the degrees. The firft, the Retort courteous; the fecond, the Quip modeft; the third, the Reply churlifh; the fourth, the Reproof valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck quarrelfome; the fixth, the Lye with circumftance; the feventh, the Lye direct. All these you may avoid, but the Lye direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. I knew, when seven Juftices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themfelves, one of them thought but of an If; as, if you faid fo, then I faid fo; and they fhook hands, and fwore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If. Jaq. Is not this a rare fellow, my Lord? he's good at any thing, and yet a fool. Duke Sen. He uses his folly like a ftalking horse, and under the prefentation of that he fhoots his wit. Enter Hymen, Rofalind in woman's cloaths, STILL MUSICK. Hym. Then is there mirth in heav'n, Good Duke, receive thy daughter, That thou might'ft join her hand with his, Rof. To you I give myself; for I am yours. To the Duke.. To you I give myself; for I am yours. [To Orlando. Enter Hymen.] Rofalind is imagined by the rest of the company to be brought by enchant ment, and is therefore introduced by a fuppofed aerial being in the character of Hymen. Duke Duke Sen. If there be truth in fight, you are my daughter. Orla. If there be truth in fight*, you are my Refa lind. Phe. If fight and shape be true, Why, then my love adieu! Rof. I'll have no father, if you be not he. I'll have no husband, if you. be not he. Of these most strange events: If truth holds true contents *. You and you no Cross shall part; [To the Duke. [To Orlando. [To Phebe. [To Orlando and Rosalind. You and you are heart in heart; You to his love must accord, [To Oliver and Celia. [To Phebe. [To the Clown and Audrey. Whiles a wedlock-hymn we fing, If there be truth in fight.] The answer of Phebe makes it probable that Orlando fays, if there be truth in fhape: that is, if a form may be trufted; if one cannot ufurp the form of another. 4 + If truth holds true contents.] That is, if there be truth in truth, unless truth fails of vera. city. SONG. SONG.. Wedding is great Juno's Crown, Duke Sen. O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me, Ev'n daughter-welcome, in no lefs degree. Phe. I will not eat my word—now thou art mine, Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine. G Enter Jaques de Boys. Jaq. de B. Let me have audience for a word or two I am the fecond fon of old Sir Rowland, That bring these tidings to this fair affembly. I do engage my life. This to be true, Duke Sen. Welcome, young man: Thou offer'ft fairly to thy brothers' wedding; A land A land itself at large, a potent Dukedom. Play, musick; and you brides and bridegrooms all, And thrown into neglect the pompous Court. Jaq. To him will I: out of thefe convertites [To Orla. You to your land, and love, and great allies; You to a long and well-deferved bed; [To Oli. [To Silv. [To the Clowne Is but for two months victual'd-fo to your pleafures: I am for other than for dancing measures. Duke Sen. Stay, Jaques, stay. Jaq. To fee no paflime, I-what you would have, i ftay to know at your abandon'd Cave. [Exit. Duke Sen. Proceed, proceed; we will begin thefe rites; As, we do truft, they'll end, in true delights. Rof. It is not the fashion to fee the lady the Epilogue; but it is no more unhandfome, than to fee the lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bufb, 'tis true, that a good Play needs no Epilogue. Yet to good wine they do ufe good bushes; and good Plays prove the better by the help of good Epilogues. What a cafe am I in then '; that am neither a good Epilogue, nor can infinuate with you in the behalf of a good Play? I am not furnish'd 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 pleases you: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women (as I perceive by your fimpring, none of you hate them) 5 What a cafe am I in then, &c.] Here feems to be a chaẩm, or fome other depravation, which defroys the fentiment here intended. The reasoning probably ftood thus, Good wine needs no bufb, good plays need no epilogue, but bad wine requires a good bufh, and a bad play a good Epilogue. What cafe am I in then? To refore the words is impoffible; all that can be done without copies is, to note the fault. 6-furnish'd like a beggar;] That is, dreffed: fo before, he was furnished like a huntsman. men, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleases THEM: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, TO LIKE AS MUCH AS PLEASES THEM, that between you and the women, &c. Without the alteration of You into Them, the invocation is nonsense; and without the addition of the words, to like as much as pleases them, the inference of, that between you and the women the play may pafs, would be unfupported by any precedent premises. The words feem to have been ftruck out by some senseless Player, as a vicious redundancy. WARBURTON. 1-1 charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleases YOU: and I charge you, O men, The words you and ym written for the love you bear to women,— as was the cultom in that time, that between you and the women, were in manufcript fcarcely di&c.] This paffage fhould be flinguifhable. The emendation read thus, I charge you, O wo- is very judicious and probable. that |