2352my troth, we that haue good wits, haue much to answer

2353for: we shall be flouting: we cannot hold.

2354Will. Good eu'n Audrey.

2355Aud. God ye good eu'n William.

2356Will. And good eu'n to you Sir.

2357Clo. Good eu'n gentle friend. Couer thy head, couer

2358thy head: Nay prethee bee eouer'd. How olde are you

2359Friend?

2360Will. Fiue and twentie Sir.

2361Clo. A ripe age: Is thy name William?

2362Will. William, sir.

2363Clo. A faire name. Was't borne i'th Forrest heere?

2364Will. I sir, I thanke God.

2365Clo. Thanke God: A good answer:

2366Art rich?

2367Will. 'Faith sir, so, so.

2368Cle. So, so, is good, very good, very excellent good:

2369and yet it is not, it is but so, so:

2370Art thou wise?

2371Will. I sir, I haue a prettie wit.

2372Clo. Why, thou saist well. I do now remember a say-

2373ing: The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman

2374knowes himselfe to be a Foole. The Heathen Philoso-

2375pher, when he had a desire to eate a Grape, would open

2376his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning there-

2377by, that Grapes were made to eate, and lippes to open.

2378You do loue this maid?

2379Will. I do sit.

2380Clo. Giue me your hand: Art thou Learned?

2381Will. No sir.

2382Clo. Then learne this of me, To haue, is to haue. For

2383it is a figure in Rhetoricke, that drink being powr'd out

2384of a cup into a glasse, by filling the one, doth empty the

2385other. For all your Writers do consent, that ipse is hee:

2386now you are not ipse, for I am he.

2387Will. Which he sir?

2388Clo. He sir, that must marrie this woman: Therefore

2389you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the

2390societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this fe-

2391male: which in the common, is woman: which toge-

2392ther, is, abandon the society of this Female, or Clowne

2393thou perishest: or to thy better vnderstanding, dyest; or

2394(to wit) I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life in-

2395to death, thy libertie into bondage: I will deale in poy-

2396son with thee, or in bastinado, or in steele: I will bandy

2397with thee in faction, I will ore-run thee with police: I

2398will kill thee a hundred and fifty wayes, therefore trem-

2399ble and depart.

2400Aud. Do good William.

2403Cor. Our Master and Mistresse seekes you: come a-

2404way, away.

2405Clo. Trip Audry, trip Audry, I attend,

2409Orl. Is't possible, that on so little acquaintance you

2410should like her? that, but seeing, you should loue her?

2411And louing woo? and wooing, she should graunt? And

2412will you perseuer to enioy her?

2413Ol. Neither call the giddinesse of it in question; the

2414pouertie of her, the small acquaintance, my sodaine wo-

2415ing, nor sodaine consenting: but say with mee, I loue

2416Aliena: say with her, that she loues mee; consent with

2417both, that we may enioy each other: it shall be to your

2418good: for my fathers house, and all the reuennew, that

2419was old Sir Rowlands will I estate vpon you, and heere

2420liue and die a Shepherd.

2422Orl. You haue my consent.

2423Let your Wedding be to morrow: thither will I

2424Inuite the Duke, and all's contented followers:

2425Go you, and prepare Aliena; for looke you,

2426Heere comes my Rosalinde.

2427Ros. God saue you brother.

2428Ol. And you faire sister.

2429Ros. Oh my deere Orlando, how it greeues me to see

2430thee weare thy heart in a scarfe.

2431Orl. It is my arme.

2432Ros. I thought thy heart had beene wounded with

2433the clawes of a Lion.

2434Orl. Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a Lady.

2435Ros. Did your brother tell you how I counterfeyted

2436to sound, when he shew'd me your handkercher?

2437Orl. I, and greater wonders then that.

2438Ros. O, I know where you are: nay, tis true: there

2439was neuer any thing so sodaine, but the sight of two

2440Rammes, and Cesars Thrasonicall bragge of I came, saw,

2441and ouercome. For your brother, and my sister, no soo-

2442ner met, but they look'd: no sooner look'd, but they

2443lou'd; no sooner lou'd, but they sigh'd: no sooner sigh'd

2444but they ask'd one another the reason: no sooner knew

2445the reason, but they sought the remedie: and in these

2446degrees, haue they made a paire of staires to marriage,

2447which they will climbe incontinent, or else bee inconti-

2448nent before marriage; they are in the verie wrath of

2449loue, and they will together. Clubbes cannot part

2450them.

2451Orl. They shall be married to morrow : and I will

2452bid the Duke to the Nuptiall. But O, how bitter a thing

2453it is, to looke into happines through another mans eies:

2454by so much the more shall I to morrow be at the height

2455of heart heauinesse. by how much I shal thinke my bro-

2456ther happie, in hauing what he wishes for.

2457Ros. Why then to morrow, I cannot serue your turne

2458for Rosalind?

2459Orl. I can liue no longer by thinking.

2460Ros. I will wearie you then no longer with idle tal-

2461king. Know of me then (for now I speake to some pur-

2462pose) that I know you are a Gentleman of good conceit:

2463I speake not this, that you should beare a good opinion

2464of my knowledge: insomuch (I say) I know you are: nei-

2465ther do I labor for a greater esteeme then may in some

2466little measure draw a beleefe from you, to do your selfe

2467good, and not to grace me. Beleeue then, if you please,

2468that I can do strange things: I haue since I was three

2469yeare old conuerst with a Magitian, most profound in

2470his Art, and yet not damnable. If you do loue Rosalinde

2471so neere the hart, as your gesture cries it out: when your

2472brother marries Aliena, shall you marrie her. I know in-

2473to what straights of Fortune she is driuen, and it is not

2474impossible to me, if it appeare not inconuenient to you,