2594Ros. I haue promis'd to make all this matter euen :

2595Keepe you your word, O Duke, to giue your daughter,

2596You yours Orlando, to receiue his daughter :

2597Keepe you your word Phebe, that you'l marrie me,

2598Or else refusing me to wed this shepheard :

2599Keepe your word Siluius, that you'l marrie her

2600If she refuse me, and from hence I go

2602Du.Sen. I do remember in this shepheard boy,

2603Some liuely touches of my daughters fauour.

2604Orl. My Lord, the first time that I euer saw him,

2605Me thought he was a brother to your daughrer:

2606But my good Lord, this Boy is Forrest borne,

2607And hath bin tutor'd in the rudiments

2608Of many desperate studies, by his vnckle,

2609Whom he reports to be a great Magitian.

2611Obscured in the circle of this Forrest.

2612Iaq. There is sure another flood toward, and these

2613couples are comming to the Arke. Here comes a payre

2614of verie strange beasts, which in all tongues, are call'd

2615Fooles.

2616Clo. Salutation and greeting to you all.

2617Iaq. Good my Lord, bid him welcome : This is the

2618Motley-minded Gentleman, that I haue so often met in

2619the Forrest: he hath bin a Courtier he sweares.

2620Clo. If any man doubt that, let him put mee to my

2621purgation, I haue trod a measure, I haue flattred a Lady,

2622I haue bin politicke with my friend, smooth with mine

2623enemie, I haue vndone three Tailors, I haue had foure

2624quarrels, and like to haue fought one.

2625Iaq. And how was that tane vp?

2626Clo. 'Faith we met, and found the quarrel was vpon

2627the seuenth cause.

2628Iaq. How seuenth cause? Good my Lord, like this

2629fellow.

2630Du.Se. I like him very well.

2631Clo. God'ild you sir, I desire you of the like : I presse

2632in heere sir, amongst the rest of the Country copulatiues

2633to sweare, and to forsweare, according as mariage binds

2634and blood breakes: a poore virgin sir, an il-fauor'd thing

2635sir, but mine owne, a poore humour of mine sir, to take

2636that that no man else will : rich honestie dwels like a mi-

2637ser sir, in a poore house, as your Pearle in your foule oy-

2638ster.

2639Du.Se. By my faith, he is very swift, and sententious

2640Clo. According to the fooles bolt sir, and such dulcet

2641diseases.

2642Iaq. But for the seuenth cause. How did you finde

2643the quarrell on the seuenth cause?

2644Clo. Vpon a lye, seuen times remoued : (beare your

2645bodie more seeming Audry) as thus sir: I did dislike the

2646cut of a certaine Courtiers beard: he sent me word, if I

2647said his beard was not cut well, hee was in the minde it

2648was : this is call'd the retort courteous. If I sent him

2649word againe, it was not well cut, he wold send me word

2650he cut it to please himselfe: this is call'd the quip modest.

2651If againe, it was not well cut, he disabled my iudgment:

2652this is called, the reply churlish. If againe it was not well

2653cut, he would answer I spake not true : this is call'd the

2654reproofe valiant. If againe, it was not well cut, he wold

2655say, I lie : this is call'd the counter-checke quarrelsome :

2656and so ro lye circumstantiall, and the lye direct.

2657Iaq. And how oft did you say his beard was not well

2658cut?

2659Clo. I durst go no further then the lye circumstantial:

2660nor he durst not giue me the lye direct: and so wee mea-

2661sur'd swords, and parted.

2662Iaq. Can you nominate in order now, the degrees of

2663the lye.

2664Clo. O sir, we quarrel in print, by the booke: as you

2665haue bookes for good manners: I will name you the de-

2666grees. The first, the Retort courteous: the second, the

2667Quip-modest: the third, the reply Churlish: the fourth,

2668the Reproofe valiant: the fift, the Counterchecke quar-

2669relsome: the sixt, the Lye with circumstance: the sea-

2670uenth, the Lye direct: all these you may auoyd, but the

2671Lye direct : and you may auoide that too, with an If. I

2672knew when seuen Iustices could not take vp a Quarrell,

2673but when the parties were met themselues, one of them

2674thought but of an If; as if you saide so, then I saide so:

2675and they shooke hands, and swore brothers. Your If, is

2676the onely peace-maker: much vertue in if.

2677Iaq. Is not this a rare fellow my Lord? He's as good

2678at any thing, and yet a foole.

2679Du.Se. He vses his folly like a stalking-horse, and vn-

2680der the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

2691Ros. To you I giue my selfe, for I am yours.

2692To you I giue my selfe, for I am yours.

2693Du.Se. If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.

2694Orl. If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.

2695Phe. If sight & shape be true, why then my loue adieu

2696Ros. Ile haue no Father, if you be not he:

2697Ile haue no Husband, if you be not he:

2698Nor ne're wed woman, if you be not shee.

2699Hy. Peace hoa: I barre confusion,

2700'Tis I must make conclusion

2701Of these most strange euents:

2702Here's eight that must take hands,

2703To ioyne in Hymens bands,

2704If truth holds true contents.

2705You and you, no crosse shall part;

2706You and you, are hart in hart:

2707You, to his loue must accord,

2708Or haue a Woman to your Lord.

2709You and you, are sure together,

2710As the Winter to fowle Weather:

2711Whiles a Wedlocke Hymne we sing,

2712Feede your selues with questioning:

2713That reason, wonder may diminish

2714How thus we met, and these things finish.

2722Du.Se. O my deere Neece, welcome thou art to me,

2723Euen daughter welcome, in no lesse degree.