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should not have mocked me before: but come your ways.

[man!

Orl. What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?

Ros. Now Hercules be thy speed, young I cannot speak to her, yet she urg'd conference. Cel. I would I were invisible, to catch the O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown! strong fellow by the leg. Or Charles, or something weaker, masters thee. Re-enter Le Beau.

[Charles and Orlando wrestle. Ros. O excellent young man! Cel. If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should down.

[Charles is thrown. Shout. Duke F. No more, no more. Orl. Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed.

Duke F. How dost thou, Charles?
Le Beau. He cannot speak, my lord.
Duke F. Bear him away.

[Charles is borne out. What is thy name, young man?

Orl. Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Bois.

Duke F. I would thou hadst been son to
some man else:

The world esteem'd thy father honourable,
But I did find him still mine enemy: [deed,
Thou shouldst have better pleas'd me with this
Hadst thou descended from another house.
But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth:
I would thou hadst told me of another father.
[Exeunt Duke Fred., train, and Le Beau.
Cel. Were I my father, coz, would I do this?
Orl. I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's
[calling,
His youngest son ;-and would not change that
To be adopted heir to Frederick.

son,

Ros. My father lov'd Sir Rowland as his soul, And all the world was of my father's mind: Had I before known this young man his son, I should have given him tears unto entreaties, Ere he should thus have ventur'd. Cel. Gentle cousin, Let us go thank him and encourage him: My father's rough and envious disposition Sticks me at heart.-Sir, you have well deIf

you do keep your promises in iove [serv'd: But justly, as you have exceeded all promise, Your mistress shall be happy.

Ros.

Gentleman,

[Giving him a chain from her neck. Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune, That could give more, but that her hand lacks Shall we go, coz? [means.

Cel. Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman. Orl. Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts [stands up Are all thrown down; and that which here Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block. Ros. He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes; [sir? I'll ask him what he would.-Did you call, Sir, you have wrestled well, and overthrown More than your enemies.

Cel.
Will you go, coz?
Ros. Have with you.-Fare you well.
[Exeunt Rosalind and Celia.

Le Beau. Good sir, I do in friendship coun-
sel you

To leave this place. Albeit you have deserv'd
High commendation, true applause, and love,
Yet such is now the duke's condition,
That he misconstrues all that you have done.
The duke is humorous: what he is, indeed,
More suits you to conceive, than I to speak of.
Orl. I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell
me this,

Which of the two was daughter of the duke,
That here was at the wrestling?

Le Beau. Neither his daughter if we judge

by manners;

But yet, indeed, the smaller is his daughter:
The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,
And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,
To keep his daughter company; whose loves
Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.
But I can tell you, that of late this duke
Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,
Grounded upon no other argument,
But that the people praise her for her virtues,
And pity her for her good father's sake;
And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady
Will suddenly break forth.-Sir, fare you well.
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
Orl. I rest much bounden to you: fare you
well.
[Exit Le Beau.
Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;
From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother :--
But heavenly Rosalind!

[Exit.

SCENE III.-A Room in the Palace.

Enter Celia and Rosalind.

Cel. Why, cousin; why, Rosalind ;-Cupid have mercy!-Not a word?

Ros. Not one to throw at a dog.

Cel. No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon curs, throw some of them at me: come, lame me with reasons.

Ros. Then there were two cousins laid up, when the one should be lamed with reasons, and the other mad without any.

Cel. But is all this for your father? Ros. No, some of it for my father's child. O, how full of briers is this working-day world! Cel. They are but burrs, cousin, thrown upon thee in holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them.

Ros. I could shake them off my coat : these burrs are in my heart.

[have him.

Cel. Hem them away.
Ros. I would try, if I could cry hem, and
Cel. Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.

Ros. O, they take the part of a better wrest-Still we went coupled and inseparable. ler than myself!

Cel. O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in despite of a fall -But, turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest is it possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son? [dearly. Ros. The duke my father lov'd his father Cel. Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him, for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate not Orlando.

Ros. No, 'faith, hate him not, for my sake. Cel. Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?

Ros. Let me love him for that; and do you love him because I do.-Look, here comes the duke.

