Shakespeare's As You Like it

array; bid your friends; for if you will be married tomorrow, you shall; and to Rosalind, if you will. 70

Enter SILVIUS and РHEBE.

Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
PHE. Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,
To show the letter that I writ to you.
Ros. I care not if I have: it is my study
To seem despiteful and ungentle to you :
You are there followed by a faithful shepherd;
Look upon him, love him; he worships you.

PHE. Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.
SIL. It is to be all made of sighs and tears;

And so am I for Phebe.

PHE. And I for Ganymede.

ORL. And I for Rosalind.

Ros. And I for no woman.

SIL. It is to be all made of faith and service;

And so am I for Phebe.

PHE. And I for Ganymede.

ORL. And I for Rosalind.

Ros. And I for no woman.

SIL. It is to be all made of fantasy,

All made of passion, and all made of wishes;

All adoration, duty, and observance,

All humbleness, all patience, and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance;

And so am I for Phebe.

PHE. And so am I for Ganymede.

ORL. And so am I for Rosalind.

Ros. And so am I for no woman.

PHE. If this be so, why blame you me to love you ?
SIL. If this be so, why blame you me to love you ?
ORL. If this be so, why blame you me to love you? 100

Ros. Who do you speak to, "Why blame you me to love you?"

ORL. To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.

marry you,

Ros. Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling of Irish wolves' against the moon. [To SIL.] I will help you, if I can : [To PHE.] I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together. [To PHE.] I will if ever I marry woman, and I'll be married to-morrow [To ORL.] I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you shall be married to-morrow: [To SIL.] I will content you, if what pleases you contents you, and you shall be married to-morrow. [To ORL.] As you love Rosalind, meet: [To SIL.] as you love Phebe, meet and as I love no woman, I'll meet. So, fare you well: I have left you commands. SIL. I'll not fail, if I live.

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TOUCH. To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will we be married.

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 banished Duke's pages.

Enter two PAGES.

FIRST PAGE. Well met, honest gentleman.

TOUCH. By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a

song.

SEC. PAGE. We are for you: sit i' the middle.

1 Wolves were common in Ireland then.

FIRST PAGE. Shall we clap into 't roundly,' without hawking or spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?

SEC. PAGE. I' faith, i' faith; and both in a tune, like two gipsies on a horse.

SONG.

It was a lover and his lass,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green corn-field did pass

In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,'
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:
Sweet lovers love the spring.

Between the acres of the rye,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
These pretty country folks would lie,
In spring time, &c.

This carol they began that hour,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,

How that a life was but a flower

In spring time, &c.

And therefore take the present time,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;
For love is crowned with the prime

In spring time, &c.

TOUCH. Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable.

FIRST PAGE. You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time.

"Pitch right in." 2
? Only the.

Time for exchanging rings.

TOUCH. By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend your voices! Come, Audrey.

SCENE IV.-The forest.

[Exeunt.

Enter DUKE senior, AMIENS, JAQUES ORLANDO,
OLIVER, and CELIA.

DUKE S. Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
Can do all this that he hath promised?

ORL. I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not;
As those that fear they hope, and know they fear."

Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE.

Ros. Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged: You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,

You will bestow her on Orlando here?

DUKE S. That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her. Ros. And you say, you will have her, when I bring her. ORL. That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.

Ros. You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing?

PHE. That will I, should I die the hour after.

Ros. But if you do refuse to marry me,

You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd ?

PHE. So is the bargain.

Ros. You say, that you'll have Phebe, if she will?

SIL. Though to have her and death were both one thing.
Ros. I have promised to make all this matter even.3

Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daughter;
You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter:

1Orlando does not show so much credit for.

"conceit as Rosalind gave him

"People whose hopes are always mingled with fears, but whose fears are always confident.

Straight.

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 S. I do remember in this shepherd boy

Some lively touches of my daughter's favour."
ORL. 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.

JAQ. 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.

TOUCH. Salutation and greeting to you all!

JAQ. Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the motleyminded gentleman that I have so often met in the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears.

TOUCH. 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.

'Lifelike resemblances.

2 Face.

* Coming.

4 The student of magic risked his soul. 'Just like our joke to-day: "that came over in the ark." • The proof.

'Slow, stately dance.

By not paying his bills; a sure mark of a true gentleman. • Was likely.

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