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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Orchard of Oliver's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ORLANDO and ADAM</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>are bred better; for, besides that they are fair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>with their feeding, they are taught their manage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>which his animals on his dunghills are as much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>think is within me, begins to mutiny against this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>know no wise remedy how to avoid it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>Yonder comes my master, your brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>shake me up.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter OLIVER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>Now, sir! what make you here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>What mar you then, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>come to such penury?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>Know you where your are, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>O, sir, very well; here in your orchard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Know you before whom, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>condition of blood, you should so know me. The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>you are the first-born; but the same tradition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>nearer to his reverence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>What, boy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>I am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>a villain that says such a father begot villains.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>Sweet masters, be patient: for your father's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>remembrance, be at accord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>Let me go, I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>father charged you in his will to give me good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>education: you have trained me like a peasant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore allow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>give me the poor allottery my father left me by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>And what wilt thou do? beg, when that is spent?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>Well, sir, get you in: I will not long be troubled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>with you; you shall have some part of your will: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>pray you, leave me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>Get you with him, you old dog.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>teeth in your service. God be with my old master!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>he would not have spoke such a word.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt ORLANDO and ADAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Is it even so? begin you to grow upon me? I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DENNIS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DENNIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>Calls your worship?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>Was not Charles, the duke's wrestler, here to speak with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DENNIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>So please you, he is here at the door and importunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>access to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>Call him in.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit DENNIS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>'Twill be a good way; and to-morrow the wrestling is.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CHARLES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>Good morrow to your worship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Good Monsieur Charles, what's the new news at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>new court?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>There's no news at the court, sir, but the old news:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>that is, the old duke is banished by his younger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>brother the new duke; and three or four loving lords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>have put themselves into voluntary exile with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>therefore he gives them good leave to wander.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>Can you tell if Rosalind, the duke's daughter, be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>banished with her father?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>O, no; for the duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>her, being ever from their cradles bred together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>that she would have followed her exile, or have died</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>never two ladies loved as they do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>Where will the old duke live?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>a many merry men with him; and there they live like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>carelessly, as they did in the golden world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>Marry, do I, sir; and I came to acquaint you with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>to come in disguised against me to try a fall.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>well. Your brother is but young and tender; and,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>for your love, I would be loath to foil him, as I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>withal, that either you might stay him from his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>run into, in that it is a thing of his own search</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>and altogether against my will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>myself notice of my brother's purpose herein and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>it, but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>me his natural brother: therefore use thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>discretion; I had as lief thou didst break his neck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>as his finger. And thou wert best look to't; for if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>against thee by poison, entrap thee by some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>treacherous device and never leave thee till he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>it, there is not one so young and so villanous this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>day living. I speak but brotherly of him; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>to-morrow, I'll give him his payment: if ever he go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>so God keep your worship!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>Farewell, good Charles.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit CHARLES</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Now will I stir this gamester: I hope I shall see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle, never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>all sorts enchantingly beloved, and indeed so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>in the heart of the world, and especially of my own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>people, who best know him, that I am altogether</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>misprised: but it shall not be so long; this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>I kindle the boy thither; which now I'll go about.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Lawn before the Duke's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CELIA and ROSALIND</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>teach me to forget a banished father, you must not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>hadst been still with me, I could have taught my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>love to take thy father for mine: so wouldst thou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>tempered as mine is to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>rejoice in yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>like to have: and, truly, when he dies, thou shalt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>be his heir, for what he hath taken away from thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>father perforce, I will render thee again in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>affection; by mine honour, I will; and when I break</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>that oath, let me turn monster: therefore, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>me see; what think you of falling in love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>love no man in good earnest; nor no further in sport</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>in honour come off again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>What shall be our sport, then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>I would we could do so, for her benefits are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>doth most mistake in her gifts to women.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>makes honest, and those that she makes honest she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>makes very ill-favouredly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>Nature's: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>not in the lineaments of Nature.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter TOUCHSTONE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>No? when Nature hath made a fair creature, may she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>Nature's wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>Nature's; who perceiveth our natural wits too dull</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>natural for our whetstone; for always the dulness of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>wit! whither wander you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>Mistress, you must come away to your father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>Were you made the messenger?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>Where learned you that oath, fool?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>were good pancakes and swore by his honour the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>yet was not the knight forsworn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>How prove you that, in the great heap of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>knowledge?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>swear by your beards that I am a knave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>By our beards, if we had them, thou art.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>By my knavery, if I had it, then I were; but if you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>more was this knight swearing by his honour, for he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>Prithee, who is't that thou meanest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>One that old Frederick, your father, loves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>My father's love is enough to honour him: enough!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>speak no more of him; you'll be whipped for taxation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>one of these days.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>wise men do foolishly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>By my troth, thou sayest true; for since the little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>that wise men have makes a great show. Here comes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>Monsieur Le Beau.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>With his mouth full of news.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>Then shall we be news-crammed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>All the better; we shall be the more marketable.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LE BEAU</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau: what's the news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>Sport! of what colour?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>What colour, madam! how shall I answer you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>As wit and fortune will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>Or as the Destinies decree.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>Nay, if I keep not my rank,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>Thou losest thy old smell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>You amaze me, ladies: I would have told you of good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>wrestling, which you have lost the sight of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>You tell us the manner of the wrestling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>I will tell you the beginning; and, if it please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>your ladyships, you may see the end; for the best is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>yet to do; and here, where you are, they are coming</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>to perform it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>There comes an old man and his three sons,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>I could match this beginning with an old tale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.108>With bills on their necks, 'Be it known unto all men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.109>by these presents.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.110>The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.111>duke's wrestler; which Charles in a moment threw him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.112>and broke three of his ribs, that there is little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.113>hope of life in him: so he served the second, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.114>so the third. Yonder they lie; the poor old man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.115>their father, making such pitiful dole over them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.116>that all the beholders take his part with weeping.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.117>Alas!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.118>But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.119>have lost?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.120>Why, this that I speak of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.121>Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is the first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.122>time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.123>for ladies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.124>Or I, I promise thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.125>But is there any else longs to see this broken music</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.126>in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.127>rib-breaking? Shall we see this wrestling, cousin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.128>You must, if you stay here; for here is the place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.129>appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.130>perform it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.131>Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, ORLANDO, CHARLES, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.132>Come on: since the youth will not be entreated, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.133>own peril on his forwardness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.134>Is yonder the man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.135>Even he, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.136>Alas, he is too young! yet he looks successfully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.137>How now, daughter and cousin! are you crept hither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.138>to see the wrestling?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.139>Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.140>You will take little delight in it, I can tell you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.141>there is such odds in the man. In pity of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.142>challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.143>will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies; see if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.144>you can move him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.145>Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.146>Do so: I'll not be by.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.147>Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.148>I attend them with all respect and duty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.149>Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.150>No, fair princess; he is the general challenger: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.151>come but in, as others do, to try with him the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.152>strength of my youth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.153>Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.154>years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.155>strength: if you saw yourself with your eyes or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.156>knew yourself with your judgment, the fear of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.157>adventure would counsel you to a more equal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.158>enterprise. We pray you, for your own sake, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.159>embrace your own safety and give over this attempt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.160>Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.161>be misprised: we will make it our suit to the duke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.162>that the wrestling might not go forward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.163>I beseech you, punish me not with your hard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.164>thoughts; wherein I confess me much guilty, to deny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.165>so fair and excellent ladies any thing. But let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.166>your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.167>trial: wherein if I be foiled, there is but one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.168>shamed that was never gracious; if killed, but one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.169>dead that was willing to be so: I shall do my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.170>friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.171>world no injury, for in it I have nothing; only in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.172>the world I fill up a place, which may be better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.173>supplied when I have made it empty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.174>The little strength that I have, I would it were with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.175>And mine, to eke out hers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.176>Fare you well: pray heaven I be deceived in you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.177>Your heart's desires be with you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.178>Come, where is this young gallant that is so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.179>desirous to lie with his mother earth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.180>Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.181>You shall try but one fall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.182>No, I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.183>to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.184>from a first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.185>An you mean to mock me after, you should not have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.186>mocked me before: but come your ways.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.187>Now Hercules be thy speed, young man!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.188>I would I were invisible, to catch the strong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.189>fellow by the leg.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They wrestle</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.190>O excellent young man!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.191>If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.192>should down.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Shout. CHARLES is thrown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.193>No more, no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.194>Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.195>How dost thou, Charles?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.196>He cannot speak, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.197>Bear him away. What is thy name, young man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.198>Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.199>I would thou hadst been son to some man else:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.200>The world esteem'd thy father honourable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.201>But I did find him still mine enemy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.202>Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.203>Hadst thou descended from another house.