Enter Duke Frederick, with Lords.
Cel. With his eyes full of anger.
Duke F. Mistress, despatch you with your
And get you from our court. [safest haste,
Ros.
Me, uncle?

Duke F.
You, cousin
Within these ten days if that thou be'st found
So near our public court as twenty miles,
Thou diest for it.

Ros.
I do beseech your grace,
Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with
If with myself I hold intelligence, [me:
Or have acquaintance with mine own desires;
If that I do not dream, or be not frantic,
(As I do trust I am not,) then, dear uncle,
Never so much as in a thought unborn
Did I offend your highness.

Duke F.

Duke F. She is too subtle for thee; and her
smoothness,

Her very silence, and her patience,
Speak to the people, and they pity her.
Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name;
f.nd thou wilt show more bright, and seem
more virtuous,

When she is gone. Then, open not thy lips :
Firm and irrevocable is my doom
[ish'd.
Which I have pass'd upon her ;-she is ban-
Cel. Pronounce that sentence, then, on me,
cannot live out of her company. [my liege :
Duke F. You are a fool.-You, niece, pro-

I

vide yourself:

If you out-stay the time, upon mine honour,
And in the greatness of my word, you die.
[Exeunt Duke Frederick and Lords.
Cel. O my poor Rosalind! whither wilt thou
go?

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Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.
I charge thee, be not thou more griev'd than I
Ros. I have more cause.
[am.
Cel.
Thou hast not, cousin
Pr'ythee, be cheerful: know'st thou not, the
Hath banish'd me, his daughter? [duke
Ros.
That he hath not.
Cel. No? hath not? Rosalind lacks, then,

the love

Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one.
Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl?
No: let my father seek another heir.
Therefore devise with me how we may fly,
Whither to go, and what to bear with us:
And do not seek to take your change upon you,
To bear your griefs yourself, and leave me out ;
For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,
Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.
Ros. Why, whither shall we go?
To seek my uncle

Thus do all traitors:
If their purgation did consist in words,
They are as innocent as grace itself:-
Let it suffice thee, that I trust thee not.
Ros. Yet your mistrust cannot make me a In the forest of Arden.

traitor :

Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.
Duke F. Thou art thy father's daughter;
there's enough.
[his dukedom;
Ros. So was I when your highness took
So was I when your highness banish'd him.
Treason is not inherited, my lord;

Or, if we did derive it from our friends,
What's that to me? my father was no traitor :
Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much,
To think my poverty is treacherous.

Cel. Dear sovereign, hear me speak.
Duke F. Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your
sake,

Else had she with her father rang'd along.

Cel.

Ros. Alas, what danger will it be to us,
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Cel. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
The like do you so shall we pass along,
And never stir assailants.

Were it not better,

Ros.
Because that I am more than common tall,
That I did suit me all points like a man?
A gallant curtal-axe upon my thigh,
A boar-spear in my hand; and (in my heart
Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will,)
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside;
As many other mannish cowards have,

Cel. What shall I call thee when thou art a
man?
[own page;

Cel. I did not then entreat to have her stay,That do outface it with their semblances. It was your pleasure, and your own remorse : I was too young that time to value her; But now I know her if she be a traitor, Why so am I; we still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together;

And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,

Ros. I'll have no worse a name than Jove's
And therefore look you call me Ganymede.
But what will you be call'd?
[state :

Cel. Something that hath a reference to my
No longer Celia, but Aliena.

Ros. But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal | Cours'd one another down his innocent nose The clownish fool out of your father's court? In piteous chase: and thus the hairy fool, Would he not be a comfort to our travel? Much marked of the melancholy Jaques, Cel. He'll go along o'er the wide world with Stood on the extremest verge of the swift Augmenting it with tears. [brook, But what said Jaques?

me;

Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,
And get our jewels and our wealth together;
Devise the fittest time and safest way
To hide us from pursuit that will be made
After my flight. Now go we in content
To liberty, and not to banishment. [Exeunt.

ACT II.

SCENE I.-The Forest of Arden. Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, and other Lords, in the dress of Foresters.

Duke S. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,

Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these

woods

More free from peril than the envious court?
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,
This is no flattery: these are counsellors
That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Sweet are the uses of adversity;
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head :
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Ami. I would not change it. Happy is

your grace,

That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.

