  153. data/ext/third_party/snappy/testdata/plrabn12.txt +10699 -0
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  155. data/lib/couchbase/binary_collection.rb +33 -76
  156. data/lib/couchbase/binary_collection_options.rb +94 -0
  157. data/lib/couchbase/bucket.rb +9 -3
  158. data/lib/couchbase/cluster.rb +161 -23
  159. data/lib/couchbase/collection.rb +108 -191
  160. data/lib/couchbase/collection_options.rb +430 -0
  161. data/lib/couchbase/errors.rb +136 -134
  162. data/lib/couchbase/json_transcoder.rb +32 -0
  163. data/lib/couchbase/management/analytics_index_manager.rb +185 -9
  164. data/lib/couchbase/management/bucket_manager.rb +84 -33
  165. data/lib/couchbase/management/collection_manager.rb +166 -1
  166. data/lib/couchbase/management/query_index_manager.rb +261 -0
  167. data/lib/couchbase/management/search_index_manager.rb +291 -0
  168. data/lib/couchbase/management/user_manager.rb +12 -10
  169. data/lib/couchbase/management/view_index_manager.rb +151 -1
  170. data/lib/couchbase/mutation_state.rb +11 -1
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  176. data/lib/couchbase/results.rb +0 -307
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+ AS YOU LIKE IT
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+ DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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+ DUKE SENIOR living in banishment.
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+ DUKE FREDERICK his brother, an usurper of his dominions.
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+ AMIENS |
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+ | lords attending on the banished duke.
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+ JAQUES |
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+ LE BEAU a courtier attending upon Frederick.
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+ CHARLES wrestler to Frederick.
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+ OLIVER |
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+ |
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+ JAQUES (JAQUES DE BOYS:) | sons of Sir Rowland de Boys.
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+ |
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+ ORLANDO |
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+ ADAM |
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+ | servants to Oliver.
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+ DENNIS |
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+ TOUCHSTONE a clown.
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+ SIR OLIVER MARTEXT a vicar.
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+ CORIN |
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+ | shepherds.
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+ SILVIUS |
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+ WILLIAM a country fellow in love with Audrey.
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+ A person representing HYMEN. (HYMEN:)
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+ ROSALIND daughter to the banished duke.
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+ CELIA daughter to Frederick.
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+ PHEBE a shepherdess.
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+ AUDREY a country wench.
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+ Lords, pages, and attendants, &c.
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+ (Forester:)
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+ (A Lord:)
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+ (First Lord:)
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+ (Second Lord:)
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+ (First Page:)
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+ (Second Page:)
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+ SCENE Oliver's house; Duke Frederick's court; and the
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+ Forest of Arden.
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+ AS YOU LIKE IT
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+ ACT I
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+ SCENE I Orchard of Oliver's house.
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+ [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM]
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+ ORLANDO As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion
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+ bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,
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+ and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his
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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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+ properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you
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+ that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that
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+ differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses
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+ are bred better; for, besides that they are fair
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+ with their feeding, they are taught their manage,
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+ and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his
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+ brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the
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+ which his animals on his dunghills are as much
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+ bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so
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+ plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave
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+ me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets
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+ me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a
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+ brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my
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+ gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that
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+ grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I
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+ think is within me, begins to mutiny against this
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+ servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I
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+ know no wise remedy how to avoid it.
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+ ADAM Yonder comes my master, your brother.
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+ ORLANDO Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will
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+ shake me up.
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+ [Enter OLIVER]
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+ OLIVER Now, sir! what make you here?
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+ ORLANDO Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.
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+ OLIVER What mar you then, sir?
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+ ORLANDO Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God
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+ made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.
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+ OLIVER Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.
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+ ORLANDO Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them?
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+ What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should
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+ come to such penury?
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+ OLIVER Know you where your are, sir?
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+ ORLANDO O, sir, very well; here in your orchard.
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+ OLIVER Know you before whom, sir?
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+ ORLANDO Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know
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+ you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle
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+ condition of blood, you should so know me. The
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+ courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that
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+ you are the first-born; but the same tradition
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+ takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers
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+ betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as
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+ you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is
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+ nearer to his reverence.
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+ OLIVER What, boy!
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+ ORLANDO Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
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+ OLIVER Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?
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+ ORLANDO I am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir
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+ Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice
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+ a villain that says such a father begot villains.
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+ Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand
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+ from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy
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+ tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself.
