but they looked; no sooner looked, but they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner sighed, but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason, but they sought the remedy: and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: they are in the very wrath of love, and they will together; clubs cannot part them. Orl. They shall be married to-morrow; and I will bid the duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall think my brother happy in having what he wishes for. Ros. Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind? And so am I for Phebe. Sil. It is to be all made of fantasy, Phe. And so am I for Ganymede. [hear. Orl. I can live no longer by thinking. you me to love you?" Ros. I will weary you, then, no longer with Orl. To her, that is not here, nor doth not idle talking. Know of me, then, (for now I Ros. Pray you, no more of this: 'tis like speak to some purpose,) that I know you are the howling of Irish wolves against the moon. a gentleman of good conceit : I speak not this,To Silvius.] I will help you if I can :-that you should bear a good opinion of my [To Phebe.] I would love you, if I could.knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are; To-morrow meet me all together.-[Tv Phebe.] neither do I labour for a greater esteem than I will marry you, if ever I marry a woman, may in some little measure draw a belief from and I'll be married to-morrow:-[To Orlando.] you, to do yourself good, and not to grace me. I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and Believe then, if you please, that I can do you shall be married to-morrow :--[To Silstrange things: I have, since I was three years vius.]--I will content you, if what pleases you old, conversed with a magician, most pro- contents you, and you shall be married tofound in his art, and yet not damnable. If morrow.To Orlando.] As you love Rosayou do love Rosalind so near the heart as your lind, meet-To Silvius.] As you love Phebe, gesture cries it out, when your brother marries meet and as I love no woman, I'll meet.— Aliena, shall you marry her: I know into what So, fare you well: I have left you commands. straits of fortune she is driven; and it is not Sil. I'll not fail, if I live. impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient Phe. to you, to set her before your eyes to-morrow, human as she is, and without any danger. Orl. Speakest thou in sober meanings? Ros. By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your best array, bid your friends; for if you will be married to-morrow, you shall; and to Rosalind, if you will.Look, here comes a lover of mine, and a lover of hers. Enter Silvius and Phebe. Phe. Youth, you have done me much ungentleness, To show the letter that I writ to you. Rus. I care not, if I have: it is my study Sil. It is to be all made of sighs and tears ;- Phe. And I for Ganymede. Orl. And I for Rosalind. Orl. Nor I. Nor I. [Exeunt. SCENE III.-Another part of the Forest. Aud. I do desire it with all my heart; and hope it is no dishonest desire, to desire to be a woman of the world. I the banished duke's pages. Here come two of Enter two Pages. 1 Page. Well met, honest gentleman. Touch. By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song. 2 Page. We are for you: sit i' the middle. 1 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? 2 Page. I' faith, i' faith; and both in a tune, like two gypsies 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, This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, And therefore take the present time, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino; Touch. Truly, young gentleman, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable. 1 Page. You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time. Touch. By my troth, yes; I count it but SCENE IV.-Another part of the Forest. If she refuse me :-and from hence I go, [Exeunt Rosalind and Celia. him, Jaq. There is, sure, another flood toward, Touch. Salutation and greeting to you all! Jaq. Good my lord, bid him welcome: have so often met in the forest: he hath been this is the motley-minded gentleman, that I a courtier, he swears. Touch. If any man doubt that, let him put I have flattered a lady; I have been politic me to my purgation. I have trod a measure; with my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have had four Jaq. And how was that ta'en up? Duke S. Dost thou believe, Orlando, that quarrel was upon the seventh cause. the boy Can do all this that he hath promised? Orl. I sometimes do believe, and some times do not; [fear. As those that fear they hope, and know they Enter Rosalind, Silvius, and Phebe. Ros. Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged :— [Rosalind, [To the Duke. You say, if I bring in your You will bestow her on Orlando here? Duke S. That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her. Ros. [To Orlando.] And you say, you will have her when I bring her? [king. Orl. That would I. were I of all kingdoms Ros. [To Phebe.] You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing? [after. Phe. That will I, should I die the hour Ros. But if you do refuse to marry me, You'll give yourself to this Phe. So is the bargain. Jaq. How seventh cause ?-Good my lord, like this fellow. Duke S. I like him very well. Touch. 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 illfavoured 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, Įsir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster. [sententious. Duke S. By my faith, he is very swift and Touch. 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? Touch. Upon a lie seven times removed :most faithful bear your body more seeming, Audrey :-as [shepherd ? thus, sir. I did dislike the cut of a certain Ros. [To Silvius.] You say, that you'll have courtier's beard: he sent me word, if I said Phebe, if she will? Sil. Though to have her and death were both one thing. [ter even. Ros. I have promis'd to make all this matKeep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter;- his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was: this is called the Retort courteous. If I sent him word again, it was not well cut, he would send me word, he cut it to please himself: this is called the Quip modest. If again, it was not well cut, he disabled my You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter :- judgment: this is called the Reply churlish. Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me, If again, it was not well cut, he would answer, Or else, refusing me, to wed this shepherd :- I spake not true: this is called the Reproof Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her, I valiant. If again, it was not well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the Countercheck quarrelsome: and so to the Lie circumstantial, and the Lie direct. Jag. And how oft did you say, his beard was not well cut? Touch. I durst go no farther than the Lie circumstantial, nor he durst not give me the Lie direct; and so we measured swords, and parted. [degrees of the lie? Jaq. Can you nominate in order now the Touch. O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have books for good manners: I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort courteous; the second, the Quip modest; the third, the Reply churlish; the fourth, the Reproof valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with circumstance; the seventh, the Lie direct. All these you may avoid, but the Lie direct; and you may avoid that too, with an "if." I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an "if," as "If you said so, then I said so;" and they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your "if" is the only peace-maker; much virtue in "if." faq. Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at anything, and yet a fool. Duke S. He uses his folly like a stalkinghorse, and under the presentation of that, he shoots his wit. Still music. Enter Hymen, leading Rosa- When earthly things made even Good duke, receive thy daughter : Hymen from heaven brought her; Yea, brought her hither, [his. That thou might' st join her hand with Whose heart within her bosom is. Ros. [To Duke S.] To you I give myself, for I am yours.[yours. [To Orlando.] To you I give myself, for I am Duke S. If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter. Orl. If there be truth in sight, you are my Phe. If sight and shape be true, [Rosalind. Why then, my love adieu ! Ros. [To Duke S.] I'll have no father, if you be not he: [not he :To Orlando.] I'll have no husband, if you be [To Phebe.] Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine. Enter Jaques de Bois. I Jaq. de B. Let me have audience for a word or two; am the second son of old Sir Rowland, That bring these tidings to this fair assembly:Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day Men of great worth resorted to this forest, Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot, In his own conduct, purposely to take His brother here, and put him to the sword: And to the skirts of this wild wood he came ; Where, meeting with an old religious man, After some question with him, was converted Both from his enterprise and from the world; His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother, And all their lands restor'd to them again, That were with him exil'd. This to be true, I do engage my life. Duke S. Welcome, young man ; Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding: To one, his lands withheld; and to the other, A land itself at large, a potent dukedom. First, in this forest, let us do those ends That here were well begun, and well begot : And after, every of this happy number, That have endur'd shrewd days and nights with us, Shall share the good of our returnèd fortune, The duke hath put on a religious life, Jaq. To him will I: out of these convertites There is much matter to be heard and learn'd. [To Duke S.] You to your former honour I epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome, than bequeath; [it :-to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that Your patience, and your virtue, well deserve good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good [To Orlando.] You to a love, that your true faith doth merit : [To Oliver.] You to your land, and love, and great allies: play needs no epilogue: yet to good wine they do use good bushes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What [bed :-a case am I in, then, that am neither a good [To Silvius.] You to a long and well deservèd epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the [To Touchstone.] And you to wrangling; for behalf of a good play! I am not furnished [pleasures: like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become Is but for two months victual'd.-So, to your me my way is, to conjure you and I'll begin I am for other than for dancing measures. Duke S. Stay, Jaques, stay. thy loving voyage Jaq. To see no pastime, I-what you would have, I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave. [Exit. Duke S. Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites, As we do trust they'll end, in true delights. EPILOGUE. with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you hear to men, to like as much of this play as please you and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, (as I perceive by your simpering none of you hate them.) that between you and the women, the play may please. If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not; and, I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make [Exeunt. Ros. It is not the fashion to see the lady the court'sy, bid me farewell. Baptista, a rich Gentleman of Padua. Lucentio, son to Vincentio; in love with Bianca. suitors to Bianca. servants to Lucentio. servants to Petruchio. Pedant, set up to personate Vincentio. Katharina, the Shrew, daughters to Baptista. Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending SCENE, Sometimes in Padua; and sometimes in Petruchio's House in the Country. Trust me, I take him for the better dog. 1 Hun. I will, my lord. Lord. [Sees Sly. What's here? one dead, or drunk? See, doth he breathe? 2 Hun. He breathes, my lord: were he not warm'd with ale, This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly. Lord. O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies! [image! Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.— What think you, if he were convey'd to bed, Wrapp'd in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, Re-enter Servant. How now! who is it? Serv. An it please your honour, Players that offer service to your lordship. Lord. Bid them come near. Enter Players. Now, fellows, you are welcome. Players. We thank your honour. Lord. Do you intend to stay with me tonight? [our duty. 2 Play. So please your lordship to accept Lord. With all my heart.-This fellow I remember, Since once he play'd a farmer's eldest son : 'Twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well: I have forgot your name; but, sure, that part Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd. 1 Play. I think 'twas Soto that your honour means. [lent. And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself? Lord. 'Tis very true: thou didst it excel1 Hun. Believe me, lord, I think he cannot Well, you are come to me in happy time; choose. [when he wak'd. The rather for I have some sport in hand, 2 Han. It would seem strange unto him Wherein your cunning can assist me much. Lord. Even as a flattering dream, or worth-There is a lord will hear you play to-night : Procure me music ready when he wakes, Some one be ready with a costly suit, It will be pastime passing excellent, it be husbanded with modesty. But I am doubtful of your modesties; Lest, over-eying of his odd behaviour, (For yet his honour never heard a play,) You break into some merry passion, And so offend him; for I tell you, sirs, If you should smile, he grows impatient. 1 Play. Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves, Were he the veriest antick in the world. Lord. Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery, And give them friendly welcome every one; Let them want nothing that my house affords.[Exeunt Servant and Players. [To a Servant.] Sirrah, go you to Bartholomew my page, And see him dress'd in all suits like a lady: That done, conduct him to the drunkard's chamber; And call him madam, do him obeisance. Wherein your lady and your humble wife 1 Han. My lord, I warrant you, we will May show her duty, and make known her love? And then, -with kind embracements, tempting kisses, And with declining head into his bosom, |