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.204>But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.205>I would thou hadst told me of another father.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK, train, and LE BEAU</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.206>Were I my father, coz, would I do this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.207>I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.208>His youngest son; and would not change that calling,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.209>To be adopted heir to Frederick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.210>My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.211>And all the world was of my father's mind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.212>Had I before known this young man his son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.213>I should have given him tears unto entreaties,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.214>Ere he should thus have ventured.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.215>Gentle cousin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.216>Let us go thank him and encourage him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.217>My father's rough and envious disposition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.218>Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserved:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.219>If you do keep your promises in love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.220>But justly, as you have exceeded all promise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.221>Your mistress shall be happy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.222>Gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Giving him a chain from her neck</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.223>Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.224>That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.225>Shall we go, coz?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.226> Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.227>Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.228>Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.229>Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.230>He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.231>I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.232>Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.233>More than your enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.234>Will you go, coz?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.235>Have with you. Fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.236>What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.237>I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.238>O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.239>Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter LE BEAU</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.240>Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.241>To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.242>High commendation, true applause and love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.243>Yet such is now the duke's condition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.244>That he misconstrues all that you have done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.245>The duke is humorous; what he is indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.246>More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.247>I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell me this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.248>Which of the two was daughter of the duke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.249>That here was at the wrestling?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>LE BEAU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.250>Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.251>But yet indeed the lesser is his daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.252>The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.253>And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.254>To keep his daughter company; whose loves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.255>Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.256>But I can tell you that of late this duke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.257>Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.258>Grounded upon no other argument</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.259>But that the people praise her for her virtues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.260>And pity her for her good father's sake;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.261>And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.262>Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.263>Hereafter, in a better world than this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.264>I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.265>I rest much bounden to you: fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit LE BEAU</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.266>Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.267>From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.268>But heavenly Rosalind!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A room in the palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CELIA and ROSALIND</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>Not one to throw at a dog.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>curs; throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>should be lamed with reasons and the other mad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>without any.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>But is all this for your father?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>full of briers is this working-day world!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>paths our very petticoats will catch them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>Hem them away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>despite of a fall. But, turning these jests out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>service, let us talk in good earnest: is it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>The duke my father loved his father dearly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>not Orlando.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>Let me love him for that, and do you love him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>because I do. Look, here comes the duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>With his eyes full of anger.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>And get you from our court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>Me, uncle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>You, cousin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>Within these ten days if that thou be'st found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>So near our public court as twenty miles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>Thou diest for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41> I do beseech your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>If with myself I hold intelligence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>If that I do not dream or be not frantic,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>As I do trust I am not--then, dear uncle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>Never so much as in a thought unborn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>Did I offend your highness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>Thus do all traitors:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>If their purgation did consist in words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>They are as innocent as grace itself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>So was I when your highness took his dukedom;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>So was I when your highness banish'd him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>Treason is not inherited, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>Or, if we did derive it from our friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>What's that to me? my father was no traitor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>To think my poverty is treacherous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>Dear sovereign, hear me speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>Else had she with her father ranged along.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>I did not then entreat to have her stay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>It was your pleasure and your own remorse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>I was too young that time to value her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>But now I know her: if she be a traitor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>Why so am I; we still have slept together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>Still we went coupled and inseparable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>Her very silence and her patience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>Speak to the people, and they pity her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>When she is gone. Then open not thy lips:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>Firm and irrevocable is my doom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>I cannot live out of her company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>And in the greatness of my word, you die.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK and Lords</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>I have more cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91> Thou hast not, cousin;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>Prithee be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>Hath banish'd me, his daughter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>That he hath not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>No: let my father seek another heir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>Therefore devise with me how we may fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>Whither to go and what to bear with us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>And do not seek to take your change upon you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>Why, whither shall we go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>Alas, what danger will it be to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>I'll put myself in poor and mean attire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>And with a kind of umber smirch my face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.112>The like do you: so shall we pass along</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.113>And never stir assailants.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.114>Were it not better,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.115>Because that I am more than common tall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.116>That I did suit me all points like a man?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.117>A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.118>A boar-spear in my hand; and--in my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.119>Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.120>We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.121>As many other mannish cowards have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.122>That do outface it with their semblances.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.123>What shall I call thee when thou art a man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.124>I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.125>And therefore look you call me Ganymede.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.126>But what will you be call'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.127>Something that hath a reference to my state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.128>No longer Celia, but Aliena.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.129>But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.130>The clownish fool out of your father's court?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.131>Would he not be a comfort to our travel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.132>He'll go along o'er the wide world with me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.133>Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.134>And get our jewels and our wealth together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.135>Devise the fittest time and safest way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.136>To hide us from pursuit that will be made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.137>After my flight. Now go we in content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.138>To liberty and not to banishment.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The Forest of Arden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords, like foresters</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>Hath not old custom made this life more sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>More free from peril than the envious court?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>The seasons' difference, as the icy fang</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>'This is no flattery: these are counsellors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>That feelingly persuade me what I am.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>Sweet are the uses of adversity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>And this our life exempt from public haunt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>Sermons in stones and good in every thing.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>I would not change it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Happy is your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>That can translate the stubbornness of fortune</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>Into so quiet and so sweet a style.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>Come, shall we go and kill us venison?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>Being native burghers of this desert city,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Should in their own confines with forked heads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>Have their round haunches gored.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>Indeed, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>Did steal behind him as he lay along</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>Under an oak whose antique root peeps out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>Did come to languish, and indeed, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>The wretched animal heaved forth such groans</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Almost to bursting, and the big round tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>Coursed one another down his innocent nose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>Augmenting it with tears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>But what said Jaques?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>Did he not moralize this spectacle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>O, yes, into a thousand similes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>First, for his weeping into the needless stream;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>'Poor deer,' quoth he, 'thou makest a testament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>To that which had too much:' then, being there alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>''Tis right:' quoth he; 'thus misery doth part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>The flux of company:' anon a careless herd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>Full of the pasture, jumps along by him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>And never stays to greet him; 'Ay' quoth Jaques,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>Thus most invectively he pierceth through</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>The body of the country, city, court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>To fright the animals and to kill them up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>And did you leave him in this contemplation?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>We did, my lord, weeping and commenting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>Upon the sobbing deer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>Show me the place:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>I love to cope him in these sullen fits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>For then he's full of matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>I'll bring you to him straight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A room in the palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Can it be possible that no man saw them?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>It cannot be: some villains of my court</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Are of consent and sufferance in this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>I cannot hear of any that did see her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>Saw her abed, and in the morning early</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>They found the bed untreasured of their mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>Hisperia, the princess' gentlewoman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>Confesses that she secretly o'erheard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>Your daughter and her cousin much commend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>The parts and graces of the wrestler</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>And she believes, wherever they are gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>That youth is surely in their company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>If he be absent, bring his brother to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>I'll make him find him: do this suddenly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>And let not search and inquisition quail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>To bring again these foolish runaways.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Before OLIVER'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Who's there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>What, my young master? O, my gentle master!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>O my sweet master! O you memory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>Why are you virtuous? why do people love you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>Why would you be so fond to overcome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>The bonny priser of the humorous duke?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>Know you not, master, to some kind of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>Their graces serve them but as enemies?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>O, what a world is this, when what is comely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>Envenoms him that bears it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>Why, what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>O unhappy youth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>Come not within these doors; within this roof</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>The enemy of all your graces lives:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>Your brother--no, no brother; yet the son--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>Yet not the son, I will not call him son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>Of him I was about to call his father--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>Hath heard your praises, and this night he means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>To burn the lodging where you use to lie</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>And you within it: if he fail of that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>He will have other means to cut you off.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>I overheard him and his practises.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>This is no place; this house is but a butchery:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>No matter whither, so you come not here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>A thievish living on the common road?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>This I must do, or know not what to do:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>Yet this I will not do, do how I can;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>I rather will subject me to the malice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>The thrifty hire I saved under your father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Which I did store to be my foster-nurse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>When service should in my old limbs lie lame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>And unregarded age in corners thrown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>And all this I give you. Let me be your servant:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>For in my youth I never did apply</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>The means of weakness and debility;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>I'll do the service of a younger man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>In all your business and necessities.