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The forest.
[Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER, and CELIA]
DUKE SENIOR
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Dost thou | believe | Orlan|do, that | the boy
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Can do | all this | that he | hath prom|ised?
ORLANDO
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I some|times^do | believe,| and sometimes | do
not,
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As those | that fear | they hope,| and know |
they fear.
[Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE]
ROSALIND
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Patience | once more,/ whiles^our | compact is
urged:
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You say,| if I | bring in | your Ros|alind,
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You will | bestow | her on | Orlan|do here?
DUKE SENIOR
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That would | I, had | I king|doms to give | with
her.
ROSALIND
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And you | say you will | have her,| when I |
bring her?
ORLANDO
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That would | I, were | I of / all king|doms king.
ROSALIND
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You say*,| you'll mar|ry me,| if I | be
wil||ling.
PHEBE
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That will | I, should | I die | the hour | after.
ROSALIND
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But if | you do | refuse | to mar|ry me,
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You'll give | yourself | to this most | faithful
| shepherd?
PHEBE
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So is the | bargain. \\
ROSALIND
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You say | that you'll | have Phe|be if / she
will.
SILVIUS
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Though to have | her and | death, were | both one
thing.
ROSALIND
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I have prom|ised to / make all | this mat|ter
even:
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Keep^you | your word,| O duke,| to give your |
daughter,
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You yours Orlan|do, to re|ceive his | daughter:
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Keep^your | word Phe|be, that | you'll mar|ry me,
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Or else | refus|ing me | to wed this | shepherd:
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Keep^your | word Sil/vius, that | you'll mar/ry
her
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If she | refuse | me, and | from hence | I go
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To make | these doubts | all^ev|en. \\
[Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA]
DUKE SENIOR
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I do | remem|ber in | this shep|herd boy,
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Some live|ly touch|es of | my daught|er's
fav||or.
ORLANDO
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My lord,| the first | time that I | ever | saw
him,
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Methought | he was a | brother | to your |
daughter:
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But my / good lord,| this boy | is for|est-born,
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And hath | been tut|ored in | the rud|iments
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Of ma|ny despe|rate stud|ies, by | his uncle,
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Whom he re|ports to | be a | great ma|gician,
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Obscured | in the | circle | of this | forest.
[Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]
JAQUES
There is sure another flood toward, and these couples are coming to the ark.
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues, are called
fools.
TOUCHSTONE
Salutation and greeting to you all.
JAQUES
Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the motley-minded gentleman, that I
have so often met in the forest: he hath been a courtier he swears.
TOUCHSTONE
If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation, I have trod a
measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth
with mine enemy, I have undone three tailors, I have had four quarrels, and
like to have fought one.
JAQUES
And how was that tane up?
TOUCHSTONE
Faith we met, and found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause.
JAQUES
How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow.
DUKE SENIOR
I like him very well.
TOUCHSTONE
God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like: I press in here sir, amongst
the rest of the country copulatives to swear, and to forswear, according as
marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin sir, an ill-favored thing
sir, but mine own, a poor humor of mine sir, to take that that no man else
will: rich honesty dwells like a miser sir, in a poor house, as your pearl
in your foul oyster.
DUKE SENIOR
By my faith, he is very swift, and sententious.
TOUCHSTONE
According to the fool's bolt sir, and such dulcet diseases.
JAQUES
But for the seventh cause. How did you find the quarrel on the seventh
cause?
TOUCHSTONE
Upon a lie, seven times removed: (bear your body more seeming Audrey) as
thus sir: I did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's beard: he sent me
word, if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was: this
is called the Retort Courteous. If I sent him word again, it was not well
cut, he would send me word he cut it to please himself: this is called the
Quip Modest. If again, it was not well cut, he disabled my judgment: this is
called, the Reply Churlish. If again it was not well cut, he would answer I
spake not true: this is called the Reproof Valiant. If again, it was not
well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the Counter-check Quarrelsome:
and so to the Lie Circumstantial, and the Lie Direct.
JAQUES
And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?
TOUCHSTONE
I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial: nor he durst not give me
the Lie Direct: and so we measured swords, and parted.
JAQUES
Can you nominate in order now, the degrees of the lie.
TOUCHSTONE
O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book: as you have books for good manners:
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous: the second,
the Quip Modest: the third, the Reply Churlish: the fourth, the Reproof
Valiant: the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome: the sixth, the Lie with
Circumstance: the seventh, the Lie Direct: all these you may avoid, but the
Lie Direct: and you may avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven
justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met
themselves, one of them thought but of an If; as If you said so, then I said
so: and they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your If, is the only
peacemaker: much virtue in If.
JAQUES
Is not this a rare fellow my lord? He's as good at anything, and yet a fool.
DUKE SENIOR
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that
he shoots his wit.
[Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND, and CELIA. Still Music]
HYMEN
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Then is | there mirth | in heav|en,
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When earth|ly things | made ev|en
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atone | togeth|er. |
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Good^duke | receive | thy daught|er,
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Hymen | from heav|en brought | her,
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Yea brought her | hither,|
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That thou | mightst join | her hand | with his,
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Whose heart | within | his bos|om is.
