love no woman, I'll meet.-So fare you well; I have 185 [Exeunt. Clo. To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey ; tomorrow will we be married. 190 Aud. I do desire it with all my heart: and I hope it is no dishonest desire, to desire to be a woman of the world. Here come two of the banisk'd duke's pages. Enter two Pages. song 1 Page. Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawk. ing, or spitting, or saying we are hoarse ; which are the only prologues to a bad voice? 2 Page. I'faith, i'faith ; and both in a tune, like two gypsies on a horse, SON G. It was a lover, and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, green corn. 2-field did pass 210 Between the acres of the rye, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, In the spring time, &c. The carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a key ronino, In the spring time, &c. And therefore take the present time, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino ; In the spring time, &c. 220 Clo. Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable. 1 Page. You are deceiv'd, sir; we kept time, we lost not our time. Clo. By my troth, yes, I count it but time lost to hear hear such a foolish song. God be with you; and God mend your voices.--Come, Audrey. [Excunt. SCENE IV. Another Part of the Forest. Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, Jagves, ORLANDO, OLIVER, and Celia. Duke Sen. Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy Can do all this that he hath promised ? 230 Orla. I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not ; You say, As those that fear they hope, and know they fear. Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and Phebe. urg'd ; if I bring in your Rosalind, [To the Duke. You will bestow her on Orlando here? Duke Sen. That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her. Ros. And you say, you will have her, when I bring her ? [To ORLANDO. Orla. That would I, were I of all kingdoms king. Ros. You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing? [ To Phebe. Phe. That will I, should I die the hour after. 240 Ros. But, if you do refuse to marry me, Phe. 250 Phe. So is the bargain. [To SILVIUS. Sil. Though to have her and death were both one thing. Ras. I have promis'd to make all this matter even. Keep you your word, O dukel to give your daugh ter; [Exeunt ROSALIND, and CELIA. Duke Sen. I do remember in this shepherd-boy Some lively touches of my daughter's favour. Orla. 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, 260 Whom he reports to be a great magician, Obscured in the circle of this forest. Enter Clown, and AUDREY. Faq. 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 call's fools. Glo. swears. Clo. Salutation and greeting to you all! Faq. 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 271 Clo. If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flatter'd a lady; I have been politick with my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought one. Faq. And how was that ta’en up? Clo. 'Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause. Jaq. How seventh cause ?-Good my lord, like This fellow. 281 Duke Sen. I like him very well. Clo. 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-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor humour 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. 290 Duke Sen. By my faith, he is very swift and sententious. Clo. According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases. Jaq. But, for the seventh cause ; how did you find the quarrel on the seventh cause? Clo. Kij |