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>O good old man, how well in thee appears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>The constant service of the antique world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>When service sweat for duty, not for meed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>Thou art not for the fashion of these times,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>Where none will sweat but for promotion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>And having that, do choke their service up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>Even with the having: it is not so with thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>That cannot so much as a blossom yield</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>But come thy ways; well go along together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>And ere we have thy youthful wages spent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>We'll light upon some settled low content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>Master, go on, and I will follow thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>From seventeen years till now almost fourscore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>Here lived I, but now live here no more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>But at fourscore it is too late a week:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>Yet fortune cannot recompense me better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>Than to die well and not my master's debtor.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The Forest of Arden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ROSALIND for Ganymede, CELIA for Aliena, and TOUCHSTONE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>apparel and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>itself courageous to petticoat: therefore courage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>good Aliena!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>I pray you, bear with me; I cannot go no further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>you; yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>for I think you have no money in your purse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>Well, this is the forest of Arden.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>at home, I was in a better place: but travellers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>must be content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>Ay, be so, good Touchstone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CORIN and SILVIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>Look you, who comes here; a young man and an old in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>solemn talk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>That is the way to make her scorn you still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>I partly guess; for I have loved ere now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>But if thy love were ever like to mine--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>As sure I think did never man love so--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>How many actions most ridiculous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>Into a thousand that I have forgotten.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>If thou remember'st not the slightest folly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>That ever love did make thee run into,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>Thou hast not loved:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>Thou hast not loved:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>Or if thou hast not broke from company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>Thou hast not loved.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>I have by hard adventure found mine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>And I mine. I remember, when I was in love I broke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>pretty chopt hands had milked; and I remember the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>two cods and, giving her them again, said with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>weeping tears 'Wear these for my sake.' We that are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>break my shins against it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>Is much upon my fashion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.58>And mine; but it grows something stale with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.59>I pray you, one of you question yond man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.60>If he for gold will give us any food:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.61>I faint almost to death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.62>Holla, you clown!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.63>Peace, fool: he's not thy kinsman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.64>Who calls?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.65>Your betters, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.66> Else are they very wretched.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.67>Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.68>And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.69>I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.70>Can in this desert place buy entertainment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.71>Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.72>Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.73>And faints for succor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.74>Fair sir, I pity her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.75>And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.76>My fortunes were more able to relieve her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.77>But I am shepherd to another man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.78>And do not shear the fleeces that I graze:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.79>My master is of churlish disposition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.80>And little recks to find the way to heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.81>By doing deeds of hospitality:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.82>Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.83>Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.84>By reason of his absence, there is nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.85>That you will feed on; but what is, come see.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.86>And in my voice most welcome shall you be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.87>What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.88>That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.89>That little cares for buying any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.90>I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.91>Buy thou the cottage, pasture and the flock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.92>And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.93>And we will mend thy wages. I like this place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.94>And willingly could waste my time in it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.95>Assuredly the thing is to be sold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.96>Go with me: if you like upon report</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.97>The soil, the profit and this kind of life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.98>I will your very faithful feeder be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.99>And buy it with your gold right suddenly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The Forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.1>SONG.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.2>Under the greenwood tree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.3>Who loves to lie with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.4>And turn his merry note</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.5>Unto the sweet bird's throat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.6>Come hither, come hither, come hither:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.7>Here shall he see No enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.8>But winter and rough weather.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.9>More, more, I prithee, more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.10>It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.11>I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.12>melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.13>More, I prithee, more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.14>My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.15>I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.16>sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.17>What you will, Monsieur Jaques.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.18>Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.19>nothing. Will you sing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.20>More at your request than to please myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.21>Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.22>but that they call compliment is like the encounter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.23>of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.24>methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.25>the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.26>not, hold your tongues.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.27>Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.28>duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.29>this day to look you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.30>And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.31>too disputable for my company: I think of as many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.32>matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.33>boast of them. Come, warble, come.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.34>SONG.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.35>Who doth ambition shun</A><br> | |
| <p><i>All together here</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.36>And loves to live i' the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.37>Seeking the food he eats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.38>And pleased with what he gets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.39>Come hither, come hither, come hither:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.40>Here shall he see No enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.41>But winter and rough weather.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.42>I'll give you a verse to this note that I made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.43>yesterday in despite of my invention.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.44>And I'll sing it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.45>Thus it goes:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.46>If it do come to pass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.47>That any man turn ass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.48>Leaving his wealth and ease,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.49>A stubborn will to please,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.50>Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.51>Here shall he see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.52>Gross fools as he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.53>An if he will come to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.54>What's that 'ducdame'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.55>'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.56>circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.57>rail against all the first-born of Egypt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.58>And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is prepared.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt severally</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ORLANDO and ADAM</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.1>Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.2>Here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.3>kind master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.4>Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.5>a little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.6>If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.7>will either be food for it or bring it for food to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.8>thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.9>For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.10>the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.11>and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.12>give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.13>come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.14>thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.15>Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.16>thee to some shelter; and thou shalt not die for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.17>lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.6.18>desert. Cheerly, good Adam!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>A table set out. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and Lords like outlaws</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.1>I think he be transform'd into a beast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.2>For I can no where find him like a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.3>My lord, he is but even now gone hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.4>Here was he merry, hearing of a song.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.5>If he, compact of jars, grow musical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.6>We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.7>Go, seek him: tell him I would speak with him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter JAQUES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.8>He saves my labour by his own approach.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.9>Why, how now, monsieur! what a life is this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.10>That your poor friends must woo your company?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.11>What, you look merrily!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.12>A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.13>A motley fool; a miserable world!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.14>As I do live by food, I met a fool</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.15>Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.16>And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.17>In good set terms and yet a motley fool.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.18>'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.19>'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.20>And then he drew a dial from his poke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.21>And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.22>Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.23>Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.24>'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.25>And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.26>And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.27>And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.28>And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.29>The motley fool thus moral on the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.30>My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.31>That fools should be so deep-contemplative,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.32>And I did laugh sans intermission</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.33>An hour by his dial. O noble fool!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.34>A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.35>What fool is this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.36>O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.37>And says, if ladies be but young and fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.38>They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.39>Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.40>After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.41>With observation, the which he vents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.42>In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.43>I am ambitious for a motley coat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.44>Thou shalt have one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.45>It is my only suit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.46>Provided that you weed your better judgments</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.47>Of all opinion that grows rank in them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.48>That I am wise. I must have liberty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.49>Withal, as large a charter as the wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.50>To blow on whom I please; for so fools have;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.51>And they that are most galled with my folly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.52>They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.53>The 'why' is plain as way to parish church:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.54>He that a fool doth very wisely hit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.55>Doth very foolishly, although he smart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.56>Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.57>The wise man's folly is anatomized</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.58>Even by the squandering glances of the fool.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.59>Invest me in my motley; give me leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.60>To speak my mind, and I will through and through</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.61>Cleanse the foul body of the infected world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.62>If they will patiently receive my medicine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.63>Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.64>What, for a counter, would I do but good?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.65>Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.66>For thou thyself hast been a libertine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.67>As sensual as the brutish sting itself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.68>And all the embossed sores and headed evils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.69>That thou with licence of free foot hast caught,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.70>Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.71>Why, who cries out on pride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.72>That can therein tax any private party?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.73>Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.74>Till that the weary very means do ebb?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.75>What woman in the city do I name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.76>When that I say the city-woman bears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.77>The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.78>Who can come in and say that I mean her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.79>When such a one as she such is her neighbour?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.80>Or what is he of basest function</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.81>That says his bravery is not of my cost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.82>Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.83>His folly to the mettle of my speech?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.84>There then; how then? what then? Let me see wherein</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.85>My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.86>Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.87>Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.88>Unclaim'd of any man. But who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.89>Forbear, and eat no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.90>Why, I have eat none yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.91>Nor shalt not, till necessity be served.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.92>Of what kind should this cock come of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.93>Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.94>Or else a rude despiser of good manners,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.95>That in civility thou seem'st so empty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.96>You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.97>Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.98>Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.99>And know some nurture. But forbear, I say:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.100>He dies that touches any of this fruit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.101>Till I and my affairs are answered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.102>An you will not be answered with reason, I must die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.103>What would you have? Your gentleness shall force</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.104>More than your force move us to gentleness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.105>I almost die for food; and let me have it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.106>Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.107>Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.108>I thought that all things had been savage here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.109>And therefore put I on the countenance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.110>Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.111>That in this desert inaccessible,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.112>Under the shade of melancholy boughs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.113>Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.114>If ever you have look'd on better days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.115>If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.116>If ever sat at any good man's feast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.117>If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.118>And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.119>Let gentleness my strong enforcement be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.120>In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.121>True is it that we have seen better days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.122>And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.123>And sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.124>Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.125>And therefore sit you down in gentleness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.126>And take upon command what help we have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.127>That to your wanting may be minister'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.128>Then but forbear your food a little while,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.129>Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.130>And give it food. There is an old poor man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.131>Who after me hath many a weary step</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.132>Limp'd in pure love: till he be first sufficed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.133>Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.134>I will not touch a bit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.135>Go find him out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.136>And we will nothing waste till you return.