ROSALIND
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To you | I give | myself,| for I | am yours.
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To you | I give | myself,| for I | am yours.
DUKE SENIOR
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If there | be truth | in sight,| you are | my
daught|er.
ORLANDO
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If there | be truth | in sight,| you are | my
Ros|alind. (hex with prev)
PHEBE
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If sight | and shape | be true,| why then | my
love | adieu. (two tri)
ROSALIND
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I'll have | no fath|er, if | you be | not he:
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I'll have | no hus|band, if | you be | not he.
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Nor nere | wed woman, if | you be | not she.
HYMEN
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Peace^ho:| I bar | confus|ion,
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'Tis I | must make | conclus|ion
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Of these | most^strange | events:
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Here's^eight | that must | take^hands,
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To join | in Hy|men's bands,
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If truth holds true | contents.
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You and | you, no | cross shall | part:
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You and | you, are | heart in | heart:
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You, to | his love must | accord,
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Or have | a wom|an to | your lord.
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You and | you, are | sure to|gether,
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As the | winter | to foul weather:
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Whiles a | wedlock-hymn | we sing,
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Feed your|selves with | question|ing:
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That reas|on, wond|er may | diminish
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How thus | we met,| and these things finish.
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Wedding | is great Jun|o's crown,
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O bles|sed bond | of board | and bed:
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'Tis Hy|men peop|les eve|ry town,
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High* wed|lock^then | be hon|ored:
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Honor,| high honor and | renown
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To Hy|men, god | of eve|ry town.
DUKE SENIOR
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O my / dear niece,| welcome | thou art | to me,
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Even daught|er wel|come, in / no less | degree.
PHEBE
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I will | not eat | my word,| now thou | art mine,
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Thy faith,| my fan|cy to | thee doth | combine.
[Enter JAQUES DE BOYS]
JAQUES DE BOYS
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Let me | have aud|ience for | a word | or two:
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I am the | second | son of | old Sir | Rowland,
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That bring | these tid/ings to this | fair
as|sembly.
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Duke Frederick | hearing | how that | every day,
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Men of great worth | resort|ed to this | forest,
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Addressed | a might|y power,| which were | on
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In his own | conduct, pur|posely | to take
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His broth|er here,| and put | him to | the sword:
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And to | the skirts | of this / wild wood | he
came;
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Where, meet/ing with | an old | relig|ious man,
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After some | question | with him,| was con|verted
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Both from | his ent|erprise,| and from | the
world:
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His crown | bequeath|ing to his | banished |
brother,
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And all | their lands | restored | to them |
again
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That were | with him | exiled. This | to be true,
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I do | engage | my life.
DUKE SENIOR
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Welcome | young^man:
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Thou of|ferst fair|ly to thy | brothers' |
wedding: ??
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To one | his lands | withheld,| and to the |
other
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A land | itself | at large, a | potent | dukedom.
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First, in | this for|est, let | us do | those
ends
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That here | were well | begun,| and well | begot:
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And aft|er, eve|ry of | this hap|py number
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That have | endured | shrewd days, and nights |
with us,
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Shall share | the good | of our | returned |
fortune,
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Accord|ing to | the meas|ure of | their states.
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Mean^time,| forget | this new-|fallen dig/nity,
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And fall | into | our rust|ic rev|elry:
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Play mus/ic, and | you brides | and
bride|grooms^all,
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With meas|ure heaped | in joy,| to the meas|ures
fall.
JAQUES
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Sir, by your | patience.| If I | heard you |
rightly,
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The duke | hath put | on a | relig|ious life,
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And thrown | into | neglect | the pomp|ous court.
JAQUES DE BOYS
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He hath. \\
JAQUES
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To him | will I:| out of | these con|vertites,
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There is much mat|ter to | be heard,| and
learned.
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You to | your form|er hon|or, I | bequeath
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Your pat|ience, and | your vir|tue, well |
deserves it.
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You to | a love,| that your / true faith | doth
merit:
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You to your | land, and | love,| and great
allies:
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You to | a long,| and well-|deserv|ed bed:
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And you | to wrang|ling, for thy | loving |
voyage
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Is but | for two | months vict/ualled.| So, to
your | pleasures,
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I am | for oth|er, than | for danc|ing meas|ures.
(hex with prev)
DUKE SENIOR
Stay, Jaques, stay.
JAQUES
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To see | no pas|time,^I:| what you | would have,
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I'll stay | to know | at your | aban|doned cave.
[Exit]
DUKE SENIOR
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Proceed,| proceed:| we will | begin | these
rites,
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As we | do trust,| they'll end | in true |
delights.
[Exit]
EPILOGUE
ROSALIND
It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue: but it is no more
unhandsome, than to see the lord the prologue. If it be true, that good wine
needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to good
wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of
good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue,
nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play? I am not
furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become me. My way is to
conjure you, and I'll begin with the women. I charge you (O women) for the
love you bear to men, to like as much of this play, as please you: and I
charge you (O men) for the love you bear to women (as I perceive by your
simpering, none of you hates them) that between you, and the women, the play
may please. If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards
that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not:
and I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths,
will for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
[Exeunt]