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+ ADAM Sweet masters, be patient: for your father's
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+ remembrance, be at accord.
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+ OLIVER Let me go, I say.
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+ ORLANDO I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My
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+ father charged you in his will to give me good
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+ education: you have trained me like a peasant,
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+ obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like
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+ qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in
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+ me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore allow
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+ me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or
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+ testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.
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+ OLIVER And what wilt thou do? beg, when that is spent?
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+ Well, sir, get you in: I will not long be troubled
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+ with you; you shall have some part of your will: I
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+ ORLANDO I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good.
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+ OLIVER Get you with him, you old dog.
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+ ADAM Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my
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+ OLIVER Is it even so? begin you to grow upon me? I will
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+ DENNIS Calls your worship?
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+ OLIVER Was not Charles, the duke's wrestler, here to speak with me?
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+ DENNIS So please you, he is here at the door and importunes
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+ OLIVER Call him in.
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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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+ 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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+ 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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+
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+ OLIVER Farewell, good Charles.
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+
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+ [Exit CHARLES]
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+
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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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+
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+ [Exit]
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+ AS YOU LIKE IT
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+
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+
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+ ACT I
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+
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+
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+
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+ SCENE II Lawn before the Duke's palace.
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+
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+
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+ [Enter CELIA and ROSALIND]
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+
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+ CELIA I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ ROSALIND What shall be our sport, then?
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ [Enter TOUCHSTONE]
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ TOUCHSTONE Mistress, you must come away to your father.
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+
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+ CELIA Were you made the messenger?
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+
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+ TOUCHSTONE No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you.
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+
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+ ROSALIND Where learned you that oath, fool?
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+
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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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+
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+ CELIA How prove you that, in the great heap of your
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+ knowledge?
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+
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+ ROSALIND Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.
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+
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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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+
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+ CELIA By our beards, if we had them, thou art.
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+
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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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+
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+ CELIA Prithee, who is't that thou meanest?
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+
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+ TOUCHSTONE One that old Frederick, your father, loves.
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ ROSALIND With his mouth full of news.
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+
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+ CELIA Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.
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+
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+ ROSALIND Then shall we be news-crammed.
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+
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+ CELIA All the better; we shall be the more marketable.
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+
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+ [Enter LE BEAU]
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+
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+ Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau: what's the news?
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+
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+ LE BEAU Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.
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+
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+ CELIA Sport! of what colour?
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+
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+ LE BEAU What colour, madam! how shall I answer you?
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+
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+ ROSALIND As wit and fortune will.
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+
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+ TOUCHSTONE Or as the Destinies decree.
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+
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+ CELIA Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.
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+
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+ TOUCHSTONE Nay, if I keep not my rank,--
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+
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+ ROSALIND Thou losest thy old smell.
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+
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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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+
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+ ROSALIND You tell us the manner of the wrestling.
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+
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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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+
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+ CELIA Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried.
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+
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+ LE BEAU There comes an old man and his three sons,--
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+
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+ CELIA I could match this beginning with an old tale.
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+
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+ LE BEAU Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence.
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ ROSALIND Alas!
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+
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+ TOUCHSTONE But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies
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+ have lost?
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+
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+ LE BEAU Why, this that I speak of.
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+
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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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+
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+ CELIA Or I, I promise thee.
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ CELIA Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it.
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+
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+ [Flourish. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, ORLANDO,
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+ CHARLES, and Attendants]
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+
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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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+
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+ ROSALIND Is yonder the man?
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+
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+ LE BEAU Even he, madam.
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+
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+ CELIA Alas, he is too young! yet he looks successfully.
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+
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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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+
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+ ROSALIND Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave.
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+
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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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+
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+ CELIA Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK Do so: I'll not be by.
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+
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+ LE BEAU Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you.
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+
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+ ORLANDO I attend them with all respect and duty.
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+
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+ ROSALIND Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler?
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ ROSALIND The little strength that I have, I would it were with you.
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+
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+ CELIA And mine, to eke out hers.
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+
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+ ROSALIND Fare you well: pray heaven I be deceived in you!
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+
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+ CELIA Your heart's desires be with you!
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+
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+ CHARLES Come, where is this young gallant that is so
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+ desirous to lie with his mother earth?
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+
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+ ORLANDO Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working.
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK You shall try but one fall.
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+
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+ CHARLES No, I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him
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+ to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him
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+ from a first.
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+
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+ ORLANDO An you mean to mock me after, you should not have
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+ mocked me before: but come your ways.