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.137>I thank ye; and be blest for your good comfort!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.138>Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.139>This wide and universal theatre</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.140>Presents more woeful pageants than the scene</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.141>Wherein we play in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.142>All the world's a stage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.143>And all the men and women merely players:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.144>They have their exits and their entrances;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.145>And one man in his time plays many parts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.146>His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.147>Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.148>And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.149>And shining morning face, creeping like snail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.150>Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.151>Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.152>Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.153>Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.154>Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.155>Seeking the bubble reputation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.156>Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.157>In fair round belly with good capon lined,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.158>With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.159>Full of wise saws and modern instances;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.160>And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.161>Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.162>With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.163>His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.164>For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.165>Turning again toward childish treble, pipes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.166>And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.167>That ends this strange eventful history,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.168>Is second childishness and mere oblivion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.169>Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter ORLANDO, with ADAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.170>Welcome. Set down your venerable burthen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.171>And let him feed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.172>I thank you most for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.173>So had you need:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.174>I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.175>Welcome; fall to: I will not trouble you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.176>As yet, to question you about your fortunes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.177>Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.178>SONG.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>AMIENS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.179>Blow, blow, thou winter wind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.180>Thou art not so unkind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.181>As man's ingratitude;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.182>Thy tooth is not so keen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.183>Because thou art not seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.184>Although thy breath be rude.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.185>Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.186>Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.187>Then, heigh-ho, the holly!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.188>This life is most jolly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.189>Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.190>That dost not bite so nigh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.191>As benefits forgot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.192>Though thou the waters warp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.193>Thy sting is not so sharp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.194>As friend remember'd not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.195>Heigh-ho! sing, & c.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.196>If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.197>As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.198>And as mine eye doth his effigies witness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.199>Most truly limn'd and living in your face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.200>Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.201>That loved your father: the residue of your fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.202>Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.203>Thou art right welcome as thy master is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.204>Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.7.205>And let me all your fortunes understand.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A room in the palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and OLIVER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>But were I not the better part made mercy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>I should not seek an absent argument</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Find out thy brother, wheresoe'er he is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>To seek a living in our territory.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>Of what we think against thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>O that your highness knew my heart in this!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>I never loved my brother in my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE FREDERICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>And let my officers of such a nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>Make an extent upon his house and lands:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Do this expediently and turn him going.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ORLANDO, with a paper</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>And in their barks my thoughts I'll character;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>That every eye which in this forest looks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>life, but in respect that it is a shepherd's life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>like it very well; but in respect that it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>is it a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>No more but that I know the more one sickens the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>means and content is without three good friends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>that the property of rain is to wet and fire to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>court, shepherd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>No, truly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>Then thou art damned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Nay, I hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>on one side.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>For not being at court? Your reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>good manners; if thou never sawest good manners,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>state, shepherd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>behavior of the country is most mockable at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>court. You told me you salute not at the court, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>Instance, briefly; come, instance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>fells, you know, are greasy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? and is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I say; come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>Besides, our hands are hard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>A more sounder instance, come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>And they are often tarred over with the surgery of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>our sheep: and would you have us kiss tar? The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>courtier's hands are perfumed with civet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>Most shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>good piece of flesh indeed! Learn of the wise, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>God make incision in thee! thou art raw.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>graze and my lambs suck.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>and the rams together and to offer to get your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>damned for this, the devil himself will have no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>shepherds; I cannot see else how thou shouldst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>'scape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ROSALIND, with a paper, reading</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83> From the east to western Ind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>No jewel is like Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>Her worth, being mounted on the wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>Through all the world bears Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>All the pictures fairest lined</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>Are but black to Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>Let no fair be kept in mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>But the fair of Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>right butter-women's rank to market.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>Out, fool!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>For a taste:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>If a hart do lack a hind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>Let him seek out Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>If the cat will after kind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>So be sure will Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>Winter garments must be lined,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>So must slender Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>They that reap must sheaf and bind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>Then to cart with Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>Such a nut is Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>He that sweetest rose will find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>Must find love's prick and Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>infect yourself with them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>i' the country; for you'll be rotten ere you be half</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>ripe, and that's the right virtue of the medlar.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>forest judge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CELIA, with a writing</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>Peace! Here comes my sister, reading: stand aside.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>Why should this a desert be?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>For it is unpeopled? No:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>Tongues I'll hang on every tree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>That shall civil sayings show:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>Some, how brief the life of man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>Runs his erring pilgrimage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>That the stretching of a span</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>Buckles in his sum of age;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>Some, of violated vows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>'Twixt the souls of friend and friend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>But upon the fairest boughs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>Or at every sentence end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>Will I Rosalinda write,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>Teaching all that read to know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>The quintessence of every sprite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>Heaven would in little show.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>Therefore Heaven Nature charged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>That one body should be fill'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>With all graces wide-enlarged:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.139>Nature presently distill'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.140>Helen's cheek, but not her heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.141>Cleopatra's majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.142>Atalanta's better part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.143>Sad Lucretia's modesty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.144>Thus Rosalind of many parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.145>By heavenly synod was devised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.146>Of many faces, eyes and hearts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.147>To have the touches dearest prized.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.148>Heaven would that she these gifts should have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.149>And I to live and die her slave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.150>O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.151>have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.152>cried 'Have patience, good people!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.153>How now! back, friends! Shepherd, go off a little.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.154>Go with him, sirrah.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.155>Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.156>though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CORIN and TOUCHSTONE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.157>Didst thou hear these verses?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.158>O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.159>them had in them more feet than the verses would bear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.160>That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.161>Ay, but the feet were lame and could not bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.162>themselves without the verse and therefore stood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.163>lamely in the verse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.164>But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.165>should be hanged and carved upon these trees?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.166>I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.167>before you came; for look here what I found on a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.168>palm-tree. I was never so be-rhymed since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.169>Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.170>can hardly remember.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.171>Trow you who hath done this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.172>Is it a man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.173>And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.174>Change you colour?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.175>I prithee, who?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.176>O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.177>meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.178>and so encounter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.179>Nay, but who is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.180>Is it possible?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.181>Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary vehemence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.182>tell me who it is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.183>O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.184>wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.185>out of all hooping!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.186>Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.187>caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and hose in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.188>my disposition? One inch of delay more is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.189>South-sea of discovery; I prithee, tell me who is it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.190>quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.191>stammer, that thou mightst pour this concealed man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.192>out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.193>mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.194>all. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.195>may drink thy tidings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.196>So you may put a man in your belly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.197>Is he of God's making? What manner of man? Is his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.198>head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.199>Nay, he hath but a little beard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.200>Why, God will send more, if the man will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.201>thankful: let me stay the growth of his beard, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.202>thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.203>It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.204>heels and your heart both in an instant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.205>Nay, but the devil take mocking: speak, sad brow and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.206>true maid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.207>I' faith, coz, 'tis he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.208>Orlando?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.209>Orlando.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.210>Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.211>hose? What did he when thou sawest him? What said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.212>he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.213>him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.214>How parted he with thee? and when shalt thou see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.215>him again? Answer me in one word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.216>You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first: 'tis a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.217>word too great for any mouth of this age's size. To</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.218>say ay and no to these particulars is more than to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.219>answer in a catechism.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.220>But doth he know that I am in this forest and in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.221>man's apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.222>day he wrestled?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.223>It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.224>propositions of a lover; but take a taste of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.225>finding him, and relish it with good observance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.226>I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.227>It may well be called Jove's tree, when it drops</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.228>forth such fruit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.229>Give me audience, good madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.230>Proceed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.231>There lay he, stretched along, like a wounded knight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.232>Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.233>becomes the ground.