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INTRODUCTION.
1600,
of
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Like
You
"As
but
It"
in
not
was
The
is
comedy
printed
in
Golden
Legacie."
in
early
as
in
appeared
"
the
as
year.
first collection
the
and
1623
of
graceful
animation
and
readers,
The
and
young
charms
drama
of
are
a
for
known
as
the
dispossessed
; and
and
commonplace
which
have
Rosalynde,
Euphues'
his
this story, but
from
creative
in
genius
with
tale
play
a
it the
made
has
phere
atmos-
an
the
rounded
sur-
charming
deHght
of
all
old."
"As
Like
You
most
and
of
It"
woods
life.
rustic
part in the Forest
his title and
adherents.
is
and
dukedom
brother, is hving in banishment
and
Lodge,
incidents
resulting
of
pastoral
of
"
of
Thomas
by
own
is redolent
the
and
romance,
grace
action. of
the
heavy
novel
a
title
names
is his
rather
a
on
the
borrows
characterization
friends
till it
founded
under
1590
Shakespeare
younger
print
stage
Folio."
First
and
the
on
plays, pubHshed
Shakespeare's
the
was
Here,
in
3
wholly
of
the
fields
green
After
in
the
where
by Frederick,
company
genial comradeship,
a
air,
all the
and
first act
Arden,
in the
open
dents
its incia
Duke,
usurping
of many
enlivened
INTRODUCTION.
4
by the songs
of the tuneful
of
philosophizing
Amiens, and entertained with
"
the
melancholyJaques,"
in the
"
carelesslyas
the
Duke,
they "fleet
"
golden age, and,
"
the time
from
exempt
tentious
sen-
traveled
a
"
courtier,
highlyappreciated
by
the
public
haunt,"find
**
Tongues in trees,books in the runningbrooks,
in stones, and
Sermons
The
play
Oliver,the
from
eldest
however,
family
"
between
that Sir
to his three
possessions
The
latter is also
but entertains a
him
and
denyinghim
While
and
violent quarrelensues
the contemptuous
Adam.
one
When
of Duke
he and
this
has towards
would
as
soon
his
hatred
of
the brothers.
for
to
ing
him, treat-
Orlando
go
enter
it would
a
Exasperated by
seizes him
OHver, Orlando
by the
of
out, Charles,a noted wrestler,
in to advise Oliver to
the hsts in
a
contest
arranged
go hard with the young
contends
(Charles)
for his
Oliver discloses to Charles
brother,giveshim
see
is the youngest,
onlyseparatedthroughthe intervention
following
day,as
But
Orlando
Oliver enters, and
talking,
are
Frederick's retainers,
comes
meeting.
his death,bequeathed
distribution of the estate
unnatural
between
should he do so, since he
at
vant
ser-
his birth.
fitting
Adam
prevent Orlando's intention to
for the
old
an
"
learn
indignity,
withholdinghis inheritance,
taunts
and they are
throat,
at
Adam
we
of
of Orlando,
chargedwith the training
the education
Orlando
Bois,where
and
sons, of whom
groundlessand
with the utmost
de
Rowland,
and
the house
garden near
a
Orlando
leavingthe management
Oliver.
in
of Sir Rowland
son
conversation
a
of the
his
opens,
good in everything."
a
bad
Orlando's neck broken
the
man
reputation
he
feeling
and says he
character,
as
his finger.
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The
next
is
scene
lawn
a
seated.
brother,are
theywill see
some
They
Le
sport if
are
to
decide
to
dissuade
to
and
from
be
for
of
surprise
all overthrows
the
him, will
of Sir Rowland
his enemy,
match
no
de
Not
the modest
the
and
and
As
for
Frederick,
who, out
of
regardfor
has
two
his
at
her,on
court
Celia in the
when
within
his
the
Ceha
he
the
senseless
ever
is
a
been
ten
her heart
son
had
of
a
fallen
tion
affecsisterly
and
her
cousin,
her father,
expelled
the pretense of her
dominions
banished
"
have
Orlando, he
firstsight.
palaceand
the
to
skill
to
that Orlando
at
Rosalind's exile and
And
is borne
she learns that he is the
to
being a traitor,
days,or
her cousin that in
assures
Celia,hearingthis,
the Duke
youth
the interest
and
challenge,
with Rosalind
suddenlywarns
his
youth,quiteloses
between
lifelong
intimacyexisting
leave his
which
neither praise
victor,
offering
courageous
athlete when
retained Rosalind
life.
his
he declares
the
steadfast friend of her father.
Duke
deavor
Orlando,en-
and
strength
champion,who
Bois,whom
and
in love
desperately
of
approach.
Rosalind,who, alreadyfavorably
impressed
so
with the handsome
Now
for the
withdraw
not
coldlyfrom
turns
reward.
in
undertaking
an
Frederick,
being informed
scene.
this lawn
Orlando
and
Orlando,though flattered by
they show
from
his exiled
it is on
theyremain,as
stay. Charles
would
inexperience
But
palace,
for the final struggle
of the tournament.
meet
him
of his opponent.
had
Frederick's
ladies,
admiringthe youth and comeliness
The
to
Duke
Beau, a courtier,
appears, and tellsthem
rare
that the wrestlers
nor
before
and RosaHnd, daughterof
Celia,his daughter,
where
son
5
daughteras well,as
forfeit her
her
banishing
she will share
follow her fortunes.
Rosahnd
costume
masqueradingas
of
a
a
young
forester,
shepherdess accompaniedby
"
6
INTRODUCTION.
"
Touchstone,a
Rosalind
where
their way
is also
goods tillhe
In the
to
does
find his
of Ohver's
is
abated
means
relieve his
the
and
of the forest.
recognizeeither
the young
youth of
"
refined
her
a
he
somethingof
his
lovesickness; tellshim "love
well
dark
a
house and
and
by the experience
to
professes
"
lover
"
has
there is
with
cure
a
none
man
'
becomes
as
instruction of
the
'
on
does not
course,
be
to
sprightly
a
"
look
to meet
in
Rosalind ridiculeshis
madmen
old
an
do ;
that
forest,
upon
abuses
their barks ;
.
"
.
.
deserves
that,profiting
uncle,she
religious
; that Orlando
of her uncle's marks
haunts
borhood.
neigh-
and imparts
to
confidential,
his love.
whip
to
disguise
; but finding
would
one
no
discover,
in their
a madness,and
ismerely
such madness
carving Rosalind
and
a
in their
of
he fastens
RosaHnd
Orlando,of
than
and
history
Rosalind,and
presence
takes Rosalind
manners
dweUing,"he
in the woods
has by
adversity
Celia and
him.
cousins
as
"
removed
so
of the
bitterness
which
praise,
in her
These
meet
soon
the increased
love for
of Orlando's
aware
forester
more
and
the faithful
But
the ardor of Orlando's
They
Oliver,
from
the exiled Duke
upon
welcomed.
hospitably
thus made
are
sends for
his brother's house,and, wandering
passionhe writes verses
trees
suspect that Orlando,
to
dangerfrom
abandoned
comes
aimlessly,
a
alarmed by
Frederick,
Orlando,havinginformation
enmity,has
Arden, and
Arden,
and sequestershis lands
brother,
that his lifeis in
Adam
of
so.
time
mean
household,steal
Forest
be with the runaways,
missing,
may
him
commands
as
the
to
absence,and havingreason
daughter's
who
to
of the Duke's
seek her father.
to
goes
"
fool
wend
the court, and
from
his
clownish
does
not
look like
him ; but she says
our
young
hangs odes
upon
the
on
elegies
brambles,all,
forsooth,
deifying
plants
thorns
hawname
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If I could
of Rosalind.
him
him."
love upon
Orlando
does
but
love-shaked,"
to
him,and
cure
he
love,his
not
in this
I, beingbut
be
He
manner.
that is so
her
"
ability
Yes,one,"
one.
his
imagineme
to
was
day to
every
moonish
a
"
man
cured,doubts
cured any
ever
I.set him
mistress ; and
time would
to
give
of
quotidian
the
have
to
her he is the
care
would
fancymonger,I
seems
assures
asks if she has
"and
she answers,
that
meet
good counsel,for
some
7
woo
; at which
me
be effeminate,
youth,grieve,
shallow,
apish,
longingand liking,
proud,fantastical,
changeable,
tears, full of smiles ;
full of
inconstant,
loathe him ;
now
at
**
.
I drave
length
.
now
.
suitor from
my
thus I cur'd him ; and
And
would
you
and
cote
call
but
his mad
hke
now
humor
of love.
I would
...
and
come
go with CeHa
to
would
.
him,
and
.
day
to
my
desire
no
.
.
you, if
cure
every
insists that he has
Orlando
cured,but is induced
be
.
him, then spitat him," till
this way
Rosalind
me
me."
woo
for
weep
.
Rosalind
to
to
their
of the remedy.
cottage to try the efficacy
day,while undergoingthis
One
Rosalind
he
whom
lioness
hour
an
neck
The
a
him.
a
upon
But
And
and
prevail,
Duke,
an
near
to
be
has suffered
kindness,nobler
to
ever
Oliver,the
so
much
and
so
a
and
unjustly.
than revenge,
justoccasion,"
he attacks and killsthe lioness,
by
cruel brother
his fate ;
nature, stronger than his
oak,
to spring
sleeper
approachthe serpent glides
away,
firstimpulseis to leave him
"
of the
movement
man
imperiled
he
malignity
the
under
sleeping
man
while
itself,
serpent is coiling
At Orlando's
whose
appointmentwith
keep an
some
crouches,
awaiting
he discovers the
from
to
serves, chances
whose
around
upon
for
treatment, Orlando,quitting
8
INTRODUCTION.
Oliver,awakening,recognizeshis
reconcihation follow,and
Rosalind
to
a
return
had
used
feigned. But
assists in
he
to
his brother all the
There
is
a
sightof
Oliver
their cottage,and
their marriage,
he
that
revenue
shepherdin
happens to
well she had
Celia's request,
on
beautyshe
with them.
will surrender
(Oliver)
old
was
Sir Rowland's,and
the
love."
man's
for
She
rates
pleadingsshe
earnest
the
girlroundlyfor
man
than she
in love with Rosahnd
"
a
year
together
;
good
a
time she tellsSilvius that he is a fool
same
"
a
do well
"
At the
her
have
may
for
offer, and thank Heaven, fasting,
the shepherdess,
for he is
following
erer
beautiful
play,of Phebe, a
is not for all markets,and that she would
take her lover's
to
comes
be-
the way
sayingthat though she
proud and disdainful bearing,
some
fainting
Rosalind,ramblingthroughthe wood,
scorn.
meet
Rosalind
the forest.
lively
episodein
with cruel
received
blood
how
exhibit
to
believe the
Orlando
whose
and Silvius,
her lover,
shepherdess,
treats
apologize
to Orlando,
Ceha, wins her love,and, returning
says if he will consent
a
to
to
wound
a
Oliver,at
increasing,
agitation
her
interested in
die
stanch
the
might report to
leadingRosalind
live and
Orlando
promised,and
to
have
would
but, reviving,
that
counterfeited,
by
as
At
with the beast.
in his encounter
swoons,
is sent
for his failure to
napkin which Orlando
to
he
and
forgiveness
brother ;
woman
;
(inher
a
thousand
whereupon Phebe
male
for she would
**
times
a
prop-
falls
straightway
and begs her
attire),
to
"
chide
rather hear her chide than Silvius
woo.
Rosalind,having now
of Orlando's
and
strange things,
very
satisfiedherself of the truth and
love for
if he
so
her, informs
him
that she
can
stancy
con-
do
desires she will produce his real and
he may marry
Rosahnd,whom, with the Duke's permission,
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the
at
wedding of Oliver
the Duke's
the
cave
next
she will then marry
Phebe
she
the astonished and
word
To
with
him
sword, was
Both
His
merry
by
Duke's,
hand
to
Oliver,Phebe
of
forest,
met
bands."
son
of Sir Rowland
the usurpingDuke,
Frederick,
force
to
take his brother and
the skirts of the wood
on
he
whom
by
an
put
old
converted
and
enterprise
from
with him
the world ;
his banish'd
brother,
again
exil'd."
the play concludes with
generalrejoicing,
so, amid
dance
that
bequeathingto
were
the
case
couple
all their lands restor'd to them
That
And
another
armed
an
from his
crown
And
weds
of the
joinin Hymen's
by him
and
religious
man,
at
in
character,
givesher
own
announce
out
the
marries woman,
all meet
of these festivities
the second
havingset
*'
her
that
promisesPhebe
(Rosahnd)ever
lass
unsophisticated
de Bois arrives to
placeat
and Touchstone,coming in
accepts Silvius,
"
to
also
take
to
take Silvius for her husband
enamored, adds
In the midst
is
Orlando, Celia
delighted
and
Audrey,an
has become
She
when
Accordingly,
Rosalind,appearingin
v^ith
day.
readily
agreeingto
keeps her
Celia,which
and
her if she
Rosalind.
rejects
9
a
the characters.
This,then,is the story of
better understand
and
our
play;and
enjoyit and
of the great writer's imagination,
we
that
we
of the Elizabethan actors
a
must
glanceat the main
something
stage which his geniusand the
rendered
the
the other wonder-children
of the author's life;
at least,
we
ought to know
facts,
of the crude makeshifts of
may
immortal;and
we
art
should
INTRODUCTION.
lo
try
in the
play,approximately,
of our
position
works.
Shakespeare's
locate the
to
sequence of
striking
thingsabout Shakespeare
the least of the many
Not
of
isthe meagerness
knowledgeof the
our
and his life. The
man
total of the tirelesslabors of innumerable
sum
investigators
only the barest results such bald facts
shows
with
broughtto light,
have been
might well
as
"
of trained
equalexpenditure
an
about the humblest Englishmanof EHzabeth's time.
scholarship,
As for
knowing the
of work,
methods
his
man,
we
his temperament, his
personality,
almost
are
to studyhim
obliged
entirely
throughhis writings.
This
an unfortunate
however,is not altogether
necessity,
a student
stimulating
questions
the most
for among
himself about
any
author he reads is,What
it that takes this view of Hfe?
to attempt such
neglects
outlook
and
His
a
a
born
was
who
father,
prosperous
grammar
Ben
a
life has
upon
of the
surelymissed
of
came
have
authentic
only the following
line of
a
was
farmers,
the
of
proprietor
generalstore;his mother,Mary Arden,was
few years the
about
his father
declined;
property,and
great opportuni
Shakespeareplays.
was
as
the Stratford
other
what
things,
"small Latin and less Greek."
fourteen years
met
among
When
old, the family fortunes
with business reverses,
later even
also of
in Warwickshire.
boy probablyattended
where he pickedup,
school,
was
a
April23, 1564, at Stratford-on-Avon.
on
Jonson referred to
William
is
of literature who
known
farmingfamilylongsettled and favorably
For
man
reconstruction of the author's personality
a
life we
Shakespeare's
facts. He
Any student
for
"
that text is one
Of
of
manner
set
true
practical
psychology and this is especially
in
when
can
one;
arrested for debt.
mortgaged his
It is probable,
INTRODUCTION.
but not
an
end.
we
then
that
certain,
Until his
the son's education in school
eighteenth
year
find him
(1582)
daughterof
a
her husband's
senior.
In
near
Hathaway,who
and
Stratford,
couple. In 1587 we
Though
managing theaters
and
country-bred
boy amassed
exalted
he
bought
what
purchaseda
and
London
in ours
position
''New
or
1585,twins
in
were
London,
this quarter century is the
scarcely
anything
by playwriting,
acting,
was
for his time
a
able
very respect-
is universally
admitted
be the
to
in any other literature. In 1597
fine house
Place,"a
tract of farm
years
his earnings
in them, the
investing
fortune and achieved what
most
the
was
seven
hear of him
definite of his life except that
and
in
his greatestliterary
know
we
activity,
periodof
to
came
now
nothingof him; but
and
1583 a child,
he lived until 16 11.
where
hear
we
married to Anne
well-to-do farmer
born to the young
II
land
in
About
by.
near
took up his residence at
and
Stratford,
later
161 2, he left
where
Stratford,
he died
in 1616.
Exceptfor the
the
dates of the
and actingof
publication
foregoingparagraph comprisesmost
facts of the
of the authentic
Tradition
the student will miss
subject;and
failsto read in connection with his studyof
some
such
Lee's "A
So
from
standard
a
so
Shakespeare's
plays,
as, say,
Sidney
Shakespeare."
time
playhouseof Shakespeare's
that our understanding
ours
and, to
enjoymentof
trious
illus-
if he
pleasure
the
the theater of
nifica
sig-
no
conjecture,
rare
Hfe of the great dramatist
Life of William
greatlydid
extent,our
and
been busy with
have naturally
scholarship,
less than
a
poet'slife.
his plays,
his dramas
of the stage for which he wrote.
depends upon
our
differ
some
tion
concep-
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12
The
square; three
four storiesin
or
The
unsheltered from
stage was
from the top of the walls.
the weather, as
it
Around
central space.
from the wall into the open
projected
it stood
on
the part of the audience (the"groundlings")
ground (inthe ''pit")
who
only";those
paid for "standingroom
occupiedthe balconies which
afford to pay for seats
the
and roofless,
except for a
height,
pentshedextendinginward
narrow
the
or
wood; round,octagonal,
and
of stone
were
buildings
above
one
building,
who
could
around
ran
and rufflers
other;and the gallants
the
those upon
day bought the best seats in the house,viz.,
the outer edgeof the stage. To us, however,the most surprising
feature is the almost entire absence of scenery, a paintedboard
of the
usuallydenotingthe location of the action;and the only approach
to
was
our
etc.,
complex of sets,drops,wings,flies,
modern
simplecurtain which separatedthe front partof the stage
a
the
from
scenes
or
characters.
were
women
Restoration.
The
permittedto
the other
On
aside,"discovered"
which, being drawn
rear, and
and gorgeous
as
actors
were
appear
and
men
the stage until the
upon
hand, the costumingwas
the mechanical
boys; no
as
rate
elabo-
crude and
apparatus was
meager.
This remarkable
thingsabout
the
as
emphatically
a
very
a number
strongly
of
but it says nothingelse
Elizabethans;
that the
limitations had to
as
tellsus
playhouse
playspresentedunder
such
pleaseall sorts and conditions of
that
corollary,
the actors of those
days had
men,
to know
so
severe
and,
how
to act.
The
comparativenewness
of the
the
EngHsh theater;
uncertaintyof its social position it
"
permittedonlyin the suburbs;the
nature
was
quent
conse-
practically
of the audiences
"
INTRODUCTION.
drawn
rich on
from the unlettered on the
largely
with women
neither as
the other,
the
times; and
stirring
the
the
"
of every
city men
sort
hand
one
actors
and the idle
nor
patrons;
as
growing importanceof London
the world's great seaports
among
13
a
fact which
attracted to
all these combined
"
Shakespeare's
productive
years the golden age
make
to
of the
EngHsh
drama.
In
no
other
been obliged
to studyso
periodhave playwrights
what
carefully
would
have audiences
or
pleasetheir audiences,
demonstrated
unmistakably
so
the
play before them.
their pleasure
or
If the spectatorswere
of
disapproval
with
displeased
the
he bade fair to be whipped or, at least,
to be
playwright,
if they considered the actingpoor, often
tossed in a blanket;-
they simply mobbed
partlyaccounted
Englishmanof
than
a
mere
education
his
"
for when
that
the writers
knew
above,the
were
almost
it
that to the
the theater
his sole
was
typical
was
more
of
means
it broadened
novel,his history;
writers and actors of the
always actors
forgetthat theywere
and for
not
his
upon
This is
and it fixed his patriotism.
mind, it fired his imagination,
to
who
of amusement;
his newspaper,
beat the actors.
remember
we
day,attendance
means
As has been shown
and
the stage and
"
were
theywanted
"
never
mitted
per-
for Englishmen,
writingprincipally
in England'smost
Englishmenliving
what
plays
glorious
age,
and would not have what
want; and what theydemanded
above
all else was
theydid
a
story
interesting
enoughto swingthem off into the other world of the
and well enoughacted to tally
with their everyday
imagination,
of
experience
This
men.
then,and
rigorous
discipline,
will helpus
playhouses
themselves,
the
to
severe
limitations of the
understand the appear-
INTRODUCTION.
14
the
of
part
who
greatest
But
it
have
have
written
lived
that
them
surpassed
read,
universally
human
For
"
the
sympathetic,
Elizabethan
whole
studied,
the
times.
contemporaries
the
and
quoted,
student
far
so
the
or
his
plays
final
"
to
he
for
known,
hardly
are
with
other
did;
to
or
are
of
test
"
simple,
a
his
kind
loved.
approbation
Note.
of
except
works
acted,
and
our
study;
one
rank
countries
early
serious
of
Shakespeare
whereas,
their
reader,
scholarly
when
of
consent,
other
the
dramatists
excellence
misfortune
worked
and
of
worthy
are
sheer
in
the
perhaps
was
them
and
century
group
universal
by
several,
and
another;
of
their
for
i6th
illustrious
most
Most
read
the
of
part
the
of
known.
still
are
many
latter
17th,
has
literature
of
the
during
ance,
period,
the
and
extremely
student
interesting
is
referred
to
Chapter
to
account
IV
Chapter
of
"
Halleck's
History
of
English
Literature,"
or
IV
of
C.
F.
son's
John-
"
History
For
see
pages
the
of
position
103-104.
and
English
of
American
Literature."
"
As
You
Like
It
"
among
Shakespeare's
works,
AS
LIKE
YOU
PERSONS
Frederick,
of his
" lords
Jaques,
)
usw-per
with
A
attending upon
a
vicar,
i
-^
S
)
William,
Duke.
courtier
a
the ban-
attendingon
Martext,
\ "^^'''^''
^i
SiLVlUS,
SILVIUS,
ished
Beau,
Oliver
Corin,
dominions.
Amiens,
Le
brother, and
his
PLAY.
THE
\Sir
banishment.
livingin
Duke,
OF
IT.
love
country fellotv,in
a
Audrey.
person
representingHymen.
Frederick.
wrestler
Charles,
Oliver,
of
sons
"
OrLAxNDO,
)
\
^^^"^^^
Denn
Dennis,
Touchstone,
Scene
Rozvland
Sir
de
Celia, daughter to Frederick.
Phebe, a shepherdess.
a
Audrey,
country wench.
Bois.
Adam
:
Oliver.
^^
Lords, pages
clozun.
a
Oliver's
Duke
house;
Frederick's
ACT
Scene
Orla?ido.
As
bequeathed
I
me
and
Orlando
charg'd my
say'st,
and
there
my
it was
brother, on
his
sadness.
the Forest
and
This
2
Proficiency.
transpositionof
the
of Ardm,
My
this fashion
upon
thousand
to
blessing,
brother
breed
Jaques
he
indefinite
15
article
occurs
elsewhere
:
and,
crowns,
2
report speaks goldenly of his profit; for
1
etc.
Adam.
a^
but
attendants,
Oliver's House.
poor
will
thou
begins
of
remember, Adam,
by
court;
and
I.
Orchard
I.
Enter
school, and
banished
the
to
Duke.
)
Jaques,
daughter
Rosalind,
to Frederick.
me
as
well ;
keeps
my
he
at
part,
in Shakespeare.
1
6
SHAKESPEARE,
[act
i.
at home, or, to speakmore
properly,
rustically
stays
here at home unkept; for call you that keepingfor a gentleme
man
of my birth,
that differs not from the staUingof an ox ?
His horses are bred better;for,besides that they are fair with
their feeding,
they are taughttheir manage, ^ and to that end
riders dearlyhir'd ; but I, his brother,
gain nothingunder him
but growth,for the which his animals on his dunghills
are
as
much bound to him as I. Besides this nothingthat he so plentifully
nance
givesme, the somethingthat nature gave me his counte-
he
keepsme
2
bars
take from
to
seems
me
he lets me
:
feed with his
hinds,^
in him lies,
as
is it,Adam, that
the
placeof a brother,and, as much
mines ^ my gentility
with my education.
This
of my father,
which I
me
grieves
; and the spirit
me,
beginsto mutiny againstthis servitude. I
endure it,though yet I know no wise remedy how
me
Adam.
Yonder
Orlando.
shake
me
Go
will
to
no
longer
avoid it.
master, your brother.
apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how
comes
my
he will
up.
"
Enter
Oliver. Now, sir ! what
Orlando.
Nothing;
Oliver. What
made
I
am
OLIVER.
make
^
you here ?
taughtto make
not
then,sir ?
Marry,^ sir,I am helpingyou
Orlando.
God
think is within
mar
anything.
you
to
mar
that which
with idleness.
unworthybrother of yours
Oliver. Marry,sir,
be better employed,and be naughtawhile.^
Orlando.
Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them ?
^ have I
What prodigal
to such
portion
spent,that I should come
1
The
4
Undermines.
5
"
6
A
"^
"Be
of
training
What
a
"
2
horse.
what
make," etc., i.e.,
petty oath from the
name
naught awhile," used
Plague on
8
poor
?
penury
"
a
"
you!" or
See Luke
xv.
the like.
11-32.
Treatment.
^
Farm
laborers.
doing here?
of the Virgin Mary.
as
are
a
you
malediction; as, "Efface
yourself!"
SCENE
^^
I.]
Oliver. Know
LIKE
IT.
sir,
very
well
:
here in your orchard.
Oliver. Know
you before whom, sir?
Orlando.
better than
Ay,
17
where you are, sir?
you
O
Orlando.
you
him
I
before
am
knows
I
me.
condition of
my eldest brother ; and, in the gentle
The courtesy of nations allows
blood,you should so know me.
in that you are the firstborn ; but the same
tion
tradiyou my better,
know
you
are
takes not away
us.
I have
as
my
there twenty brothers betwixt
blood,were
much
of my father in me
is nearer
before me
to his
your coming
Oliver. What,
as
you ;
reverence.
boy !
Orlando. Come, come, elder brother,
you are
Oliver. Wilt thou layhands on me, villain?
I
Orlando.
am
villain; I
no
de Bois ; he
was
my
too
the youngest
am
and
father,
I confess,
albeit,
young
land
of Sir Row-
son
he is thrice
in this.
a
villain that
says such a father begotvillains. Wert thou not my brother,I
would not take this hand from thythroat tillthis other had puU'd
out
for
thy tongue
Adam.
masters, be
Sweet
hast rail'd on
Thou
sayingso.
thyself.
father's remembrance,
patient;for your
be at accord.
Oliver. Let
go, I say.
I will not, tillI
me
My
please;you shall hear me.
father charg'dyou in his will to giveme
good education ; you
and hidingfrom me all
like a peasant, obscuring
have train'd me
The spirit
of my father grows strong
qualities.
gentlemanlike
such
in me, and I will no longerendure it; therefore allow me
exercises as may become
or
a gentleman,
giveme the poor allot^
; with that I will go buy
tery my father left me by testament
Orlando.
my
fortunes.
Oliver. And
what
Well,sir,
get you
shall have
Orlando.
my
some
when
beg ?
long be troubled
wilt thou do
in ; I will not
"
part of your will.
I will
no
"
with you ; you
I pray you, leave
further offend you
good.
1
that is spent ?
Portion.
than
me.
becomes
me
for
1
8
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
Oliver. Get you with him, you old dog!
Is
old dog my reward ? Most
Ada?n.
teeth in your service. God be with my old
"
^
have
not
"
such
spoke
Oliver. Is it even
w^ord.
a
beginyou
yet giveno
?
so
and
physicyour rankness,
Holla,Dennis
Calls your
Oliver. Was
with
to
access
He
Orlando
[Exeu?it
and
^
to grow
upon
thousand
would
Ada?n.
I will
?
me
neither.
crowns
"
DENNIS.
worship?
Charles,the
not
pleaseyou,
Duke's
here
wrestler,
to
speak
he is here
the door and
at
importunes
you.
[ExitDennis.] 'Twill be
is.
wrestling
Oliver. Call him
in.
the
to-morrow
Enter
Charles.
Good
to
morrow
Oliver. Good
Monsieur
a
good way
;
CHARLES.
your
worship.
Charles,what's
the
new
the
at
news
?
court
new
!
master
?
me
De?ifiis. So
and
true,I have lost my
!
Enter
Dennis.
i.
Charles.
that
is,the
Duke
; and
There's
news
is banish'd
old Duke
three
the court, sir,
but the old
at
news
no
or
four
by his younger brother the
lovinglords have put themselves
:
new
into
exile with him, whose lands and revenues
enrich the
voluntary
Duke ; therefore he givesthem good leave to wander.
new
be banOliver. Can you tellif RosaHnd, the Duke's daughter,
ish'd
with her father ?
Charles.
her
"
for the Duke's
no;
being ever
would
have
She is
at
own
O
from
follow'd her
the court, and
daughter; and
Oliver. Where
never
their cradles bred
or
exile,
no
two
Spoken.
together
"
died
have
less beloved
ladies loved
will the old Duke
1
her cousin,so
daughter,
to
that she
stay behind
of her uncle than
as
theydo.
live ?
2
loves
Encroach.
her.
his
AS
I.]
SCENE
They say
Charles.
1
he is
LIKE
in
already
with him ; and
men
merry
many
Hood
YOU
there
IT.
19
the Forest of
theyhve
Arden,
and
a
Hke the old Robin
England. They say many young gentlemen flock to
^
as
day,and fleet the time carelessly,
theydid in the
of
him
every
goldenworld.^
Oliver. What, you wrestle
before the
to-morrow
Duke
new
?
to acquaint
Marry,do I,sir; and I came
you with a
I am
that your younger
to understand
sir,
given,
secretly
Orlando hath a disposition
in disguis'd
to come
against
Charles.
matter.
brother
I wrestle for my
try a fall. To-morrow, sir,
to
me
he that escapes
brother
well.
Your
love,I
would
if he
intendment,or
that it is
a
broken
limb shall
acquithim
is but
Therefore,out of my love to you, I came
withal,that either you might stay him
acquaintyou
to
some
and tender; and, for your
young
be loath to foil him, as I must, for my own
honor,
in.
come
without
me
credit ; and
brook
thingof
such
his
well
disgrace
search
own
he shall
as
and
hither
from
run
his
into,in
altogether
againstmy
will.
Oliver.
thank
thy love to me, which thou
shalt find I will most
kindlyrequite.I had myselfnotice of my
labored
brother's purpose herein,
and have by underhand
means
to
Charles,I
dissuade him from
it ; but he is resolute. I'lltellthee,Charles
it is the stubbornest young
envious emulator
contriver
against
me,
thou wert
fellow of France
of every man's
discretion; I had
And
thee for
as
good parts,a
his natural brother.
lief thou
best look
; fullof
didst break
an
ambition,
Therefore
as
dost him
to't ; for if thou
ous
villain-
and
secret
his neck
:
thy
finger.
slight
use
his
any
"the
the ideal yeoEnglishballadsinger's
joy,"was
man
of the peopleof England,as Arthur was
the ideal knight of the upper
He
classes.
dow
figuresin the ballads as an outlaw, robbingthe rich to enarcher ; the lover of the
the poor ; a great sportsman ; the incomparable
and a
greenwood and of a free life; brave, adventurous,jovial,
open-handed,
1
Robin
Hood,
"
protector of women."
2
"
Fleet
the time
i.e.,void
carelessly,"
of care,
cause
the time
to pass
swiftly.
3
"
The
goldenworld," i.e.,the goldenage fabled by
the ancient
poets.
SHAKESPEARE.