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+
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+ ROSALIND Now Hercules be thy speed, young man!
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+
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+ CELIA I would I were invisible, to catch the strong
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+ fellow by the leg.
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+
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+ [They wrestle]
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+
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+ ROSALIND O excellent young man!
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+
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+ CELIA If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who
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+ should down.
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+
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+ [Shout. CHARLES is thrown]
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK No more, no more.
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+
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+ ORLANDO Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed.
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK How dost thou, Charles?
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+
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+ LE BEAU He cannot speak, my lord.
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK Bear him away. What is thy name, young man?
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+
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+ ORLANDO Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys.
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK I would thou hadst been son to some man else:
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+ The world esteem'd thy father honourable,
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+ But I did find him still mine enemy:
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+ Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed,
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+ Hadst thou descended from another house.
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+ But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth:
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+ I would thou hadst told me of another father.
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+
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+ [Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK, train, and LE BEAU]
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+
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+ CELIA Were I my father, coz, would I do this?
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+
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+ ORLANDO I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,
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+ His youngest son; and would not change that calling,
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+ To be adopted heir to Frederick.
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+
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+ ROSALIND My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,
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+ And all the world was of my father's mind:
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+ Had I before known this young man his son,
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+ I should have given him tears unto entreaties,
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+ Ere he should thus have ventured.
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+
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+ CELIA Gentle cousin,
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+ Let us go thank him and encourage him:
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+ My father's rough and envious disposition
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+ Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserved:
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+ If you do keep your promises in love
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+ But justly, as you have exceeded all promise,
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+ Your mistress shall be happy.
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+
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+ ROSALIND Gentleman,
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+
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+ [Giving him a chain from her neck]
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+
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+ Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune,
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+ That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.
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+ Shall we go, coz?
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+
659
+ CELIA Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman.
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+
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+ ORLANDO Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts
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+ Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up
663
+ Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.
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+
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+ ROSALIND He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes;
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+ I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?
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+ Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown
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+ More than your enemies.
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+
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+ CELIA Will you go, coz?
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+
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+ ROSALIND Have with you. Fare you well.
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+
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+ [Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA]
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+
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+ ORLANDO What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?
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+ I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.
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+ O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!
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+ Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.
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+
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+ [Re-enter LE BEAU]
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+
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+ LE BEAU Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
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+ To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved
685
+ High commendation, true applause and love,
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+ Yet such is now the duke's condition
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+ That he misconstrues all that you have done.
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+ The duke is humorous; what he is indeed,
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+ More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.
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+
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+ ORLANDO I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell me this:
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+ Which of the two was daughter of the duke
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+ That here was at the wrestling?
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+
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+ LE BEAU Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners;
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+ But yet indeed the lesser is his daughter
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+ The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,
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+ And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,
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+ To keep his daughter company; whose loves
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+ Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.
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+ But I can tell you that of late this duke
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+ Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,
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+ Grounded upon no other argument
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+ But that the people praise her for her virtues
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+ And pity her for her good father's sake;
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+ And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady
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+ Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well:
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+ Hereafter, in a better world than this,
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+ I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
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+
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+ ORLANDO I rest much bounden to you: fare you well.
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+
713
+ [Exit LE BEAU]
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+
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+ Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;
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+ From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother:
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+ But heavenly Rosalind!
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+
719
+ [Exit]
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+
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+
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+
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+
724
+ AS YOU LIKE IT
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+
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+
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+ ACT I
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+
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+
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+
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+ SCENE III A room in the palace.
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+
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+
734
+ [Enter CELIA and ROSALIND]
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+
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+ CELIA Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word?
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+
738
+ ROSALIND Not one to throw at a dog.
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+
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+ 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.
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+
743
+ ROSALIND Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one
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+ should be lamed with reasons and the other mad
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+ without any.
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+
747
+ CELIA But is all this for your father?
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+
749
+ ROSALIND No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how
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+ full of briers is this working-day world!
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+
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+ CELIA They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in
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+ holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden
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+ paths our very petticoats will catch them.
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+
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+ ROSALIND I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart.
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+
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+ CELIA Hem them away.
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+
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+ ROSALIND I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.
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+
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+ CELIA Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.
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+
764
+ ROSALIND O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself!
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+
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
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+ service, let us talk in good earnest: is it
769
+ possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so
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+ strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?
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+
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+ ROSALIND The duke my father loved his father dearly.
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+
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+ CELIA Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son
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+ dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him,
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+ for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate
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+ not Orlando.
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+
779
+ ROSALIND No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.
