you shall be married to morrow; [To Orl.] I will content you, if, what pleases you, contents you; and you fhall be married to morrow. [To Sil.] As you love Rofalind, meet; 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.
Phe. Nor I.

Orla. Nor I.

Enter Clown and Audrey.

[Exeunt.

Clo. To morrow is the joyful day, Audrey: to morrow will we be married.

Aud. I do defire it with all my heart; and, I hope, it is no difhoneft defire, to defire to be a woman of the world. Here come two of the banish'd Duke's pages.

Enter two pages.

1 Page. Well met, honeft gentleman.

Clo. By my troth, well met: come, fit, fit, and a Song.

2 Page. We are for you, fit i'th' middle.

1 Page. Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking, or fpitting, or faying we are hoarfe, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?

2 Page. I'faith, i'faith, and both in a tune, like two Gypfies on a horfe.

S O Ο N G.

It was a lover and his lafs,

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

In the fpring time; the pretty spring time,
When birds do fing, bey ding a ding, ding,
Sweet lovers love the spring.

And therefore take the prefent time,
With a bey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;
For love is crowned with the prime,
In the spring time, &c.

AS YOU LIKE IT.

een the acres of the rye,

th a hey, and a ho, and a bey nonino,
pretty country-folks would lye,
the fpring time, &c.

arrol they began that hour,

a hey, andra bo, and a hey nonino, that a life was but a flower, the fpring time, &c.

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ly, young gentleman, though there was no er in the ditty, yet the note was very un13)

You are deceiv'd, Sir, we kept time, we lost

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my troth, yes: I count it but time loft to foolish Song. God b'w'y you, and God mend . Come, Audrey. [Exeunt.

E changes to another Part of the Foreft.

uke Senior, Amiens, Jaques, Orlando, Oliver, and Celia.

D

OST thou believe, Orlando, that the boy

his that he hath promised?

fometimes do believe, and fometimes do not; at fear they hope, and know they fear.

ter Rofalind, Silvius, and Phebe.

ience once more, whiles our compact is

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young Gentleman, tho' there was no great Matter in the Note was very untuneable.] Tho' it is thus inted Copies, it is evident from the fequel of the at the Poet wrote as I have reform'd in the cable. Time, and Tune, are frequently mif-ne another in the old Editions of Shakespeare.

[To the Duke.

You fay, if I bring in your Rofalind,
You will beftow her on Orlando here?
Duke Sen. That would I, had I Kingdoms to give
with her.

Rof. And you fay, you will have her when I bring

her? [To Orlando. Orla. That would I, were I of all Kingdoms King. Rof. You fay, you'll marry me, if I be willing.

[To Phebe.

Phe. That will I, fhould I die the hour after.
Rof. But if you do refufe to marry me,
You'll give your felf to this most faithful fhepherd.
Phe. So is the bargain.

Rof. You fay, that you'll have Phebe, if the will?

[To Silvius.
Sil. Tho' to have her and death were both one thing.
Rof. I've promis'd to make all this matter even;
Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daughter;
You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter :
Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,
Or elfe, refufing me, to wed this shepherd.
Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her,
If the refufe me; and from hence I go

To make these doubts all even. [Ex. Rof. and Celia.
Duke Sen. I do remember in this fhepherd-boy
Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.

Orla. My Lord, the first time that I ever faw him,
Methought, he was a brother to your daughter;
But, my good Lord, this boy is foreft-born,

And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
Of many defperate studies by his uncle ;
Whom he reports to be a great magician,
Obfcured in the circle of this foreft.

Enter Clown and Audrey.

Jaq. There is, fure, another flood toward, and these couples are coming to the Ark. Here come a pair of very ftrange beafts, which in all tongues are call'd fools.

Clo. Salutation, and greeting, to you all!

Jaq.

AS YOU LIKE IT.

339 Good my Lord, bid him welcome. This is the inded gentleman, that I have fo often met in : he hath been a Courtier, he swears. f any man doubt that, let him put me to my 1. I have trod a measure; I have flatter'd a lave been politick with my friend, smooth with my; I have undone three taylors; I have had rels, and like to have fought one.

And how was That ta'en up?

Faith, we met; and found, the quarrel was upon th cause.

How the feventh caufe?

W.

Sen. I like him very well.

good my lord, like

God'ild you, Sir, I defire you of the like: I ere, Sir, amongst the rest of the country copuzo fwear, and to forfwear, according as mards, and blood breaks: a poor virgin, Sir, an 'd thing, Sir, but mine own; a poor humour Sir, to take That that no man else will. Rich dwells like a mifer, Sir, in a poor house; as rl, in your foul oyster.

Sen. By my faith, he is very fwift and fenten

According to the fool's bolt, Sir, and fuch dulcet

But, for the seventh cause; how did you find -rel on the feventh cause ?

Upon a lie feven times removed; (bear your bofeeming, Audrey) as thus, Sir; I did diflike of a certain Courtier's beard; he fent me word, his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind This is call'd the Retort courteous. If I fent rd again, it was not well cut, he would fend me Le cut it to please himself. This is call'd the deft. If again, it was not well cut, he disabled ment. This is call'd the Reply churlish. If awas not well cut, he would anfwer, I fpake not This is call'd the Reproof valiant. If again, it well cut, he would fay, I lie. This is call'd

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the Countercheck quarrelsome; and fo, the Lye circumftantial, and the Lye direct.

Jaq. And how oft did you fay, his beard was not well cut?

Clo. I durft go no further than the Lye circumftantial; nor he durft not give me the Lye direct, and fo we mea fur'd fwords and parted.

Jaq. Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the Lye?

Clo. O Sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have books for good manners. (14) I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort courteous; the fecond, the Quip modeft; the third, the Reply churlish; 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 themselves, one of them thought but of an If; as, if you faid fo, then I faid fo; and they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

Jaq. Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? at any thing, and yet a fool.

he's good

(14) 0, Sir, we quarrel in Print; by the Book; as you have Books for good Manners.] The Poet throughout this Scene has with great Humour and Addrefs rallied the Mode, fo prevailing in his Time, of formal Duelling. Nor could he treat it with a happier Contempt, than by making his Clown so knowing in all its Forms and Preliminaries. It was in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, that pushing with the Rapier, or (mall Sword, was first practis'd in England. And the boisterous Gallants fell into the Fashion with fo much Zeal, that they did not content themselves with practifing at Sword in the Schools; but they ftudied the Theory of the Art, the Grounding of Quarrels, and the Procefs of giving and receiving Challenges, from Lewis de Caranza's Treatife of Fencing, Vincentio Savioda's Practice of the Rapier and Dagger, and Giacomo Di Graffi's Art of Defence; with many other Inftructions upon the feveral Branches of the Science.

Duke Sen.