20
or
disgrace,
if he do
not
[act
himself
mightily
grace
other; for,I
or
means
by some treacherous
ta'en thylifeby some
direct
in-
leave thee tillhe hath
never
thee
assure
will
thee
^
thee by poison,entrap
against
practice
and
device,
thee,he
on
i.
and
"
almost with
tears
speak it there is not one so young and so villainous this day
of him; but should I anatomize
living. I speak but brotherly
blush and weep,,and
thou must
look
him to thee as he is,I must
I
"
-
wonder.
pale and
Charles.
I
am
to-morrow,
come
again,I'll never
worship!
Oliver.
hither to you.
If he
heartily
glad I came
If ever
he go alone
I'llgivehim his payment.
and so God
wrestle for prizemore;
keep your
Farewell,good
Charles.
\ExitCharles. \
will
Now
gamester.^I hope I shall see an end of him ; for my
hates nothingmore
than he.
soul
Yet
yet I know not why
school'd and yet learned,
full of noble device,*
he's gentle,
never
of all sorts enchantingly
beloved,and indeed so much in the
heart of the world, and especially
of my own
people,who best
know him, that I am
misprized.^But it shall not be
altogether
so
long; this wrestler shall clear all. Nothingremains but that I
I'llgo about.
kindle the boy thither,^
which now
\Exit.
I stirthis
"
"
Scene
II.
Lawn
Enter
Celia
beforethe
and
to
me
would
you yet I
forgeta
banished
remember
any
were
o
RoSALiND.
and
Celia. I pray thee,Rosalind,sweet
Rosalmd.
Dear Celia,I show more
of;
Diike^s Palace
my coz, be merry.
mistress
mirth than I am
merrier ?
father,
you
must
Unless
not
could
you
learn
"
extraordinary
pleasure.
1
Plot.
2
Expose.
4
Aims.
5
Undervalued.
6
"Kindle," etc., i.e.,excite him
'
Teach.
3
to
Sportingyouth.
take part in this contest.
me
teach
how
to
AS
II.]
SCENE
Celia. Herein
I
LIKE
thou
see
that I love thee.
YOU
If my
lov'st
IT,
2i
with
not
me
uncle,thy banished
the full weight
had
father,
ished
ban-
with
so thou hadst been still
thyuncle,the Duke, my father,
So
I could have taughtmy love to take thyfather for mine.
me
wouldst thou if the truth of thy love to me
were
so
righteously
^ as mine
is to thee.
temper'd
the condition of my estate,to reRosalind. Well,I will forget
joice
in yours.
know
You
CcUa.
father hath
my
when
and,truly,
like to have ;
he
child but
no
I,-nor
is
none
shalt be his heir ; for
thou
dies,
what
I will render
thy father perforce,
that
oath,let
honor,I will ; and when I break
Rose, my
Therefore,
my sweet
dear
Rose, be meny.
he hath taken away from
thee againin affection ; by mine
Let
see
me
henceforth
From
Rosal'md.
:
monster.
turn
me
what
think you
of
do, to make
Marry,I prithee,
good earnest ; nor no further
sportwithal
Celia.
in
man
pure blush thou
shall be
Rosalind. What
safetyof
a
Celia, Let
her
wheel,that
Rosaluid.
sitand mock
us
her
I would
and the
misplaced,
her gifts
to women.
Celia. 'Tis
makes
true
honest,and
ill-favoredly.
Rosalind. Nay,
Nature's.
gifts
may
Fortune
we
the
come
good housewife
could do so, for her
off
again.
Fortune^
from
equally.
benefits are mightily
honest
goest from
of
reignsin gifts
the
mistake in
doth most
woman
those that she makes
thou
no
henceforth be bestowed
those that she makes
now
but love
sport then ?
bountiful blind
; for
;
sports.
than with
in sport,neither,
mayst in honor
our
devise
will,coz, and
in love ?
falling
I
fair she
scarce
she makes
-Fortune's
world,not
very
office to
in the lineaments
of Nature.
1
Composed.
3
The
goddess of
2
fortune
^e.
with
of classicalmythologyis represented
holds
plentyat her side. She is blindfolded,and generally
in her hand.
symbolof inconstancy,
of
a
a
horn
wheel,a
SHAKESPEARE.
22
Enter
? when
Celia. No
by
not
off the
cut
hath made
Nature
Fortune, hath
fair creature, may
Fortune
not
hath
Nature
Though
Indeed,there is Fortune
makes
she
given
in this fool to
sent
this is not
such
Fortune's
Nature,when
this natural for
hath sent
goddesses,
always the dullness of the
Touchstone.
Mistress,
you
Celia. Were
you
Touchsto7ie.
No, by
must
; for
of the wits.
"
you ?
come
away
the messenger
mine
of
reason
whetstone
our
wit.
but
neither,
dull to
fool is the whetstone
wit ! w^hither wander
made
work
natural wits too
our
Nature's,
who, perceiving
now,
hard for
too
Nature's natural^ the cutter-off of Nature's
Celia. Peradventure
How
a
argument ?
Rosalind.
Fortune
I.
TOUCHSTONE.
fall into the fire ?
Fortune
wit to flout at
us
[ACT
to your
father.
?
honor, but
I
was
bid to
come
for
you.
Where
Rosalifid.
Touchstone.
Of
learned you that oath,fool ?
certain knightthat swore
by his honor
a
they
good pancakes,and swore
by his honor the mustard was
I'll stand to it,the pancakeswere
naught.2 Now
naught and
the mustard was
good,and yet was not the knightforsworn.
Celia. How
edge
prove you that,in the great heap of your knowlwere
?
Rosalind.
Ay, marry,
Touchstone.
and
Stand
now
you
your wisdom.
forth now.
Stroke your
unmuzzle
both
chins,
by your beards that I am a knave.
Celia. By our beards,if we had them, thou art.
Touchstone. By my knavery,if I had it,then I were ; but if
No more
by that that is not, you are not forsworn.
you swear
had any ;
this knight,
was
swearingby his honor, for he never
swear
or, if he
had, he
pancakesor
had
sworn
it away
before
that mustard.
Celia. Prithee,
who
1
is'tthat thou mean'st ?
Fool.
2
Bad.
ever
he
saw
those
SCENE
AS
II.]
Celia.
The
Touchstone.
do
men
23
loves.
Frederick,
your father,
pitythat
foolishly.
my
that fools have
With
Rosalind.
Celia. Which
Here
his mouth
1
one
!
of
speak wisely
not
shall
us,
as
pigeonsfeed
Le
As
! how
color,madam
"
Beau.
jour.Monsieur Le Beau ; what's the news
Fair princess,
Le Beau.
you have lost much
Celia. Sport! of what color ? 2
Rosalind.
their young.
marketable.
more
Bon
What
Beau.
news.
shall be the
we
Enter
Le Beau.
Le
be news-cramm'd.
we
Celia, All the better ;
on
Monsieur
comes
full of
he will put
Then
Rosalind.
Enough
taxation
fools may
more
great show.
a
him.
troth,thou sayest true ; for since the littlewit
the littlefoolerythat wise men
was
silenced,
By
have makes
IT.
enough to honor
be whipp'd for
him; you'll
of
speak no more
these days.
Celia.
LIKE
father's love is
My
what wise
that old
One
Touchstone,
YOU
?
good sport.
shall I
answer
you ?
wit and fortune will.
Touchstone.
Or
as
Celia. Well said.
the Destinies decree.
That
was
laid
on
with
Touchstone.
a
Rosalind.
Nay, if I keep not my rank,
Thou losest thy old smell.
Le Beau,
You
trowel.
"
amaze
^
me,
ladies.
I would
have told you of
of.
you have lost the sight
tell us the manner
of the wrestling.
which
good wresthng,
Rosalind.
Yet
I will tellyou the beginning
; and, if it please
your
is
do
the end, for the best
see
; and
ladyships,
yet to
you may
Le Beau.
here,where
Celia.
Well,
Le Beau.
theyare coming to performit.
that is dead and buried.
the beginning,
are,
you
"
There
comes
Celia. I could match
1 Slander.
old
an
man
and
his three sons,
this beginningwith
2
Kind.
an
old tale.
3 Bewilder.
"
SHAKESPEARE.
24
Le Beau.
Three
proper
With
bills on
^
[act
of excellent
men,
young
i.
growth and
presence.
Rosalind.
these
by
men
eldest of the three wrestled with
in
Charles
wrestler;which
Duke's
all
unto
presents."
The
Le Beau.
it known
necks,"Be
their
a
Charles,the
threw
moment
him
and
So
that there is Httle hope of lifein him.
ribs,
the second,and so the third. Yonder
theyHe ; the poor
them that
dole ^ over
their father,
making such pitiful
broke three of his
he serv'd
old man,
take his part with
all the beholders
weeping.
Rosalijid. Alas !
have
lost ?
Le
Beau.
Thus
that
that the ladies
is the sport,monsieur,
this that I
Why,
Touchstone.
first time
what
But
Touchstone.
ever
speakof.
men
may
I heard
wiser every day ! It is the
breakingof ribs was sport for
grow
ladies.
Celia. Or
I, I promisethee.
is there any else longsto
in his sides ? is there yet another dotes upon
Rosalind.
we
Beau.
must, if you
You
this broken
music
rib-breaking?Shall
"
stay here
; for
here is the
place
and theyare readyto perform it.
wrestling,
Yonder, sure, they are coming; let us now
stay and
appointedfor
Celia.
see
see
this wrestling,
cousin ?
see
Le
But
the
it.
Flourish.
DuKE
Enter
FREDERICK,
Charles,
Lords, Orlando,
and
Attendants.
Duke
own
F.
on
peril
Come
on
; since the
youth will
not
be
his forwardness.
Rosalind.
Is
Le Beau.
Even
1
yonderthe
man
?
he, madam.
Fine-looking.
8 Lamentation.
his
entreated,
AS
II.]
SCENE
Alas,he
Celia.
F.
Duke
is too
How
YOU
LIKE
!
young
IT.
25
1
yet he looks successfully.
daughterand cousin ! are you crept
?
hither to see the wrestling
Rosalind. Ay, my liege,
so pleaseyou
giveus leave.
will take littledelight
Duke
F. You
in it,I can
tell you ;
In pityof the challenger's
there is such odds in the men.
youth
I would fain dissuade him, but he will not be entreated.
Speak
him, ladies ;
to
now,
if you
see
Celia. Call him
Duke
Do
F.
Beau.
Le
Orkvido.
Rosalind.
-
can
hither,
good
I'llnot
him.
move
Monsieur
Le
Beau.
be
by.
\Dukegoes apart.
Monsieur
the challenger,
the princess
calls for you.
I attend them with all respect and duty.
Charles the wrestler
Young man, have you challeng'd
so
;
?
Orla?ido.
others
in,as
but
come
I
No, fair princess
; he is the generalchallenger.
do, to try with
him
the
strengthof
my
youth.
Celia.
are
Young gentleman,your spirits
You
years.
have
with
yourself
saw
cruel
seen
your
the fear of your
We
equal enterprise.
and
safety
own
your
Rosalind.
misprized.We
wrestling
might not
I
sham'd
one
that
is willing
to be
1
As
?
"
if he would
more
embrace
not
therefore
suit to the Duke
that the
was
my
never
not
with
hard
your
to deny
guilty,
so
fair
let your fair eyes and gentle
there is but
wherein if I be foil'd,
trial,
^
;
gracious
I shall do
so.
much
me
my
if kill'd,
but
friends
no
one
wrong,
dead
that
for I have
win.
time,was
Cousin," in Shakespeare's
of kindred
a
anything. But
to
me
our
to
sake,to
shall
reputation
punish me
you,
I confess
and excellent ladies
wishes go with
counsel you
go forward.
beseech
wherein
thoughts,
If you
strength.
with your judgyourself
ment,
pray you, for your own
giveover this attempt.
sir; your
will make
it
for your
bold
this man's
eyes or knew
adventure would
Do, young
be
Orlando.
proofof
too
beyond the
first.
3
used
Favored.
for all degrees
indifferently
26
SHAKESPEARE.
to lament
none
onlyin
;
when
; the world
me
I have
made
The
Rosalmd.
no
I fillup
the world
[act
a
for in
injury,
placewhich may
it I have
i.
ing
noth-
be better supplied
it empty.
littlestrengththat I
I would
have,
it
were
with you.
Celia. And
eke
mine, to
Rosalind.
hers.
out
you well. Pray Heaven
heart's desires be with you
I be deceiv'd in you
Fare
Celia. Your
Charles.
is this young
where
Come,
to lie with his mother
!
is so
that
gallant
desirous
earth ?
his will hath in it
Ready, sir;but
Orlando.
!
a
modest
more
working.
F.
You
Charles.
No,
Duke
to
shall try but
I warrant
second, that have
a
Orlajido. You
mock'd
me
.
Ctlia. I would
the
mock
come
^
Hercules
Now
Rosalind.
But
I
your ways.
be thyspeed,^
young
excellent young man
!
Celia. If .1 had a thunderbolt in mine
first.
not
have
!
man
by
O
should down.
No
no
more,
I
F.
How
dost
Beau.
He
cannot
Bear
him
can
tell who
\^Shout.Charles
is thrown.
eye, I
more.
beseech
Yes,
Orlando.
a
wrestle.
\^They
Rosalind.
F.
from
the strong fellow
leg.
Duke
him
entreat
should
after ; you
me
to catch
invisible,
were
not
mightily
persuadedhim
to
before.
shall
your grace, you
so
mean
fall.
one
I
grace.
your
am
yet well
not
breath'd.
Duke
Le
Duke
F.
Orlando.
thou,Charles
speak,my
away.
Orlando, my
"
?
lord,
What
is thy name,
liege
; the youngest
son
young
man
?
of Sir Rowland
de Bois.
Duke
F.
The
world
1
A
2
"
I would
thou hadst been
esteem'd
son
to
some
man
else !
thy father honorable,
celebrated
hero of antiquity,
mythological
Be thyspeed,"i.e.,
speedyou; helpyou.
for his feats of
strength.
II.]
SCENE
AS
I did find him
But
better
thou descended
Hadst
another house.
gallant
youth.
a
of another
me
\ExeimtDuke
I my
Celia. Were
I
Orlando.
am
His youngest son,
To
would
would
not
adoptedheir to Frederick.
Rosalifid. My father lov'd Sir
Le
Beau,
I do this ?
be Sir Rowland's
proud to
and
"
father.
and
Frederick^
train,
father,
coz,
more
27
with this deed
me
pleas'd
from
thou hadst told
I would
IT.
enemy.
fare thee well ; thou art
But
LIKE
stillmine
shouldst have
Thou
YOU
son,
"
change that calling
be
And
all the world
Had
I before known
I should
tears
Ere he should thus have
unto
My
entreaties,
Gentle
cousin,
him and encourage him.
father's rough and envious ^ disposition
go thank
us
Sticks me
at
heart.
have
Sir,you
"
well deserved.
keep your promisesin love
have exceeded promise,
as you
justly,
mistress shall be happy.
do
If you
But
Your
Gentleman,
[Giving him a chain from
suits with fortune,^
Rosalind.
Wear
this for me,
That
could
Shall
we
Can
all thrown
a
1
"
3
"
4
A
His
means.
"
I not
down,
He
My better
say, I thank you ?
and that which here stands up
calls us
to
son," i.e.,
well,fair gentleman.
Fare you
"
parts
lifelessblock.
a mere
quintain,*
Rosalind.
lacks
her neck.
?
coz
Ay.
Orlando.
Is but
but that her hand
givemore,
go,
of
out
one
Celia.
Are
his soul,
ventur'd.
Celia.
Let
as
of my father's mind.
this young man
his son,i
was
givenhim
have
Rowland
back
be his
:
my
pridefellwith
2
son.
my
fortunes ;
Malicious.
in misfortune.
Out of suits with fortune,"i.e.,
was
quintain
a
post with
a
crossbeam
" "
afterwards
the
Image of
a
2
8
I'llask him
what
he would.
sir?
you call,
overthrown
than your enemies.
More
Will you
Celia.
with
Have
Eosalind.
What
Orlando.
speak to
I cannot
Charles
"
overthrown
art
Reenter
Good
Le Bean.
Fare
you.^
somethingweaker
or
go,
?
coz
you well.
\ExeuntRosalind a fid Celia.
passionhangs these weightsupon my tongue ?
her,yet she urg'dconference.
poor Orlando, thou
Or
i.
Did
"
wrestled well and
have
Sir,you
O
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
sir,I
masters
thee.
Beau.
Le
do in
!
counsel you
friendship
leave this place. Albeit you have deserv'd
High commendation, true applauseand love,
To
condition
the Duke's
such is now
Yet
2
all that you have done.
is humorous
;^what he is,indeed.
he misconstrues
That
Duke
The
suits you
More
to conceive
than I
Orlajido. I thank you, sir;
to
speakof.
and, pray
you,
tellme
daughterof the Duke
?
That here was
at the wrestling
if we judgeby
Neither his daughter,
Le Beau.
But yet, indeed,the smaller is his daughter.
The other is daughterto the banish'd Duke,
And here detain'd by her usurping
uncle.
To keep his daughtercompany
; whose loves
Which
of the two
was
Are
dearer than the natural bond
But
I
can
Hath
ta'en
man
set in
"
turn
and
manners;
of sisters.
tellyou that of late this Duke
his gentle
niece,
'gainst
displeasure
a
of the horseman
to
this:
and
pivot,
when
give the
used
as
target in
exercises.
military
If the lance
awkwardly aimed, it might cause
was
tilting
assailant
a
a
stroke
with
its
arm,
projecting
him.
1
2
"
you,"i.e.,I'll be with you.
s
Capricious.
Disposition.
Have
with
A
common
idiom.
the
figure
thus
gracing
dis-
AS
III.]
SCENE
Grounded
LIKE
IT.
29
1
other argument
no
upon
YOU
that the
peoplepraiseher for her virtues,
her for her good father's sake ;
And pity,
the lady
And, on my hfe,his malice 'gainst
2 break forth.
Will suddenly
Sir,fare you well.
But
Hereafter,in
a
I shall desire
more
better world
than
love and
Orlajido. I rest much
this,"^
knowledgeof
bounden
to
you.
Fare you well.
you.
\ExitLe
Thus
I from
must
the smoke
tyrant Duke
From
unto
heavenlyRosaHnd
But
Scene
not
a
word
curs
;
^
"
\Exit.
III.
A
in the Palace.
Room
Celia
Rosalind.
and
Rosalind
why,
Cupid
!
have
!
mercy
?
Rosalind.
Celia.
;
;
!
cousin !
Why,
tyrant brother
a
Enter
Celia.
into the smother
Beau.
Not
throw
to
one
No, thy words
throw
of them
some
Rosalifid. Then
there
should be lam'd with
too
are
at me
; come,
two
were
and
reasons
dog.
preciousto
at a
be cast
lame
me
away upon
with reasons.
cousins laid up, when
the other mad
the
one
without any.
is all this for your father ?
Rosalind. No, some
of it is for my father's child.
full of briers is this working-day
world !
Celia. But
Celia.
They are but burs,cousin,thrown upon
our
foolery.If we walk not in the trodden paths,
O, how
thee in
very
holiday
petticoats
will catch them.
Rosalifid. I could
shake
them
off my
coat
; these burs
are
heart.
my
^
Celia. Hem
1
them
away.
2
Reason.
^
Le
4
"
Beau
From
means
the
to
"
say,
When
quickly.
Speedily;
thingsare
from bad
smoke," etc., i.e.,
to
in
a
worse.
better state than now."
^
Cough.
in
SHAKESPEARE.
so
Rosalind.
Celia.
try,if I could cry
I would
Come,
[act
wrestle with
come,
O, theytake the part
Rosalind.
"
hem
"
and
have
i.
him.
thy affections.
of
a
better wrestler than myself
!
good wish upon you ! you will try in time in spite
of a fall. But, turningthese jests
let us talk in
out pf service,
Is it possible,
such a sudden,you should fall
on
good earnest.
into so strong a Hking with old Sir Rowland's
youngest son ?
Rosalifid. The Duke
my father lov'd his father dearly.
Celia.
O,
a
it therefore
Celia. Doth
dearly?
this kind
By
father hated his father
Why
Celia.
Rosalind.
should
Let
Celia. With
love him
me
And
for
So
our
Duke
our
Frederick,
Or
with your safest
haste,
court.
?
You, cousin.
days if that thou be'st found
publiccourt as twenty miles,
ten
I do beseech
your grace,
fault bear with
the
me.
knowledgeof my
with myselfI hold intelHgence,
have acquaintance
desires;
with mine own
me
If that I do not
1
2
or
Lords.
with
Me,^ uncle
Rosalind.
If
cause
be-
diest for it.
Thou
Let
well ?
do you love him
F.
these
near
sake.
the Duke.
comes
Rosalind.
Within
for my
Orlando.
deserve
that,and
Mistress,
dispatch
you
get you from
Duke
him,
son
his eyes full of anger.
Enter
F.
I hate not
? doth he not
I not
Look,,here
I do.
Dnke
dearly; 2 yet
hate him not, for my
No, faith,
Rosalind.
love his
that you should
of chase i I should hate
ensue
"
This
kind
of
dream
or
be
not
frantic,
"
chase," i.e.,this line
Shakespeareuses
hate,joy or sorrow."
"
dear
"
of
"
of
whatever
3
i.
reasoning.
touches us nearly,
either in love
AS
III.]
SCENE
As I do
Never
I
trust
much
so
not,
am
in
LIKE
are
Thus
innocent
as
as
Tell
words,
itself.
trust
thee not.
Yet
your mistrust
whereon
the likehhood
Rosalind.
do all traitors;
grace
it suffice thee that I
Let
1
a
^ did consist in
If their purgation
They
3
then,dear uncle,
"
F.
Duke
IT.
thoughtunborn
highness.
as
I offend your
Did
YOU
make
cannot
me
a
traitor.
depends.
Duke
F. Thou
art thy father's daughter there's enough.
I when
took his dukedom
Rosalifid. So was
;
your highness
banish'd him.
I when
So was
your highness
is not inherited,
Treason
my lord ;
me
"
did derive it from
Or, if we
What's
that
? my father was
mistake me
liege,
my
no
not
traitor.
much
so
think my poverty is treacherous.
hear me
Celia. Dear sovereign,
speak.
To
Duke
F.
Ay,
Celia. I did
It
was
your
too
was
But
so
Rose
at an
am
Her
the
I;
her.
If she be
2
a
traitor,
F.
we
went, hke Juno'sswans,^
coupledand inseparable.
She is too
the
subtle for thee ; and her
people,and
1
Clearance from
3
"
tell us
mythologists
the
by peacocks.
smoothness.
patience
theypityher.
Tenderness
2
guilt.
Juno'sswans," i.e.,the
drawn
her stay ;
stillhave
we
and her
very silence,
Speak to
have
slepttogether.
eat together,
instant,
learn'd,
play'd,
went
Duke
to
remorse.
your own
that time to value her ;
wheresoe'er
Stillwe
entreat
and
pleasure
young
Why,
stay'dher for your sake,
father rang'dalong.
we
then
not
I know
now
And
Celia ;
she with her
Else had
was
friends.
to me
Then, good
I
our
that drew
swans
swan
of heart.
was
sacred
to
chariot. But
goddess's
Venus, and that Juno'scar
the
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
32
Thou
art
a
fool
she robs thee of
;
thou wilt show
And
Then
she is gone.
When
Firm
Which
I have
live
I cannot
Duke
F.
If you
her
that
then
sentence
are
fool!
a
on
mine
outstay the time,upon
Wilt thou
I
my
word,
die.
you
Frederick and Lords,
Rosalind,whither
poor
change fathers
chargethee,be
wilt thou go ?
I will givethee mine.
?
thou
not
I have
Rosalind.
more
than
griev'd
more
Hath
banish'd me,
thou
Know'st
his
Which
Shall
daughter?
No
:
Therefore
Whither
And
? hath not
be sunder'd
let my
Rosalind
?
? shall
and
lacks then
I
i
am
one.
?.
girl
part, sweet
we
the love
father seek another heir.
devise with
to
do
he hath not.
That
teacheth thee that thou
we
the Duke
not
Rosalind.
Celia. No
am.
hast not, cousin ;
Thou
cheerful.
I
cause.
Celia.
be
Prithee,
not
go, and
seek
me
what
how
to
fly,
we
may
bear with
us
take the
chargeupon
and leave me
griefs
yourself
to
bear your
For, by this heaven,now
To
at our
;
you,
out
;
pale,
sorrows
Say what
thou canst, I'llgo alongwith thee.
Rosalind. Why, whither shall we go ?
Celia. To
Rosalind.
Maids
as
we
Hege;
honor,
Duke
\^Exeunt
Celia. O
my
me,
You, niece,provideyourself.
"
in the greatness of my
And
she is banish'd.
:
of her company.
out
You
virtuous
more
doom
pass'dupon
Celia. Pronounce
seem
thy lips.
not
open
irrevocable is my
and
thy name,
brightand
more
i.
seek my uncle in the Forest
Alas,what danger will it be
are, to travel forth
Beautyprovokeththieves sooner
1
so
to us,
far !
than
Are.
of Arden.
gold.
AS
III.]
SCENE
myselfin
Celia. I'llput
kind of umber
And
with
The
like do you ;
And
YOU
a
we
that I
face ;
along
pass
I did suit me
^
A
boar spear in my
ax
upon
; and
and
other mannish
a
?
man
thigh,
in my
"
"
martial
a
heart
fear there will
woman's
swashing2
a
better,
tall,
common
my
hand
hidden
Lie there what
many
it not
all pointslike
curtle
gallant
We'll have
than
more
am
A
As
attire,
mean
my
Were
Rosalind.
That
33
stir assailants.
never
Because
IT.
and
poor
smirch
shall
so
LIKE
cowards
outside,
have
do outface it with their semblances,
That
shall I call thee when
Celia. What
I'llhave
Rosalind.
therefore look you
And
will you
But what
worse
no
call
a
thou
than
name
a
The
father's
he
be
Would
not
alone
me
And
get
Devise
our
of your
out
comfort
a
Celia. He'll go
Leave
to
to
*
woo
jewelsand
reference
if we
?
Jove'sown
our
him.
state
my
:
?
court
travel ?
with me;
world
Let's away.
wealth
our
to
together,
safest way
pursuitthat will be made
After my flight.Now
go we in content
To liberty
and not to banishment.
To
1
"
us
page ;
assay'dto steal
the wide
along o'er
the fittesttime and
hide
man
be call'd ?
Something that hath
No longerCeha, but Aliena.
Rosalind.
But, cousin,what
fool
a
Ganymede.^
me
Celia.
clownish
art
from
Curtle ax," i.e.,
a short sword.
The
name
\Exeunt.
is
of
corruption
a
"
lass."
cut-
2
3
A
beautiful
father's flocks
the
on
youth
Mount
cupbearerof
of
Swaggering.
Phrygia,son of Tros, who,
Ida, was
the
gods.
taken up
to
^
while
feeding his
and
Olympus by Jupiter,
Persuade
;
gainover.
came
be-
SHAKESPEARE.
34
ACT
Scene
Enter Duke
Duke
S.
Hath
not
old
Than
that of
and
two
or
three
Lords, likeforesters,
and brothers in
co-mates
this life more
made
custom
II.
I. TJie Forest of Arden.
Senior,Amiens,
Now, my
[ACT ii.
exile',
sweet
paintedpomp ? Are not these woods
More free from peril
than the envious court ?
Here feel we but the penalty
of Adam,
The seasons' difference,
the icyfang
as
And churhsh chidingof the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body.
"
tillI shrink with
Even
**
cold,I
smile and
say,
This is no
flattery
; these are counselors
That feelingly
persuademe what I am."
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Which, like the toad,uglyand venomous,
Wears yet a precious
jewelin his head ; ^
And this our life,
exempt from publichaunt,
Finds tongues in trees,books in the runningbrooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I would not change it.
Amiens.
Happy is your grace,
That
Into
can
so
Duke
And
translate the stubbornness
quietand
S.
Come,
yet it irks^
sweet
so
a
shall we
of fortune
style.
go and
kill us
venison ?
the poor dappledfools.
^
of this desert city,
Beingnative burghers
1
old
were
to
That the toad
be
2
an
me
was
venomous,
and
that it had
a
in Shakespeare's
superstitions
day. The
antidote for
Distresses.
poison.
3
Citizens.
jewelin itshead,
precious
toadstone
was
supposed
I
Should in their
LIKE
with
confines',
own
their round
Have
YOU
AS
I.]
SCENE
haunches
IT.
35
^
forked heads
gor'd.
First Lord.
Indeed,my lord,
The melancholy
at that,
Jaquesgrieves
And, in that kind,^swears
you do more
usurp
doth your brother that hath banish'd you.
To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself
Than
Did
steal behind
him
he
layalong
Under an oak whose an'tique
root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls alongthis wood.
To the which placea poor sequester'd^
stag,
That
the hunter's aim
from
Did
come
The
wretched
had
ta'en
a
and indeed,my
languish;
to
animal
heav'd
hurt.
lord,
forth such groans
did stretch his leathern coat
their discharge
That
Almost
and
bursting,
to
Cours'd
one
another
chase
piteous
In
as
Much
marked
Stood
on
Did
down
; and
of the
tears
his innocent
nose
hairyfool,
melancholyJaques,
verge of the swift
But what
he not moralize this
O
brook.
tears.
S.
First Lord.
big round
thus the
the extremest
Augmenting it with
Duke
the
said
Jaques ?
?
spectacle
yes, into
thousand
a
similes.
for his weepinginto the needless stream : *
First,
Poor deer,"quoth he, thou mak'st a testament
As worldlings
do, giving
thysum of more
To that which had too much."
Then, beingthere alone,
Left and abandon'd
of his velvet ^ friends,
'*
"
"
'Tis right,"
quoth he ;
The
1
flux^ of
company."
thus
2
from
Separated
*
"
Needless
miserydoth part
Anon
Arrowheads.
3
5
"
careless herd,
a
Way.
the herd.
a
stream," i.e.,
Sleek ; prosperous.
had
already
Coming together.
stream
^
that
water
enough.
36
SHAKESPEARE.
Full of the pasture,jumps along by him
And never
Ay," quothJaques,
stays to greet him.
"
you fat and greasy citizens ;
'Tis justthe fashion ; wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankruptthere ?
"
Sweep
on,
"
he pierceth
through
invectively
The body of the country, city,
court,
swearingthat we
Yea, and of this our life,
Thus
most
"
Are
To
usurpers, tyrants,and what's worse,
the animals and to kill them up^
fright
mere
dwelling
place.
?
did you leave him in this contemplation
Duke
S. And
We
Seco7id Lord.
did,my lord,weepingand commenting
Upon the sobbingdeer.
Show me
the place.
Duke
S.
In their
native
and
assign'd
I love to cope
^
him
in these sullen
fits.
For then he's full of matter.^
I'llbringyou
First Lord.
Duke
It cannot
Are
F.
be ;
First Lord.
Enter
DuKE
it be
some
and
A
him
\Exeunt
straight.*
ifithe Palace.
Room
with Lords.
Frederick,
that
possible
no
man
them
saw
?
villains of my court
sufferance in this.^
I cannot
hear of any that did
see
her.
her attendants of her chamber,
ladies,
her abed, and in the morningearly
Saw
They
found
the bed
Second Lord.
Your
1
II.
Can
of consent
The
Scene
to
grace
"
was
Kill them
2
Meet
5
"
6
Rascally.
Are
with.
of
untreasur'd of their mistress.
^
clown, at whom
My lord,the roynish
is also missing.
to laugh,
wont
"
up ;
should say now,
we
3
Sound
sense.
knew
consent,"etc., i.e.,
"
kill them
^
so
oft
off."
Immediately.
of this escape and connived at it.
YOU
AS
III.]
SCENE
IT.