Duke S. Come, shall we go and kill us venison ?

And yet it irks me, the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines, with forked heads Have their round haunches gor'd.

1 Lord. Indeed, my lord, The melancholy Jaques grieves at that; And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you. To-day my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood: To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish; and, indeed, my lord, The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans, That their discharge did stretch his leathern

coat

Almost to bursting; and the big round tears

Duke S.

Did he not moralize this spectacle?

I Lord. O, yes, into a thousand similes. First, for his weeping into the needless stream; Poor dear," quoth he, "thou mak'st a tes

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As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
To that which hath too much," then, being
there alone,

Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends;
"Tis right," quoth he; "thus misery doth
part

The flux of company:" anon, a careless herd,
Full of the pasture, jumps along by him,
And never stays to greet him; Ay," quoth
Jaques,

"

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there ?" Thus most invectively he pierceth through The body of the country, city, court, Yea, and of this our life: swearing that we Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse, To fright the animals, and to kill them up, In their assign'd and native dwelling-place. Duke S. And did you leave him in this contemplation? [menting 2 Lord. We did, my lord, weeping and comUpon the sobbing deer.

Duke S.

Show me the place:

I love to cope him in these sullen fits,
For then he's full of matter.

2 Lord. I'll bring you to him straight.

[Exeunt.

SCENE II.-A Room in the Palace.

Enter Duke Frederick, Lords, and Attendants. Duke F. Can it be possible that no man saw them?

It cannot be some villains of my court
Are of consent and sufferance in this.

[her.

1 Lord. I cannot hear of any that did see The ladies, her attendants of her chamber, Saw her a-bed; and, in the morning early, They found the bed untreasur'd of their mistress. [so oft

2 Lord. My lord, the roynish clown, at whom Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing. Hesperia, the princess' gentlewoman, Confesses that she secretly o'erheard Your daughter and her cousin much commend The parts and graces of the wrestler, That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles; And she believes, wherever they are gone, That youth is surely in their company.

Duke S. Send to his brother; fetch that gal

lant hither:

If he be absent, bring his brother to me; I'll make him find him: do this suddenly;

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SCENE III.-Oliver's House. Enter Orlando and Adam, meeting. Orl. Who's there? [gentle master! Adam. What, my young master?-O my O my sweet master! O you memory [here? Of old Sir Kowland! why, what make you Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you? [valiant? And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and Why would you be so fond to overcome The bony priser of the humorous duke? Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. Know you not, master, to some kind of men Their graces serve them but as enemies? No inore do yours: your virtues, gentle master, Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!

Orl. Why, what's the matter? Adam. O unhappy youth, Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives. Your brother-(no, no brother; yet the sonYet not the son-I will not call him sonOf him I was about to call his father,)— Hath heard your praises; and this night he

means

To burn the lodging where you used to lie,
And you within it if he fail of that,
He will have other means to cut you off:
I overheard him, and his practices.

This is no place; this house is but a butchery:
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.
Orl. Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou
have me go?

[here. Adam. No matter whither, so you come not Orl. What! wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?

Or with a base and boist'rous sword enforce
A thievish living on the common road?
This I must do, or know not what to do:
Yet this I will not do, do how I can ;
I rather will subject me to the malice
Of a diverted blood, and bloody brother.
Adam. But do not so. I have five hundred
crowns,

The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father,
Which I did store, to be my foster-nurse
When service should in my old limbs lie lame,
And unregarded age in corners thrown:
Take that; and He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;
All this I give you. Let me be your servant :
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,

Frosty, but kindly let me go with you;
I'll do the service of a younger man
In all your business and necessities.

[pears

Orl. O good old man, how well in thee apThe constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for need! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having it is not so with thee. But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, That cannot so much as a blossom yield, In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry : But come thy ways; we'll go along together; And ere we have thy youthful wages spent, We'll light upon some settled low content.

Adam. Master, go on, and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.— From seventeen years, till now almost four

score,

Here lived I, but now live here no more.
At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;
But at fourscore it is too late a week:
Yet fortune cannot recompense me better,
Than to die well, and not my master's debtor.
[Exeunt.