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+
781
+ CELIA Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?
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+
783
+ ROSALIND Let me love him for that, and do you love him
784
+ because I do. Look, here comes the duke.
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+
786
+ CELIA With his eyes full of anger.
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+
788
+ [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords]
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste
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+ And get you from our court.
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+
793
+ ROSALIND Me, uncle?
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+
795
+ DUKE FREDERICK You, cousin
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+ Within these ten days if that thou be'st found
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+ So near our public court as twenty miles,
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+ Thou diest for it.
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+
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+ ROSALIND I do beseech your grace,
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+ Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:
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+ If with myself I hold intelligence
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+ Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,
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+ If that I do not dream or be not frantic,--
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+ As I do trust I am not--then, dear uncle,
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+ Never so much as in a thought unborn
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+ Did I offend your highness.
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK Thus do all traitors:
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+ If their purgation did consist in words,
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+ They are as innocent as grace itself:
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+ Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.
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+
814
+ ROSALIND Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:
815
+ Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.
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+
817
+ DUKE FREDERICK Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough.
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+
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;
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+ Or, if we did derive it from our friends,
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+ What's that to me? my father was no traitor:
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+ Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much
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+ To think my poverty is treacherous.
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+
827
+ CELIA Dear sovereign, hear me speak.
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+
829
+ DUKE FREDERICK Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,
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+ Else had she with her father ranged along.
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+
832
+ CELIA I did not then entreat to have her stay;
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+ 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.
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+
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+ DUKE FREDERICK She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,
842
+ Her very silence and her patience
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+ 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
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+ When she is gone. Then open not thy lips:
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+ 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.
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+
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.
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+
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+ [Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK and Lords]
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+
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+ CELIA O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?
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+ Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.
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+ I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.
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+
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
+ ORLANDO I thank you most for him.
1695
+
1696
+ ADAM So had you need:
1697
+ I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.
1698
+
1699
+ DUKE SENIOR Welcome; fall to: I will not trouble you
1700
+ As yet, to question you about your fortunes.
1701
+ Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing.
1702
+
1703
+ SONG.
1704
+ AMIENS Blow, blow, thou winter wind.
1705
+ Thou art not so unkind
1706
+ As man's ingratitude;
1707
+ Thy tooth is not so keen,
1708
+ Because thou art not seen,
1709
+ Although thy breath be rude.
1710
+ Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
1711
+ Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
1712
+ Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
1713
+ This life is most jolly.
1714
+ Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
1715
+ That dost not bite so nigh
1716
+ As benefits forgot:
1717
+ Though thou the waters warp,
1718
+ Thy sting is not so sharp
1719
+ As friend remember'd not.
1720
+ Heigh-ho! sing, &c.
1721
+
1722
+ DUKE SENIOR If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,
1723
+ As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,
1724
+ And as mine eye doth his effigies witness
1725
+ Most truly limn'd and living in your face,
1726
+ Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke
1727
+ That loved your father: the residue of your fortune,
1728
+ Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man,
1729
+ Thou art right welcome as thy master is.
1730
+ Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,
1731
+ And let me all your fortunes understand.
1732
+
1733
+ [Exeunt]
1734
+
1735
+
1736
+
1737
+
1738
+ AS YOU LIKE IT
1739
+
1740
+
1741
+ ACT III
1742
+
1743
+
1744
+
1745
+ SCENE I A room in the palace.
1746
+
1747
+
1748
+ [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and OLIVER]
1749
+
1750
+ DUKE FREDERICK Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be:
1751
+ But were I not the better part made mercy,
1752
+ I should not seek an absent argument
1753
+ Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
1754
+ Find out thy brother, wheresoe'er he is;
1755
+ Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living
1756
+ Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more
1757
+ To seek a living in our territory.
1758
+ Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine
1759
+ Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,
1760
+ Till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth
1761
+ Of what we think against thee.
1762
+
1763
+ OLIVER O that your highness knew my heart in this!
1764
+ I never loved my brother in my life.
1765
+
1766
+ 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
+
1775
+
1776
+ AS YOU LIKE IT
1777
+
1778
+
1779
+ ACT III
1780
+
1781
+
1782
+
1783
+ SCENE II The forest.
1784
+
1785
+
1786
+ [Enter ORLANDO, with a paper]
1787
+
1788
+ ORLANDO Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love:
1789
+ 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
+
1801
+ [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
2062
+ true maid.
2063
+
2064
+ CELIA I' faith, coz, 'tis he.
2065
+
2066
+ ROSALIND Orlando?
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.
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]