LIKE
37
the princess'
gentlewoman,
Hisperia,
o'erheard
Confesses that she secretly
commend
Your daughterand her cousin much
The
parts and graces of the wrestler
That
foil the sinewyCharles
lately
wherever theyare gone,
she believes,
in their company.
youth is surely
did but
And
That
Duke
If he be
his brother ; fetch that
to
absent,bringhis
him
I'llmake
And
Send
F.
find him.
brother to
me
hither.
gallant
;
this suddenly,
Do
inquisition
quail^
search and
let not
;
bringagainthese foolish runaways.
To
Scene
Who's
Orlando.
What!
Adam.
my
master
my sweet
Of old Sir Rowland
are
you
wherefore
Why
would you be
Your
are
you
so
of
bony priser^
praiseis come
Know
No
more
O,
what
meeting.
too
my
why
gentle,
strong,and
gentlemaster
!
Duke ?
home
swiftly
to
some
but
valiant ?
to overcome
the humorous*
them
serve
O
you here ?
do peoplelove you ?
fond^
you not, master,
Their graces
Adam,
?
young master
! O you memory
! why, what make
virtuous ?
And
The
and
ORLANDO
there ?
O
Why
BeforeOliver's House.
III.
Enter
\Exeunt,
as
before you.
kind of
enemies
men
?
do yours ; your virtues,
gentlemaster,
Are sanctified and holytraitors to you.
a
Envenoms
Orlando.
Adam.
1
3
world
him
is this,
when
what
is comely
that bears it !
Why,
what's the matter?
O
slacken.
i.e., inquiry
"Inquisition
quail,"
i.e., stalwart prizefighter.
Bony priser,"
"
unhappy youth!
2
Foolish.
4
See Note
3, p. 28.
3^
Come
of all your
enemy
Your
brother
Yet
the
not
Of him
Hath
I
brother,yet the
; I will not
about
was
Hves.
graces
no
no,
"
son
heard
call him
son
"
son
call his father
to
"
and this nighthe means
praises,
lodgingwhere you use to lie,i
your
the
To
burn
And
you within it; if he fail of
will have other means
to cut
I overheard
that,
you off.
practices.^
this house is but a butchery.*
him
his
and
place; ^
Abhor it,
do not enter it!
fear it,
Orlando,
Why, whither,Adam, wouldst
Adam.
No matter whither,
so you
come
This is no
What, wouldst thou have
Orlando.
Or with
A
base and
a
boisterous sword
thievish
on
living
must
do, or
This I
ii.
within these doors ; within this roof
not
The
He
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
Yet this I will
the
not
me
go ?
here.
go and
beg my
food ?
enforce
road ?
common
know
me
thou have
what
not
do ;
to
do, do how I can.
I rather will subjectme
to the malice
Of a diverted blood and bloodybrother.^
Adam.
The
not
But do
hire
thrifty
in
that ; and
He
Be comfort
"
Use
2
Evil
4
Here
5
"
to
to
my
Here
age !
'^
designs.
Malice
for the
lie,"i.e.,it is your
used
in the
thrown.
corners
that doth the
caters
Yea, providently
1
sense
Fit
of
"
feed.
sparrow,^
is the gold
custom
ravens
";
to
of," etc., i.e.,the alienated
See Ps. cxlvii.9, and
Luke
sleep.
dwelling.
slaughterhouse."
brother.
6
father.
your
to
unregardedage
Take
crowns,
be my foster nurse
service should in my old hmbs lie lame.
When
And
five hundred
I have
so.
I sav'd under
I did store
Which
not
xii. 6.
natural
affection of
a
murderous
AS
III.]
SCENE
All this I
Though
giveyou.
I look
YOU
Let
old,yet I
For in my youthI
Hot and rebellious
never
39
be your servant.
am
strong and lusty
;
did
apply
in
liquors
did not with unbashful
The
means
of weakness
^
but kindly.
Frosty,
I'lldo the service of
my blood,
forehead woo
and
age is as
my
IT.
me
Nor
Therefore
LIKE
a
debility
;
winter,
lusty
Let
go with you ;
me
younger man
In all your business and necessities.
Orlando. O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant ^ service of the an'tique
world.
service sweat
When
Thou
art not
Where
a
for
for the fashion of these
will sweat
none
havingthat,do
And
but for
!^
for meed
duty,not
times.
promotion,
their service up
choke
it is not so with thee.
having;"*
a rotten
But, poor old man, thou prun'st
tree.
much as a blossom yield
That cannot
so
In lieu ^ of all thypainsand husbandry.
But come
thyways ; we'll go alongtogether,
And ere we have thyyouthful
wages spent.
We'll light
settled low content.
upon some
with the
Even
Adam.
Master,go
I will follow
on, and
thee,
the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
almost fourscore
From seventeen
years tillnow
To
"
lived I, but
Here
At seventeen
But
at
now
live here
years many
fourscore itis too
no
more.
their fortunes seek ;
late
a
week.^
better
me
recompense
to die well and not my master's debtor.
Yet fortune cannot
Than
1
Natural; hence, healthy.
4
Because
5
"
In
6
"
Too
2
in
lieu,"i.e.,
return
3
Faithful.
of their promotionthey become
too
[Exeunt.
proud to
Reward.
serve.
for.
late a week," i.e.,
too late in the week; much
too
late.
SHAKESPEARE.
40
Scene
Enter
how
Jupiter,
O
I
Touchstone.
weary.
Rosalind.
to cry like
doublet and
and
as
vessel,
a
woman
^
heart to
disgrace
my
courage,
Celia. I pray you, bear with
man's
parel
ap-
itselfcourageous
; I cannot
me
not
the weaker
comfort
ought to show
good Aliena !
petticoat
; therefore
Touchstone.
my
; but I must
hose
and
!
spirits
if my
spirits,
legswere
for my
find in my
I could
of Arden.
are
weary
not
care
Forest
CELiA_/^rAliena,
/^r Ganymede,
Rosalind
Rosalind,
The
IV.
go
no
2
to
further.
my part, I had rather bear with you than
yet I should bear no cross ^ if I did bear you, for I
Touchsto?ie. For
bear you;
think you have
in your purse.
money
Well,this is the Forest of Arden.
Rosalind.
no
Toiichsto7ie. Ay, now
I
at
was
home
I
in
was
I in Arden
am
better
a
"
the
fool I !
more
place;but
When
be
travelers must
content.
Ay, be
Rosalind.
so,
good Touchstone.
Enter
you, who
Look
here?
comes
and
Corin
a
young
SiLVius.
man
and
an
old in solemn
*
talk.
That
Corin.
Silvius. O
1
"
Doublet
and
fitted
The
word
is the way to make her scorn
you still.
Corin,that thou knew'st how I do love her !
and hose," i.e.,
coat
to
tightly
'hose,'now
to implythe breeches
"
or
Double
negativesare
3
A
is a
cross
4
a
cross,
meanings.
Serious
The
; earnest.
doublet
was
close
tighttrousers.
in Shakespeare.
frequent
The penny
heavyburden, figuratively.
stampedwith
the two
"
body,the skirts reachinga littlebelow the girdle.
used originally
was
appliedsolelyto the stocking,
2
was
on
the
and breeches.
and
was
called.
so
familiarly
of
Queen Elizabeth
Touchstone
puns
AS
IV.]
SCENE
Corin.
I
Silvms.
partlyguess
YOU
LIKE
IT.
41
for I have lov'd
;
No, Corin,being old,thou
ere
now.
not
canst
guess,
in
thyyouth thou wast as true a lover
As ever sigh'd
upon a midnightpillow.
like to mine,
But if thylove were
ever
Though
"
As
I think did
sure
never
love so,
man
"
actions most
ridiculous
many
thou been drawn to by thyfantasy
? ^
How
Hast
Corm.
Into
a
thousand
that I have
forgotten.
Silviiis. O, thou didst then ne'er love
If thou remember'st
That
love did make
ever
Thou
the
not
Or if thou hast not
sat as
Wearing thy hearer
in
Or if thou hast not
Thou
0
slightest
folly
thee
into,
run
I do now,
thy mistress' praise,
lov'd ;
hast not
as
Abruptly,
!
heartily
lov'd ;
hast not
Thou
so
from
company
makes me.
passionnow
my
hast not
broke
lov'd.
Phebe, Phebe, Phebe !
{Exit.
Rosalind. Alas,poor shepherd! searching
of thy wound,
1 have
by
hard
adventure
Touchstone.
broke
sword
my
I mine.
And
to Jane Smile
a-night
and
the cow's
I remember
I took
dugs that
love.
Fancy; i.e.,
3
*'
I remember
employ
the
the stem,
sake."
2
I
in
was
take that for
the
of
kissing
had
love,I
coming
her batlet 2
milk'd ; and
^
We
that
a littlebat used
are
true
lovers
run
by laundresses.
accustomed
in their love
frequently
a
one
peascod [pea pod], by selecting
it
if
the
of
the
a
nd
omen
snatching away quickly,
peas
[English] ancestors
growingon
bid him
her pretty chopt hands
these for my
1
affairs to
and
stone
and
remember, when
wooing of a peascod instead of her,from whom
said with weeping
cods and, givingher them again,
tears, Wear
Our
;
I
own.
the
two
"
a
upon
mine
found
divination
were
of
remainingin the pod were
preserved,then presentingit to the lady of their
choice."
(Brand's PopularAntiquities,
quotedb^ \V. Aldis Wright.)
SHAKESPEARE,
42
into strangecapers ; but
[act
ii.
all is mortal in nature, so is all nature
as
^
folly.
wiser than thou art 'ware of.
Rosalifid. Thou speakest
wit
Touchstone. Nay, I shall ne'er be 'ware of mine own
break my shins against
it.
Rosalind,
passion
Jove,Jove ! this shepherd's
in love mortal in
upon my fashion.
mine ; but it grows somethingstale with
tillI
Is much
Touchstone.
And
of you question
Celia. I pray you, one
yond
If he for gold will giveus any food.
me.
man
I faint almost to death.
Holla,you clown !
Peace,fool ; he's not thy kinsman.
Touchstofie.
Rosalmd.
Who
Corin.
Touchstone.
Your
sir.
betters,
Else
Corin.
Rosalind.
Peace, I
say.
"
Good
are
theyvery wretched.
to
even
you, friend.
and to you all.
gentlesir,
Rosalind. I prithee,
shepherd,if that love or gold
Can in this desert placebuy entertainment.
Bringus where we may rest ourselves and feed.
Here's a young maid with travel much
oppress'd,
Corin.
And
And
to
faints for
you,
succor.
Fair
Corin.
And
My
wish,for
fortunes
But I
And
My
not
master
And
more
able
more
shepherdto
am
do
her sake
were
I pityher,
sir,
than for mine
to
reheve
own,
her;
another man,
shear the fleeces that I graze.
is of churlish
littlerecks
2
to
disposition.
find the way
to
heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality.
and bounds of feed
Besides,his cote,^his flocks,
Are now
on
sale,and at our sheepcotenow,
1
"
2
Cares.
Mortal in
foolish.
i.e.,extremely
folly,"
3
calls ?
Hut.
By
AS
v.]
SCENE
of his
reason
That
And
LIKE
absence,there
IT.
43
is nothing
see,
you will feed on ; but what is,come
in my voice most
welcome
shall you be.
What
Rosalind.
That
Corin.
Rosalind.
is he that shall buy his flock and pasture ?
swain
young
littlecares
That
VOC/
that you
saw
here but
erewhile,^
buyinganything.
for
thee,if it stand with honesty,
cottage,pasture, and the flock,
I pray
Buy
thou the
And
thou shalt have
Celia. And
to
pay
for it of
will mend
we
us.
thy wages.
I like this place,
wiUinglycould waste ^ my time in it.
the thingis to be sold.
Corin. Assuredly
And
with
Go
The
; if you
me
like upon
report
the profit,
and this kind
soil,
of
life,
^
I will your very faithful feeder
be.
And buy it with your goldright
suddenly.
Scene
Enter
V.
\Exeunt.
The Forest.
Amiens, Jaques, and others.
Song.
Amiens.
Under
the
Who
And
greenwood tree
loves to lie with
Unto the sweet
Come
bird^s
throat,
hither,come hitherj
hither,come
Here
;;?^,
his jnerry note
turn
shall he
see
No
ene77iy
winter and
But
Jaques.More,
Amiens.
more,
It will make
Jaques. I
thank
of
out
a
it.
song,
rough weather.
I
more!
prithee,
Monsieur
you melancholy,
I
!
more
More, I prithee,
as
a
weasel sucks eggs.
Jaques.
can
More,
more!
1
Just now.
2
Spend.
3
Servant.
suck melancholy
I
prithee,
SHAKESPEARE.
44
is ragged; I know
My voice
Amiens.
What
Monsieur
will,
you
Jaques. Nay, I care
Will you sing?
not
Jaques.
names
; theyowe
for their
II.
pleaseyou.
I cannot
desire you to please
me
; I do desire you
; call you 'em stanzos ?
; another stanzo
Jaques. I do not
sing. Come, more
Amiens.
[act
me
to
ing.
noth-
myself.
your request than to please
Jaques. Well,then,if ever I thank any man, I'llthank you;
of two
but that they call compHment is like the encounter
dog
More
Amiens.
at
apes, and when a
him a penny and
and
sing;
"
you
thanks
man
he renders
2
look
song.
this tree.
will drink under
Duke
me
that will not, hold your tongues,
Well, I'llend the
Amiens.
methinks I have given
heartily,
the beggarlytha,nks. Come,
me
the
hath been
He
"
^
cover
Sirs,
"
while; the
all this day
to
you.
Jaques. And I have been all
^ for
too disputable
my company.
thanks,and
he,but I giveHeaven
!
warble,come
this
day
to avoid
I think of
make
as
many
him.
matters
boast of them.
no
He
is
as
Come,
Song.
Who
doth ambition
loves to live V th^ sun,
And
Seekingthejood he eats
d with what
And pleas'
hither,
Come
Here
Preparethe table for
Fond
4
"
In
hither;
hither,
shall he
see
and
roughweather.
Jaques.I'llgiveyou a verse to
in despite
of my invention."^
3
gets,
enemy
But winter
1
he
come
come
No
here.
[A//together
shun,
the
banquet.
this note
2
that I made
Look
day
yester-
for.
of argument.
despiteof my
helpunwillingly.
invention,"i.e.,though my
imagination
gave
its
AS
VI.]
SCENE
And
Amiens.
it goes
:
If it do
That
Due da me,
What's
due
Jaques. 'Tis a
I'llgo sleep,
if I
Gross
foolsas he,
Greek
to me,
ducdame
"
?
call fools into
to
invocation,
cannot, I'llrail
againstall
a
circle.
the firstborn
Egypt.^
Amiens.
And
I'llgo seek the Duke
Scene
Enter
Adam.
Dear
lie I
Here
;
see
come
; if I
can
ease,
dame, due dame
shall he
*'
and
will to please,
Here
that
ass.
his wealth
ifhe will
An
turn
man
any
stubborn
A
to pass
come
Leaving
of
45
I'llsingit.
Jaqiies.Thus
Amiens.
IT,
LIKE
YOU
down, and
can
and
go
no
Adam.
further.
out
measure
banquet is prepared.
severally.
\^Exeimt
The Forest.
VI.
Orlando
master, I
; his
my
O,
grave.
I die for food
!
Farewell,kind
master,
Orlando.
Live
how
Why,
little
; comfort
a
now,
a
Adam
little; cheer
!
powers.
arm's end.
for it or
than
my sake be comfortable ; hold death awhile at the
I will here be with thee presently
; and if I bringthee
eat, I will
givethee
leave to die ; but if thou
of my labor. Well said !
I'llbe with thee quickly.Yet thou liest
thou art
and
thou look'st cheerly,^
a
mocker
Johnson notes that the expression"firstborn of Egypt"
for highborn persons.
one
proverbial
2 Imagination.
8
Cheerfully,
Dr.
thy
For
diest before I come,
1
little. If this uncouth
yieldanythingsavage, I will either be food
food to thee. Thy conceit ^ is nearer
death
somethingto
not
greater heart in thee ?
thyselfa
forest
bringit for
no
was
a
46
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
in the bleak air. Come, I will bear thee
shalt not
desert.
die for lack of
good Adam
Cheerly,
Scene
A
table set out.
S.
Duke
For
I
dinner,if
a
there live
anythingin
The Forest
Senior,Amiens, and
find him
like
a
into
a
Lords
like outlaws.
beast ;
man.
My lord,he is but even now gone hence
Here was
he merry, hearingof a song.
Duke
S. If he,compact of jars,i
grow musical,
discord in the spheres.^
We shall have shortly
Go, seek him ; tellhim I would speakwith him.
First Lord.
Enter
First Lord.
Duke
S.
He
Why,
saves
how
my
now,
by
monsieur
your poor friends must
!
What, you look merrily
;
Jaques.
labor
That
this
[Exeunt.
I think he be transform'd
nowhere
can
shelter ; and thou
to some
!
VII.
Duke
Enter
ii.
woo
his
approach.
own
! what
a
?
your company
Jaques.A fool,a fool ! I met a fool
A miserable world !
A motley^ fool !
As I do hve by food,I met a fool.
"
i'the
life is this,
forest,
"
Who
laid him
down
and bask'd him
And
rail'd on
Lady
Fortune
in the sun,
in
good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motleyfool.
Good
fool,"quoth I.
No, sir,"
quothhe,
morrow,
"
"
"
Call
And
me
not
fool tillHeaven
then he drew
a
dial from
hath sent
his
me
fortune."
poke,*
made up of discords.
i.e.,
jars,"
The doctrine of Pythagorasthat the heavenlybodies in their motion
referred to by Shakespeare.
produceharmonious sounds, is frequently
3
of
The dress
the professional
fool,who had a placein
Party-colored.
every largehousehold, was patchedwith various colors.
1
"Compact
2
4
Pocket.
of
VII.]
SCENE
AS
YOU
IT.
LIKE
And, lookingon it with lackluster eye,
Says very wisely, It is ten o'clock.
Thus we may see,"quoth he, "how
the
'Tis but an hour ago since it was
nine,
4^
"
hour
And
after
And
so, from
And
then,from hour
one
wags;
'twillbe eleven ;
more
hour to
world
hour,we ripeand ripe,
to hour,we
rot and rot ;
And
therebyhangs a tale." When I did hear
The motleyfool thus moral ^ on the time,
like chanticleer,
My lungsbegan to crow
That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
And I did laughsans ^ intermission
An hour by his dial. O noble fool !
0 worthyfool !
Motley'sthe onlywear.^
Zfu^e S.
What
fool is this ?
Jaques. A worthy fool
!
One
that hath been
a
courtier,
says, if ladies be but young and fair.
They have the giftto know it; and in his brain,
And
Which
is as
he hath strange placescramm'd
After
a
With
the
observation,
In
1
voyage,
ambitious
Duke
S.
for
Thou
which
O
mangled forms.
am
biscuit
the remainder
dryas
a
he vents
that I
were
a
fool !
motleycoat.
shalt have
one.
onlysuit,^
It is my
Jaques.
Provided
that you weed your better judgments
Of all opinionthat grows rank in them
That
I
wise.
am
Withal,as largea
blow
To
on
whom
I must
have
charter
as
I
please;
liberty
the
wind.
for
so
fools have ;
And
theythat are most galledwith my folly.
must
theyso
They most must laugh. And why, sir,
1
Moralize.
3
"
*
A
2
A
French
word
meaning
"
?
without."
Motley'sthe only wear," i.e.,there is no dress
playupon the word is doubtless intended.
like the fool's.
48
SHAKESPEARE.
"
The
why
that
He
Doth
a
very
But
[act
parishchurch
fool doth very wisely
hit,
fooHshly,
althoughhe smart,
"
is plainas way
to
ii.
:
senseless of the bob ;^ if not,
to seem
wise man's
is anatomiz'd
folly
2 of the fool.
Even by the squandering
glances
in my motley; giveme
leave
Invest me
To speakmy mind, and I will throughand through
Cleanse the foul body of the infected world.
receive my medicine.
If theywill patiently
The
S.
Duke
Fie
thee ! I
on
can
tellwhat
thou wouldst
do.
would I do but good ?
counter,^
in chiding
sin ;
Duke
S. Most mischievous foul sin,
For thou thyself
hast been a libertine,
Jaques,What,
As sensual
And
as
for
a
stingitself;
the brutish
all the embossed
and headed
evils.
That thou with license of free foot hast caught,
world.
into the general
Wouldst thou disgorge
Jaques. Why, who cries out on pride.
That can therein tax * any private
party ?
Doth it not flow as hugelyas the sea.
sores
Till that the wearer's very means
do ebb ?
AVhat woman
in the citydo I name,
When
that I say the citywoman
bears
cost of princes
on
unworthyshoulders ?
The
Who
can
such
When
in and
come
a
one
say that I mean
she,such is her
as
Or what is he of basest
her,
?
neighbor
function,^
says his braveryis not on my cost,^
him, but therein suits
Thinkingthat I mean
That
1
Blow.
2
"
i.e.,
gibesscattered
Squanderingglances,"
3
"
For
a
on
counter,"i.e.,
worthless coin,used
4
Censure.
6
"
His
onlyfor
5
the wager
of
a
without
aim.
special
The
counter.
counter
calculations.
Occupation.
his
etc.,i.e.,
bravery,"
fine clothes
are
not
at
my
expense.
was
a
SCENE
VII.]
His
to
folly
AS
YOU
the mettle of my
then ; how then ? what
There
he hath
man.
Enter
"
Jaques.
Orla?ido. Nor
Jaques. Of
Orlando,
if he be
with
eat
no
right,
flies,
here ?
his sword
draivn.
more.
Why, I have
be serv'd.
shalt not, tillnecessity
what
kind should this cock
touch'd my vein
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me
You
Of smooth
civility
; yet am
And
some
know
wherein
see
free,
bolden'd,man,
Or else a rude despiser
of good manners,
thou seem'st so empty ?
That in civility
Orlando.
me
If it do him
Art thou thus
S.
49
Let
goose
But who comes
Forbear,and
Orlando.
Duke
then ?
wrong'dhim.
wrong'd himself ;
taxinglike a wild
then my
Unclaim'd of any
Why
IT.
speech?
hath
My tongue
Then
LIKE
But
none
yet.
1
by thy distress,
thornypoint
the show
I inland
nurture.^
of ?
come
first; the
at
eat
bred,^
I say!
forbear,
dies that touches any of thisfruit
Till I and my affairsare answered.
He
Jaques. An
will
you
not
be
with
answered
reason,
I must
die.
Duke
What
S.
would
you
have
shall
gentleness
Your
?
force
than your force move
to gentleness.
us
have
Orlando. I almost die for food ; and let me
More
Duke
S.
Sit down
feed,and welcome
and
Pardon
Orlando.
I
Speak you so gently?
thoughtthat all thingshad been
therefore put I
And
Of
stern
*
This
2
"
3
Good
on
the
commandment.
repeatingof
Inland
bred,"
the
savage
table.
I pray you ;
here
countenance
is often
preposition
a
our
me,
But whate'er you
i.e.,not
breeding.
to
it.
rustic
met
brought up
are
with in
on
Shakespeare.
the frontier.
SHAKESPEARE.
50
[act
ii.
That in this desert inaccessible,
melancholyboughs,
the creeping
hours of time ;
Lose and neglect
If ever you have look'd on better days,
If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,
If ever
sat at any good man's feast,
If ever
from your eyehdswip'da tear.
And
know what 'tisto pityand be pitied,
Let gentleness
my strong enforcement be ;
In the which hope I blush,
and hide my sword.
Duke
S. True is it that we have seen better days,
And have with holybell been knoll'd to church.
and wip'dour eyes
And sat at good men's feasts,
Of dropsthat sacred pityhath engender'd
;
And therefore sit you down in gentleness.
what helpwe have
And take upon command
That to your wantingmay be minister'd.
Orlando. Then but forbear your food a littlewhile,
Under
the shade
of
"
Whiles like a doe I go to find my fawn
And giveit food.
There is an old poor man.
hath many
a weary
step
Limp'd in pure love ; tillhe be firstsuffic'd,
Who
after
me
"
d with
Oppress'
I will not
Duke
And
we
weak
two
touch
a
Go
will
and
hunger,
"
bit.
S.
Orlando.
evils,^
age
find him
out.
tillyou return.
I thank ye ; and be blest for your
nothingwaste
good
comfort
!
[Exit
Duke
S.
Thou
seest
we
are
not
This wide and
universal theater
Presents
more
woful
Wherein
we
all the
pageants than the
unhappy.
scene
playin.
All the world's
Jaques.
And
all alone
and
men
1
"
Weak
women
a
stage.
merelyplayers.
evils causingweakness.
evils,"i.e.,
AS
VII.]
SCENE
in his time
man
one
LIKE
their exits and their
They have
And
YOU
IT.
entrances
playsmany
51
;
parts,
beingseven ages. At firstthe infant,
Mewhng and pukingin the nurse's arms.
And then the whiningschoolboy,
with his satchel
like snail
And shining
morningface,creeping
And then the lover.
to school.
Unwillingly
Sighinglike furnace,with a woful ballad
Made
to his mistress' eyebrow. Then
a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard;i
Jealousin honor,sudden and quickin quarrel.
Seekingthe bubble reputation
His
acts
in the cannon's mouth.
Even
In fair round
And
then the
justice.
bellywith good capon lin'd.
With
and beard of formal cut.
eyes severe
Full of wise saws
and modern
instances
i^
playshis part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd
pantaloon,*^
With spectacles
and pouch on side.
on
nose
His youthful
hose,well sav'd,a world too wide
For his shrunk shank ; and his bigmanly voice,
Turningagaintoward childish treble,
pipes
And
so
he
And
whistles in his * sound.
That
ends this strange,eventful
history,
childishness and
obhvion,
Is second
Sans
sans
teeth,
eyes,
sans
Reenter
Duke
let him
And
1
S.
"
Bearded
Welcome.
Last
mere
scene
Set down
all.
everything.
taste,sans
Orlando
of
with
Adam.
your venerable
burden.
feed.
like the
pard,"i.e.,with long,pointedmustaches
like the
feelers.
leopard's
2
"
3
The
Full
of wise
saws," etc., i.e.,crammed
with wise
sayingsand
illustrations.
4
The
name
of
a
"
pronoun
comic
"
its
character
was
in Italian
rarelyused
in
plays.
Shakespeare's
day.
monplace
com-
SHAKESPEARE.
52
Orlando.
I thank
So had
Adam.
I
scarce
can
Duke
S.
speakto
Welcome
Give
us
some
music ;
you need
;
"
thank
you for myself.
I will not trouble you,
; fall to.
yet, to question
you about your fortunes.
As
ii.
for him.
most
you
[act
"
and, good cousin,sing.
Song.
Blow, blow, tkoii winter wind,
Amiens.
Thou
As
Thy
art not
fnan^s
so
unkind
ingratitude
,
tooth is not
so
keen,
Because thou art 7iot seen.
Althoughthy breath be rude.
/ unto the green holly
I
Heigh-ho/ sing,heigh-ho
Most friendship
most loving
isfeigning,
mere
folly;
/
the
Theti,heigh-ho, holly
This life
is most Jolly,
thou bittersky.
Freeze,freeze,
That dost not bite so
As
nigh
benefits
forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy stingis not so sharp
As
friendremember*
d not.^
Heigh-ho/ sing,etc.
good Sir Rowland's
As you have whisper'd
faithfully
you were,
witness
And as mine eye doth his effigies
in your face,
limn'd and living
Most truly
Be truly
welcome
hither. I am the Duke
Duke
That
Go
S.
If that you
son,
lov'd your father ; the residue of your fortune,
Good
old man,
and tellme.
to my
cave
"
Thou
rightwelcome
Supporthim by the arm.
And
the
were
art
let me
1
"As
as
"
thy master
Give
me
is.
"
your
hand,
all your fortunes understand.
friend," etc., i.e.,as what
an
unremembered
\Exeunt,
friend feels.
YOU
AS
II.]
SCENE
ACT
Scene
DuKK
EnUr
But
Not
F.
Duke
I
were
in the Palace,
Room
Lords, and Oliver.
Frederick,
him
see
seek
since ?
Sir,sir,that
cannot
be ;
mercy,
^
absent argument
an
53
III.
the better part made
not
I should not
A
I.
IT.
LIKE
Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
wheresoe'er he is ;
Find out thy brother,
with candle
Seek him
seek
in our territory.
living
and all things
which thou
a
lands
Thy
thou
this twelvemonth,or turn
Within
To
;2bringhim dead
do
seizure,
Worth
seize into
we
or
no
hands,
our
quitthee by thy brother's
thee.
think against
we
that your highnessknew
lov'd my brother in my life.
Oliver. O
I
never
Duke
And
officersof such
let my
Make
an
villainthou.
More
F.
^
extent
upon
Enter
heart in this !
out
of
doors;
nature
a
turn
Scene
my
mouth
Well, push him
"
his house
and
this expediently,*
Do
more
dost call thine.
Till thou canst
Of what
living
him
II.
Orlando,
lands.
and
going.
The
[Exeunt,
Forest.
with
a
paper.
Hang there,my verse, in witness of my love.
And thou,thrice-crowned Queen of Night,^
survey
Orlando.
"
2
1
Object.
3
"
4
Expeditiously.
"
Make
an
See Luke
xv.
8.
extent,"i.e.,seize by writ of attachment.
known
as
Night," i.e.,the moon;
Cynthiain heaven, Hecate or Proserpinain the lower regions,and
also goddessof the chase and of chastity.
as Diana,who
was
5
Thrice-crowned
Queen
of
Luna
on
or
earth
SHAKESPEARE.
54
With
thy chaste eye,
Thy huntress' name
O
That
The
hi.
thypalesphereabove,
"
in their barks my thoughts
I'llcharacter;^
every eye which in this forest looks,
Shall
Run,
from
that my fulllifedoth sway.
! these trees shall be my books.
Rosalind
And
[act
thy virtue witness'd everywhere.
see
"
Orlando
run,
; carve
on
every tree
^ she.
the chaste,
and unexpressive
fair,
Enter
Corin. And
how
CoRiN
hke you
Touchstone.
and
this
\Exit.
Hfe,Master
shepherd's
stone
Touch-
?
Touchstone.
in respect of itself,
it is a good
Truly,shepherd,
life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's
it is naught.^ In
life,
I like it very well ; but in respect that
respect that it is solitary,
it is private,
it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it is in the
it pleaseth
well ; but in respect it is not in the court,
me
fields,
it is tedious. As it is a spare life,
look you, it fits my humor
well ; but as there is no more
plentyin it,it goes much again.^
in thee,shepherd
Hast any philosophy
?
my stomach.
Corin.
at
worse
No
ease
but that I know
more
he
is,and
is without three
content
is to wet, and
the
that he that wants
good
more
sickens the
one
money,
means,
and
friends ; that the property of rain
fire to burn ; that
good pasture makes fat sheep,
and that a great cause
of the nightis lack of the sun; that he
that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complainof good
^
of a very dull kindred.
or
comes
breeding
Touchstone. Such a one is a natural philosopher.Wast ever
in court, shepherd
?
Corin. No, truly.
"
Touchstone.
Corin.
1
Carve.
4
"
Then
thou art damn'd.
Nay, I hope.
2
3
Inexpressible.
Complain,"etc., i.e.,complainof
not
gee Note 2, p.
havingbeen
well
22.
broughtup.
AS
II.]
SCENE
Truly,thou
Touchstone.
For
Corin.
good
saw'st
; if thou
manners
ill-roastedegg all
an
must
damnation.