SCENE IV. The Forest of Arden. Enter Rosalind dressed like a boy, Celia like a shepherdess, and Touchstone.

Ros. O Jupiter! how weary are my spirits! Touch. I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.

Ros. I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel, and to cry like a woman : but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat; therefore, courage, good Aliena. Cel. I pray you, bear with me; I can go no farther.

Touch. For my part, I had rather bear with you, than bear you: yet I should bear no cross, if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.

Ros. Well, this is the forest of Arden.

Touch. Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

Ros. Ay, be so, good Touchstone.-Look you, who comes here; a young man, and an old, in solemn talk.

Enter Corin and Silvius. Cor. That is the way to make her scorn you still. [love her! Sil. O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do Cor. I partly guess; for I have lov'd ere now. Sil. No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess;

Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow:
But if thy love were ever like to mine,
(As sure I think did never man love so,)
How many actions most ridiculous
Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?

Cor. Into a thousand that I have forgotten.
Sil. O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily:
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not lov'd:

Or if thou hast not sat, as I do now,
Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,
Thou hast not lov'd:

Or if thou hast not broke from company
Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,
Thou hast not lov'd:-O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!
[Exit.

Ros. Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy
wound,

I have by hard adventure found mine own.

Touch. And I mine. I remember, when I was in love, I broke my sword upon a stone, and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile and I remember the kissing of her batlet, and the cows' dugs that her pretty chopped hands had milked and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her; from whom I took two cods, and giving her them again, said with weeping tears, "Wear these for my sake." We, that are true lovers, run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

Ros. Thou speakest wiser than thou art 'ware of.

Touch. Nay, I shall ne'er be 'ware of mine
own wit, till I break my shins against it.
Ros. Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion
Is much upon my fashion.

Touch. And mine; but it grows something
stale with me.

Cel. I pray you, one of you question yond' If he for gold will give us any food:

I faint almost to death.

Touch. Holla, you clown!

[man,

Ros. What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture? [but erewhile, Cor. That young swain that you saw here That little cares for buying anything.

Ros. I pray thee, if it stand with honesty, Buy thou the cottage, pasture, and the flock, And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.

Cel. And we will mend thy wages: I like
this piace

And willingly could waste my time in it.
Cor. Assuredly, the thing is to be sold:
Go with me: if you like, upon report,
The soil, the profit, and this kind of life,
I will your very faithful feeder be,
And buy it with your gold right suddenly.
[Exeunt.

SCENE V. Another part of the Forest.
Enter Amiens, Jaques, and others.

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But winter and rough weather.
Jaq. More, more, I pr'ythee, more.
Ami. It will make you melancholy, mon-
sieur Jaques.

Jaq. I thank it. More, I pr'ythee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I pr'ythee, more.

Ami. My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.

Jaq. I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to sing. Come, more; another

Ros. Peace, fool: he's not thy kinsman. stanza: call you them stanzas?

Cor. Who calls?

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Cor. Else are they very wretched.
Ros.

Good even to you, friend.

Peace, I say.—

Cor. And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.
Ros. I pr'ythee, shepherd, if that love or gold
Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed:
Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd,
And faints for succour.

Cor.
Fair sir, I pity her,
And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,
My fortunes were more able to relieve her;
But I am shepherd to another man,
And do not shear the fleeces that I graze :
My master is of churlish disposition,
And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality:
Besides, his cote, his flocks, and bounds of feed,
Are now on sale; and at our sheepcote now,
By reason of his absence, there is nothing
That you will feed on; but what is, come see,
And in my voice most welcome shall you be.

Ami. What you will, monsieur Jaques. Jaq. Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me nothing. Will you sing? [myself.

Ami. More at your request, than to please Jaq. Well, then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you: but that they call compliment is like the encounter of two dog-apes; and when a man thanks me heartily, methinks I have given him a penny, and he renders me the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will not, hold your tongues.

Ami. Well, I'll end the song.-Sirs, cover the while; the duke will drink under this tree. -He hath been all this day to look you. Jaq. And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is too disputable for my company: I think of as many matters as he; but I give heaven thanks, and make no boast of them. Come, warble, come.

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