nefty dwells like a mifer, fir, in a poor house; as your pearl, in your foul oyfter.

DUKE S. By my faith, he is very fwift and fententious. TOUCH. According to the fool's bolt, fir, and fuch dulcet diseases.

J42. But, for the feventh caufe; how did you find the quarrel on the seventh cause ?

TOUCH. Upon a lie feven times removed ;-Bear your body more seeming, Audrey-as thus, fir. I did diflike the cut of a certain courtier's beard; he fent me word, if I faid his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was: This is called the Retort courteous. If I fent him word again, it was not well cut, he would fend me word, he cut it to please himself: This is called the Quip modeft. If again, it was not well cut, he disabled my judgment: This is call'd the Reply churlish. If again, it was not well cut, he would anfwer, I fpake not true: This is call'd the Reproof valiant. If again, it was not well cut, he would fay, I lie: This is called the Countercheck quarrelfome: and fo to the Lie circumftantial, and the Lie direct.

J42. And how oft did you say, his beard was not well

cut?

TOUCH. I durft go no further than the Lie circumftantial, nor he durft not give me the Lie direct; and fo we measured fwords, and parted.

F42. Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?

TOUCH. O fir, 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 fecond, the Quip modeft; the third, the Reply churlish; the fourth, the Reproof valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck quar

relfome; the fixth, the Lie with circumstance; the fe venth, 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 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 fhook hands, and fwore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

F42. Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at any thing, and yet a fool.

DUKE S. He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that, he shoots his wit. Enter HrмEN, leading ROSALIND in woman's clothes; and CELIA.

Still Mufick.

Hrм. Then is there mirth in heaven,

When earthly things made even
Atone together.

Good duke, receive thy daughter,

Hymen from heaven brought her,

Yea, brought her hither;

That thou might'ft join her hand with his,

Whofe heart within her bofom is.

Ros. To you I give myself, for I am yours.

[TO DUKE S.

To you I give myself, for I am yours.

[TO ORLANDO.

DUKE S. If there be truth in fight, you are my daughter. ORL. If there be truth in fight, you are my Rofalind. PHE. If fight and fhape be true,

Why then, my love adieu!

Ros. I'll have no father, if you be not he :

[TO DUKE S.

I'll have no husband, if you be not he:- [TO ORLando.

Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not fhe.
Hrм. Peace, ho! I bar confufion:

'Tis I muft make conclufion

Of these most strange events:
Here's eight that must take hands,
To join in Hymen's bands,

If truth holds true contents.
You and you no cross fhall part;

[TO PHEBE.

[To ORLANDO and ROSALIND.

You and you are heart in heart :

[To OLIVER and CELIA.

You [To PHEBE] to his love must accord,

Or have a woman to your lord:

You and you are fure together,

[TO TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY.

As the winter to foul weather.
Whiles a wedlock hymn we fing,
Feed yourselves with questioning;
That reason wonder may diminish,

How thus we met, and these things finish.
SONG.

Wedding is great Juno's crown;
O bleffed bond of board and bed!
'Tis Hymen peoples every town;

High wedlock then be honoured:
Honour, high bonour and renown,
To Hymen, god of every town!

DUKE S. O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me;

Even daughter, welcome in no lefs degree.

PHE. I will not eat my word, now thou art mine; Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine. [To SILVIUS. Enter JAQUES DE BOIS.

F42. DE B. Let me have audience for a word, or two;

I am the fecond fon of old Sir Rowland,
That bring these tidings to this fair affembly:-
Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
Men of great worth reforted 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 fword:
And to the skirts of this wild wood he came;
Where, meeting with an old religious man,
After fome question with him, was converted
Both from his enterprize, and from the world:
His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,
And all their lands reftor'd to them again
That were with him exíl'd: This to be true,
I do engage my life.

DUKE S. Welcome, young man ;

Thou offer'ft fairly to thy brothers' wedding:
To one, his lands with-held; and to the other,
A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
Firft, in this foreft, let us do those ends

That here were well begun, and well begot :

And after, every of this happy number,

That have endur'd fhrewd days and nights with us,
Shall fhare the good of our returned fortune,
According to the measure of their states.

Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity,
And fall into our ruftick revelry:-

Play, mufick ;—and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall.

F42. Sir, by your patience :-If I heard you rightly. The duke hath put on a religious life,

And thrown into neglect the pompous court? 742. DE B. He hath.

42. To him will I: out of these convertites There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.You to your former honour I bequeath;

[TO DUKE S. Your patience, and your virtue, well deferves it :You [To ORLANDO] to a love, that your true faith doth

merit :

You[TO OLIVER] to your land, and love, and great allies:You [TO SILVIUS] to a long and well deferved bed ;— And you [To TOUCHSTONE] to wrangling; for thy loving voyage

Is but for two months victuall'd:-So to your pleasures; I am for other than for dancing measures.

DUKE S. Stay, Jaques, stay.

J42. To fee 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 truft they'll end, in true delights.

EPILOGUE.

[A dance.

Ros. It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue: but it is no more unhandfome, than to fee the lord the prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needs no epilogue: Yet to good wine they do ufe good bufhes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot infinuate with you in the behalf of a good play? I am not furnish'd like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become me my way is, to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please them and fo I charge you, O men, for the love you