Thou
Corifi. Not
court
reason.
good
saw'st
never
court, thou
at
wast
is
wickedness
; and
be wicked
thy manners
the
Your
beingat court ?
Why, if thou never
not
Touchsto7ie.
at
like
damn'd,
art
55
IT.
side.
one
on
LIKE
YOU
never
manners,
then
sin,and
sin is
^
state, shepherd.
parlous
whit.Touchstone ; those that are good manners
a
are
in
art
a
ridiculous in the country
as
the behavior
as
of
told me
You
mockable
at the court.
the country is most
you
^
salute not at the court but you kiss your hands ; that courtesy
if courtiers were
would be uncleanly
shepherds.
Touchstone.
Coriji.
Why,
you know, are
Touchstone.
we
the grease of
Shallow,shallow.
a
And
Corin.
I say
instance,
hands
^
are
would
and
good pieceof
civet is of
Touchstone.
God
!
man
have
Wilt thou
1
Perilous.
3
Give
6
Double
7
A
9
to
Alluding
an
am
a
2
example;
"
Mend
tar.
rest
worms'-meat, in respect of
wit for
damn'd
prove
are
comparatives
from
derived
perfume
the old
laborer.
you
wise,and perpendi^
of the
Learn
a
courtly
true
But
Shallow
sooner.
with the surgery of our
The
courtier's hands
?
?
the
me
I
instance,
shepherd.
;
God
incision in thee ! ^ thou
make
Sir,I
Corin.
too
tar
! thou
man
flesh indeed!
over
kiss
us
baser birth than
a
You
Corin.
shallow
Most
Touchstone.
?
come.
instance,
you have
perfum'dwith civet.'^
sheep;
is
come.
;
the
them
feel
often tarr'd
theyare
fells,-^
hard.
are
lipswill
sounder
more
their
and
ewes,
your courtier's hands sweat ? and
of a man
the sweat
as
as wholesome
better
A
our
Besides,
again. A
not
mutton
Touchsto7ie. Your
a
^
still
handlingour
are
greasy.
Why, do
not
Corin.
instance.
Instance,^
briefly
; come,
I'llrest.
helpthee,shallow
art raw.
that I eat, get that I
earn
kiss,"i.e.,without kissing.
^
it.
used
by
the civet
^
Continually.
all Elizabethan
cat.
^
of bloodletting
as
practice
Skins.
writers.
Consider.
a
cure
for most
diseases.
56
SHAKESPEARE.
wear
;
no
owe
hate,envy
man
with
good, content
men's
prideis to
young
see
Master
Rosalind,
Enter
Rosalind.
a
paper, reading.
Ind,
the east to western
From
other
my lambs
mistress's brother.
new
ivith
hi.
the greatest of my
Here comes
suck.
harm;^ and
my
Ganymede, my
happiness
; glad of
man's
no
graze and
ewes
my
[act
jewel is like Rosalind.
Her worth, beingmounted
No
Throughall the world
All the
on
the
wind,
bears Rosalind.
lin'd
pictures
fairest
but black to Rosalind.
Are
facebe keptin mind
the fairof Rosalifid.
Let
no
But
dinners
Touchsto7ie. I'll rhyme you so eightyears together,
butterhours excepted
and suppers and sleeping
; it is the right
women's
rank
Rosalind.
Touchstone.
^
to
market.
Out, fool
For
!
taste
a
:
hart do lack
If a
seek out Rosalind.
Let him
If the
So be
hind,
a
cat will
sure
afterkind,
will Rosalind.
7nust be
Wiiiter gari7ie7its
li7i'd,
So 77iust slender Rosali7id.
They that reap 77iust sheafand bi7id;
Rosali7id.
The7i to cart with
Sweetest 7iut hath so2irest
Such
He
nut
is Rosali7id.
that sweetest
Must
This is the very false
with them ?
1
a
rind.
rose
will
find love's prickand
gallopof
verses
;
find
Rosalind.
why
do you
bear my misfortunes
with my harm," i.e.,
3
"Goingone after another at a jogtrot."
"Content
infect yourself
patiently,
AS
11.]
SCENE
Rosalind.
LIKE
voir
! I found
Peace, you dull fool
Truly,the
Touchsto7ie.
tree
IT.
bad
yields
57
them
on
tree.
a
fruit.
^ it
it with
with you, and then I shall graff
I'llgraff
a
medlar;2 then it will be the earliest fruit i' the country; for
and that's the rightvirtue
be rotten ere you be half ripe,
you'll
Rosalind.
of the medlar.
Toiichsto7ie.You
forest
said ; but whether
Enter
Celia, with
wiselyor
no, let the
judge.
Rosalind.
Here
have
comes
Celia.
Peace
my
a
writing.
!
sister,
reading. Stand
aside.
[Reads]
should this
Why
3
a
desert be ?
unpeopledf No j
ril hang on every tree,
Tottgues
That shall civil sayings^ show.
the life
Some, how brief
of7nan
Runs his erring^
pilgrimage
y
That^ the stretching
ofa span
Buckles in his sufn ofage;
Some, ofviolated vows
Twixt the soids offriendand friend.
But upon the fairest
boughs,
For
it is
'
Or at every sentence end.
Will I Rosalinda write,
all that
Teachijtg
The
read to know
ofevery sprite
quintessence
Heaven
would
in littleshow.
Heaven
Nature charged
Therefore
That one body should be fird
With
all graces
Nature
1
wide-enlarg'd.
distilVd
presently
Graft.
European tree, the fruit of which, like that of the American
persimmon, is not fitto be eaten tillit is overripe.
4
3 Because.
Civil sayings,"
i.e.,sayingsof civilized society.
6
5 Errant
So that.
; wandering.
2
A
small
"
SS
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
^
Helen's
cheek,but
not her
hi.
hearts
2
Cleopatra'smajesty;
Atalanta's
Sad
betterpart j^
Lucretia's
^
modesty.
Rosalind
Thus
of maiiy parts
was
devised,
By heavenlysytiod
0/ many faces eyes, and hearts,
To have the touches ^ dearest prized.
that she these gifts
should have,
would
Heaven
y
A?id I to live and die her slave.
tedious homily of
! what
gentlepulpiter
and never
love have you wearied your parishioners
cried,
withal,
Have
patience,
good people"!
Celia. How
! Back, friends !
now
Shepherd,
go off a httle.
Rosalind.
O
most
"
"
him, sirrah.
let
Touchstone. Come, shepherd,
with
Go
"
with
though not
scrippage.
;
and
bag
and
baggage,yet
verses
beautiful
of her time.
woman
with
treat
re-
scripand
Touchstone.
and
?
daughter of Jupiter,
the
Helen, accordingto classic mythology,was
the most
honorable
an
Corin
\Exeiint
Celia. Didst thou hear these
1
make
us
Her
treacherous
desertion
of
and her elopement with Paris, a
Sparta,
princeof Troy,occasioned the TrojanWar, the theme of Homer's Iliad.
2
the celebrated Egyptianqueen, famed in historyand fiction
Cleopatra,
and for the wonderful fascination of her
for her beautyand mental perfections,
years.
coquetry, died in 30 B.C., after a reignof twenty-four
3 "Atalanta's better
her
well-proportioned
part" was, probably, graceful,
the daughterof a king of Scyros; a great huntress,and very
form.
She was
husband, King Menelaus
her
swift-footed.
She
did
of her
importunities
winner
to
were
to
be her
many
wish
to
marry,
be put to death.
Lucretia,a Roman
are
and,
admirers,proposedto
husband; but if she reached
stratagem devised,we
*
not
of
She would
run
the
have
easily
to
free herself
a
race
from
the
with them, the
goalfirsther competitors
distanced them
all but for
a
told,by Venus, goddessof beauty.
lady,wife of TarquiniusCollatinus,having been
and father the
revealed to her husband
by Sextus Tarquinius,
she had suffered,
entreated them to avenge her wrongs, and then
indignities
stabbed herself with a dagger she had concealed on her person.
dishonored
5
Features and traitsof character.
AS
II.]
SCENE
IT.
59
too ; for
yes, I heard them all,and more
would
bear.
in them more
feet than the verses
had
That's
Cclia.
LIKE
O
Rosalind.
of them
V0[/
Rosalind.
Ay,
but
without
themselves
might bear
; the feet
matter
no
the
feet
and
lame
were
the
verses.
could
not
bear
lamelyin
therefore stood
the verse, and
some
the
verse.
should
be
hang'dand
I
Rosalind.
was
of the nine
seven
here
thy name
these trees ?
carv'd upon
; for look
came
you
wonderinghow
didst thou hear without
Celia. But
of the wonder
days out
I found
what
palm
a
on
^
time,that
berhym'd since Pythagoras'
Irish rat,2
which I can
hardlyremember.
never
was
so
Celia. Trow
Rosalind.
Celia. And
Change
who
prithee,
I
Celia. O
Lord,
once
you
about
wore,
his neck.
?
! it is
Lord
mountains
; but
an
color ?
you
Rosalind.
meet
was
?
chain, that
a
I
tree.
this ?
hath done
you who
Is it a man
I
fore
be-
may
hard
a
be remov'd
for
matter
friends
to
and
earthquakes,
with
so
encounter.
Rosalind.
Celia. Is
Rosalind.
tell me
who
Celia. O
and
and
wonderful,wonderful,
Good
One
?
tell me
prithee,
1
A
Greek
"
The
alluded to
3
"
Out
man,
inch of
who
a
dost
wonderful
!
of all
that,out
thou
whooping \^
think,though I
and
doublet
of whose
doctrines
bodies,either human
belj-^f that rats
by
I have
wonderful
hose in my
position
dis-
is a South Sea of discovery
;
delaymore
I would
and speak apace.
is it quickly,
one
philosopher,
the soul into successive
2
a
after
most
complexion!
my
hke
caparison'd
am
vehemence,
petitionary
most
it is.
yet againwonderful,and
Rosalind.
I
Nay, but who is it?
it possible
?
with
now
Nay, I prithee
were
rhymed
or
to
was
the
of
transmigration
animal.
death in Ireland
the old dramatists."
of all whooping,"i.e.,past all exclamation.
is
frequently
6o
SHAKESPEARE.
thou couldst stammer, that thou
of
out
wine
thy mouth, as
either too much
"
cork out
at once,
of
his chin worth
hat,or
Nay, he hath
Rosalind. Why, God
Celia.
Let
the
out
or
but
none
of
at
all.
man
narrow-mouth'd
tle,
bot-
I
take the
prithee,
thy tidings.Is he of
Is his head
?
man
worth
Rosalind.
a
?
littlebeard.
a
will send more,
if the
will be thankful.
man
not
his chin.
Celia. It is young Orlando,that
and your heart both in an instant.
true
a
hi.
stay^ the growthof his beard,if thou delayme
me
knowledgeof
and
of
drink
I may
beard
a
thisconceal' d
mightstpour
comes
thy mouth, that
making ? What manner
God's
[act
tripp'd
up
the devil take
Nay, but
the wrestler's heels
mocking; speak,sad
brow
maid.^
Celia. V
'tishe.
faith,
coz,
Rosali?id. Orlando
?
Celia. Orlando.
Rosalind.
hose ?
Alas the
What
"
did he when
look'd he ?
How
Did
he ask for
thee ? and
! what
day
Wherein
when
thou
shalt thou
saw'st him
he ? ^
went
Where
?
me
shall I do with my
remains
?
What
he ?
What
said he?
makes
How
he here ?
partedhe
see
him
me
mouth
Gargantua's*
again?
doublet and
Answer
with
in
me
one
word.
Celia. You
word
too
"no"
to
borrow
great for any mouth
these
Rosalind.
man's
must
of this age'ssize. To
is more
particulars
But
apparel?
doth
than to
he know
Looks
he
that I
say
in
answer
a
"ay" and
catechism.
in this forest and
am
as
freshly
as
'tisa
first;
he
did
the
day
in
he
wrestled ?
Celia. It is as easy to count
atomies
of a lover ; but take a taste of my
1
"
2
"
3
"
4
A
Let
stay,"i.e.,I
as
resolve the
to
him, and
finding
willingto wait.
Sad brow," etc.,i.e.,
without joking;in honest
me
Wherein
giantin
went
one
he?
"
tions
proposirelishit
am
how
i.e.,
was
he dressed
of Rabelais' satires,
who
swallows
earnest.
?
five pilgrims
in
a
salad.
with
V0[/
AS
II.]
SCENE
I found
observance.
good
LIKE
6
IT.
him
under
tree,Hke
a
a
1
dropp'd
acorn.
It may
Rosalind.
it
when
Jove'stree,i
called
well be
drops
forth such fruit.
Celia. Give
Rosali?id.
audience,good madam.
me
Proceed,
layhe, stretched along,like a wounded knight.
it well becomes
Though it be pityto see such a sight,
Celia. There
Rosalind.
the
Celia.
ground.
Cry
"
He
holla
out
! he
ominous
Celia. I would
me
singmy
Do
know
not
you
speak. Sweet,say
Celia. You bring^ me
must
to kill my
without
Rosalind.
'Tis he !
Jaques. I
thank
burden
a
I
am
a
out.
Soft !
"
and
Orlando
liefhave
Slink
so
had
I do desire
Orlando.
Jaques. I
pray you,
in their barks.
Orlando.
by, and
I ; but
we
mar
I pray you,
may
no
mar
Jaques. Rosalind is your
Orlando. Yes, just.
Jaques. I do not like her
2
An
oak
was
sacred
used
expression
I
I
think,
he not here ?
comes
him.
note
I
but, good faith,
yet,for fashion's sake,I thank
littleas
can.
we
be better strangers.
trees
more
no
as
more
with
of my
love
writing
verses
ill-favoredly.
The
bring'st
Jaques.
you too for your society.
Jaques. God be wi' you ; let'smeet
1
; thou
? when
woman
you for your company;
been myselfalone.
Orlafido. And
them
heart.
on.
Enter
as
hunter.
a
comes
song
sonably.
unsea-
of tune.
Rosalind.
had
; itcurvets
thytongue, I prithee
to
furnish'd Hke
was
O,
Rosalind.
^
"
love's
name
?
name.
Jove,or Jupiter.
in checkinga horse.
to
3
^xxt.
with
songs
reading
62
SHAKESPEARE.
Orlando. There
was
[act
when
thoughtof pleasing
you
no
she
hi.
was
christen'd.
Jaques. What
Orlando.
is she of ?
stature
Justas highas
Jaques. You
heart.
my
full of pretty answers.
are
Have
been
not
you
wives,and conn'd them out of
acquaintedwith goldsmiths'
rings? 1
from
Orlando. Not so ; but I answer
cloth,^
you rightpainted
whence you have studied your questions.
Jaques. You have a nimble wit ; I think 'twas made of Atalanta's heels.
Will you
sit down
Orlafido. I will chide
I know
whom
against
Jaques. The worst
Orla7ido. 'Tis
am
? and
me
mistress the world and all our
our
against
I
with
breather
no
misery.
in the world
but
myself,
faults.
most
fault you have is to be in love,
fault I will not
a
will rail
two
we
change for
your
best virtue.
of you.
weary
Jaques. By
I
troth,
my
was
seekingfor
a
I found
fool when
you.
Orlando.
is drown'd
He
in the brook ; look but
in,and
you
shall see him.
Jaques. There
Orlando.
I shall see
Which
mine
figure.
own
I take to be either
Jaques. I'lltarry no
longerwith
fool
a
cipher.
farewell,
good Signior
you;
or
a
Love.
Orlajido. I
gladof
am
your
departure
; adieu,
good
Melancholy.
[ExitJaques.
Celia
and
Rosalind
come
fot-ward.
Rosaliiid.
and
lackey,
Monsieur
I will speak to him like
[Asideto Celia]
under that habit playthe knave with him.
"
a
Do
saucy
you
hear,forester ?
1
The
"
meaning is, Have
the favor of their
2
"
you
not
had
access
wives, and studied the mottoes
to
shopsthrough
goldsmiths'
in
rings?
"
The painted
tioned
cloths often menRightpaintedcloth,"i.e.,
sententiously.
were
by Shakespeare
and
on
which
hangingsof tapestrywith
various
mottoes
were
wrought.
which
rooms
were
orated,
dec-
YOU
AS
II.]
SCENE
Orlando.
Orlando.
well ; what
Very
Rosalind.
LIKE
would
you ?
is'to'clock ?
you, what
should ask
I pray
You
63
IT,
what
me
time
o'
day; there's
no
clock in the forest.
every
minute
foot of Time
Orlando.
been
as
there is no
Then
Rosalind.
and
well
as
And
why
would
hour
detect
clock.
a
not
the swift foot of Time
?
Had
not
that
?
proper
Rosalind.
groaningevery
as
sighing
the lazy
lover in the forest ; else
true
By
no
sir. Time
means,
travels in divers paces with
divers persons. I'lltellyou who Time ambles withal,who Time
who Time
trots withal,
gallopswithal,and who he stands still
withal.
Orlando.
Marry, he
Rosalind.
the contract
who
prithee,
I
lengthof
Orlando.
not
hard
trots
with
a
withal ?
a
maid between
young
it is solemniz'd. If the
marriageand the day
Time's pace is so
se'nnight,i
seven
Who
With
Rosalind.
hath
trot
of her
interim be but
the
doth he
year.
ambles Time
a
that it seems
withal ?
that
priest
the gout ; for the
hard
one
lacks Latin and
a
rich
because
sleepseasily
that
man
he
cannot
because he feels no pain, the
and the other lives merrily
study,
the other
one
lackingthe burden of lean and wasteful learning,
knowingno burden of heavy,tedious penury. These Time ambles
"
withal.
Orlando.
Who
Rosalind.
as
softly
foot
Orlando.
Rosalind.
term
With
can
Who
With
and
doth he
a
thief
gallopwithal ?
for though he
to the gallows;
he thinks himself
fall,
too
soon
go
as
there.
stays he stillwithal ?
then
term, and
tween
they sleepbetheyperceivenot how Time
the vacation ; for
lawyersin
moves.
Orlando.
1
for
Seven
two
Where
dwell you, pretty youth?
a week;
nights,i.e.,
weeks.
as
we
say
fourteen nights,
i.e.,
"fortnight,"
64
SHAKESPEARE.
here
shepherdess,
my sister,
the forest,
Hke fringe
upon a petticoat.
Orla7ido. Are you native of this place?
With
Rosalind.
of
[act
this
the cony
Rosali7id. As
that you
see
hi.
in the skirts
she is kin-
dwell where
dled.i
Orlando.
2
in
Your
accent
remov'd
so
a
uncle of mine
inland man;
fell in love.
and
one
I have
I thank God
giddyoffenses
Orlando.
laid
to
the
Rosalind.
another
I
Can
not
am
There
Orlajido. I
Rosalind.
sick.
ligious
re-
to
be touch'd with
any of the
sex
so
many
withal.
evils that
principal
all like
principal
; they were
fault seemingmonstrous
every one
none
he
is a
one
till
it.
match
I will not
There
to
?
women
were
to
woman,
recount
prithee,
No,
old
but,indeed,an
tax'd their whole
generally
half-pence
are,
as
are
a
you remember
chargeof
;
chase
you could pur-
speak,who was in his youth
^
for there he
that knew courtship
too well,
heard him read many lectures against
it,
he hath
as
of many
so
taughtme
his fellow-fault came
that
somethingfiner than
dwelhng.
I have been told
Rosalind.
an
is
of them.
some
cast
man
away my
haunts the
"
physicbut
that
forest,
on
those
abuses
our
"
with carving Rosalind
their barks ; hangs odes
on
plants
hawthorns
and elegies
on
brambles,all,forsooth,
deifying
upon
I
the name
of Rosahnd.
that fancymonger,*
If I could meet
would give him some
for he seems
to have the
good counsel,
^ of love
quotidian
upon him.
young
Orlando.
your
taughtme
am
he that is so
am
love-shak'd ; I pray you, tell me
remedy.
Rosalind.
I
I
There
how
to
sure
you are
Orlando. What
1
Brought forth.
3
Court
5
Quotidianfevers
manners.
is none
know
a
He
of my uncle's marks upon you.
in love,in which cage of rushes
man
not
prisoner.
were
his marks
2
Rosalind
are
?
Acquire.
puns
on
those in which
the word.
"*
the paroxysms
One
who
occur
deals in love.
daily.
AS
II.]
SCENE
Rosalind.
LIKE
cheek, which
lean
A
YOU
65
IT.
have
blue
eye,^
and sunken, which
unquestionablespirit,
you have not; an
which you have not
which you have not; a beard neglected,
^
but I pardon you for that,for simply
your having*in beard is a
; then your hose should be ungarter'd,
younger brother's revenue
your shoe unti'd,
your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbutton'd,
and everything
about you demonstrating
a careless desolation.
^
in your
But you are no such man
; you are rather point-device
than seemingthe lover of any
accouterments, as lovingyourself,
you
not;
a
^
"
other.
Fair
Orlando.
youth,I
^
you
Me
believe it !
she does; that is
confess
stillgive the lie
their
to
you he that hangs the
admired ?
so
Orlando.
I
I
at
he,that
But
are
I love.
You
pointsin the which women
consciences.
But, in good sooth,are
on
the trees,wherein
thee,youth,by
much
so
the white hand
is
of Rosalind,
he.
unfortunate
you
Rosalind
in love
as
your
rhymesspeak?
can
rhyme nor reason
express how much.
Rosalind. Love is merelya madness, and, I tellyou, deserves
well a dark house and a whip "^ as madmen
do ; and the reason
why theyare not so punishedand cured is that the lunacyis
that the whippersare in love too.
Yet I profess
curing
ordinary
it by counsel.
Orlando.
Neither
Orlando.
Did
Rosalind.
me
thee beheve
of the
one
verses
to
swear
that
am
Rosalind.
so
I could make
make
her that
may as soon
love believe it^
which,I warrant, she is apter to do than to
Rosalind.
as
would
you
ever
Yes, one,
any so ?
in this manner.
cure
and
his
and I set
love,his mistress,
which time would I, beingbut a
1
"
2
Unsociable.
6
Objectof "make"
"^
This
years.
Blue
eye,"i.e.,blue
barbarous
8
3
beneath the
Indeed.
him
He
every
moonish ^
was
to
imagine
day to woo me ;
be
youth,grieve,
not in the iris.
eyelids,
^ Faultless.
^
Property.
understood.
treatment
Changeable.
of lunatics
tillwithin
prevailed
the last fifty
66
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
hi.
effeminate,
longingand liking,
changeable,
proud,fantastical,
full of tears, full of smiles,
for every
apish,shallow,inconstant,
passion
somethingand
women
for the most
are
him, now
for
loathe him
no
as boysand
passiontruly
anything,
part cattle of this color
; then entertain
him, then
;
would
like
now
him ;
forswear
now
suitor from his
at him ; that I drave my
weep for him, then spit
^ humor
of love to a living
mad humor
of madness; which was,
forswear
to
merely2
the full stream
monastic.
And
of
the world
thus I cured
and
to
live in
'him; and this way
^
take upon me
to wash
your liver as clean as a sound
heart,that there shall not be one spot of love in't.
Orlando.
I would
Rosalind.
and
come
Orlajido.
where
not
I would
cure
nook
will I
sheep's
cured,youth.
be
but call
you, if you would
to my cote and woo
day
Now, by the
every
a
faith of
lind
Rosa-
me
me.
love,I will; tell
my
me
it is.
Rosalind.
Go
with
to
me
it and
it you ; and
I'llshow
by
the
you shall tell me where in the forest you live. Will you go ?
Orlando. With all my heart,good youth.
RosaHnd.
Rosalifid. Nay, you must
call me
Come, sister,
way
"
will you go ?
\Exeimt.
Scene
Enter Touchstone
goats, Audrey. And
simplefeature ^ content
Audrey. Your features
Touchstofie. I
am
The
and
Audrey
3
4
6
Real.
;
Jaques behind.
!
Lord
warrant
here with thee and
us
Doth
features ?
the most
the Goths.^
among
2
Entirely.
regardedthe liver as the seat
physiologists
5 Personal
Quickly.
appearance.
pun
! what
thy goats, as
Old
A
your
you ?
capricious
poet, honest Ovid, was
1
Forest.
apace,*
good Audrey ; I will fetch up
I the man
how, Audrey ? am
yet ?
Touchsto7ie. Come
my
III.
is intended
of Goths
on
the words
"
goats
being as though it were
"
and
of the affections.
"
"
Goths," the old pronunciatio
spelled Gotes."
The
pun is
III.]
SCENE
AS
.
VOLT
LIKE
67
IT.
Jaqiics.\Aside\O knowledgeill inhabited,
worse
in
thatch'd
a
house
man's
a
man's
wit seconded
good
it strikes a
Jove
^
When
ToucJistone.
a
!
than
be
cannot
verses
with the forward
dead
than
understood,nor
child Understanding,
reckoningin a little
2
room.
Truly,I would the gods had made thee poetical.
Audrey, I do not know what "poetical"is. Is it honest in
deed and word ?
Is it a true thing?
ToucJistone. No, truly
; for the truest poetry is the most
ing
feignlovers are
in
; and
given to poetry, and what they swear
poetry may be said as lovers theydo feign.
Audrey. Do you wish, then, that the gods had made me
?
poetical
Touchsfoue.
I do, truly
thou art honest
; for thou swear'st to me
; now,
man
more
if thou wert
a
great
a
poet, I might have
hope
some
thou didst
feign.
Aud^ry. Would
Touchstone.
not
you
have
me
honest ?
unless thou
No, truly,
wert
hard-favored
honestycoupledto beautyis to have honey a sauce
A material ^ fool !
Jaques. [Aside]
Audrey. Well, I am not fair;and therefore I
make
me
to sugar.
pray the
gods
honest.
Touchstone.
slut were
; for
to
Truly,and
put good
Audrey. I
Touchsto7ie.
tishness may
not
am
meat
a
to
cast
into
an
away honestyupon
unclean dish.
slut,
thoughI
thank the
a
gods I
am
Well, praisedbe the gods for thy foulness
come
hereafter.
But
be
it
as
it may
fouH
foul.
! slut-
be, I
will
which is derived from the Latin
helped out by the word "capricious,"
caper (" goat").
1
the earth in disguise,
ble
came
Jupiterand Mercury,visiting
upon the humof
Philemon
and
and Baucis,
entertained by
were
so
dwelling
hospitably
the worthy couple that Jupiterchanged their thatched
cottage into a superb
of
which
Baucis
and
her
husband
made
were
temple,
priests.(SeeGuerber's
Greece
and
Rotne, p. 43. )
Myths of
2
Great reckoning,"
a largebill for a small accommodation.
etc., i.e.,
3 Full of matter
*
; sensible.
Homely.
"
68
SHAKESPEARE.
thee ; and
marry
I have
that end
to
[act
"
with Sir Ohver
been
who hath
text,the vicar of the next village,
in this placeof the forest and to coupleus.
Jaques. [Aside]I
fain
would
promis'dto
hi.
Mar-
meet
me
this meeting.
see
Audrey. Well, the gods giveus joy !
Touchstone,
Amen
Here
!
under
Martext,you
well
are
Sir Oliver. Is there
Sir Oliver.
Truly,she
to
us
dispatch
chapel?
your
here to givethe woman
none
Touchsto7ie. I will not
Will you
met.
go with you
this tree,or shall we
"
Martext.
SiR Oliver
Enter
Sir Oliver
Sir Oliver.
comes
take her
be
must
giftof
given,or
on
any
the
here
?
man.
marriageis not
lawful.
Jaques. [Advancing]
Proceed,proceed;
Good
Touchstone.
you, sir?
You
company;
I
very well met.
are
am
very
glad to
What-ye-call't
; how
Master
good
even,
see
God
you;
I'llgiveher.
'ildi you
even
"
a
do
for your last
toy^ in hand
here,sir; nay, pray be cover'd.
Jaques. Will you be married,motley?
"
Touchstone.
As
and the falcon her
so wedlock
bill,
Jaques. And
the
ox
hath his
so
bells,
the
bow,^sir,
horse his curb,
hath his desires; and
man
pigeons
as
be
nibbling.
will you, beinga man
of your breeding,
be married
Get you to church,and have
under a bush like a beggar?
is. This fellow will
that can tellyou what marriage
a good priest
but joinyou together
wainscot ; then one of you will
as theyjoin
prove
a
shrunk
Touchsto7ie.
be married
for
panel,and, like green timber,warp,
I am
[Aside]
of him
well,and
me
would
Jaques. Go
1
in the mind
another; for
than of
but I
leave my
thou with me,
a
to
good
wife.
to
Yield ; reward.
be
better to
were
like
he is not
beingwell married,it will
not
hereafter
me
not
warp.
and let me
2
a
counsel thee.
matter.
trifling
3
Yoke.
marry
excuse
AS
IV.]
SCENE
Touchstone.
Come,
Farewell,
good
69
IT.
LIKE
VOU
Audrey.
sweet
"
Oliver; not,^
Master
O sweet
Oliver J
O brave
Oliver
Leave
not behind
me
y
thee:
but,"
Wind
Begone,I say,
will not to weddijtgwjththee.
\ExeimtJaques,Touchstone,and Audrey.
I
Sir Oliver. 'Tis
all shall flout me
of my
out
Enter
Celia.
tears
do not
IV.
The
become
a
But
Celia. As
good
\Exit.
Celia.
; I will weep.
me
the grace to consider that
have
man.
have
Rosalind.
of them
Forest.
and
prithee
; but yet
I
Do,
fantastical knave
a
calling.
Rosalind
talk to
Never
; ne'er
matter
no
Scene
Rosalind.
away,
I not
cause
as
to weep
cause
one
would
?
desire ; therefore weep.
Rosalifid. His very hair is of the dissembHngcolor.
^
Celia. Somethingbrowner than Judas's
; marry, his kisses
are
children.
Judas'sown
Rosaliiid.
V
Celia. An
his
faith,
excellent
hair is of
a
color; your
good
color.
chestnut
was
ever
the
only
color.
Rosalind.
And
his
is as
kissing
full of
as
sanctity
the touch of
holybread.
Celia. He
hath
boughta pairof
of winter's sisterhood kisses not
is in
chastity
1
lipsof Diana.^
religiously
; the
A
nun
very ice of
them.
and tapestries
with
in old paintings
Judas is constantly
represented
hair and beard.
2
more
chaste
See Note
5, p. 53.
red
SHAKESPEARE.
yo
Rosalind.
and
But
Celia,
he would
swear
hi.
this morning,
come
?
not
comes
did he
why
[act
is no
there
Nay, certainly,
you think so ?
Celia. Yes ; I think he is not
truth in him.
Rosalitid. Do
but for his
gobletor
a
Celia.
Celia.
'*
is not
stronger than the word
of false
him
heard
have
"
Was
covered
a
as
h^ is in ; but I think he is not
Yes, when
"
concave
stealer,
in love ?
true
You
as
horse
a
nut.
worm-eaten
Rosalind.
nor
pickpurse
do think him
in love,I
verity
Rosalifid. Not
a
is ;
of
"
in.
downrighthe
swear
the
besides,
oath of
a
lover is no
tapster; theyare both the confirmers
a
attends here in the forest
reckonings.He
was.
on
the Duke
your father.
Rosalind.
with him.
of
we
good
as
ask'd
He
as
he ;
when
fathers,
Celia. O, that's a
brave
traverse, athwart
his horse
spurs
there is such
brave
let me
man
as
He
oaths and
but
on
much
was
go.
him,
But what
talk
Orlando ?
speaks
them bravely,
quite
^
that
a puisny tilter,
breaks
as
youthmounts
and
Enter
Corin.
Mistress and
"
CoRlN.
oft
master, you have
inquired
shepherdthat complain'dof love.