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.234>Cry 'holla' to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.235>unseasonably. He was furnished like a hunter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.236>O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.237>I would sing my song without a burden: thou bringest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.238>me out of tune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.239>Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.240>speak. Sweet, say on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.241>You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ORLANDO and JAQUES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.242>'Tis he: slink by, and note him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.243>I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.244>as lief have been myself alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.245>And so had I; but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.246>too for your society.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.247>God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we can.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.248>I do desire we may be better strangers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.249>I pray you, mar no more trees with writing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.250>love-songs in their barks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.251>I pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.252>them ill-favouredly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.253>Rosalind is your love's name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.254>Yes, just.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.255>I do not like her name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.256>There was no thought of pleasing you when she was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.257>christened.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.258>What stature is she of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.259>Just as high as my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.260>You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.261>acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.262>out of rings?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.263>Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.264>whence you have studied your questions.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.265>You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.266>Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me? and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.267>we two will rail against our mistress the world and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.268>all our misery.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.269>I will chide no breather in the world but myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.270>against whom I know most faults.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.271>The worst fault you have is to be in love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.272>'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.273>I am weary of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.274>By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.275>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.276>He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.277>shall see him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.278>There I shall see mine own figure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.279>Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.280>I'll tarry no longer with you: farewell, good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.281>Signior Love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.282>I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.283>Melancholy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit JAQUES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.284>[Aside to CELIA] I will speak to him, like a saucy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.285>lackey and under that habit play the knave with him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.286>Do you hear, forester?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.287>Very well: what would you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.288>I pray you, what is't o'clock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.289>You should ask me what time o' day: there's no clock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.290>in the forest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.291>Then there is no true lover in the forest; else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.292>sighing every minute and groaning every hour would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.293>detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.294>And why not the swift foot of Time? had not that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.295>been as proper?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.296>By no means, sir: Time travels in divers paces with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.297>divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.298>withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.299>withal and who he stands still withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.300>I prithee, who doth he trot withal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.301>Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.302>contract of her marriage and the day it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.303>solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.304>Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.305>seven year.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.306>Who ambles Time withal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.307>With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.308>hath not the gout, for the one sleeps easily because</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.309>he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.310>he feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.311>and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.312>of heavy tedious penury; these Time ambles withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.313>Who doth he gallop withal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.314>With a thief to the gallows, for though he go as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.315>softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.316>Who stays it still withal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.317>With lawyers in the vacation, for they sleep between</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.318>term and term and then they perceive not how Time moves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.319>Where dwell you, pretty youth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.320>With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.321>skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.322>Are you native of this place?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.323>As the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.324>Your accent is something finer than you could</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.325>purchase in so removed a dwelling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.326>I have been told so of many: but indeed an old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.327>religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.328>in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.329>too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.330>him read many lectures against it, and I thank God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.331>I am not a woman, to be touched with so many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.332>giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.333>whole sex withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.334>Can you remember any of the principal evils that he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.335>laid to the charge of women?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.336>There were none principal; they were all like one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.337>another as half-pence are, every one fault seeming</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.338>monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.339>I prithee, recount some of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.340>No, I will not cast away my physic but on those that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.341>are sick. There is a man haunts the forest, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.342>abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.343>their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.344>on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.345>Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.346>give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.347>quotidian of love upon him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.348>I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you tell me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.349>your remedy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.350>There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.351>taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.352>of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.353>What were his marks?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.354>A lean cheek, which you have not, a blue eye and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.355>sunken, which you have not, an unquestionable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.356>spirit, which you have not, a beard neglected,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.357>which you have not; but I pardon you for that, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.358>simply your having in beard is a younger brother's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.359>revenue: then your hose should be ungartered, your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.360>bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.361>untied and every thing about you demonstrating a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.362>careless desolation; but you are no such man; you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.363>are rather point-device in your accoutrements as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.364>loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.365>Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.366>Me believe it! you may as soon make her that you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.367>love believe it; which, I warrant, she is apter to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.368>do than to confess she does: that is one of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.369>points in the which women still give the lie to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.370>their consciences. But, in good sooth, are you he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.371>that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.372>is so admired?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.373>I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.374>Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.375>But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.376>Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.377>Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.378>as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.379>the reason why they are not so punished and cured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.380>is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.381>are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.382>Did you ever cure any so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.383>Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to imagine me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.384>his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.385>woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.386>youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.387>and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.388>inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles, for every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.389>passion something and for no passion truly any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.390>thing, as boys and women are for the most part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.391>cattle of this colour; would now like him, now loathe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.392>him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.393>for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.394>from his mad humour of love to a living humour of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.395>madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.396>the world, and to live in a nook merely monastic.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.397>And thus I cured him; and this way will I take upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.398>me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.399>heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.400>I would not be cured, youth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.401>I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.402>and come every day to my cote and woo me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.403>Now, by the faith of my love, I will: tell me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.404>where it is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech142><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.405>Go with me to it and I'll show it you and by the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.406>you shall tell me where in the forest you live.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.407>Will you go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech143><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.408>With all my heart, good youth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech144><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.409>Nay you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you go?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY; JAQUES behind</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>Come apace, good Audrey: I will fetch up your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey? am I the man yet?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>doth my simple feature content you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>Your features! Lord warrant us! what features!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>[Aside] O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>in a thatched house!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>man's good wit seconded with the forward child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>the gods had made thee poetical.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>I do not know what 'poetical' is: is it honest in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>deed and word? is it a true thing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>feigning; and lovers are given to poetry, and what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>Do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>I do, truly; for thou swearest to me thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>honest: now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>hope thou didst feign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>Would you not have me honest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>[Aside] A material fool!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27> Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>make me honest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>were to put good meat into an unclean dish.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>be, I will marry thee, and to that end I have been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>village, who hath promised to meet me in this place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>of the forest and to couple us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>[Aside] I would fain see this meeting.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>Well, the gods give us joy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40>Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>stagger in this attempt; for here we have no temple</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>though? C ourage! As horns are odious, they are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>necessary. It is said, 'many a man knows no end of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>his goods:' right; many a man has good horns, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>his wife; 'tis none of his own getting. Horns?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>Even so. Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>therefore blessed? No: as a walled town is more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>married man more honourable than the bare brow of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>want. Here comes Sir Oliver.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met: will you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>with you to your chapel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SIR OLIVER MARTEXT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.59>Is there none here to give the woman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.60>I will not take her on gift of any man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIR OLIVER MARTEXT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.61>Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.62>[Advancing]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.63>Proceed, proceed I'll give her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.64>Good even, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.65>sir? You are very well met: God 'ild you for your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.66>last company: I am very glad to see you: even a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.67>toy in hand here, sir: nay, pray be covered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.68>Will you be married, motley?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.69>As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.70>the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.71>as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.72>And will you, being a man of your breeding, be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.73>married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.74>church, and have a good priest that can tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.75>what marriage is: this fellow will but join you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.76>together as they join wainscot; then one of you will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.77>prove a shrunk panel and, like green timber, warp, warp.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.78>[Aside] I am not in the mind but I were better to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.79>married of him than of another: for he is not like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.80>to marry me well; and not being well married, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.81>will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.82>Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.83>'Come, sweet Audrey:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.84>We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.85>Farewell, good Master Oliver: not,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.86>O sweet Oliver,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.87>O brave Oliver,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.88>Leave me not behind thee: but,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.89>Wind away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.90>Begone, I say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.91>I will not to wedding with thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt JAQUES, TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SIR OLIVER MARTEXT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.92>'Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.93>all shall flout me out of my calling.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ROSALIND and CELIA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>Never talk to me; I will weep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>Do, I prithee; but yet have the grace to consider</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>that tears do not become a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>But have I not cause to weep?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>His very hair is of the dissembling colour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>Something browner than Judas's marry, his kisses are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>Judas's own children.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>of holy bread.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>the very ice of chastity is in them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>But why did he swear he would come this morning, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>comes not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>Do you think so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>think him as concave as a covered goblet or a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>worm-eaten nut.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>Not true in love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>You have heard him swear downright he was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>'Was' is not 'is:' besides, the oath of a lover is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>here in the forest on the duke your father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>I met the duke yesterday and had much question with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>him: he asked me of what parentage I was; I told</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>him, of as good as he; so he laughed and let me go.