ROSALIND
I have promised to make all this matter even. Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter; You
yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter: Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me, Or else refusing
me, to wed this shepherd: Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her. If she refuse me: and from hence
I go, To make these doubts all even.
Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA DUKE SENIOR
I do remember in this shepherd boy Some lively touches of my daughter's favour. ORLANDO
My lord, the first time that I ever saw him Methought he was a brother to your daughter: But, my good
lord, this boy is forest-born, And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments Of many desperate studies by his
uncle, Whom he reports to be a great magician, 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 ta'en 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.
|
|
By PanEris
using Melati.
|
|
|
|
Copyright: All texts on Bibliomania are © Bibliomania.com Ltd,
and may not be reproduced in any form without our written permission.
See our FAQ for more details.
|
|