Whom
sitting
by me on the turf,
you saw
the proud,disdainful shepherdess
Praising
After the
was
his mistress.
Celia.
Corin.
Between
Well,and
If you
the
will
see
a
what
of him
?
play'd,
pageant truly
palecomplexionof
1
true
love
Unskillful.
a
noble
guides. Who
folly
here ?
comes
That
; I told
side,breaks his staff hke
one
question
writes brave verses,
the heart of his lover ;
But all'sbrave that
goose.
a
!
man
brave
words, swears
parentage I
laugh'dand
he
so
of
of what
me
had
and
yesterday,
the Duke
I met
glow of
the red
And
hence
Go
I shall conduct
you,
it.
will mark
If you
71
IT.
proud disdain,
and
scorn
httle and
a
LIKE
YOU
AS
v.]
SCENE
O,
Rosalitid.
let
come,
;
remove
us
sightof lovers feedeth those in fove.
and you shall say
Bringus to see this sight,
I'llprove a busy actor in their play.
The
"
Scene
Another
V.
Enter
Phebe, do
Silvius. Sweet
Say that
love
you
In bitterness.
the
not
1
ax
he that dies and
Than
^"^^r
I would
Phebe.
I
Will you
flythee,for
I would
be
not
be
by bloodydrops ?
Cori^, behind,
and
thy executioner
thee.
injure
in mine
there is murder
tell'stme
Thou
lives ^
;
eye !
'Tis pretty,sure, and very probable.
That eyes, that are the frail'stand softest
Should
I do frown
Now
if mine
And
eyes
counterfeit
Now
Or if thou canst
Lie not,
1
2
to
show
Now
"
Dies
on
can
gates
on
thee with all my
wound,
to swoon
;
killthee!
let them
now
and
the
!
heart ;
fall down
why, now
;
not, O, for shame, for shame!
say mine eyes are murderers !
mine eye hath made
the wound
Falls not
"
things,
atomies.
murderers
b'e call'd tyrants,butchers,
shut their coward
Who
hard,
neck
sterner
Rosalind, Celia,
not
so
death makes
sightof
the humbled
upon
first begs pardon.
But
not
Phebe;
executioner,
common
heart the accustom'd
Whose
Falls
The
do not,
me;
scorn
not, but say
me
Phebe.
and
not
Forest,
of the
Part
SiLvius
\Exeunt
lets
ax," i.e.,
lives
lives,"i.e.,
not
the
and
dies ;
ax
in thee.
fall.
earns
a
livelihood.
Scratch thee but with
Some
rush,
^
capableimpressure
cicatrice ^ and
Thy palm some
Which
I have
Nor, I
am
That
can
darted
You
meet
Then
at
sure, there
but
thee,hurt
is no
O
that
in
dear
not
Afflict me
not
;
Phebe,
may be
fresh cheek
ever
some
near"
the power
Phebe.
Come
thee
eyes,
force in eyes
But
thou
near
; and
me
of
fancy,
invisible
shall you know the wounds
love's keen arrows
make.
That
mine
now
do hurt.
as
"
a
keeps;
moment
Silvius,
ever
liL
there remains
pin,and
a
of it; lean but upon
scar
The
If
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
72
when
tillthat time
that time comes,
with
thy mocks, pityme not ;
As tillthat time I shall not pitythee.
Rosalind.
\Advancing\And why, I pray
Who
you ?
might
be your
mother,
insult,
exult,and
That
you
the wretched
Over
What
?
thoughyou
no
Why,
"
more
in you than in the
Of Nature's salework.
'Od's my
see
beauty,
no
"
Must
I
have
in you
without candle may go dark to bed,
?
you be therefore proud and pitiless
what means
this ?
Why do you look on
I see
faith,
As, by my
Than
all at once,
no
more
"
I think she
me
?
ordinary
littlehfe,
tanglemy eyes too !
No, faith,
hope not after it.
proud mistress,
'Tis not your inky brows, your black-silkhair,
Your bugle^ eyeballs,
nor
your cheek of cream,
That can entame
to your worship.
my spirits
You
foolish shepherd,
wherefore do you follow her.
Like foggysouth puffing
with wind and rain ?
to
means
"
"
1
Scar; mark.
3
Jet black,like
i.e.,sensible impression.
Capableimpressure,"
beads called
bugles."
2
the
"
"
AS
v.]
SCENE
You
are
Than
she
That
make
And
a
properer
fools
IT.
^
73
man
as
you
full of ill-favor'dchildren.
the world
but
glass,
she
of you
out
a
LIKE
'Tis such
woman.
her
'Tis not
times
thousand
a
VOU
that flatters her ;
you,
herself
sees
more
.
proper
any of her lineaments can show her.
know
on
But, mistress,
yourself
; down
your knees,
for a good man's love ;
And thank Heaven, fasting,
Than
For
"
I must
Sell when
Cry the
can,
you
man
So take her
you
"
mercy
Foul is most
Phebe.
in
friendly
tellyou
; love
are
your ear,
not
for all markets.
him ; take his offer.
foul,beingfoul to be a scoffer.
to thee,shepherd
; fare you well.
"
Sweet
pray you, chide
chide than this man
youth,I
a
I had rather hear you
Rosalind. He's fallen in love with your
fallin love with my
with
you
so
For
no
Rosalind.
I
foulness,^ and
fast as she
as
she'll
"
thee
answers
look
Why
"
illwill I bear you.
you, do not
I pray
falser than
am
woo.
?
me
upon
together
;
her with bitterwords.
frowninglooks,I'llsauce
Phebe.
For
If itbe so,
anger.
year
made
vows
fallin love with me,
in wine ;
If you will know
hke you not.
'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.
Besides,I
"
my
house,
"
go, sister?
Will you
Shepherd,ply her hard.look on him better,
Come, sister. Shepherdess,
And
be not proud; though all the world could see,
None
could be so abus'd*^ in sight
as he.
"
"
"
Come,
flock.
and
[ExeuntRosalind,Celia,
of might:
Phebe. Dead
I find thy saw
now
shepherd,^
"Who
?"
loved that loved not at firstsight
ever
to
our
1
Handsomer.
4
The
reference
2
is to
4, p.
and
Leander.
languageof pastoral
poetry."
3
67.
Marlowe,
Christopher
linequoted is from his Hero
in the
gee Note
"
'
who
Corin.
Deceived.
died
in
'
1593; and
Shepherd is used
for
*
the
poet
'
SHAKESPEARE.
74
Silvius. Sweet
[act
hi.
Phebe,
"
Ha, what say'st
thou, Silvius ?
Phebe.
Phebe, pityme.
Phebe. Why, I am
sorry for thee,gentleSilvius.
Silvius. Wherever
sorrow
is,reliefwould be ;
Silvius. Sweet
do
If you
in love.
grief
and my grief
sorrow
at
sorrow
my
By givinglove
your
both extermin'd.i
Were
hast my love ; is not that neighborly
?
Silvius. I would have you.
Phebe.
Why, that were covetousness.
Thou
Phebe.
the
Silvius,
time
yet it is not
And
that I hated
was
that I bear thee love ;
since that thou
But
thee,
talk of love
canst
so
well,
which erst ^ was
irksome to me,
company,
I will endure ; and I'llemploy thee too ;
Thy
do
But
Than
look for further recompense
not
thine
own
Silvius. So
that thou art employ'd.
gladness
is my love,
holy and so perfect
And
I in such
That
I shall think it a most
gleanthe
To
That
A
poverty of grace.
a
broken
plenteous
crop
after the
ears
man
the main
harvest reaps.
Loose now
scatter'd smile,
and that I'lllive upon.
Phebe.
Silvius. Not
And
he hath
That
'Tis but
But
very
what
Think
a
well,but
I have
met
was
once
peevish^boy ;
care
"
I for words
oft ;
of.
master
him, thoughI
I love
not
him
erewhile ?
me
the bounds
bought the cottage and
the old carlot ^
Phebe.
youth that spoketo
thou the
Know'st
and then
ask for him ;
yet he talks well.
?
yet words
do well
he that
those that hear.
speaksthem pleases
It is a pretty youth
not very pretty;
But, sure, he's proud,and yet his pridebecomes him
When
"
1
Exterminated.
2
Lately.
3
Rustic.
*
;
Wayward.
AS
r.]
SCENE
He'll make
Is his
a
IT.
best
faster than
thingin
There
A
tall,
yet
very
littleriperand
Betwixt the
be
some
I have
had
what
He
said mine
And,
I marvel
But
I
now
mingleddamask.
had theymark'd
Silvius,
he
than
chide
to
black
were
?
at me
and
I answer'd
one
him
hair black ;
my
at me.
again;
not
omittance
"
love him ;
is no
quittance.
letter,
very taunting
thou shalt bear it; wilt thou,Silvius ?
And
to
Silvius.
a
Phebe, with
all my
heart.
I'llwrite it straight
;
Phebe.
The
matter's in my
head
with me,
in my
and
heart ;
him, and passingshort.
I will be bitter with
Go
him
yet
to
remember'd, scorn'd
am
why
do
to
; and
not
hate him
to
eyes
that's all
I'llwrite
red and
hate him
nor
cause
For
difference
did,would have gone near
with him ; but,for my part,
not
more
justthe
I
fall in love
I love him
^
women,
-
To
in his cheek ; 'twas
constant
parcels as
In
lustyred
more
that mix'd
There
tall;
pretty redness in his lip,
a
was
Than
him
his tongue
for his y^ars he's
His legis but so-so, and yet 'tiswell ;
is not
He
75
offense his eye did heal it up.
make
Did
and
LIKE
The
man.
proper
complexion;
YOU
Silvius.
\Exeunt.
ACT
Scene
Enter
IV.
The
I.
Rosalind,
Forest.
Celia, rt-//^/
Jaques.
Jaques. I prithee,
pretty youth,let
be
me
better
with thee.
Rosalijid.
They
1
say you
Uniform.
are
a
"
melancholyfellow.
2
Detail.
acquainted
76
SHAKESPEARE.
Jaqiies.I
am
Rosalind.
Those
so
and
fellows,
love it better than
; I do
that
[act
in
are
laughing.
either
extremityof
betraythemselves
to
iv.
modern
every
nable
abomi-
are
^
censure
than drunkards.
worse
Jaqiies.Why,
'tisgood
be sad and say
to
nothing.
Rosalmd.
Why, then,'tisgood to
Jaqiies.I
have neither the scholar's melancholy,
which
be
a
post.
is emulation,
which is fantastical,
the courtier's,
nor
musician's,
which is proud,nor
the
the soldier's,
which is ambitious,
nor
which is politic,
the lady's,
which is nice,'-^
the
nor
nor
lawyer's,
which is all these; but it is a melancholyof mine own,
lover's,
extracted from many objects,
and,
compounded of many simples,
in which my often
of my travels,
indeed,the sundrycontemplation
the
nor
rumination
in a
wraps me
Rosalind. A traveler !
be sad.
then
to
I fear you
have
and poor
seen
Rosalmd.
a
By
^
faith,
you
my
sadness.
have
sold your own
lands to see other men's ;
and to have nothingis to have rich eyes
have
much
fool
have
And
to
your
make me
and to travel for it too
gain'dmy experience.
I had
makes you sad.
experience
to make
me
merry than experience
Orlando.
Good
rather
sad ;
!
Enter
Orlando.
dear Rosalind
day and happiness,
Jaques. Nay, then, God
be
wi' you, an*
!
talk in blank
you
\Exlt.
verse.
Monsieur Traveler ; look
Farewell,
disable^ all the benefits of your
strange suits,
Rosalind.
of love with your
out
to
great reason
hands.
Jaques. Yes, I
have
humorous
most
that
you
in
swam
and
nativity,
countenance
a
are,
or
gondola.^ ^Vhy,how
"
1
"
2
Fastidious.
6
Venice, built on
Modern
you
and
lisp
you
country, be
own
almost chide God
I will
now,
scarce
Orlando
wear
for
making
think you
have
! where
have
censure,"i.e.,
ordinary
judgment.
3
Fanciful.
*
If.
"
Depreciate.
small islands in a' lagoon,is intersected
by canals ; and
AS
YOU
you been all this while ?
another trick,
never
come
You
SCENE
I
J
Orlando.
IT.
77
lover !
a
An
such
me
serve
you
in my
sightmore.
within
Rosalind,I come
fair
My
LIKE
hour
an
of my
promise.
Break
Rosalind.
divide
into
minute
a
the thousandth
said of him
had
a
be
I'll
on
snail ; for
a
his
head,
"
he
thoughhe comes
slowly,
^ I
better jointure,
think,than
a
Come,
woman.
me
in my
more
no
snail ?
a
holidayhumor
you say to
Orlando.
love,it may
Rosalind,
dear
me,
Ay, of
his house
a
part of
a
shoulder,but
o' the
come
you be so tardy,
Hef be woo'd of a snail.
as
Of
Rosalind.
in
in the affairs of
Nay, an
Orlando.
can
minute
that will
He
break but
parts, and
Cupid hath clappedhim
Pardon
Rosalind.
make
a
love !
heart-whole.
Orlando.
sight. I
promisein
thousand
a
part of
that
him
warrant
hour's
an
and
me,
woo
me,
enough to
I would
I
were
am
would
What
consent.
you
I
now
your very, very Rosalind
kiss before I spoke.
an
now,
like
woo
for
ries
car-
?
and when
better speak first,
Nay, you were
you
^ for lack of
were
matter, you might take occasion to
graveled
kiss. Very good orators, when theyare out, theywill spit
; and
for lovers lacking God
us!
warn
matter, the cleanliest shift
Rosalind.
""
"
is to kiss.
How
Orlando.
Then
Rosalind.
if the kiss be denied ?
she
to
puts you
there
and
entreaty^,
begins
matter.
new
Orlando.
the
gondola,the
gayest and
had
hardlycounted
"
The
Run
a
never
In the sixteenth century Venice,
of Europe, vi^as
capitals
visited that city never
"
of the cab
the purpose
pleasureboat, serves
a
swam
in
a
or
of the
being one
great resort
"
of travelers ;
gondola"
"
was
traveler at all.
settlement
her husband
2
Venetian
attractive
most
who
one
1
could be out, beingbefore his beloved mistress ?
of other cities.
omnibus
and
Who
of property made
dyingbefore her."
aground,figuratively.
at
marriageon
the wife, in
case
of
78
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
Marry,that should you, if I were
should think my honestyranker than my wit.
Orla7ido. What, of my suit ?
and yet
Rosalind. Not out of your apparel,
Rosalind.
I
Am
Rosahnd
I your
not
Orlando.
I take
or
mistress,
your
of your
out
iv.
suit.
?
joy to
some
say you
are, because
I would
be
of her.
talking
Rosalind. Weh,
in her person I say I will not have you.
Then in mine own
person I die.
die by attorney.^
most
The poor world is alNo, faith,
Orlando.
Rosalind.
six thousand
died
man
any
Troilus
years
in his own
^
in
person, videlicet,^
his brains dash'd out with a Grecian
had
did what
he could
of love.
Leander,he
Hero
had
old, and in all this time there
die
to
before,and
would
turn'd nun,
have
if it had
he is
not
night; for,good youth,he went
and being taken with
Hellespont,
but
been
a
for
forth
the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was
But these are
all lies; men
have died from
have
worms
Orlando.
them, but
eaten
I would
not
for,I protest,her frown
Rosalind.
1
By
this
not
club ;
yet he
him
wash
was
*'
cause.
hot midsummer
a
to
the cramp,
love
a
not
of the patterns
fair year, though
one
liv'd many
was
drown'd
; and
of Sestos." ^
Hero
time
in the
time,and
to
for love.
my rightRosalind
might killme.
have
hand, it will not
killa
of this
fly. But
come,
mind,
now
Substitute.
2
abbreviated to viz.
Namely ; usually
3 A
of Priam, King of Troy,who was
son
killed by Achilles during the
is
TrojanWar. The story of his love for Cressida,his faith and her perfidy,
the subjectof Shakespeare's
tragedyof Troilus and Cressida.
^
"Leander
is familiar,
Venus
at
.
.
.
Hero
of Sestos."
The
story,the theme
Leander, a youth of Abydos, enamored
the Hellespont
Sestos,nightly
swam
to meet
of
of many
Hero,
a
her, she
poets,
of
priestess
guidinghis
from a high tower ; tillon one
wild and
by a torchlight
displayed
threw
stormy nightthe adventurous lover was drowned, and Hero in despair
herself into the sea and perishedin the waves.
(See Guerber's
Myths of
Greece and Rome, pp. 1 1 i-i 1 7.)
course
AS
I.]
SCENE
LIKE
YOU
IT.
"ic^
and
coming-ondisposition,
your Rosalind in a more
I will grant it.
what you will,
I will be
ask
me
Orlando.
Then
Rosalind.
will I, Fridaysand Saturdays
and all.
Yes, faith,
Rosalind.
wilt thou have
And
Orlando.
love me,
Ay, and twenty
Rosalmd.
Orlando.
What
Rosalind.
Are
?
me
such.
sayest thou ?
good ?
not
you
hope so.
Why, then, can
I
Orlando.
Rosalind.
desire
one
Come, sister,
you shall be
Give me
What
your hand, Orlando.
Orlando. Pray thee,marry us.
thing?
"
the
cannot
Rosalind.
You
Celia. Go
to.
of
much
and
priest
a
good
us."
marry
do you say, sister?
"
Celia. I
too
say the words.
must
begin, Will you, Orlando,"
Will you, Orlando,have to wife this Rosahnd
"
"
"
?
Orlajido. I will.
Rosalind.
Orlando.
Rosalind.
Ay, but
Why, now
Then
when
?
fast
; as
"
must
you
she
as
say,
can
marry
I take
us.
thee, Rosalind,for
wife."
Orlando.
I take
thee,RosaHnd, for
wife.
^
might ask
I do
you for your commission; but
There's a girl
take thee,Orlando,for my husband.
goes before the
a woman's
priest
thoughtruns before her actions.
; and certainly
Rosalind.
Orlando.
Rosalind.
I
"
wing'd.
thoughts
; theyare
tell me
how long you would have
So do all
Now
her.
you have possess'd
Orlando. For ever
and
a
her
after
day.
"
are
day,"without the "ever." No, no, Orlando ;
when theywed ; maids
are
Aprilwhen theywoo, December
May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they
are
wives.
Rosalind.
men
pigeonover
Say
a
I will be
more
his hen, more
1
jealousof
clamorous
Warrant
;
Barbary cock
rain,
parrot against
thee than
than
a
authority.
a
8o
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
iv.
^ than
an
giddyin my desires than a
newfangled
ape, more
like Diana
in the fountain,^
monkey; I will weep for nothing,
to be merry ; I will
and I will do that when
you are dispos'd
laughlike a hyen,^and that when thou art inclin'd to sleep.
more
Rosalind
will my
do
Orlando.
But
Rosalind.
she will do
By my life,
O, but she is wise.
Orlafido.
else she could
Rosalijid. Or
Make*
way warder.
it will out at the
wiser,the
and
not
?
so
I do.
as
have
the wit
the doors
the smoke
keyhole; stop that,'twillflywith
'twill out
out
wit,
woman's
a
upon
that,and
; shut
casement
do this ; the
to
at
the
at
the
chimney.
hours,Rosalind,I will leave thee.
love,I cannot lack thee two hours.
For these two
Orlando.
Rosali7id.
Alas ! dear
Orlando.
I must
will be with thee
attend the Duke
at
dinner ; by
two
o'clock I
again.
Ay, go your ways, go your ways ; I knew what you
My friends told me as much, and I thoughtno
prove.
cast
That flattering
me
; 'tisbut one
tongue of yours won
Rosalind.
would
less.
o'clock is your hour?
Two
away, and so, come, death !
Rosalind.
Orlando. Ay, sweet
"
Rosalind.
and
me,
By
by
all
in
and
troth,
my
pretty oaths that
good earnest,and
not
are
so
God
dangerous,if you
mend
break
minute behind your hour,I
one
or come
promise,
^
and the most
will think you the most
break-promise,
pathetical
hollow lover,and the most
unworthy of her you call Rosalind,
jotof
one
your
that may
be chosen
therefore beware my
Orlando.
With
no
out
of the
of the gross band
unfaithful;
keep your promise.
than if thou wert indeed
less religion
censure
and
Rosalind.
my
So, adieu !
that examines all such
Rosalind.
Well,Time is the old justice
and let Time try. Adieu.
offenders,
[ExitOrlafido.
1
2
3
4
Changeable.
Images of Diana
Hyena.
Close.
The
were,
bark
5
and are,
of this animal
Canting;used
ornaments
frequent
is not
here in
a
in fountains.
a
rude
ludicrous
sense.
unlike
laugh.
AS
II.]
SCENE
have
Celia. You
O
Rosaluid.
YOU
LIKE
simplymisused
81
IT.
in your love prate.
pretty littlecoz, that thou didst
coz, coz, coz, my
our
sex
in love !
be
But it cannot
many fathom deep I am
affection hath an unknown
bottom,like the bay of
; my
how
know
sounded
1
Portugal.
Celia.
Or
in,it runs
that
rather,
bottomless,
as
fast
as
you
pour
affection
out.
No, that
jRosalmd.
wicked
same
bastard
of Venus
that
was
and born of madness,
conceived of spleen,
that
begotof thought,
blind,
boy that abuses every one's eyes because his own
rascally
in love. I'lltellthee,
let him be judgehow deep I am
are
out,
Aliena,I cannot be out of the sightof Orlando; I'llgo find a
"
"
shadow,2 and sightillhe
Celia. And
come.
I'llsleep.
\Exeu7it.
Scene
Enter
II.
The
Forest.
Jaques, Lords, and Foresters.
Jaques. Which is he that killed the deer ?
A Lord.
Sir,it was I.
Jaques. Let's present him to the Duke,
head, for
a
this purpose
Forester.
branch
of
Roman
a
well to set the deer's horns
victory. Have
"
you
no
song,
queror
con-
upon
his
for
forester,
?
Yes, sir.
Jaques. Singit;
noise
do
it would
; and
like
'tisno
matter
how
it be in tune,
so
it make
enough.
Song.
Forester.
What
shall he have that kilVd the deer?
His leather skin and
Then
singhim
horns
hotne ;
[The
1
There
is
Portugal,near
no
such
Oporto,the
Shady place.
6
rest
shall bear this burden.
off the coast
; but
by geographers
bay recognized
water
twenty miles from shore attains a
2
to wear.
is
exceedingly
deep,and
at
hundred
depthof eighty-five
a
distance
feet.
of
of
S2
SHAKESPEARE.
thou
Take
It
was
crest
a
to
scorn
no
[act
the horn ;
wear
born
thou wast
ere
horn, the horn, the lustyhortiy
The
Is fiot a
thingto laughto
Orlando
here much
hath
ta'en
Look
who
his bow
Celia.
two
o'clock ?
troubled
brain,he
past
!
you, with
Celia. I warrant
Forest.
Is it not
?
now
you
say
[Exeunt.
scorn.
and
Rosalind
Enter
How
The
III.
Scene
and
:
ity
s fatherwore
Thy father''
And
thyfatherbore it
Rosalind.
iv.
and
love
pure
and
arrows
and
forth
is gone
"
to
sleep.
"
here.
comes
Enter
SiLVius.
My errand is to you, fair youth.
My gentlePhebe bid me giveyou this.
I know
not the contents' ; but,as I guess
By the stern brow and waspishaction
of it,
Which
she did use as she was
writing
Silvius.
It bears
I
am
but
an
angry
Patience
Rosalind.
And
playthe
She says I am
She calls me
Were
Her
Why
man
as
me
letter.
;
guiltless
messenger.
a
as
Pardon
tenor.
a
[Giving
herself would
swaggerer
not
; bear
that
fair,
starde at this letter,
bear
this,
I lack
manners
all!
;
proud,and that she could not love
will !
rare
as phenix.i 'Od's my
love is not
writes she
me
the hare that I do hunt.
so
?
to me
This is a letter of your
own
"
well,
Well,shepherd,
device.
dred
Accordingto the old and familiar fable,this bird,after livingfive hunarises from the ashes,
and its successor
years, destroysitself by fire,
there being but one
phenixin existence at a time.
1
AS
III.]
SCENE
YOU
LIKE
Silvius. No, I protest,I know
Come,
Rosalind.
I
A
turn'd into the
She has
I say she
hand,
think
on, but 'twas her hands
gloveswere
; but
that's no
matter.
invention and his hand.
This is a man's
Silvius.
Sure,it is hers.
Rosalmd.
Why, 'tisa boisterous and
; why, she defies
challengers
to
Could
drop forth
such
Ethiopwords, blacker
Than
in their countenance.
much
for I
of Phebe's
She Phebes
Rosalind.
me.
in their effect
Will you
pleaseyou,
heard too
Yet
style,
Woman's
Such
Silvius. So
cruel
a
gentlebrain
invention.
giant-rude
Christian!
Like Turk
not
;
did invent this letter ;
never
for
style
fool,
a
love.
did
verily
; I
huswife's hand
a
are
you
leathern
a
freestone-color'd hand
her old
come,
of
extremity
; she has
her hand
saw
That
A
the contents' ;
not
did write it.
Phebe
And
^:^
IT.
never
heard
it yet ;
cruelty.
; mark
me
hear the letter?
the tyrant writes.
how
\Reads.
Art
thou
That
Can
a
Call you
Rosalind.
to
shepherdturn'd,
maideii's heart hath burn'd?
a
rail thus ?
woman
Silvius.
god
"
"
this railing
?
\Reads\
Why, thygodhead laid apart,
thou
Warr'st
Did you
ever
hear such
Meaning
me
a
could
beast.
"
a
heart?
woman's
?
railing
"
the eye
Whiles
That
with
do
ofman
no
did
vengeance
woo
to
me.
me.
"
"
SHAKESPEARE.
54
If the
ofyour bright
eyne
scorn
Have
to raise such
power
Alack, in me
theywork
Whiles
you
iv.
i
inittef
strange effect
what
Would
How
[act
love in
in mild
/
aspect'
chid vie, I did love ;
then
that
He
mightyour prayers move!
this love to thee
brijtgs
Little knows
this love i?tnie j
And
seal
by him
Whether
that
up thymind
/
kind^
thyyouth and
Will the faithful
offertake
Of
and
me
all that I
Or else by him
then Pll
And
Silvius. Call you
Celia. Alas,poor
Rosalind.
thou
and
Do
love such
deny,
to die.
studyhow
this
you
a
love
my
7nake s
can
chiding?
shepherd!
pityhim ? No,
?
woman
playfalse strains upon
What,
thee !
he deserves
not
"
to
"
for her.
comes
If you
more
be
a
true
A
rank
Left
But
on
at
There's
chargeher
not
a
word
^
of this
; pray
you, if you
with oHve
place,down
trees
in the
3
fellow.
Contemptible
old
know,
neighborbottom
within.
The
love
; for here
?
of osiers by the
1
^
entreat
this forest stands
murmuring stream
hand bringsyou to the place.
your right
this hour the house doth keep itself;
none
to
OLIVER.
fair ones
morrow,
in the
Celia. West
snake
tame
\ExitSilvius.
* of
purlieus
sheepcotefenc'd about
The
I
a
company.
Oliver. Good
Well,go
her unless thou
lover,hence,and
Enter
Where
have
thee
Wilt
instrument
an
"
"
never
"
be endur'd !
for I see love hath made
your way to her
and say this to her: that if she love me,
thee ; if she will not, I will
thee
make
to
pity.
no
pluralof "eye."
2
Natural
4
Borders.
disposition.
^
Row.
;
AS
III.]
SCENE
Oliver. If that
an
I know
should
Such
garments and such
ripe2
And
browner
The
owner
sends
low,
woman
of the house
him
doth commend
I
What
am.
of my
I am,
and
handkercher
was
must
shame
how
we
we
are.
to you
both,
and
why
left a
an
mark
and
hour
food
me
where
you, tell it.
Orlando
partedfrom
you
again
pacingthroughthe forest,
of sweet
bitter fancy,
and
threw his eye aside.
objectdid present itself;
befell !
what
of
return
and
;
this ?
by
stain'd.
last the young
promiseto
Chewing the
Lo, what
will know
I pray
Oliver. When
he ?
understand
; if you
Celia.
And
you
I did
"
man
Within
not
for ?
inquire
boast,beingask'd,to say
Oliver. Some
He
Are
youthhe calls his Rosalind
this bloodynapkin.^ Are you
Rosalind.
This
himself
that
to
What
^
than her brother."
Oliver. Orlando
He
"
bestows
sister; the
Celia. It is no
And
85
IT.
profit
by a tongue,
by description
;
The boy is fair,
years :
you
Of female favor,and
a
LIKE
eye may
Then
Like
YOU
He
oak, whose
boughs were moss'd with age,
And
high top bald with dryantiquity,
A wretched, raggedman, o'ergrownwith hair,
his back.
About his neck
on
Lay sleeping
A green and gildedsnake had wreath'd itself,
with her head, nimble in threats,
Who
approach'd
The openingof his mouth ; but suddenly.
SeeingOrlando, it unlink'd itself.
And with indented glides
did slip
away
Under
Into
A
an
a
bush
which
; under
with udders
lioness,
head
Lay couching,^
1
Conducts.
2
on
bush's shade
all drawn
dry.
ground,with
Elder.
3
catlike
Handkerchief.
watch,
^
Crouching.
86
SHAKESPEARE.
that the
When
[act
should stir; for 'tis
man
sleeping
of that beast
royaldisposition
To prey on nothingthat doth seem
as dead.
This seen, Orlando did approachthe man,
The
it was
found
And
Celia.
^
he did render
And
liv'd
That
him
well he
And
he
was
the suck'd and
Oliver. Twice
did he
nobler
kindness,
ever
:
did he leave him
there,
hungrylioness ?
turn
his back
and
purpos'dso
;
than revenge,
nature, stronger than his justoccasion.
And
Made
Who
him
givebattle to the
quicklyfellbefore him
miserable slumber
From
Hon ess.
I awaked.
you he rescu'd ?
oft contrive to killhim ?
Was't
Rosalind.
you that did so
Oliver. 'Twas I ; but 'tisnot
Celia. Was't
tellyou what
To
2
hurtling
; in which
you his brother ?
Celia. Are
So
might so do,
unnatural.
But, to Orlando
Rosaruid.
But
brother;
same
'mongst men.
For well I know
to
that
unnatural
the most
Oliver.
Food
elder brother.
speakof
him
heard
I have
O,
brother,his
his
I was,
I do
I.
not
shame
conversion
since my
sweetlytastes,being the thingI am.
Rosalind.
But, for the bloodynapkin?
By
Oliver.
When
from
Tears
our
the firstto last betwixt
how
In
he
brief,
Who
I
gave
came
by.
two
kindlybath'd,
into that desert place;
to the gentle
me
Duke,
recountments
As
us
and
had
most
"
led
fresh array and entertainment,
unto
my brother's love ;
me
Committingme
Who
led me
unto
instantly
and
There stripp'd
himself,
1
Report.
his cave.
here upon
2
Noise
his
arm
of the conflict.
iv.
AS
III.]
SCENE
lioness had
The
Which
torn
YOU
all this while had
bled ; and
cried,in fainting,
upon
Brief,I recover'd him, bound
after
sent
To
tell this
me
His broken
Dyed
That
up his wound
;
I am,
story,that you might excuse
promise,and
in his blood
he in
fainted,
beingstrong at heart,
hither,
stranger as
He
he
now
Rosahnd.
small space,
some
87
IT.
flesh away,
some
And
And,
LIKE
to
the
unto
givethis napkin
shepherdyouth
sport doth call his Rosalind.
sivoons,
[Rosalind
Ganymede !