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>man as Orlando?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>guides. Who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CORIN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>Mistress and master, you have oft inquired</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>After the shepherd that complain'd of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.46>Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.47>That was his mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.48>Well, and what of him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.49>If you will see a pageant truly play'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.50>Between the pale complexion of true love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.51>And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.52>Go hence a little and I shall conduct you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.53>If you will mark it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.54>O, come, let us remove:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.55>The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.56>Bring us to this sight, and you shall say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.57>I'll prove a busy actor in their play.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Another part of the forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.1>Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.2>Say that you love me not, but say not so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.3>In bitterness. The common executioner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.4>Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.5>Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.6>But first begs pardon: will you sterner be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.7>Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and CORIN, behind</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.8>I would not be thy executioner:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.9>I fly thee, for I would not injure thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.10>Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.11>'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.12>That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.13>Who shut their coward gates on atomies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.14>Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.15>Now I do frown on thee with all my heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.16>And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.17>Now counterfeit to swoon; why now fall down;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.18>Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.19>Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.20>Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.21>Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.22>Some scar of it; lean but upon a rush,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.23>The cicatrice and capable impressure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.24>Thy palm some moment keeps; but now mine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.25>Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.26>Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.27>That can do hurt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.28> O dear Phebe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.29>If ever,--as that ever may be near,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.30>You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.31>Then shall you know the wounds invisible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.32>That love's keen arrows make.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.33>But till that time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.34>Come not thou near me: and when that time comes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.35>Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.36>As till that time I shall not pity thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.37>And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.38>That you insult, exult, and all at once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.39>Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.40>As, by my faith, I see no more in you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.41>Than without candle may go dark to bed--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.42>Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.43>Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.44>I see no more in you than in the ordinary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.45>Of nature's sale-work. 'Od's my little life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.46>I think she means to tangle my eyes too!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.47>No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.48>'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.49>Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.50>That can entame my spirits to your worship.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.51>You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.52>Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.53>You are a thousand times a properer man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.54>Than she a woman: 'tis such fools as you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.55>That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.56>'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.57>And out of you she sees herself more proper</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.58>Than any of her lineaments can show her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.59>But, mistress, know yourself: down on your knees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.60>And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.61>For I must tell you friendly in your ear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.62>Sell when you can: you are not for all markets:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.63>Cry the man mercy; love him; take his offer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.64>Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.65>So take her to thee, shepherd: fare you well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.66>Sweet youth, I pray you, chide a year together:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.67>I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.68>He's fallen in love with your foulness and she'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.69>fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.70>she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.71>with bitter words. Why look you so upon me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.72>For no ill will I bear you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.73>I pray you, do not fall in love with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.74>For I am falser than vows made in wine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.75>Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.76>'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.77>Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.78>Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.79>And be not proud: though all the world could see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.80>None could be so abused in sight as he.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.81>Come, to our flock.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt ROSALIND, CELIA and CORIN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.82>Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.83>'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.84>Sweet Phebe,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.85> Ha, what say'st thou, Silvius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.86>Sweet Phebe, pity me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.87>Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.88>Wherever sorrow is, relief would be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.89>If you do sorrow at my grief in love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.90>By giving love your sorrow and my grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.91>Were both extermined.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.92>Thou hast my love: is not that neighbourly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.93>I would have you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.94> Why, that were covetousness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.95>Silvius, the time was that I hated thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.96>And yet it is not that I bear thee love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.97>But since that thou canst talk of love so well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.98>Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.99>I will endure, and I'll employ thee too:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.100>But do not look for further recompense</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.101>Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.102>So holy and so perfect is my love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.103>And I in such a poverty of grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.104>That I shall think it a most plenteous crop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.105>To glean the broken ears after the man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.106>That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.107>A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.108>Know'st now the youth that spoke to me erewhile?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.109>Not very well, but I have met him oft;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.110>And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.111>That the old carlot once was master of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.112>Think not I love him, though I ask for him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.113>'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.114>But what care I for words? yet words do well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.115>When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.116>It is a pretty youth: not very pretty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.117>But, sure, he's proud, and yet his pride becomes him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.118>He'll make a proper man: the best thing in him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.119>Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.120>Did make offence his eye did heal it up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.121>He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.122>His leg is but so so; and yet 'tis well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.123>There was a pretty redness in his lip,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.124>A little riper and more lusty red</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.125>Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.126>Between the constant red and mingled damask.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.127>There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.128>In parcels as I did, would have gone near</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.129>To fall in love with him; but, for my part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.130>I love him not nor hate him not; and yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.131>I have more cause to hate him than to love him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.132>For what had he to do to chide at me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.133>He said mine eyes were black and my hair black:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.134>And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.135>I marvel why I answer'd not again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.136>But that's all one; omittance is no quittance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.137>I'll write to him a very taunting letter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.138>And thou shalt bear it: wilt thou, Silvius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.139>Phebe, with all my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.140>I'll write it straight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.141>The matter's in my head and in my heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.142>I will be bitter with him and passing short.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.143>Go with me, Silvius.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>They say you are a melancholy fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>I am so; I do love it better than laughing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>Those that are in extremity of either are abominable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>fellows and betray themselves to every modern</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>censure worse than drunkards.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>Why then, 'tis good to be a post.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>the lover's, which is all these: but it is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>contemplation of my travels, in which my often</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>other men's; then, to have seen much and to have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>Yes, I have gained my experience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>a fool to make me merry than experience to make me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>sad; and to travel for it too!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ORLANDO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>own country, be out of love with your nativity and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>almost chide God for making you that countenance you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>gondola. Why, how now, Orlando! where have you been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>all this while? You a lover! An you serve me such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>another trick, never come in my sight more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>Break an hour's promise in love! He that will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>him heart-whole.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>Pardon me, dear Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>had as lief be wooed of a snail.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>Of a snail?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>carries his house on his head; a better jointure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>his destiny with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>What's that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Virtue is no horn-maker; and my Rosalind is virtuous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>And I am your Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>It pleases him to call you so; but he hath a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>Rosalind of a better leer than you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>humour and like enough to consent. What would you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>say to me now, an I were your very very Rosalind?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>I would kiss before I spoke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>gravelled for lack of matter, you might take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>out, they will spit; and for lovers lacking--God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>How if the kiss be denied?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>I should think my honesty ranker than my wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>What, of my suit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>Am not I your Rosalind?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>I take some joy to say you are, because I would be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>talking of her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>Well in her person I say I will not have you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>Then in mine own person I die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>almost six thousand years old, and in all this time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>there was not any man died in his own person,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>could to die before, and he is one of the patterns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>But these are all lies: men have died from time to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>for, I protest, her frown might kill me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>disposition, and ask me what you will. I will grant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>Then love me, Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>And wilt thou have me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>Ay, and twenty such.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>What sayest thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>Are you not good?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>I hope so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Give me your hand, Orlando. What do you say, sister?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>Pray thee, marry us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>I cannot say the words.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>You must begin, 'Will you, Orlando--'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>Ay, but when?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>Why now; as fast as she can marry us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>I might ask you for your commission; but I do take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>thee, Orlando, for my husband: there's a girl goes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>before the priest; and certainly a woman's thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>runs before her actions.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>So do all thoughts; they are winged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>Now tell me how long you would have her after you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>have possessed her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>For ever and a day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>men are April when they woo, December when they wed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>maids are May when they are maids, but the sky</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>in the fountain, and I will do that when you are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>that when thou art inclined to sleep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>But will my Rosalind do so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>By my life, she will do as I do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>O, but she is wise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>with the smoke out at the chimney.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>'Wit, whither wilt?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>Nay, you might keep that cheque for it till you met</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.152>And what wit could wit have to excuse that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.153>Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.154>never take her without her answer, unless you take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.155>her without her tongue. O, that woman that cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.156>make her fault her husband's occasion, let her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.157>never nurse her child herself, for she will breed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.158>it like a fool!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.159>For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.160>Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.161>I must attend the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.162>will be with thee again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.163>Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew what you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.164>would prove: my friends told me as much, and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.165>thought no less: that flattering tongue of yours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.166>won me: 'tis but one cast away, and so, come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.167>death! Two o'clock is your hour?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.168>Ay, sweet Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.169>By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.170>me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.171>if you break one jot of your promise or come one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.172>minute behind your hour, I will think you the most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.173>pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.174>and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.175>may be chosen out of the gross band of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.176>unfaithful: therefore beware my censure and keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.177>your promise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.178>With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.179>Rosalind: so adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.180>Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.181>offenders, and let Time try: adieu.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit ORLANDO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.182>You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.183>we must have your doublet and hose plucked over your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.184>head, and show the world what the bird hath done to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.185>her own nest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.186>O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.187>didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.188>it cannot be sounded: my affection hath an unknown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.189>bottom, like the bay of Portugal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.190>Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.191>affection in, it runs out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.192>No, that same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.193>of thought, conceived of spleen and born of madness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.194>that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.195>because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.196>am in love. I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.197>of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a shadow and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.198>sigh till he come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.199>And I'll sleep.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter JAQUES, Lords, and Foresters</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Which is he that killed the deer?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>A Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>Sir, it was I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>conqueror; and it would do well to set the deer's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>you no song, forester, for this purpose?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Forester</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>Yes, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>make noise enough.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>SONG.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Forester</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>What shall he have that kill'd the deer?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>His leather skin and horns to wear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Then sing him home;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The rest shall bear this burden</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>It was a crest ere thou wast born:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>Thy father's father wore it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>And thy father bore it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>The horn, the horn, the lusty horn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ROSALIND and CELIA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>here much Orlando!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>sleep. Look, who comes here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SILVIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>My errand is to you, fair youth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>My gentle Phebe bid me give you this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>I know not the contents; but, as I guess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>By the stern brow and waspish action</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>Which she did use as she was writing of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>It bears an angry tenor: pardon me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>I am but as a guiltless messenger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>Patience herself would startle at this letter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>And play the swaggerer; bear this, bear all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>Her love is not the hare that I do hunt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>This is a letter of your own device.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>No, I protest, I know not the contents:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>Phebe did write it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>Come, come, you are a fool</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>And turn'd into the extremity of love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>She has a huswife's hand; but that's no matter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>I say she never did invent this letter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>This is a man's invention and his hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>Sure, it is hers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>A style for-challengers; why, she defies me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>So please you, for I never heard it yet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>Can a woman rail thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>Call you this railing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>Why, thy godhead laid apart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>Did you ever hear such railing?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>Whiles the eye of man did woo me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>That could do no vengeance to me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>Meaning me a beast.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>If the scorn of your bright eyne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>Have power to raise such love in mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>Alack, in me what strange effect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>Would they work in mild aspect!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>Whiles you chid me, I did love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>How then might your prayers move!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>He that brings this love to thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>Little knows this love in me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>And by him seal up thy mind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>Whether that thy youth and kind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>Will the faithful offer take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>Of me and all that I can make;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>Or else by him my love deny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>And then I'll study how to die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>Call you this chiding?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>Alas, poor shepherd!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>Do you pity him? no, he deserves no pity. Wilt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>instrument and play false strains upon thee! not to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>be endured! Well, go your way to her, for I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>love hath made thee a tame snake, and say this to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>her: that if she love me, I charge her to love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>thee; if she will not, I will never have her unless</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>thou entreat for her. If you be a true lover,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>hence, and not a word; for here comes more company.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SILVIUS</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter OLIVER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, if you know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>Where in the purlieus of this forest stands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79>A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>Left on your right hand brings you to the place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>But at this hour the house doth keep itself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>There's none within.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>If that an eye may profit by a tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>Then should I know you by description;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>Such garments and such years: 'The boy is fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>Of female favour, and bestows himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>Like a ripe sister: the woman low</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>And browner than her brother.' Are not you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>The owner of the house I did inquire for?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>Orlando doth commend him to you both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>And to that youth he calls his Rosalind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96>I am: what must we understand by this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>Some of my shame; if you will know of me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>What man I am, and how, and why, and where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>This handkercher was stain'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>I pray you, tell it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>When last the young Orlando parted from you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>He left a promise to return again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>Lo, what befell! he threw his eye aside,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>And mark what object did present itself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>And high top bald with dry antiquity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>Lay sleeping on his back: about his neck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>And with indented glides did slip away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>Into a bush: under which bush's shade</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>The royal disposition of that beast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.121>To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.122>This seen, Orlando did approach the man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.123>And found it was his brother, his elder brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.124>O, I have heard him speak of that same brother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.125>And he did render him the most unnatural</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.126>That lived amongst men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.127>And well he might so do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.128>For well I know he was unnatural.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.129>But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.130>Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.131>Twice did he turn his back and purposed so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.132>But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.133>And nature, stronger than his just occasion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.134>Made him give battle to the lioness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.135>Who quickly fell before him: in which hurtling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.136>From miserable slumber I awaked.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.137>Are you his brother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.138>Wast you he rescued?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.139>Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.140>'Twas I; but 'tis not I I do not shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.141>To tell you what I was, since my conversion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.142>So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.143>But, for the bloody napkin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.144>By and by.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.145>When from the first to last betwixt us two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.146>Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.147>As how I came into that desert place:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.148>In brief, he led me to the gentle duke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.149>Who gave me fresh array and entertainment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.150>Committing me unto my brother's love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.151>Who led me instantly unto his cave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.152>There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.153>The lioness had torn some flesh away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.154>Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.155>And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.156>Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.157>And, after some small space, being strong at heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.158>He sent me hither, stranger as I am,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.159>To tell this story, that you might excuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.160>His broken promise, and to give this napkin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.161>Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.162>That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>ROSALIND swoons</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.163>Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.164>Many will swoon when they do look on blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.165>There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.166>Look, he recovers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.167>I would I were at home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.168>We'll lead you thither.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.169>I pray you, will you take him by the arm?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.170>Be of good cheer, youth: you a man! you lack a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.171>man's heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.172>I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.173>think this was well counterfeited! I pray you, tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.174>your brother how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.175>This was not counterfeit: there is too great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.176>testimony in your complexion that it was a passion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.177>of earnest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.178>Counterfeit, I assure you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.179>Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.180>So I do: but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>CELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.181>Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.182>homewards. Good sir, go with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.183>That will I, for I must bear answer back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.184>How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.185>I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.186>my counterfeiting to him. Will you go?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>gentleman's saying.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>forest lays claim to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>the world: here comes the man you mean.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>troth, we that have good wits have much to answer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter WILLIAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Good even, Audrey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>God ye good even, William.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>And good even to you, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>Five and twenty, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>A ripe age. Is thy name William?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>William, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>Ay, sir, I thank God.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>Faith, sir, so so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>would open his lips when he put it into his mouth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>lips to open. You do love this maid?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>I do, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>Give me your hand. Art thou learned?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>No, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>Which he, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>female,--which in the common is woman; which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>together is, abandon the society of this female, or,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>understanding, diest; or, to wit I kill thee, make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>thee away, translate thy life into death, thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>therefore tremble and depart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>Do, good William.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>WILLIAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>God rest you merry, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter CORIN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CORIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>Our master and mistress seeks you; come, away, away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>should like her? that but seeing you should love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>grant? and will you persever to enjoy her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>I love Aliena; say with her that she loves me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>consent with both that we may enjoy each other: it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>shall be to your good; for my father's house and all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>thither will I invite the duke and all's contented</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>followers. Go you and prepare Aliena; for look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>you, here comes my Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ROSALIND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>God save you, brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>OLIVER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>And you, fair sister.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>wear thy heart in a scarf!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>It is my arm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>of a lion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>Ay, and greater wonders than that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>met but they looked, no sooner looked but they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>sighed but they asked one another the reason, no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>else be incontinent before marriage: they are in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>cannot part them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>is to look into happiness through another man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>think my brother happy in having what he wishes for.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>I can live no longer by thinking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>I will weary you then no longer with idle talking.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>Know of me then, for now I speak to some purpose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>speak not this that you should bear a good opinion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>some little measure draw a belief from you, to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>yourself good and not to grace me. Believe then, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>you please, that I can do strange things: I have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>since I was three year old, conversed with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>magician, most profound in his art and yet not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>as your gesture cries it out, when your brother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>marries Aliena, shall you marry her: I know into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>what straits of fortune she is driven; and it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>as she is and without any danger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>Speakest thou in sober meanings?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>best array: bid your friends; for if you will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>married to-morrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>To show the letter that I writ to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>I care not if I have: it is my study</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>To seem despiteful and ungentle to you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>You are there followed by a faithful shepherd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>Look upon him, love him; he worships you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>It is to be all made of sighs and tears;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>And so am I for Phebe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>And I for Ganymede.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>And I for Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>And I for no woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>It is to be all made of faith and service;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>And so am I for Phebe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>And I for Ganymede.