Why, how now, Ganymede ! sweet
when theydo look on blood.
Oliver. Many will swoon
in it. Cousin
Celia. There is more
Ganymede !
Celia.
"
Look, he
Oliver.
I would
Rosalmd.
"
recovers.
I
at
were
home.
I pray you, will you
of
Oliver. Be
man's
"
take him
by the arm ?
good cheer,youth. You
a
man!
lack
you
a
heart.
it.
so, I confess
I do
Rosalind.
well counterfeited !
think this was
how
thither.
We'll lead you
Celia.
well I counterfeited.
Oliver. This
was
not
I pray
you, tell your brother
counterfeit ; there is too
Well,then,take
would
Heigh-ho!
"
in your complexionthat it was
a
I assure
Rosalind. Counterfeit,
Oliver.
a
Ah, sirrah,
body
a
passionof
great
testimony
earnest.
you.
heart and
good
counterfeit to be
a
man.
So I do ;
Rosalind.
I
but,i' faith,
should have been
a
woman
by right.
Celia.
Come,
homewards.
you
Good
"
Oliver. That
How
you
excuse
Rosalind.
my
will
my
look
sir,
go
I, for
paler and
with
you,
draw
us.
bear
I must
paler;pray
answer
back
brother,Rosahnd.
I shall devise
something;but, I
to him.
counterfeiting
"
Will you
go ?
pray
you,
mend
com-
[Exeunt.
S8
SHAKESPEARE,
[act v,
ACT
Scene
V.
The Forest.
I.
and
Enter Touchstone
Touchstone.
shall find
We
a
time,Audrey; patience,
gentle
Audrey.
was
Audrey. Faith,the priest
saying.
gentleman's
Touchsto7ie. A
But, Audrey,there is a
Martext.
all the old
good enough,for
Sir
wicked
most
Audrey.
Oliver;
Audrey,a
youth here in the
most
vile
forest
lays
claim to you.
the world.
Here
he
'tis;
who
I know
Audrey. Ay,
the
comes
Touchstojte. It is meat
man
and
hath
no
you mean.
drink to me
that have good wits have
we
my troth,
hold.i
shall be flouting
cannot
; we
to
much
interest in
in
me
clown.
see
a
to
answer
By
for ;
we
Enter William.
Good
William.
Audrey.
even,
good even,- William.
to you, sir.
William. And good even
friend.
Touchsto7ie. Good
even, gentle
be cover'd.
How
thy head ; nay, prithee,
Audrey.
God
Five and
William.
Touchstone.
A
Touchstone.
Is
fair name.
"Thank
Touchstone.
"We
old
thy name
2
"
God
?
thank
Wast
born
i'the forest here ?
God.
God,"
a
"
good answer.
Art rich ?
so-so.
Faith,sir,
cannot
ye
you, friend ?
are
William
hold," i.e.,we
cannot
restrain
ourselves;we
gibe.
our
thyhead,cover
twenty, sir.
ripeage.
Ay, sir,I
William.
1
A
Cover
William,sir.
William.
William.
ye
good even," i.e.,God
giveyou good
even.
must
have
I.J
SCENE
AS
"
Touchstone.
and
"
YOU
LIKE
So-so ".is good,very
yet it is not
it is but
;
89
IT.
Art
so-so.
excellent
good,very
good ;
thou wise ?
William.
Ay, sir,I have a pretty wit.
Touchstone. Why, thou say'st
well. I do now
remember
a saying,
"The
fool doth think he is wise,but the wise man
knows
himself to be a fool." The heathen philosopher,
when he had a
desire to eat a grape, would open his hps when he put it into his
mouth ; meaning therebythat grapes were
made
to eat and lips
to
do love this maid
You
open.
I
William.
do, sir.
Give
Touchstone.
?
me
your hand.
Art thou learned ?
No, sir.
William.
Then
Touchstone.
learn this of
me
:
to
have
is to have ; for it
in rhetoric that drink,
figure
beingpour'dout of a cup into a
the one
doth empty the other ; for all your writers
glass,
by filling
do consent
that ipseis he ; now, you are not ipse,
for I am
he.
William. Which
he, sir?
Touchstone.
He, sir,that must marry this woman.
Therefore,
which is in the vulgarleave
the society
you clown, abandon
is a
"
"
which
the
common
"
of this female
in the boorish is company
is woman
; which
togetheris,abandon
"
"
which
the
in
society
of this female,or,
standing,
clown,thou perishest
; or, to thy better underdiest ; or, to wit,I kill thee,make thee away, translate
into bondage ; I will deal in poison
thy life into death,thy liberty
with thee,or in bastinado,^
in steel ; I will bandy 2 with
or
thee in faction ; I will o'errun thee with pohcy ; I will kill thee
and depart.
and fifty
a hundred
ways ; therefore tremble,
Audrey. Do, good William.
God
William.
rest you
merry, sir.
\Exit.
Ente)' CoRiN.
Covin.
Our
master
Touchstone.
and mistress seek you
; come,
Trip,Audrey ! trip,
Audrey !
"
I
away, away
attend,I
!
attend.
\^Excunt.
1
A
blow
with
a
cudgel.
2
Contend.
90
SHAKESPEARE.
Scene
Enter
Orlando.
like her ? that but
and
Orlando
wooing she
seeingyou
should
v.
The Forest.
II.
that
Is'tpossible
[act
Oliver.
and
on
so
littleacquaintance
you should
should love her ? and
grant 1 and will you
lovingwoo ?
^
to enjoy
persever
her?
Oliver. Neither call the
the poverty
of itin question,
giddiness
den
acquaintance,
my sudden wooing, nor her sud-
of
her,the small
consenting
; but
that she loves
other.
me
It shall be
that
revenue
was
here live and die
Orlando.
say with me, I love Aliena ; say with her
with both that we may
; consent
enjoyeach
your good ; for my father's house and all the
old Sir Rowland's
will I estate upon you, and
to
shepherd.
a
have
You
Let your wedding be tomorrow.
my consent.
Thither will I invite the Duke and all'scontented
followers.
Go
and
you
Aliena ; for look you, here
prepare
comes
Rosalind.
my
Enter
Rosalind.
God
you, brother.
you, fair sister.
my dear Orlando,how
Oliver. And
Rosalind.
O
thy heart
wear
Orlando.
claws of
a
in
I
Rosalind.
when
Orlando.
Rosalind.
1
Persevere
2
"
Where
me
grieves
to
see
thee
scarf !
a
arm.
thoughtthy heart
had
been
wounded
with
the
Wounded
it is,but with the eyes of a lady.
Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited
he show'd me
?
yoiu" handkercher
Ay, and greaterwonders
O,
to
than that.
where you are.2
Nay, 'tistrue ; there was
of two rams, and Caesar's
sudden but the fight
I know
anythingso
never
\Exit.
it
lion.
Orlando.
swoon
save
It is my
Rosalind.
Rosalind.
(accenton
"
the second
what
you are," i.e.,
syllable).
you
mean.
AS
II.]
SCENE
thrasonical^
brag of
brother and
my
"
YOU
LIKE
I came,
sisterno
IT.
saw, and
2
overcame."
but
met
sooner
9
1
For your
theylook'd,no
no
theysigh'd,
sooner
lov'd but
no
sooner
sooner
theylov'd,
but theyask'd one another the reason, no sooner
knew the
sigh'd
but theysought the remedy ; and in these degreeshave
reason
contine
they made a pairof stairsto marriagewhich theywill climb in3
gether
; theyare in the very wrath of love,and theywill tolook'd but
; clubs cannot
part them.
They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the
Duke to the nuptial.But, O, how bitter a thingit is to look into
happinessthroughanother man's eyes ! By so much the more
shall I to-morrow
be at the heightof heart-heaviness,
by how
much
I shall think my brother happy in having what he wishes
Orla7ido.
for.
Rosalind.
Rosalind
Why, then,to-morrow
I
cannot
serve
turn
your
for
?
Orlaiido. I
live
longerby thinking.
Rosalind, I will weary you then no longerwith idle talking.
I speak to some
then
for now
Know
of me
that I
purpose
know
you are a gentlemanof good conceit.^ I speak not this
that you should bear a good opinion
of my knowledge,
insomuch
can
no
"
I say I know
than may in
you
that I
neither do
are;
littlemeasure
some
good
yourself
"
and
not
to
draw
grace
do strange things.I
can
convers'd with
a
I labor for
most
magician,
a
behef
Beheve
me.
a
have,since I
profoundin
greater esteem
from
you, to do
then,if you please,
three year old,
was
his art and
yet not
damnable.^
the heart as your
If you do love Rosalind so near
shall you
gesture^ cries it out, when 3^our brother marries Aliena,
marry
her.
I know
into what
1
boastful.
Extravagantly
2
It
Zela
was
after his swift and
total defeat of Pharnaces, King of Pontus,
(45B.C.),that JuliusCsesar
Veni,vidi,vici (" I came,
3
Immediately.
5
Worthyof condemnation.
^
straitsof fortune she is driven ; and
sent
to the Roman
I saw,
I
overcame
senate
").
Intelligence,
6
Speechand
at
patch,
the celebrated dis-
action.
SHAKESPEARE.
92
it is
to
impossible
not
if it appear
me,
any danger.
thou
Orlando. Speak'st
I
a
am
in sober
tender
Look, here
Phebe.
have
done
I
not
care
and
best array;
to-morrow,
a
shall,
ungentleness,
to
you.
if I have ; it is my
study
and ungentle
to you.
despiteful
there followed by a faithful shepherd
You
are
;
Look upon him, love him ; he worships
you.
tellthis youth what 'tisto
Phebe. Good
shepherd,
Sllvius. It is to be all made of sighsand tears ;
To
you
lover of hers.
much
me
the letterthat I writ ^
Rosalind.
though I
dearly,^
and Phebe.
SiLVius
lover of mine
a
Youth, you
show
To
comes
you,
she is and without
in yom-
you
bid your friends ; for if you will be married
and to Rosalind,if you will.
Enter
as
to
meanings?
By my hfe,I do ; which I
magician.^Therefore put
Rosalmd.
inconvenient
not
your eyes to-morrow, human
to set her before
say
[act v.
seem
And
so
I for Phebe.
am
And
Phebe.
I for
And
Rosalind.
Ganymede.
I for Rosalind.
And
Orlando.
I for
no
woman.
so
I for Phebe.
am
Phebe.
And
I for
And
Orlando.
Rosalind.
And
Ganymede.
I for Rosalind.
I for
no
woman.
Silvius. It is to be all made
All made
1
2
"
service ;
of faith and
Silvius. It is to be all made
And
love.
of
passionand
of
all made
fantasy,
of
wishes,
value highly.
i.e.,
dearly,"
in force
of statutes
the provisions
Tender
Under
England in Shakespeare's
with
offense punishable
an
in
of witchcraft,magic, etc., was
time, the practice
one
year'simprisonmentfor the first conviction,and
goodsfor
the second.
3
Old form of
"
death
and
wrote."
forfeiture of
AS
III.]
SCENE
YOU
IT.
LIKE
93
adoration,
duty,and observance,^
All
and
All humbleness,all patience
impatience,
all trial,
all observance
purity,
All
And
I for Phebe.
am
so
;
And
Phebe.
so
Oi'lando. And
I for
am
so
Rosali7id. And
I for Rosalind.
am
so
Ganymede.
I for
am
no
woman.
why blanie you me to love you ?
Silvius. If this be so, why blame you me
to love you ?
Orlando. If this be so, why blame you me
to love you ?
do you speak to, "Why
blame you me
Rosalind. Who
If this be so,
Phebe.
"
love you ?
Orlando.
Pray you, no
the
against
Irish wolvescan.
meet
all together.
me
will
"
to-morrow.
contents
As
if
satisfy
you,
you
meet;
"
I have
moon.
"
to-morrow.
will
content
I
I
[To Orlando]
"
you shall be married
you
you, if what pleases
and
[To Orlando]
you, and you shallbe married to-morrow.
As you love Phebe,
love Rosalind,meet.
[To Silvius]
I'llmeet.
So fare you well;
and as I love no woman,
"
"
"
left you
Phebe.
Nor
Orlando.
commands.
if I live,
fail,
I.
Nor
[Exeunt.
I.
Scene
Enter
Touchstone.
and
howlingof
will helpyou, if
\ToSilvms]I
"
I satisfi'dman,
ever
Silvius. I'llnot
will we
hear.
not
To-morrow
love you, if I could.
[To Phebe]I will marry you, if ever
[To Silvms]I
"
doth
of this ; 'tislike the
more
I'llbe married
and
woman,
here,nor
would
[To Phebe]I
"
marry
her that is not
To
Rosalind.
I
to
III.
Touchstone
To-morrow
The Forest.
and
Audrey.
is the
joyfulday, Audrey ;
wolves
is monotonous
to-morrow
be married.
1
Readiness
2
The
to serve.
howling of
wherever
heard.
a
pack of
and
dismal
whenever
SHAKESPEARE,
94
[act
v.
desire it with all my heart ; and I hope it is no
of the world.^
dishonest desire to desire to be a woman
Here
Audrey.
of the banish' d Duke's
two
come
I do
Enter
First
Touchstone.
By
First
are
Shall
Page.
we
or
sayingwe
spitting
to
a
bad
Pages.
gentleman.
well
troth,
my
Secofid Page. We
pages.
tzvo
Well met, honest
Page.
and
sit,
Come, sit,
met.
hoarse,which
are
both
i' faith;and
faith,
I'
Page.
on
gypsies
hawking or
only2 prologues
the
in
a
tune, like two
horse.
a
Song.
//
was
lover and
a
With
his
hey,and
a
a
lass,
ho, and
a
hey noninOj
did pass
o'er the green corjifield
the onlyprettyringtime,
hi the springtime,
That
sing,hey dijiga ding,ding;
love7's love the spring.
When
birds do
Sweet
Betweeji
With
These
In
the
a
In
And
In
2
"
A
woman
The
a
that
hey,and
a
rye,
ho, and
a
hey nonino,
lie.
theybega^ithat hour.
hey^and a ho, and a hey nonino.
but a flower
was
a life
etc.
springtime,
take
therefore
With
For
of the
etc.
springtime,
With
How
acres
prettycountryfolkswould
This carol
**
song.
voice ?
Second
1
a
for you ; siti'the middle.
clapinto't roundly,without
are
a
hey,and
love is crowned
the presenttime.
a
hey nonino
the prifne
ho, and
with
a
etc.
springtijne,
of the
world," i.e.,a
only,"i.e.,only the.
I
married
woman.
;
I
AS
IV.]
SCENE
LIKE
YOU
IT.
95
Truly,young gentlemen,though there was no
in the ditty,
yet the note was very untunable.
great matter
sir; we
First Page. You
are
deceiv'd,
kept time,we lost not
Touchstone.
time.
our
Touchstone.
such
By
troth,
yes
my
God
foolish song.
a
voices !
Duke
Duke
Can
S.
The
God
mend
Dost
Oliver, and Celia.
Orlando,that
believe,
thou
I sometimes
do
the
boy
promised?
and
believe,
theyhope,and
Enter
your
Forest.
Senior,Amiens, Jaques, Orlando,
As those that fear
know
do not ;
sometimes
theyfear.
Rosalind, Silvius, and Phebe.
Rosalifid. Patience
You
and
\Exeunt.
IV.
do all this that he hath
Orlando.
You
wi' you;
be
Come, Audrey.
"
Scene
Enter
it but time lost to hear
; I count
once
more,
whiles
our
compact'is urg'd.
"
say, if I bringin your Rosalind,
will bestow her on Orlando here ?
Duke
S.
That
would
Rosalijid. And
you
Orhmdo.
That
would
Rosalind.
You
Fhebe.
That
I, had
say you
I, were
I
kingdoms to givewith
will have
her,when
I
her.
bringher
?
king.
?
willing
I of all kingdoms
marry me, if I be
say you'll
will I, should I die the hour after.
But if you do refuse to marry me,
You'll giveyourself
faithful shepherd?
to this most
Rosalind.
Phebe.
So is the
bargain.
have Phebe, if she will ?
Rosalind. You say that you'll
both one thing.
Silvius. Though to have her and death were
all this matter
even.
Rosalind. I have promis'd
to make
Keep you your word, O Duke, to giveyour daughter.
You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter.
Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll
marry me,
Or else refusing
me, to wed this shepherd.
"
"
"
"
g6
SHAKESPEARE.
Keep
me:
I go,
\ExetmtRosalind
in this shepherdboy
favor.
daughter's
touches of my
lively
Orlando.
My lord,the firsttime that I ever saw
Methought he was a brother to your daughter;
But, my good lord,this boy is forest-born,
Some
him
tutor'd in the rudiments
hath been
And
a?td Celia.
all even.
I do remember
S.
Duke
hence
and from
"
these doubts
make
v.
that you'll
word, Silvius,
marry her,
your
If she refuse
To
[act
^ studies
Of many
desperate
by his uncle,
he reports to be a great magician.
Whom
in the circle of this forest.
Obscured
Touchstone
Enter
which
in all tongues
Jaques. Good
hath been
If any
Touchstone.
have
purgation.I
beasts,
to
greeting
I have
so
in the
often met
motley-
forest;he
swears.
doubt
man
trod
a
measure
that,let him
;
^
I have
put
to
me
flatter'd a
my
lady;
my friend,smooth with mine enemy ;
and like
three tailors; I have had four quarrels,
with
politic
I have
been
I have
undone
have
my
couples
very strange
you all !
This is the
lord,bid him welcome.
he
courtier,
a
these
called fools.
are
gentlemanthat
minded
pairof
a
comes
Salutation and
Touchstone.
to
Here
the ark.
coming to
and
toward,^
flood
Jaques.There is,
sure, another
are
Audrey.
and
foughtone.
how
Jaques. And
Touchstone.
the seventh
met, and
Faith,we
*
the
found
quarrelwas
upon
cause.
Jaques.How
Duke
that ta'en up ?
was
S.
seventh
cause
?
"
Good
my
lord,like this fellow.
I like him
very well.
Touchsto7ie. God 'ildyou, sir; I desire you of the like. I press
to swear
in here,sir,
amongst the rest of the country copulatives,^
1
Unlawful.
4
Taken
up,
2
i.e.,made
At hand.
up.
3
dance.
Stately
5
Candidates
for
marriage.
AS
IV.]
SCENE
LIKE
YOU
IT.
97
binds and blood breaks.
as marriage
according
ill-favor'dthing,
but mine own
A poor virgin,
an
sir,
sir,
; a poor
else will. Rich honesty
man
of mine,sir,
humor
to take that that no
in a poor house ; as your pearlin
dwells like a miser,sir,
and to forswear ;
your foul oyster.
Duke
S. By my
he
faith,
is very swift and sententious.^
and such dulcet
ToucJistojie.Accordingto the fool's bolt,^
sir,
diseases.
But,
Jaqices.
the seventh
on
quarrel
Touchstone.
body
beard
a
was
Upon
lie
a
how
did you
find the
?
cause
times
seven
seeming,^
Audrey,
more
of
cut
for the seventh cause;
"
as
bear your
I did dislike the
removed,
"
thus,sir.
certain courtier's beard ; he sent me word, if I said his
he was in the mind it was ; this is call'd
not cut well,
againit was not
word he cut it to pleasehimself ;
well cut, he would send me
it was
not well cut,
this is call'd the Quip ^ Modest.
If,again,
If
he disabled my judgment; this is call'd the Reply Churlish.
againit was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true ;
this is call'd the Reproof Valiant. If againit was
not well cut,
he would say, I Hed; this is call'd the Countercheck
some
Quarrel; and
If I sent
Courteous.
the Retort
to
so
the Lie Circumstantial and the Lie Direct.
oft did you say his beard was
I durst go no further than the Lie
Touchstone.
he durst not
swords and
word
how
Jaqucs. And
nor
him
giveme
parted.
the Lie Direct ; and
not
well cut ?
Circumstantial,
so
we
measur'd
the degreesof the lie?
you nominate in order now
Touchstojie. O sir,
we
quarrelin print,
by the book, as you
I will name
have books for good manners.
you the degrees.
Jaques. Can
the Retort Courteous ; the second,the Quip Modest ;
first,
the third,
the Reply Churlish ; the fourth,
the ReproofValiant ;
the fifth,
the Lie with
the Countercheck
Quarrelsome; the sixth,
The
1
"
Swift and
2
"
The
3
fool's bolt is
Seemly.
7
sententious,"
i.e.,
ready-witted.
shot
soon
4
A
"
is
proverbial.
quipis a gibe.
98
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
All these you
seventh,the Lie Direct.
Circumstance
; the
but when
were
parties
v.
may
avoid but the Lie Direct ; and you may avoid that,too, with an
could not take up a quarrel,
If. I knew
v\^hen seven
justices
but
of
shook
the
If,as,
an
and
; much
virtue in If.
.
this a
not
and yet
anything,
the
S.
He
swore
a
uses
thought
I said so;" and they
If is the only peacemaker
fellow,
my
lord ?
He's
as
good
at
fool.
his
of that
presentation
Enter
rare
of them
themselves,one
you said so, then
Your
brothers.
hands
Jerques Is
Duke
"If
met
like
folly
a
and under
stalking-horse,^
he shoots his wit.
Hymen,
Rosalind,
and
Celia.
music.
[Still
Hyme7i. Then
is there mirth in
heaven,
When
earthly
thingsmade even
Atone together.2
Good
Duke, receive thydaughter;
Hymen ^ from heaven broughther.
Yea, broughther hither,
That thou mightst
joinher hand with his
Whose
heart within her bosom
is.
for I am
yours.
[To Duke\ To you I givemyself,
for I am
To you I givemyself,
[To Orlando]
yours.
Duke
S. If there be truth in sight,
you are my daughter.
Orlando. If there be truth in sight,
you are my Rosahnd
Phebe. If sight
and shapebe true,
Why, then,my love,adieu !
Rosalind.
[ToDuke] I'llhave no father,if you be not he.
I'llhave no husband,if you be not he.
[To Orlando]
[To Phebe] Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.
Rosalind.
"
"
"
1
A
is a horse,or
stalking-horse
the sportsman
2
"
Atone
conceals himself
from
the semblance
of one,
by means
of which
his prey.
i.e.,harmonize.
together,"
3
The
god
of
marriage.
AS
iv.J
SCENE
'Tis I
IT.
99
! I bar confusion.
Peace, ho
Hymen.
LIKE
YOU
conclusion
make
must
Of these
most
strange events.
eightthat must take hands
joinin Hymen's bands,
Here's
To
If truth holds
and you
You
and you are heart in heart ;
to his love must
accord,
and you
As the winter
shall part ;
"
to
are
to
sure
your lord ;
"
together.
foul weather.
"
wedlock
hymn we sing,
with questioning;
yourselves
a
may diminish,
met, and these thingsfinish.
wonder
reason
thus
How
cross
woman
a
You
Whiles
no
"
Or have
That
"
You
You
Feed
contents^
true
we
Song.
Wedding
is great Juno's
Tis
Hymen peoplesevery
High
Phebe.
Thy
^
O
S.
dear
my
I will not
faith my
eat
fancyto
thou
my word, now
thee doth combine.^
Enter
Jaquesde
I
am
That
;
then be honored.
wedlock
niece,welcome thou art
welcome, in no less degree.
daughter,
Duke
Even
town
high honor a7id renow?ty
Hymen, god ofevery town /
Honor
To
;
of board and bed /
O blessed bond
'
crown
Bois.
the second
Let
son
me
Jaques
mine ;
art
for
a
word
Rowland,
this fair assembly,
1
Bind.
"
Bois.
audience
have
of old Sir
to
bringthese tidings
de
!
to me
or
two.
SHAKESPEARE.
lOO
Duke
Address'd
In his
i
own
His brother
mightypower ; which were
to take
conduct,purposely
a
here and
to the
And
^
question
some
Both
from
his
w^ere
with him
old
an
with
he
foot,
on
the sword
to
skirts of this wild wood
After
;
came.
religious
man,
him, was
converted
and from the world,
enterprise
crown
bequeathingto his banish'd brother,
all their lands restor'd to them again
That
I do
engage
Duke
|j
"
This to be true,
life.
my
Welcome,
young man;
offer'stfairly
to thy brothers' wedding.
his lands
one
land
itselfat
in
First,
That
exil'd.
S.
Thou
A
put him
meetingwith
Where
To
that every day
resorted to this forest,
of great worth
And
v.
Frederick,
hearinghow
Men
His
[act
withheld,and
a potent
large,
this forest let us
here
do
to
the other
dukedom.
those ends
well
begun and well begot;
And
after,
every of this happy number
That have endur'd shrewd ^ days and nightswith us
Shall share the good of our returned fortune,
of their states.
Accordingto the measure
Meantime, forgetthis new-fall'n dignity.
And fallinto our rustic revelr}\
Play,music ! And you, brides and bridegroomsall,
fall.
AVith measure
heap'din joy,to the measures
Jaques. Sir,by your patience. If I heard you rightly.
The Duke hath put on a religious
life
were
"
"
"
And
thrown
into
neglectthe
de Bo is.
Jaqiies
Jaques. To him
There
is much
[To Duke\ You
1
Made
He
to be
2
of these convertites*
heard
former
to your
ready.
?
hath.
will I ; out
matter
court
pompous
and learn'd.
honor
Discourse.
"
I
bequeath;
3
Evil.
^
Converts.
and
patience
Your
"01/
AS
IV.]
SCENE
LIKE
IT.
loi
your virtue well deserves it.
"
You to a love that your true faith doth merit.
[To Orlando]
You
to your land and love and great allies.
[To Oliver]
You to a long and well-deserved bed.
[To Silvius]
And you to wrangling;
for thy lovingvoyage
\To Touchsto7ie\
"
"
"
months
Is but for two
I
victual'd.
for other than for
am
Duke
dancingmeasures.
S.
Stay,Jaques,stay.
Jaqiies.To see no pastimeI
know
to
your abandon'd
at
Duke
As
S.
; what
you
would
have
end, in
they'll
I'll sta,y
\Exit.
cave.
Proceed, proceed;
do trust
we
So, to your pleasures;
"
will
begin these rites,
delights.
\A daiice^
we
true
Epilogue.
Rosalind.
but it is no
It is not
the fashion to
unhandsome
the
see
than to
lady the epilogue;
the lord the
prologue.
If it be true that good wine needs no bush,i'tistrue that a good
good
; yet to good wine they do use
play needs no epilogue
bushes,and good playsprove the better by the help of good
epilogues.What a case am I in,then,that am neither a good
cannot
insinuate with you in the behalf of a good
nor
epilogue
I
play!
more
not
am
furnish'd^ like
a
see
beggar,therefore
beg will
I'llbeginwith
to
My way is to conjureyou ; and
I chargeyou, O women,
for the love you bear to
the women.
of this playas pleaseyou;
to like as much
and I charge
men,
I perceive,
as
by
you, O men, for the love you bear to women
that between you and
of you hates them
none
your simpering,
^ I would
the playmay please. If I were
the women
a woman
become
not
me.
"
"
"
I
"
hang
Good
a
wine," etc.
tuft of
than any other
**
It appears
ivyat the door
plantas it has
of
a
formerlyto
vintner.
have
been
the custom
to
I suppose
relation to Bacchus."
ivywas chosen rather
note, quoted
(Steevens's
by Furness.)
'
3
Dressed.
There
were
no
actresses
on
the stage in
England before
the time
of
SHAKESPEARE.
I02
kiss
as
that
as
of
many
me,i
lik'd
for
kind
my
I
pleased
defied
good
or
make
I
when
that
that
beards
good
offer,
beards
breaths
and
have
as
many
had
as
you
[act
not
faces
;
complexions
I
and,
~
am
sure,
breaths
sweet
or
bid
curtsy,
me,
v.
will,
farewell.
me
\Exeu7it.
has
this
acted
saw
a
1
"
That
lik'd
2
"
That
I
defied
plays
it
being
come
woman
me,"
in
i.e.,
not,"
upon
that
i.e.,
I
that
performed
were
"January
Diary:
Bush,
Beggar's
I
ever
parts
his
in
note
The
that
Women's
II.
Charles
3,
very
the
1660.
by
To
the
done
;
here,
and
stage."
liked.
were
not
repulsive
to
me.
Pepys
where
theater,
"
well
Samuel
men.
the
first
was
time
AND
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
The.
Periods."
"Four
For
has
scholarship
been striving
to follow Shakespeare from his fourteenth
to his eighteenth
he obtained his marvelous
knowledge
year; to discover where
of medicine,law, and theology;to learn where he accumulated and
assimilated the enormous
body of practical
psychologywhich must
have been his
even
"
before he went
a
century or
up to London
more,
"
and
a
host of similar
and instructive results of all
things. Among the most interesting
this work is generalagreement regardingthe so-called "four periods"
of Shakespeare's
development as a writer of plays. By collating
written by persons who attended the plays,
accounts
historicalfacts,
privatereferences to the dramas, and casual m.ention of Shakespeare
but chieflyby studying certain differences
by his contemporaries,
within the plays themselves,the investigators
have
substantially
work fallsinto four periodswhich probably
agreedthat Shakespeare's
correspondto his experienceof Ufe:
which
extends from his arrival in London
to 1595,
1. The
first,
was
a periodof experimentation.It was
pected,
marked, as might be exby sanguinenessand exuberant imagination,and was productive
of
of
this
principally comedy. Typicalplays
periodare Lovers
Labour's Lost, Comedy of Errors,Two Gentlemen of Verona,Romeo
and Richard IIL
and Juliet,
The second,1 595-1600, was
2.
a period of rapidgrowth and remarkable
technical development, characterized by deeper insight
into human
nature, greater dramatic power, and, towards the end,
by justa touch of sadness. (Jaquesin As You Like It.) Among the
plays representativeof this periodare Merchant of Venice, Taming
ofthe Shrew,Much Ado About Nothing,Henry V, and ^4^ You Like It.
in the third period,1601-1608, that Shakespearereached
3. It was
the fullmaturityof his powers.
Characterized as a periodof "gloom
103
I04
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
and
these six or seven
depression,"
years producedin rapidsuccession
the most powerfulgroup of tragedies
of his
ever
penned. The causes
manifest sadness are not certainly
known; but we attribute it to the
the imprisonmentof one
of his friends,
death of his father,
the execution
of another,
and the sickening
disappointmentcaused,probably,
who
had
deceived
the
of
third
him. Julius Coesar,
act
a
by
Hamlet,
Othello,
Macbeth,and King Lear are the great playsof the period.
productivelife closed with a periodof peace and
4. Shakespeare's
withdrawn
from the turmoil of London
serenity.He had practically
hfe at quiet Stratford. Written
here among
the
to live his own
the playsof this periodbreathe
earliest recollections of his childhood,
of peace and forgiveness,
of atonement
and reconciliation.
the spirit
Of these latest works, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest are the
best known.
Shakespearewas first an actor; then a reviser of old plays;and
an
finally
independentdramatist. His firstplaysare relatively
crude;
his work increases in power
and in dramatic technique;
his finished
productionscame only after years of assiduous labor. Grantingthen,
transcendent genius,
that his was
we
are
greatlyhelpedto understand
and the playsby knowing that it was
the orderlydevelopmen
both the man
of that geniusthrough years of study and labor that produced
all the world loves. He, like the rest of
the works
which
and it was
our
mankind, had to learn his business;
great fortune that
his geniusfellinto justthe world needed to energize
it.
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
developmentof the
of parsing,
side of the study;questions
pointsof Elizabethan
literary
and so on, have all been
listsof subjectsfor compositions,
grammar,
excluded.
It is believed that whatever of these matters
intentionally
is necessary
the play can be best dealt with by the
to understanding
and go
who will probably touch them as hghtlyas possible
teacher,
with the main business of the literature lesson,
on
viz.,the study of
outline aims almost
The following
at
solely
the
literature.