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>And I for Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>And I for no woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>It is to be all made of fantasy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>All made of passion and all made of wishes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>All adoration, duty, and observance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>All humbleness, all patience and impatience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>All purity, all trial, all observance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>And so am I for Phebe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>And so am I for Ganymede.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>And so am I for Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>And so am I for no woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>If this be so, why blame you me to love you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>If this be so, why blame you me to love you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>If this be so, why blame you me to love you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>Who do you speak to, 'Why blame you me to love you?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>of Irish wolves against the moon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To SILVIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>I will help you, if I can:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To PHEBE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To PHEBE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>married to-morrow:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To ORLANDO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>shall be married to-morrow:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To SILVIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>I will content you, if what pleases you contents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>you, and you shall be married to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To ORLANDO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>As you love Rosalind, meet:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To SILVIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>as you love Phebe, meet: and as I love no woman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.116>I'll meet. So fare you well: I have left you commands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.117>I'll not fail, if I live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.118>Nor I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.119>Nor I.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>we be married.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AUDREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter two Pages</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Well met, honest gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>We are for you: sit i' the middle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>prologues to a bad voice?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Second Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>gipsies on a horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>SONG.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>It was a lover and his lass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>That o'er the green corn-field did pass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>Sweet lovers love the spring.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>Between the acres of the rye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>These pretty country folks would lie,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>In spring time, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>This carol they began that hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>How that a life was but a flower</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>In spring time, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>And therefore take the present time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>For love is crowned with the prime</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>In spring time, & c.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>matter in the ditty, yet the note was very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>untuneable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>First Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>your voices! Come, Audrey.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER, and CELIA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>Can do all this that he hath promised?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>You will bestow her on Orlando here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>And you say, you will have her, when I bring her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>That will I, should I die the hour after.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.13>But if you do refuse to marry me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.14>You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.15>So is the bargain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.16>You say, that you'll have Phebe, if she will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SILVIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.17>Though to have her and death were both one thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.18>I have promised to make all this matter even.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.19>Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.20>You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.21>Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.22>Or else refusing me, to wed this shepherd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.23>Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.24>If she refuse me: and from hence I go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.25>To make these doubts all even.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.26>I do remember in this shepherd boy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.27>Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.28>My lord, the first time that I ever saw him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.29>Methought he was a brother to your daughter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.30>But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.31>And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.32>Of many desperate studies by his uncle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.33>Whom he reports to be a great magician,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.34>Obscured in the circle of this forest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.35>There is, sure, another flood toward, and these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.36>couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.37>very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.38>Salutation and greeting to you all!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.39>Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.40>motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.41>the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.42>If any man doubt that, let him put me to my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.43>purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flattered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.44>a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.45>with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.46>had four quarrels, and like to have fought one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.47>And how was that ta'en up?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.48>Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.49>seventh cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.50>How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.51>I like him very well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.52>God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.53>press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.54>copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.55>marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.56>sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.57>humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.58>will: rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.59>poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.60>By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.61>According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.62>But, for the seventh cause; how did you find the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.63>quarrel on the seventh cause?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.64>Upon a lie seven times removed:--bear your body more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.65>seeming, Audrey:--as thus, sir. I did dislike the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.66>cut of a certain courtier's beard: he sent me word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.67>if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.68>mind it was: this is called the Retort Courteous.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.69>If I sent him word again 'it was not well cut,' he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.70>would send me word, he cut it to please himself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.71>this is called the Quip Modest. If again 'it was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.72>not well cut,' he disabled my judgment: this is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.73>called the Reply Churlish. If again 'it was not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.74>well cut,' he would answer, I spake not true: this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.75>is called the Reproof Valiant. If again 'it was not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.76>well cut,' he would say I lied: this is called the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.77>Counter-cheque Quarrelsome: and so to the Lie</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.78>Circumstantial and the Lie Direct.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.79>And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.80>I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.81>nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.82>measured swords and parted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.83>Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>TOUCHSTONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.84>O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.85>books for good manners: I will name you the degrees.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.86>The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.87>Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.88>fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.89>Countercheque Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.90>Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.91>these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.92>avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.93>justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.94>parties were met themselves, one of them thought but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.95>of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.96>they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.97>only peacemaker; much virtue in If.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.98>Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.99>any thing and yet a fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.100>He uses his folly like a stalking-horse and under</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.101>the presentation of that he shoots his wit.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND, and CELIA</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Still Music</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HYMEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.102> Then is there mirth in heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.103>When earthly things made even</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.104>Atone together.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.105>Good duke, receive thy daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.106>Hymen from heaven brought her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.107>Yea, brought her hither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.108>That thou mightst join her hand with his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.109>Whose heart within his bosom is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.110>[To DUKE SENIOR] To you I give myself, for I am yours.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To ORLANDO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.111>To you I give myself, for I am yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.112>If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.113>If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.114>If sight and shape be true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.115>Why then, my love adieu!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.116>I'll have no father, if you be not he:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.117>I'll have no husband, if you be not he:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.118>Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HYMEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.119> Peace, ho! I bar confusion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.120>'Tis I must make conclusion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.121>Of these most strange events:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.122>Here's eight that must take hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.123>To join in Hymen's bands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.124>If truth holds true contents.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.125>You and you no cross shall part:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.126>You and you are heart in heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.127>You to his love must accord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.128>Or have a woman to your lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.129>You and you are sure together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.130>As the winter to foul weather.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.131>Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.132>Feed yourselves with questioning;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.133>That reason wonder may diminish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.134>How thus we met, and these things finish.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.135>SONG.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.136>Wedding is great Juno's crown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.137>O blessed bond of board and bed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.138>'Tis Hymen peoples every town;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.139>High wedlock then be honoured:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.140>Honour, high honour and renown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.141>To Hymen, god of every town!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.142>O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.143>Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>PHEBE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.144>I will not eat my word, now thou art mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.145>Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter JAQUES DE BOYS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>JAQUES DE BOYS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.146>Let me have audience for a word or two:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.147>I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.148>That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.149>Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.150>Men of great worth resorted to this forest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.151>Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.152>In his own conduct, purposely to take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.153>His brother here and put him to the sword:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.154>And to the skirts of this wild wood he came;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.155>Where meeting with an old religious man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.156>After some question with him, was converted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.157>Both from his enterprise and from the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.158>His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.159>And all their lands restored to them again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.160>That were with him exiled. This to be true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.161>I do engage my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.162>Welcome, young man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.163>Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.164>To one his lands withheld, and to the other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.165>A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.166>First, in this forest, let us do those ends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.167>That here were well begun and well begot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.168>And after, every of this happy number</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.169>That have endured shrewd days and nights with us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.170>Shall share the good of our returned fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.171>According to the measure of their states.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.172>Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.173>And fall into our rustic revelry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.174>Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.175>With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.176>Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.177>The duke hath put on a religious life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.178>And thrown into neglect the pompous court?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>JAQUES DE BOYS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.179>He hath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.180>To him will I : out of these convertites</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.181>There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To DUKE SENIOR</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.182>You to your former honour I bequeath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.183>Your patience and your virtue well deserves it:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To ORLANDO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.184>You to a love that your true faith doth merit:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To OLIVER</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.185>You to your land and love and great allies:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To SILVIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.186>You to a long and well-deserved bed:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To TOUCHSTONE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.187>And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.188>Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.189>I am for other than for dancing measures.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.190>Stay, Jaques, stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>JAQUES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.191>To see no pastime I what you would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.192>I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DUKE SENIOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.193>Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.194>As we do trust they'll end, in true delights.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A dance</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.195>EPILOGUE</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>ROSALIND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.196>It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.197>but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.198>the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.199>no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.200>epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.201>and good plays prove the better by the help of good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.202>epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.203>neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.204>you in the behalf of a good play! I am not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.205>furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.206>become me: my way is to conjure you; and I'll begin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.207>with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.208>you bear to men, to like as much of this play as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.209>please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.210>you bear to women--as I perceive by your simpering,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.211>none of you hates them--that between you and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.212>women the play may please. If I were a woman I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.213>would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.214>me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.215>defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.216>beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.217>kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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