It is hoped,then,that the
to
outline
following
will prove
it
literary
appreciation.
Variouslymodified,
a
real stimulus
has been
tried in
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
105
it has almost always proved its worth.
It is not
classes;
it is practical.It is appended
nor
nor
''original,"
startling,
brilliant;
here not because it offers the only way to teach this play,but because
ithas proved,in many
It is onlyhoped that
cases, a stimulating
way.
whoever may
it will find at the end of the study that his students
use
have come
sincere appreciationof the play itself,
to some
and to a
reasonable understandingof Shakespeare's
genius.
many
I. Preparation.
If the class has
alreadyworked through one
of the Shakespeareplays,a good approach to the study of
or more
As You Like It will include a rapid review of the facts previously
learned about the author and his work
of the
say, an ampKfication
in the introduction to this volume.
matter on these pointssummarized
of the points so
Specialemphasismight be laid upon one
any one
treated. This work will naturally
send the students to the authorities,
"
"
"
and
well be the formulation
of its results may
one
"
of
a
number
of
questionsregardinggeneralquahtiesof Shakespeare'swork which
the class may layaside to answer
at the close of the study of this play.
If,however, this is the first experiencein Shakespeare,the best
introduction is,of course, readingthe play itself.
II. The
First
be read aloud
Reading.
"
As
far
class;but owing
rarelybe followed.
in
perfectioncan
readingis to get a
as
to
possibleevery play should
lack of time, this counsel of
chief purpose
of the first
clear idea of the development of the story. Often
The
in
by having the pupilsouthne the movement
the teacher
their notebooks,scene
by scene, as the readingproceeds,
examining the books at convenient intervals. The teacher might
begin the readingin order to strike the keynote and put the class in
the rightattitude toward the play. If lack of time forbids reading
this can
best be done
play in class,
part of it may be done at home; then a few
pointedquestionsat the beginningof each lesson must determine
how inteUigently
the students have read out of class. As You Like
other phases of the
It especially
if some
oral reading;even
repays
work have to be abridged,the finest passages should be read aloud.
should
While this is going forward,the memory
passages, which
be recited,
have been announced
at the beginningof the study,may
the whole
one
or
two
at
each lesson.
"
I06
SUGGESTIONS
The
FOR
first reading,then, should
should know
the story in
STUDY.
show
three results: the student
orderlyway; he should have the
and he should have memorized
clearlydifferentiated;
ready for the Second Reading.
passages selected. He is now
III. Second
Reading.
explanationof unusual
an
Here
"
the
close
analyticstudy:
of
constructions;
interpretation
want
we
and
words
acters
char-
a
difficultpassages;
study of plot,and of character and motive; arousal
of appreciation
of the universal truth,or beauty,or power
of the
well to assignfor
In practice,
it has worked
passages.
memory
and study questions
like the following:
and suggestions
investigation
Act I, Scene i. Compare this scene
with the opening scene
of the
"
Merchant
scene
of Venice.
is almost
tellso much
Which
of
entirely
exposition
of the court
of it? Is any
the
seems
character
unmentioned?
Resolve
news?
direct?
more
the situation.
Does
not
OHver
the main
importantto
Note
that this
Why does Charles
probablyknow all
story either absent
the characters into groups
and show
how
or
they
preparingfor the complication.Here have a comparisonof one
other opening scenes
skillin the expoto show Shakespeare's
or two
sition
of his plays. Have
we
any hint in Charles' last speechof the
result of the wrestling
match?
Is Oliver's motive simplejealousy,
or
wounded
his last speech. How
do we account
pride? Study carefully
for his injustice
to Orlando?
Scene ii. What
in situation and mood is there between
similarity
Orlando and Rosalind when we first meet
them?
May this partly
for their falling
in love at firstsight? What
is the dramatic
account
of Rosalind's playfulinquiry "what think you of falHngin
purpose
are
"
"
love"?
Ceha
Does
RosaKnd
at firstmanifest
more
interest in Orlando
than
does?
"Pity is akin to love." Why the change from prose to
in the Duke's speech,
bottom p. 26? Does Orlando call Rosahnd
verse
and Celia back?
Had he done anythingto justify
Rosalind's return?
Why is Le Beau, like every one else,favorablydisposedtoward
Orlando at their firstmeeting?
Scene Hi.
Where
"
foreshadowed?
of Orlando
Charles'
with
account
in Scenes i and iihas Rosalind's banishment
Why
is she banished?
the Duke's
of the date
Charles' referencesto the
same
Compare
of Rosahnd.
diver's
How
of the old Duke's
event?
shall
real
we
to
opinion
reconcile
banishment
Is it necessary
been
with
reconcile
SUGGESTIONS
them?
Is Touchstone
take him with them?
Note.
We
"
and
force,
this
point
Act
Compare
STUDY.
107
If so, why should the ladies desire to
him with Wamba.
have in Act I the
the exposition,
the
introduction,
the
the
beginningof
work
some
At
risingaction (complication).
dramatic
on
ing
excit-
might
structure
well be introduced.
II, Scene i. If we judge from the opening speech,should
S. or his usurpingbrother make the better ruler? What
is the
"
Duke
dramatic
of the rest of the scene?
purpose
basis of the mutual
is
all fool?
FOR
accomphshed
Scene it.
"
woman
Duke
to
Duke
Is there any movement
of the plot?
of the complication
; note also that it is a
progress
intimates
that
the runaway
is an
all the runaways? How
F. wish to
managed
do you think is the
S. and Jaques? What
in this scene?
Note
who
attraction between
What
bringback
give the impressionthat
elopement. Does
has Shakespeare
the firstthree
scenes
in Act II
concurrent?
are
Scene in.
Here
is one
of
best
to study Orlando.
opportunities
and how clearly
Note how he reacts to his difficulties,
Duke
F.'s
for banishingRosalind are paralleled.
reasons
Why is Orlando's lodging to be burnt "this night"? Interpret
master's debtor"
Adam's
"...
not
in the rime closingthe
my
to the Forest of
scene.
Why should both our banished groups gravitate
Arden
i. e., why not to some
other part of the country?
cityor some
Scene iv. Many editions show in the firstline the word merry where
for your own
Give reasons
have weary.
we
preference.Does Ceha
"
our
"
"
hear the firstsix lines?
The
of Corin and
entrance
Silvius marks
one
of the
this
Can you account
for
frequentchanges from prose to verse.
tended
or
any other of these changes? Do you think that Rosalind instone
her "Alas,poor shepherd!
as an
aside,and that Touchhe alreadyprivy to her having fallen in
overheard it,or was
"
.
love?
Is Touchstone
be 'ware of mine
a
"true"
.
.
shins
wit tillI break my
actuallyaccomplishedin this scene?
Scene
whom
we
v.
"
own
Where
firstmeet
Note
and how
have
in this scene?
that "ducdame"
Latin (due ad me); it
possibly
we
been
How
is not
of his "I shall ne'er
What
lover?
againstit"?
preparedfor
What
is
the character
stone's?
does his wit differfrom TouchGreek
affords
at
all,but if anything,
of
Jaques the opportunity
io8
FOR
SUGGESTIONS
STUDY.
ventinga characteristic morsel,"fools into a circle." What is the
(SeeThird Reading.)
purpose of this scene?
is parallel
to what earlier one?
Scene vi. This scene
make
Scene vii. Here we
must
our
principal
study of Jaques,if
Is he a mere
it that
to understand him.
we
cynic? How comes
are
is Touchstone?
Note Duke S.'s
the onlyhuman
beinghe ever praises
talk to Jaques,apropos of the latter'searlier life. Note
very straight
the last Hne, "Sans
"table talk"
the tone of the cynic's
especially
to know
sans
everything."It is interesting
teeth,sans eyes
Totus mimdus
that the motto of the Globe,Shakespeare's
was
theater,
agithistrionem. Has Amiens' song any bearing upon the story?
What is goingforward duringthe singing?Why does Adam
disappear
from the play at this point?
^Act II carries the comphcation well towards the cHmax.
Note.
"
"
"
.
.
.
"
Note
that five of the
seven
scenes
in the Forest of Arden.
occur
does this scene
accomphsh? Oliver's
III,Scene ^'.-T-What
of Duke
demands
its penalty.What is the significance
now
injustice
Act
villain thou"?
F.'s "More
this
Scene ii. In
"
and
Jaques',
Towards
Rosalind's humor.
situation in this
what
working? Why Rosalind's
eager
that she
Remember
verses?
the best
have
we
scene
Can
to
curiosity
no
previousscene
to
even
natural?
Orlando is in the forest. Is Celia's teasing
Point
out
that has
Orlando.
refer to herself. Whence
Note
and
of love?
that Orlando
should not
reverse
to
the
situation,
an
the
answers
reaUy derived
the symptoms
reasonable
she
had she
knowledge of
more
how
cure
"
What
we
love with her?
her with
surance
as-
questionsthat
comprehensive
it seem
natural
pierceRosahnd's disguise?Would this seem
audience?
Elizabethan
Compare, for the
interview between
do
her
Does
Ivanhoe
and Rowena.
do you think Celia has been doing all this while?
that Orlando and Jaquesshould jar?
Scene in.
Rosahnd's
she is in love with
suddenly endowed
so
suspect that
Why
to believe that he is in
reason
any
the passage
to tease
She knows
she learns the truth?
when
trepidation
Orlando;has she
been
the author of the
know
reason
stone's,
Touch-
characterize each?
you
has every
scene
has
of
expositions
know
Is it reasonable that he should
of Touchstone's
woo
so
What
Is it in character
previouslove
affairs?
a person
unsophisticated
as
SUGGESTIONS
Audrey?
Note
STUDY.
FOR
109
that
"simple feature" in his opening questionmaythe modest love-verses presently
alluded to. Was not Touchstone
mean
this scene
somethingof a poet himself? How shall we classify
as to dramatic purpose?
Scene iv. What
is the immediate
of Rosalind's crying?
cause
Note that Celia dehberately
fallsin with Rosalind's abuse of Orlando,
and is soundlyberated for her pains. Is this littleby-playnatural?
Scene v.
Why do you think Rosalind takes Silvius' part? How
examples of love at first sighthave we in the play? Try to
many
realize Phebe by readingcarefully
her speechbeginningat the bottom
of page 74. Is she attracted by Ganymede's appearance
or
by his
quahties? What is the dramatic purpose of this scene?
^Act III bringsus to the climax. Now
Note.
beginsthe resolution.
"
"
"
IV, Scene i. Can you imagine why Jaques is introduced at
the beginningof this scene? Why Rosalind's unusuallykeen chiding
Is
of Orlando here?
Does she overdo in the mock-marriagescene?
of
Celia vexed by Rosalind's abusing their sex, or is she only tiring
in this
her part in another's love-making? What
is accomplished
Act
"
scene?
Scene ii.
Scene Hi.
"
Phebe's
is the purpose
What
"
How
are
letter and
of this "noisy"scene?
for Rosalind's heat in
to account
we
for her characterization of Silvius
snake "?
Can you think of any reason
rather than acted on the stage? Have
"conversion"
of Oliver?
Do
you
she faints? Is there any
and Oliver?
sex
when
Note.
Act IV continues
"
Our
Act
several groups
V, Scene i. What
"
do
why Oliver'srescue
we
had
any
as
you
"dehcious
a
"tame
is described,
intimation
of the
Oliver guesses Rosahnd's
indication here of the love of Celia
think
the resolution and foreshadows
are
handling
the
clusion.
con-
rapidlydrawing together.
consider the best
thingsin this
foolery"? Has he been at a feast
of knowledge,and "stolen the scraps"?
Scene ii. In view of his own
what do you think of
experience,
Orlando's opening questionsto Oliver? Is there a double meaning
in Oliver's addressingRosahnd
Has
"Sister"?
Ceha told? Is
as
there any ground for thinking
that Oliver has,in turn, told Orlando?
passage
of Touchstone's
"
FOR
SUGGESTIONS
no
STUDY.
love-stroke?
haste to beginon OHver's own
Why Rosalind's nervous
of
Can you see why Rosalind "leads the whole party into this game
Why should she not here have thrown off her
cross-purposes"?
how
tickhsh a
Note
disguise why all this magician mummery?
has involved herself in, and how
situation Rosahnd
cleverlyshe
It is evident that
escapes by a promise to each of her questioners.
the finalresolution is at hand, for she can go no further in any direction
without tripping.
of this brief
Scetie in. What, again,do you think is the purpose
"
"
scene?
Is Touchstone
Scene iv.
"
true
to liimselfin his famous
"
.
.
an
.
Does not Touchstone's long
thing,sir,but mine own"?
harangue seem to delaythe imminent conclusion? Why does Jaques
at Touchstone.
leave the party? Note his final fling
Why does the Epiloguesay, "If I were a woman"?
illfavor'd
Reading.
IV. Third
The
"
gatherinto a well-rounded
A plan that has worked
final readingof the
whole
the results of the
play attempts
entire study.
in his
the student enter
well is to have
to
questionsand his development of the
topicssuggestedbelow. He will thus have, at the conclusion of the
study,a body of notes which he may not only submit for a grade,
but which will be well worth preserving.He ought,in every case,
however, to substantiate his statements or give the groundsfor his
to specific
opinionsby referring
pr.ssages of the play.
Is it in a temperate
I. Setting.Where is the Forest of Arden?
of the trees,
description
or
a tropical
region? Is there any specific
How
do we get to know so much
or streams?
undergrowth,thickets,
notebook
his
to the
answers
"
about it? Is it because
come
we
know
feel that the whole
Sherwood
Forest?
opportunityto
II. Plot.
"
cause;
trace
know
Can
you
see
how
of life in the
open?
lead? Had Shakespeare
play breathes
sort of lifedo the dwellers in the Forest
What
had
to
we
this life?
plotsimpleor complex? Point
plot through the complicationto
Is the
out
the
the
follow the resolution to the end.
How
many
subordinate
the
exciting
climax;and
stories
are
Are they genuine subplots?
Why are they introduced?
characters
Show how they are connected with the main plot. What
are
Shakespeare's
own, i. e., neither mentioned nor hinted at in The
there?
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
ill
Tale
ofGamelyn,or in Lodge'sRosalynd? What lightdoes this throw
his method
of usingmaterials that were
to all writers of
on
common
his time? Account for the name
of the play. Does it not end exactly
should like it to do?
What
of the lions,
as
we
serpents,palm trees,
bitter
and
other
wintry winds,
skies,
incongruities?
May not this
indicate intention on
Shakespeare's
part? Are any of the events
render the play less enjoyable?
improbable? Does the improbability
III. Characters.
as
"
(a)Orlando : Why
possible.Has he
are
a
we
drawn
to
him?
Adduce
as
many
trait?
or faulty
singledisagreeable
reasons
Note
pecially
es-
what
others say of him.
{h)Oliver: Can you account for his "conversion"?
and
Are his banishment
his
subsequentrescue
by the brother he had injured
adequate to bringabout the change?
(c)The two Dukes: Are they mere
or do they seem
lay figures,
to be real persons?
{d)Jaques: What characteristicof Jaques differentiateshim from
the rest of the Duke's party? What, exactly,
do you understand
by
his
his "melancholy"? Try to distinguish
for yourselfbetween
and to determine which you like better.
philosophyand Touchstone's,
Does Jaques belong in so care-free a
Which was
the better man?
company? Why do you suppose Shakespeareplacedhim there?
And, especially,
why has Jaques so many of the finest passages?
{e)Touchstone:
Compare him with a few other Shakespeare
clowns, Gobbo and Autolycus,for instance. He is a greater general
favorite than any other of his kind;can you see why?
"
(/)RosaHnd:
characteristics that she
love at firstsightseem
{g)Celia:
Rosalind
more
first makes
What
Do
reasonable?
lovable?
again Act III,ii,for
IV. Contrast and
one
like Rosalind?
in the
evinces
successively
note
you
us
how
Name
Remember
play.
Does
the
the
her situation.
Shakespeare's
handlingof
a
Name
Celia makes
few of Celia'scharacteristics. Reaa
of Celia's moods.
Parallelism.
"
Contrasts
in character should
be
thoughtout; as, Oliver and Orlando,Duke S. and Duke F.,Duke S.
and Jaques. Contrasts in the same
character;
as, Oliver earlyand
later in the play. Contrasts in situation;
as, Oliver's wooing and
Touchstone's.
ought to be worked out; as,
parallelisms
Similarly,
situations when
Oliver's and Rosahnd's
banished;Shakespeare's
SUGGESTIONS
112
of Adam
handling
interest
our
in
and
Celia
Orlando
and
V.
Form.
As
verse.
Point
"
meter.
Select
account
for
the
of
of
its
or
who
characters
noted
for
heighten
to
move
the
it
and
throughout
speak
to
because
i. e.,
"
triteness, coUoquialness,
their
try
occur
thought
in
normal
Note
verse,
the
us
etc.
in
Does
of
to
lyrics.
and
other.
nature
and
sight,
its
prose
the
the
play
variation
of
both
to
one
the
first
at
instances
particularly
of
respectively,
of love
cases
from
wisdom,
any
Rosalind,
because
or
STUDY.
early part
containing
change
beauty,
there
Are
the
speaker,
depth,
It is
scene
a
the
specific
out
Like
You
in
the
them;
compassionate
to
FOR
its
simplicity?
alone
prose
in
or
alone?
verse
VI.
the
Memory
Passages.
if so,
teacher;
of
worthy
wisdom,
have
the
VII.
or
been
songs
both
of
studied
similarity
profitably
student's
life,and
as
a
and
Character
notebook
might
succinct
as
a
set
the
the
show
a
character
selected
their
for
or
by
them
classify
to
as
power,
affairs.
human
to
Why
music?
to
play might
Merchant
be
now
of
noted.
Venice
This
with
compared
and
"
points
has
work
been
debate.
classroom
of
be
been
poetic beauty,
difference
of
able
application
This
"
say,
"
and
conducted
Life
VIII.
Study.
have
may
now
their
repeatedly
so
Comparative
previously
one
for
universal
their
these
of
should
student
memorized
being
their
the
Some
"
Author.
Under
"
chronological
sketch
of
this
table
Shakespeare
caption,
of
the
as
the
author's
the
student
write.
can
Critical
IX.
his
own,
selections
views
work.
of
is at
of
the
Opinion.
this
standard
critics.
"
point
The
student,
prepared
criticism,
This
can
be
read
to
and
made
who
to
now
with
agree
a
very
or
has
some
pleasure
take
issue
views
and
profit
with
interesting part
of
of
the
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INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION.
1600,
of
"
Like
You
"As
but
It"
in
not
was
The
is
comedy
printed
in
Golden
Legacie."
in
early
as
in
appeared
"
the
as
year.
first collection
the
and
1623
of
graceful
animation
and
readers,
The
and
young
charms
drama
of
are
a
for
known
as
the
dispossessed
; and
and
commonplace
which
have
Rosalynde,
Euphues'
his
this story, but
from
creative
in
genius
with
tale
play
a
it the
made
has
phere
atmos-
an
the
rounded
sur-
charming
deHght
of
all
old."
"As
Like
You
most
and
of
It"
woods
life.
rustic
part in the Forest
his title and
adherents.
is
and
dukedom
brother, is hving in banishment
and
Lodge,
incidents
resulting
of
pastoral
of
"
of
Thomas
by
own
is redolent
the
and
romance,
grace
action. of
the
heavy
novel
a
title
names
is his
rather
a
on
the
borrows
characterization
friends
till it
founded
under
1590
Shakespeare
younger
stage
Folio."
First
and
the
on
plays, pubHshed
Shakespeare's
the
was
Here,
in
3
wholly
of
the
fields
green
After
in
the
where
by Frederick,
company
genial comradeship,
a
air,
all the
and
first act
Arden,
in the
open
dents
its incia
Duke,
usurping
of many
enlivened
INTRODUCTION.
4
by the songs
of the tuneful
of
philosophizing
Amiens, and entertained with
"
the
melancholyJaques,"
in the
"
carelesslyas
the
Duke,
they "fleet
"
golden age, and,
"
the time
from
exempt
tentious
sen-
traveled
a
"
courtier,
highlyappreciated
by
the
public
haunt,"find
**
Tongues in trees,books in the runningbrooks,
in stones, and
Sermons
The
play
Oliver,the
from
eldest
however,
family
"
between
that Sir
to his three
possessions
The
latter is also
but entertains a
him
and
denyinghim
While
and
violent quarrelensues
the contemptuous
Adam.
one
When
of Duke
he and
this
has towards
would
as
soon
his
hatred
of
the brothers.
for
to
ing
him, treat-
Orlando
go
enter
it would
a
Exasperated by
seizes him
OHver, Orlando
by the
of
out, Charles,a noted wrestler,
in to advise Oliver to
the hsts in
a
contest
arranged
go hard with the young
contends
(Charles)
for his
Oliver discloses to Charles
brother,giveshim
see
is the youngest,
onlyseparatedthroughthe intervention
following
day,as
But
Orlando
Oliver enters, and
talking,
are
Frederick's retainers,
comes
meeting.
his death,bequeathed
distribution of the estate
unnatural
between
should he do so, since he
at
vant
ser-
his birth.
fitting
Adam
prevent Orlando's intention to
for the
old
an
"
learn
indignity,
withholdinghis inheritance,
taunts
and they are
throat,
at
Adam
we
of
of Orlando,
chargedwith the training
the education
Orlando
Bois,where
and
sons, of whom
groundlessand
with the utmost
de
Rowland,
and
the house
garden near
a
Orlando
leavingthe management
Oliver.
in
of Sir Rowland
son
conversation
a
of the
his
opens,
good in everything."
a
bad
Orlando's neck broken
the
man
reputation
he
feeling
and says he
character,
as
his finger.
INTRODUCTION.
The
next
is
scene
lawn
a
seated.
brother,are
theywill see
some
They
Le
sport if
are
to
decide
to
dissuade
to
and
from
be
for
of
surprise
all overthrows
the
him, will
of Sir Rowland
his enemy,
match
no
de
Not
the modest
the
and
and
As
for
Frederick,
who, out
of
regardfor
has
two
his
at
her,on
court
Celia in the
when
within
his
the
Ceha
he
the
senseless
ever
is
a
been
ten
her heart
son
had
of
a
fallen
tion
affecsisterly
and
her
cousin,
her father,
expelled
the pretense of her
dominions
banished
"
have
Orlando, he
firstsight.
palaceand
the
to
skill
to
that Orlando
at
Rosalind's exile and
And
is borne
she learns that he is the
to
being a traitor,
days,or
her cousin that in
assures
Celia,hearingthis,
the Duke
youth
the interest
and
challenge,
with Rosalind
suddenlywarns
his
youth,quiteloses
between
lifelong
intimacyexisting
leave his
which
neither praise
victor,
offering
courageous
athlete when
retained Rosalind
life.
his
he declares
the
steadfast friend of her father.
Duke
deavor
Orlando,en-
and
strength
champion,who
Bois,whom
and
in love
desperately
of
approach.
Rosalind,who, alreadyfavorably
impressed
so
with the handsome
Now
for the
withdraw
not
coldlyfrom
turns
reward.
in
undertaking
an
Frederick,
being informed
scene.
this lawn
Orlando
and
Orlando,though flattered by
they show
from
his exiled
it is on
theyremain,as
stay. Charles
would
inexperience
But
palace,
for the final struggle
of the tournament.
meet
him
of his opponent.
had
Frederick's
ladies,
admiringthe youth and comeliness
The
to
Duke
Beau, a courtier,
appears, and tellsthem
rare
that the wrestlers
nor
before
and RosaHnd, daughterof
Celia,his daughter,
where
son
5
daughteras well,as
forfeit her
her
banishing
she will share
follow her fortunes.
Rosahnd
costume
masqueradingas
of
a
a
young
forester,
shepherdess accompaniedby
"
6
INTRODUCTION.
"
Touchstone,a
Rosalind
where
their way
is also
goods tillhe
In the
to
does
find his
of Ohver's
is
abated
means
relieve his
the
and
of the forest.
recognizeeither
the young
youth of
"
refined
her
a
he
somethingof
his
lovesickness; tellshim "love
well
dark
a
house and
and
by the experience
to
professes
"
lover
"
has
there is
with
cure
a
none
man
'
becomes
as
instruction of
the
'
on
does not
course,
be
to
sprightly
a
"
look
to meet
in
Rosalind ridiculeshis
madmen
old
an
do ;
that
forest,
upon
abuses
their barks ;
.
"
.
.
deserves
that,profiting
uncle,she
religious
; that Orlando
of her uncle's marks
haunts
borhood.
neigh-
and imparts
to
confidential,
his love.
whip
to
disguise
; but finding
would
one
no
discover,
in their
a madness,and
ismerely
such madness
carving Rosalind
and
a
in their
of
he fastens
RosaHnd
Orlando,of
than
and
history
Rosalind,and
presence
takes Rosalind
manners
dweUing,"he
in the woods
has by
adversity
Celia and
him.
cousins
as
"
removed
so
of the
bitterness
which
praise,
in her
These
meet
soon
the increased
love for
of Orlando's
aware
forester
more
and
the faithful
But
the ardor of Orlando's
They
Oliver,
from
the exiled Duke
upon
welcomed.
hospitably
thus made
are
sends for
his brother's house,and, wandering
passionhe writes verses
trees
suspect that Orlando,
to
dangerfrom
abandoned
comes
aimlessly,
a
alarmed by
Frederick,
Orlando,havinginformation
enmity,has
Arden, and
Arden,
and sequestershis lands
brother,
that his lifeis in
Adam
of
so.
time
mean
household,steal
Forest
be with the runaways,
missing,
may
him
commands
as
the
to
absence,and havingreason
daughter's
who
to
of the Duke's
seek her father.
to
goes
"
fool
wend
the court, and
from
his
clownish
does
not
look like
him ; but she says
our
young
hangs odes
upon
the
on
elegies
brambles,all,
forsooth,
deifying
plants
thorns
hawname
INTRODUCTION.
If I could
of Rosalind.
him
him."
love upon
Orlando
does
but
love-shaked,"
to
him,and
cure
he
love,his
not
in this
I, beingbut
be
He
manner.
that is so
her
"
ability
Yes,one,"
one.
his
imagineme
to
was
day to
every
moonish
a
"
man
cured,doubts
cured any
ever
I.set him
mistress ; and
time would
to
give
of
quotidian
the
have
to
her he is the
care
would
fancymonger,I
seems
assures
asks if she has
"and
she answers,
that
meet
good counsel,for
some
7
woo
; at which
me
be effeminate,
youth,grieve,
shallow,
apish,
longingand liking,
proud,fantastical,
changeable,
tears, full of smiles ;
full of
inconstant,
loathe him ;
now
at
**
.
I drave
length
.
now
.
suitor from
my
thus I cur'd him ; and
And
would
you
and
cote
call
but
his mad
hke
now
humor
of love.
I would
...
and
come
go with CeHa
to
would
.
him,
and
.
day
to
my
desire
no
.
.
you, if
cure
every
insists that he has
Orlando
cured,but is induced
be
.
him, then spitat him," till
this way
Rosalind
me
me."
woo
for
weep
.
Rosalind
to
to
their
of the remedy.
cottage to try the efficacy
day,while undergoingthis
One
Rosalind
he
whom
lioness
hour
an
neck
The
a
him.
a
upon
But
And
and
prevail,
Duke,
an
near
to
be
has suffered
kindness,nobler
to
ever
Oliver,the
so
much
and
so
a
and
unjustly.
than revenge,
justoccasion,"
he attacks and killsthe lioness,
by
cruel brother
his fate ;
nature, stronger than his
oak,
to spring
sleeper
approachthe serpent glides
away,
firstimpulseis to leave him
"
of the
movement
man
imperiled
he
malignity
the
under
sleeping
man
while
itself,
serpent is coiling
At Orlando's
whose
appointmentwith
keep an
some
crouches,
awaiting
he discovers the
from
to
serves, chances
whose
around
upon
for
treatment, Orlando,quitting
8
INTRODUCTION.
Oliver,awakening,recognizeshis
reconcihation follow,and
Rosalind
to
a
return
had
used
feigned. But
assists in
he
to
his brother all the
There
is
a
sightof
Oliver
their cottage,and
their marriage,
he
that
revenue
shepherdin
happens to
well she had
Celia's request,
on
beautyshe
with them.
will surrender
(Oliver)
old
was
Sir Rowland's,and
the
love."
man's
for
She
rates
pleadingsshe
earnest
the
girlroundlyfor
man
than she
in love with Rosahnd
"
a
year
together
;
good
a
time she tellsSilvius that he is a fool
same
"
a
do well
"
At the
her
have
may
for
offer, and thank Heaven, fasting,
the shepherdess,
for he is
following
erer
beautiful
play,of Phebe, a
is not for all markets,and that she would
take her lover's
to
comes
be-
the way
sayingthat though she
proud and disdainful bearing,
some
fainting
Rosalind,ramblingthroughthe wood,
scorn.
meet
Rosalind
the forest.
lively
episodein
with cruel
received
blood
how
exhibit
to
believe the
Orlando
whose
and Silvius,
her lover,
shepherdess,
treats
apologize
to Orlando,
Ceha, wins her love,and, returning
says if he will consent
a
to
to
wound
a
Oliver,at
increasing,
agitation
her
interested in
die
stanch
the
might report to
leadingRosalind
live and
Orlando
promised,and
to
have
would
but, reviving,
that
counterfeited,
by
as
At
with the beast.
in his encounter
swoons,
is sent
for his failure to
napkin which Orlando
to
he
and
forgiveness
brother ;
woman
;
(inher
a
thousand
whereupon Phebe
male
for she would
**
times
a
prop-
falls
straightway
and begs her
attire),
to
"
chide
rather hear her chide than Silvius
woo.
Rosalind,having now
of Orlando's
and
strange things,
very
satisfiedherself of the truth and
love for
if he
so
her, informs
him
that she
can
stancy
con-
do
desires she will produce his real and
he may marry
Rosahnd,whom, with the Duke's permission,
INTRODUCTION,
the
at
wedding of Oliver
the Duke's
the
cave
next
she will then marry
Phebe
she
the astonished and
word
To
with
him
sword, was
Both
His
merry
by
Duke's,
hand
to
Oliver,Phebe
of
forest,
met
bands."
son
of Sir Rowland
the usurpingDuke,
Frederick,
force
to
take his brother and
the skirts of the wood
on
he
whom
by
an
put
old
converted
and
enterprise
from
with him
the world ;
his banish'd
brother,
again
exil'd."
the play concludes with
generalrejoicing,
so, amid
dance
that
bequeathingto
were
the
case
couple
all their lands restor'd to them
That
And
another
armed
an
from his
crown
And
weds
of the
joinin Hymen's
by him
and
religious
man,
at
in
character,
givesher
own
announce
out
the
marries woman,
all meet
of these festivities
the second
havingset
*'
her
that
promisesPhebe
(Rosahnd)ever
lass
unsophisticated
de Bois arrives to
placeat
and Touchstone,coming in
accepts Silvius,
"
to
also
take
to
take Silvius for her husband
enamored, adds
In the midst
is
Orlando, Celia
delighted
and
Audrey,an
has become
She
when
Accordingly,
Rosalind,appearingin
v^ith
day.
readily
agreeingto
keeps her
Celia,which
and
her if she
Rosalind.
rejects
9
a
the characters.
This,then,is the story of
better understand
and
our
play;and
enjoyit and
of the great writer's imagination,
we
that
we
of the Elizabethan actors
a
must
glanceat the main
something
stage which his geniusand the
rendered
the
the other wonder-children
of the author's life;
at least,
we
ought to know
facts,
of the crude makeshifts of
may
immortal;and
we
art
should
INTRODUCTION.
lo
try
in the
play,approximately,
of our
position
works.
Shakespeare's
locate the
to
sequence of
striking
thingsabout Shakespeare
the least of the many
Not
of
isthe meagerness
knowledgeof the
our
and his life. The
man
total of the tirelesslabors of innumerable
sum
investigators
only the barest results such bald facts
shows
with
broughtto light,
have been
might well
as
"
of trained
equalexpenditure
an
about the humblest Englishmanof EHzabeth's time.
scholarship,
As for
knowing the
of work,
methods
his
man,
we
his temperament, his
personality,
almost
are
to studyhim
obliged
entirely
throughhis writings.
This
an unfortunate
however,is not altogether
necessity,
a student
stimulating
questions
the most
for among
himself about
any
author he reads is,What
it that takes this view of Hfe?
to attempt such
neglects
outlook
and
His
a
a
born
was
who
father,
prosperous
grammar
Ben
a
life has
upon
of the
surelymissed
of
came
have
authentic
only the following
line of
a
was
farmers,
the
of
proprietor
generalstore;his mother,Mary Arden,was
few years the
about
his father
declined;
property,and
great opportuni
Shakespeareplays.
was
as
the Stratford
other
what
things,
"small Latin and less Greek."
fourteen years
met
among
When
old, the family fortunes
with business reverses,
later even
also of
in Warwickshire.
boy probablyattended
where he pickedup,
school,
was
a
April23, 1564, at Stratford-on-Avon.
on
Jonson referred to
William
is
of literature who
known
farmingfamilylongsettled and favorably
For
man
reconstruction of the author's personality
a
life we
Shakespeare's
facts. He
Any student
for
"
that text is one
Of
of
manner
set
true
practical
psychology and this is especially
in
when
can
one;
arrested for debt.
mortgaged his
It is probable,
INTRODUCTION.
but not
an
end.
we
then
that
certain,
Until his
the son's education in school
eighteenth
year
find him
(1582)
daughterof
a
her husband's
senior.
In
near
Hathaway,who
and
Stratford,
couple. In 1587 we
Though
managing theaters
and
country-bred
boy amassed
exalted
he
bought
what
purchaseda
and
London
in ours
position
''New
or
1585,twins
in
were
London,
this quarter century is the
scarcely
anything
by playwriting,
acting,
was
for his time
a
able
very respect-
is universally
admitted
be the
to
in any other literature. In 1597
fine house
Place,"a
tract of farm
years
his earnings
in them, the
investing
fortune and achieved what
most
the
was
seven
hear of him
definite of his life except that
and
in
his greatestliterary
know
we
activity,
periodof
to
came
now
nothingof him; but
and
1583 a child,
he lived until 16 11.
where
hear
we
married to Anne
well-to-do farmer
born to the young
II
land
in
About
by.
near
took up his residence at
and
Stratford,
later
161 2, he left
where
Stratford,
he died
in 1616.
Exceptfor the
the
dates of the
and actingof
publication
foregoingparagraph comprisesmost
facts of the
of the authentic
Tradition
the student will miss
subject;and
failsto read in connection with his studyof
some
such
Lee's "A
So
from
standard
a
so
Shakespeare's
plays,
as, say,
Sidney
Shakespeare."
time
playhouseof Shakespeare's
that our understanding
ours
and, to
enjoymentof
trious
illus-
if he
pleasure
the
the theater of
nifica
sig-
no
conjecture,
rare
Hfe of the great dramatist
Life of William
greatlydid
extent,our
and
been busy with
have naturally
scholarship,
less than
a
poet'slife.
his plays,
his dramas
of the stage for which he wrote.
depends upon
our
differ
some
tion
concep-
INTRODUCTION.
12
The
square; three
four storiesin
or
The
unsheltered from
stage was
from the top of the walls.
the weather, as
it
Around
central space.
from the wall into the open
projected
it stood
on
the part of the audience (the"groundlings")
ground (inthe ''pit")
who
only";those
paid for "standingroom
occupiedthe balconies which
afford to pay for seats
the
and roofless,
except for a
height,
pentshedextendinginward
narrow
the
or
wood; round,octagonal,
and
of stone
were
buildings
above
one
building,
who
could
around
ran
and rufflers
other;and the gallants
the
those upon
day bought the best seats in the house,viz.,
the outer edgeof the stage. To us, however,the most surprising
feature is the almost entire absence of scenery, a paintedboard
of the
usuallydenotingthe location of the action;and the only approach
to
was
our
etc.,
complex of sets,drops,wings,flies,
modern
simplecurtain which separatedthe front partof the stage
a
the
from
scenes
or
characters.
were
women
Restoration.
The
permittedto
the other
On
aside,"discovered"
which, being drawn
rear, and
and gorgeous
as
actors
were
appear
and
men
the stage until the
upon
hand, the costumingwas
the mechanical
boys; no
as
rate
elabo-
crude and
apparatus was
meager.
This remarkable
thingsabout
the
as
emphatically
a
very
a number
strongly
of
but it says nothingelse
Elizabethans;
that the
limitations had to
as
tellsus
playhouse
playspresentedunder
such
pleaseall sorts and conditions of
that
corollary,
the actors of those
days had
men,
to know
so
severe
and,
how
to act.
The
comparativenewness
of the
the
EngHsh theater;
uncertaintyof its social position it
"
permittedonlyin the suburbs;the
nature
was
quent
conse-
practically
of the audiences
"
INTRODUCTION.
drawn
rich on
from the unlettered on the
largely
with women
neither as
the other,
the
times; and
stirring
the
the
"
of every
city men
sort
hand
one
actors
and the idle
nor
patrons;
as
growing importanceof London
the world's great seaports
among
13
a
fact which
attracted to
all these combined
"
Shakespeare's
productive
years the golden age
make
to
of the
EngHsh
drama.
In
no
other
been obliged
to studyso
periodhave playwrights
what
carefully
would
have audiences
or
pleasetheir audiences,
demonstrated
unmistakably
so
the
play before them.
their pleasure
or
If the spectatorswere
of
disapproval
with
displeased
the
he bade fair to be whipped or, at least,
to be
playwright,
if they considered the actingpoor, often
tossed in a blanket;-
they simply mobbed
partlyaccounted
Englishmanof
than
a
mere
education
his
"
for when
that
the writers
knew
above,the
were
almost
it
that to the
the theater
his sole
was
typical
was
more
of
means
it broadened
novel,his history;
writers and actors of the
always actors
forgetthat theywere
and for
not
his
upon
This is
and it fixed his patriotism.
mind, it fired his imagination,
to
who
of amusement;
his newspaper,
beat the actors.
remember
we
day,attendance
means
As has been shown
and
the stage and
"
were
theywanted
"
never
mitted
per-
for Englishmen,
writingprincipally
in England'smost
Englishmenliving
what
plays
glorious
age,
and would not have what
want; and what theydemanded
above
all else was
theydid
a
story
interesting
enoughto swingthem off into the other world of the
and well enoughacted to tally
with their everyday
imagination,
of
experience
This
men.
then,and
rigorous
discipline,
will helpus
playhouses
themselves,
the
to
severe
limitations of the
understand the appear-
INTRODUCTION.
14
the
of
part
who
greatest
But
it
have
have
written
lived
that
them
surpassed
read,
universally
human
For
"
the
sympathetic,
Elizabethan
whole
studied,
the
times.
contemporaries
the
and
quoted,
student
far
so
the
or
his
plays
final
"
to
he
for
known,
hardly
are
with
other
did;
to
or
are
of
test
"
simple,
a
his
kind
loved.
approbation
Note.
of
except
works
acted,
and
our
study;
one
rank
countries
early
serious
of
Shakespeare
whereas,
their
reader,
scholarly
when
of
consent,
other
the
dramatists
excellence
misfortune
worked
and
of
worthy
are
sheer
in
the
perhaps
was
them
and
century
group
universal
by
several,
and
another;
of
their
for
i6th
illustrious
most
Most
read
the
of
part
the
of
known.
still
are
many
latter
17th,
has
literature
of
the
during
ance,
period,
the
and
extremely
student
interesting
is
referred
to
Chapter
to
account
IV
Chapter
of
"
Halleck's
History
of
English
Literature,"
or
IV
of
C.
F.
son's
John-
"
History
For
see
pages
the
of
position
103-104.
and
English
of
American
Literature."
"
As
You
Like
It
"
among
Shakespeare's
works,
AS
LIKE
YOU
PERSONS
Frederick,
of his
" lords
Jaques,
)
usw-per
with
A
attending upon
a
vicar,
i
-^
S
)
William,
Duke.
courtier
a
the ban-
attendingon
Martext,
\ "^^'''^''
^i
SiLVlUS,
SILVIUS,
ished
Beau,
Oliver
Corin,
dominions.
Amiens,
Le
brother, and
his
PLAY.
THE
\Sir
banishment.
livingin
Duke,
OF
IT.
love
country fellotv,in
a
Audrey.
person
representingHymen.
Frederick.
wrestler
Charles,
Oliver,
of
sons
"
OrLAxNDO,
)
\
^^^"^^^
Denn
Dennis,
Touchstone,
Scene
Rozvland
Sir
de
Celia, daughter to Frederick.
Phebe, a shepherdess.
a
Audrey,
country wench.
Bois.
Adam
:
Oliver.
^^
Lords, pages
clozun.
a
Oliver's
Duke
house;
Frederick's
ACT
Scene
Orla?ido.
As
bequeathed
I
me
and
Orlando
charg'd my
say'st,
and
there
my
it was
brother, on
his
sadness.
the Forest
and
This
2
Proficiency.
transpositionof
the
of Ardm,
My
this fashion
upon
thousand
to
blessing,
brother
breed
Jaques
he
indefinite
15
article
occurs
elsewhere
:
and,
crowns,
2
report speaks goldenly of his profit; for
1
etc.
Adam.
a^
but
attendants,
Oliver's House.
poor
will
thou
begins
of
remember, Adam,
by
court;
and
I.
Orchard
I.
Enter
school, and
banished
the
to
Duke.
)
Jaques,
daughter
Rosalind,
to Frederick.
me
as
well ;
keeps
my
he
at
part,
in Shakespeare.
1
6
SHAKESPEARE,
[act
i.
at home, or, to speakmore
properly,
rustically
stays
here at home unkept; for call you that keepingfor a gentleme
man
of my birth,
that differs not from the staUingof an ox ?
His horses are bred better;for,besides that they are fair with
their feeding,
they are taughttheir manage, ^ and to that end
riders dearlyhir'd ; but I, his brother,
gain nothingunder him
but growth,for the which his animals on his dunghills
are
as
much bound to him as I. Besides this nothingthat he so plentifully
nance
givesme, the somethingthat nature gave me his counte-
he
keepsme
2
bars
take from
to
seems
me
he lets me
:
feed with his
hinds,^
in him lies,
as
is it,Adam, that
the
placeof a brother,and, as much
mines ^ my gentility
with my education.
This
of my father,
which I
me
grieves
; and the spirit
me,
beginsto mutiny againstthis servitude. I
endure it,though yet I know no wise remedy how
me
Adam.
Yonder
Orlando.
shake
me
Go
will
to
no
longer
avoid it.
master, your brother.
apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how
comes
my
he will
up.
"
Enter
Oliver. Now, sir ! what
Orlando.
Nothing;
Oliver. What
made
I
am
OLIVER.
make
^
you here ?
taughtto make
not
then,sir ?
Marry,^ sir,I am helpingyou
Orlando.
God
think is within
mar
anything.
you
to
mar
that which
with idleness.
unworthybrother of yours
Oliver. Marry,sir,
be better employed,and be naughtawhile.^
Orlando.
Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them ?
^ have I
What prodigal
to such
portion
spent,that I should come
1
The
4
Undermines.
5
"
6
A
"^
"Be
of
training
What
a
"
2
horse.
what
make," etc., i.e.,
petty oath from the
name
naught awhile," used
Plague on
8
poor
?
penury
"
a
"
you!" or
See Luke
xv.
the like.
11-32.
Treatment.
^
Farm
laborers.
doing here?
of the Virgin Mary.
as
are
a
you
malediction; as, "Efface
yourself!"
SCENE
^^
I.]
Oliver. Know
LIKE
IT.
sir,
very
well
:
here in your orchard.
Oliver. Know
you before whom, sir?
Orlando.
better than
Ay,
17
where you are, sir?
you
O
Orlando.
you
him
I
before
am
knows
I
me.
condition of
my eldest brother ; and, in the gentle
The courtesy of nations allows
blood,you should so know me.
in that you are the firstborn ; but the same
tion
tradiyou my better,
know
you
are
takes not away
us.
I have
as
my
there twenty brothers betwixt
blood,were
much
of my father in me
is nearer
before me
to his
your coming
Oliver. What,
as
you ;
reverence.
boy !
Orlando. Come, come, elder brother,
you are
Oliver. Wilt thou layhands on me, villain?
I
Orlando.
am
villain; I
no
de Bois ; he
was
my
too
the youngest
am
and
father,
I confess,
albeit,
young
land
of Sir Row-
son
he is thrice
in this.
a
villain that
says such a father begotvillains. Wert thou not my brother,I
would not take this hand from thythroat tillthis other had puU'd
out
for
thy tongue
Adam.
masters, be
Sweet
hast rail'd on
Thou
sayingso.
thyself.
father's remembrance,
patient;for your
be at accord.
Oliver. Let
go, I say.
I will not, tillI
me
My
please;you shall hear me.
father charg'dyou in his will to giveme
good education ; you
and hidingfrom me all
like a peasant, obscuring
have train'd me
The spirit
of my father grows strong
qualities.
gentlemanlike
such
in me, and I will no longerendure it; therefore allow me
exercises as may become
or
a gentleman,
giveme the poor allot^
; with that I will go buy
tery my father left me by testament
Orlando.
my
fortunes.
Oliver. And
what
Well,sir,
get you
shall have
Orlando.
my
some
when
beg ?
long be troubled
wilt thou do
in ; I will not
"
part of your will.
I will
no
"
with you ; you
I pray you, leave
further offend you
good.
1
that is spent ?
Portion.
than
me.
becomes
me
for
1
8
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
Oliver. Get you with him, you old dog!
Is
old dog my reward ? Most
Ada?n.
teeth in your service. God be with my old
"
^
have
not
"
such
spoke
Oliver. Is it even
w^ord.
a
beginyou
yet giveno
?
so
and
physicyour rankness,
Holla,Dennis
Calls your
Oliver. Was
with
to
access
He
Orlando
[Exeu?it
and
^
to grow
upon
thousand
would
Ada?n.
I will
?
me
neither.
crowns
"
DENNIS.
worship?
Charles,the
not
pleaseyou,
Duke's
here
wrestler,
to
speak
he is here
the door and
at
importunes
you.
[ExitDennis.] 'Twill be
is.
wrestling
Oliver. Call him
in.
the
to-morrow
Enter
Charles.
Good
to
morrow
Oliver. Good
Monsieur
a
good way
;
CHARLES.
your
worship.
Charles,what's
the
new
the
at
news
?
court
new
!
master
?
me
De?ifiis. So
and
true,I have lost my
!
Enter
Dennis.
i.
Charles.
that
is,the
Duke
; and
There's
news
is banish'd
old Duke
three
the court, sir,
but the old
at
news
no
or
four
by his younger brother the
lovinglords have put themselves
:
new
into
exile with him, whose lands and revenues
enrich the
voluntary
Duke ; therefore he givesthem good leave to wander.
new
be banOliver. Can you tellif RosaHnd, the Duke's daughter,
ish'd
with her father ?
Charles.
her
"
for the Duke's
no;
being ever
would
have
She is
at
own
O
from
follow'd her
the court, and
daughter; and
Oliver. Where
never
their cradles bred
or
exile,
no
two
Spoken.
together
"
died
have
less beloved
ladies loved
will the old Duke
1
her cousin,so
daughter,
to
that she
stay behind
of her uncle than
as
theydo.
live ?
2
loves
Encroach.
her.
his
AS
I.]
SCENE
They say
Charles.
1
he is
LIKE
in
already
with him ; and
men
merry
many
Hood
YOU
there
IT.
19
the Forest of
theyhve
Arden,
and
a
Hke the old Robin
England. They say many young gentlemen flock to
^
as
day,and fleet the time carelessly,
theydid in the
of
him
every
goldenworld.^
Oliver. What, you wrestle
before the
to-morrow
Duke
new
?
to acquaint
Marry,do I,sir; and I came
you with a
I am
that your younger
to understand
sir,
given,
secretly
Orlando hath a disposition
in disguis'd
to come
against
Charles.
matter.
brother
I wrestle for my
try a fall. To-morrow, sir,
to
me
he that escapes
brother
well.
Your
love,I
would
if he
intendment,or
that it is
a
broken
limb shall
acquithim
is but
Therefore,out of my love to you, I came
withal,that either you might stay him
acquaintyou
to
some
and tender; and, for your
young
be loath to foil him, as I must, for my own
honor,
in.
come
without
me
credit ; and
brook
thingof
such
his
well
disgrace
search
own
he shall
as
and
hither
from
run
his
into,in
altogether
againstmy
will.
Oliver.
thank
thy love to me, which thou
shalt find I will most
kindlyrequite.I had myselfnotice of my
labored
brother's purpose herein,
and have by underhand
means
to
Charles,I
dissuade him from
it ; but he is resolute. I'lltellthee,Charles
it is the stubbornest young
envious emulator
contriver
against
me,
thou wert
fellow of France
of every man's
discretion; I had
And
thee for
as
good parts,a
his natural brother.
lief thou
best look
; fullof
didst break
an
ambition,
Therefore
as
dost him
to't ; for if thou
ous
villain-
and
secret
his neck
:
thy
finger.
slight
use
his
any
"the
the ideal yeoEnglishballadsinger's
joy,"was
man
of the peopleof England,as Arthur was
the ideal knight of the upper
He
classes.
dow
figuresin the ballads as an outlaw, robbingthe rich to enarcher ; the lover of the
the poor ; a great sportsman ; the incomparable
and a
greenwood and of a free life; brave, adventurous,jovial,
open-handed,
1
Robin
Hood,
"
protector of women."
2
"
Fleet
the time
i.e.,void
carelessly,"
of care,
cause
the time
to pass
swiftly.
3
"
The
goldenworld," i.e.,the goldenage fabled by
the ancient
poets.
SHAKESPEARE.
20
or
disgrace,
if he do
not
[act
himself
mightily
grace
other; for,I
or
means
by some treacherous
ta'en thylifeby some
direct
in-
leave thee tillhe hath
never
thee
assure
will
thee
^
thee by poison,entrap
against
practice
and
device,
thee,he
on
i.
and
"
almost with
tears
speak it there is not one so young and so villainous this day
of him; but should I anatomize
living. I speak but brotherly
blush and weep,,and
thou must
look
him to thee as he is,I must
I
"
-
wonder.
pale and
Charles.
I
am
to-morrow,
come
again,I'll never
worship!
Oliver.
hither to you.
If he
heartily
glad I came
If ever
he go alone
I'llgivehim his payment.
and so God
wrestle for prizemore;
keep your
Farewell,good
Charles.
\ExitCharles. \
will
Now
gamester.^I hope I shall see an end of him ; for my
hates nothingmore
than he.
soul
Yet
yet I know not why
school'd and yet learned,
full of noble device,*
he's gentle,
never
of all sorts enchantingly
beloved,and indeed so much in the
heart of the world, and especially
of my own
people,who best
know him, that I am
misprized.^But it shall not be
altogether
so
long; this wrestler shall clear all. Nothingremains but that I
I'llgo about.
kindle the boy thither,^
which now
\Exit.
I stirthis
"
"
Scene
II.
Lawn
Enter
Celia
beforethe
and
to
me
would
you yet I
forgeta
banished
remember
any
were
o
RoSALiND.
and
Celia. I pray thee,Rosalind,sweet
Rosalmd.
Dear Celia,I show more
of;
Diike^s Palace
my coz, be merry.
mistress
mirth than I am
merrier ?
father,
you
must
Unless
not
could
you
learn
"
extraordinary
pleasure.
1
Plot.
2
Expose.
4
Aims.
5
Undervalued.
6
"Kindle," etc., i.e.,excite him
'
Teach.
3
to
Sportingyouth.
take part in this contest.
me
teach
how
to
AS
II.]
SCENE
Celia. Herein
I
LIKE
thou
see
that I love thee.
YOU
If my
lov'st
IT,
2i
with
not
me
uncle,thy banished
the full weight
had
father,
ished
ban-
with
so thou hadst been still
thyuncle,the Duke, my father,
So
I could have taughtmy love to take thyfather for mine.
me
wouldst thou if the truth of thy love to me
were
so
righteously
^ as mine
is to thee.
temper'd
the condition of my estate,to reRosalind. Well,I will forget
joice
in yours.
know
You
CcUa.
father hath
my
when
and,truly,
like to have ;
he
child but
no
I,-nor
is
none
shalt be his heir ; for
thou
dies,
what
I will render
thy father perforce,
that
oath,let
honor,I will ; and when I break
Rose, my
Therefore,
my sweet
dear
Rose, be meny.
he hath taken away from
thee againin affection ; by mine
Let
see
me
henceforth
From
Rosal'md.
:
monster.
turn
me
what
think you
of
do, to make
Marry,I prithee,
good earnest ; nor no further
sportwithal
Celia.
in
man
pure blush thou
shall be
Rosalind. What
safetyof
a
Celia, Let
her
wheel,that
Rosaluid.
sitand mock
us
her
I would
and the
misplaced,
her gifts
to women.
Celia. 'Tis
makes
true
honest,and
ill-favoredly.
Rosalind. Nay,
Nature's.
gifts
may
Fortune
we
the
come
good housewife
could do so, for her
off
again.
Fortune^
from
equally.
benefits are mightily
honest
goest from
of
reignsin gifts
the
mistake in
doth most
woman
those that she makes
thou
no
henceforth be bestowed
those that she makes
now
but love
sport then ?
bountiful blind
; for
;
sports.
than with
in sport,neither,
mayst in honor
our
devise
will,coz, and
in love ?
falling
I
fair she
scarce
she makes
-Fortune's
world,not
very
office to
in the lineaments
of Nature.
1
Composed.
3
The
goddess of
2
fortune
^e.
with
of classicalmythologyis represented
holds
plentyat her side. She is blindfolded,and generally
in her hand.
symbolof inconstancy,
of
a
a
horn
wheel,a
SHAKESPEARE.
22
Enter
? when
Celia. No
by
not
off the
cut
hath made
Nature
Fortune, hath
fair creature, may
Fortune
not
hath
Nature
Though
Indeed,there is Fortune
makes
she
given
in this fool to
sent
this is not
such
Fortune's
Nature,when
this natural for
hath sent
goddesses,
always the dullness of the
Touchstone.
Mistress,
you
Celia. Were
you
Touchsto7ie.
No, by
must
; for
of the wits.
"
you ?
come
away
the messenger
mine
of
reason
whetstone
our
wit.
but
neither,
dull to
fool is the whetstone
wit ! w^hither wander
made
work
natural wits too
our
Nature's,
who, perceiving
now,
hard for
too
Nature's natural^ the cutter-off of Nature's
Celia. Peradventure
How
a
argument ?
Rosalind.
Fortune
I.
TOUCHSTONE.
fall into the fire ?
Fortune
wit to flout at
us
[ACT
to your
father.
?
honor, but
I
was
bid to
come
for
you.
Where
Rosalifid.
Touchstone.
Of
learned you that oath,fool ?
certain knightthat swore
by his honor
a
they
good pancakes,and swore
by his honor the mustard was
I'll stand to it,the pancakeswere
naught.2 Now
naught and
the mustard was
good,and yet was not the knightforsworn.
Celia. How
edge
prove you that,in the great heap of your knowlwere
?
Rosalind.
Ay, marry,
Touchstone.
and
Stand
now
you
your wisdom.
forth now.
Stroke your
unmuzzle
both
chins,
by your beards that I am a knave.
Celia. By our beards,if we had them, thou art.
Touchstone. By my knavery,if I had it,then I were ; but if
No more
by that that is not, you are not forsworn.
you swear
had any ;
this knight,
was
swearingby his honor, for he never
swear
or, if he
had, he
pancakesor
had
sworn
it away
before
that mustard.
Celia. Prithee,
who
1
is'tthat thou mean'st ?
Fool.
2
Bad.
ever
he
saw
those
SCENE
AS
II.]
Celia.
The
Touchstone.
do
men
23
loves.
Frederick,
your father,
pitythat
foolishly.
my
that fools have
With
Rosalind.
Celia. Which
Here
his mouth
1
one
!
of
speak wisely
not
shall
us,
as
pigeonsfeed
Le
As
! how
color,madam
"
Beau.
jour.Monsieur Le Beau ; what's the news
Fair princess,
Le Beau.
you have lost much
Celia. Sport! of what color ? 2
Rosalind.
their young.
marketable.
more
Bon
What
Beau.
news.
shall be the
we
Enter
Le Beau.
Le
be news-cramm'd.
we
Celia, All the better ;
on
Monsieur
comes
full of
he will put
Then
Rosalind.
Enough
taxation
fools may
more
great show.
a
him.
troth,thou sayest true ; for since the littlewit
the littlefoolerythat wise men
was
silenced,
By
have makes
IT.
enough to honor
be whipp'd for
him; you'll
of
speak no more
these days.
Celia.
LIKE
father's love is
My
what wise
that old
One
Touchstone,
YOU
?
good sport.
shall I
answer
you ?
wit and fortune will.
Touchstone.
Or
as
Celia. Well said.
the Destinies decree.
That
was
laid
on
with
Touchstone.
a
Rosalind.
Nay, if I keep not my rank,
Thou losest thy old smell.
Le Beau,
You
trowel.
"
amaze
^
me,
ladies.
I would
have told you of
of.
you have lost the sight
tell us the manner
of the wrestling.
which
good wresthng,
Rosalind.
Yet
I will tellyou the beginning
; and, if it please
your
is
do
the end, for the best
see
; and
ladyships,
yet to
you may
Le Beau.
here,where
Celia.
Well,
Le Beau.
theyare coming to performit.
that is dead and buried.
the beginning,
are,
you
"
There
comes
Celia. I could match
1 Slander.
old
an
man
and
his three sons,
this beginningwith
2
Kind.
an
old tale.
3 Bewilder.
"
SHAKESPEARE.
24
Le Beau.
Three
proper
With
bills on
^
[act
of excellent
men,
young
i.
growth and
presence.
Rosalind.
these
by
men
eldest of the three wrestled with
in
Charles
wrestler;which
Duke's
all
unto
presents."
The
Le Beau.
it known
necks,"Be
their
a
Charles,the
threw
moment
him
and
So
that there is Httle hope of lifein him.
ribs,
the second,and so the third. Yonder
theyHe ; the poor
them that
dole ^ over
their father,
making such pitiful
broke three of his
he serv'd
old man,
take his part with
all the beholders
weeping.
Rosalijid. Alas !
have
lost ?
Le
Beau.
Thus
that
that the ladies
is the sport,monsieur,
this that I
Why,
Touchstone.
first time
what
But
Touchstone.
ever
speakof.
men
may
I heard
wiser every day ! It is the
breakingof ribs was sport for
grow
ladies.
Celia. Or
I, I promisethee.
is there any else longsto
in his sides ? is there yet another dotes upon
Rosalind.
we
Beau.
must, if you
You
this broken
music
rib-breaking?Shall
"
stay here
; for
here is the
place
and theyare readyto perform it.
wrestling,
Yonder, sure, they are coming; let us now
stay and
appointedfor
Celia.
see
see
this wrestling,
cousin ?
see
Le
But
the
it.
Flourish.
DuKE
Enter
FREDERICK,
Charles,
Lords, Orlando,
and
Attendants.
Duke
own
F.
on
peril
Come
on
; since the
youth will
not
be
his forwardness.
Rosalind.
Is
Le Beau.
Even
1
yonderthe
man
?
he, madam.
Fine-looking.
8 Lamentation.
his
entreated,
AS
II.]
SCENE
Alas,he
Celia.
F.
Duke
is too
How
YOU
LIKE
!
young
IT.
25
1
yet he looks successfully.
daughterand cousin ! are you crept
?
hither to see the wrestling
Rosalind. Ay, my liege,
so pleaseyou
giveus leave.
will take littledelight
Duke
F. You
in it,I can
tell you ;
In pityof the challenger's
there is such odds in the men.
youth
I would fain dissuade him, but he will not be entreated.
Speak
him, ladies ;
to
now,
if you
see
Celia. Call him
Duke
Do
F.
Beau.
Le
Orkvido.
Rosalind.
-
can
hither,
good
I'llnot
him.
move
Monsieur
Le
Beau.
be
by.
\Dukegoes apart.
Monsieur
the challenger,
the princess
calls for you.
I attend them with all respect and duty.
Charles the wrestler
Young man, have you challeng'd
so
;
?
Orla?ido.
others
in,as
but
come
I
No, fair princess
; he is the generalchallenger.
do, to try with
him
the
strengthof
my
youth.
Celia.
are
Young gentleman,your spirits
You
years.
have
with
yourself
saw
cruel
seen
your
the fear of your
We
equal enterprise.
and
safety
own
your
Rosalind.
misprized.We
wrestling
might not
I
sham'd
one
that
is willing
to be
1
As
?
"
if he would
more
embrace
not
therefore
suit to the Duke
that the
was
my
never
not
with
hard
your
to deny
guilty,
so
fair
let your fair eyes and gentle
there is but
wherein if I be foil'd,
trial,
^
;
gracious
I shall do
so.
much
me
my
if kill'd,
but
friends
no
one
wrong,
dead
that
for I have
win.
time,was
Cousin," in Shakespeare's
of kindred
a
anything. But
to
me
our
to
sake,to
shall
reputation
punish me
you,
I confess
and excellent ladies
wishes go with
counsel you
go forward.
beseech
wherein
thoughts,
If you
strength.
with your judgyourself
ment,
pray you, for your own
giveover this attempt.
sir; your
will make
it
for your
bold
this man's
eyes or knew
adventure would
Do, young
be
Orlando.
proofof
too
beyond the
first.
3
used
Favored.
for all degrees
indifferently
26
SHAKESPEARE.
to lament
none
onlyin
;
when
; the world
me
I have
made
The
Rosalmd.
no
I fillup
the world
[act
a
for in
injury,
placewhich may
it I have
i.
ing
noth-
be better supplied
it empty.
littlestrengththat I
I would
have,
it
were
with you.
Celia. And
eke
mine, to
Rosalind.
hers.
out
you well. Pray Heaven
heart's desires be with you
I be deceiv'd in you
Fare
Celia. Your
Charles.
is this young
where
Come,
to lie with his mother
!
is so
that
gallant
desirous
earth ?
his will hath in it
Ready, sir;but
Orlando.
!
a
modest
more
working.
F.
You
Charles.
No,
Duke
to
shall try but
I warrant
second, that have
a
Orlajido. You
mock'd
me
.
Ctlia. I would
the
mock
come
^
Hercules
Now
Rosalind.
But
I
your ways.
be thyspeed,^
young
excellent young man
!
Celia. If .1 had a thunderbolt in mine
first.
not
have
!
man
by
O
should down.
No
no
more,
I
F.
How
dost
Beau.
He
cannot
Bear
him
can
tell who
\^Shout.Charles
is thrown.
eye, I
more.
beseech
Yes,
Orlando.
a
wrestle.
\^They
Rosalind.
F.
from
the strong fellow
leg.
Duke
him
entreat
should
after ; you
me
to catch
invisible,
were
not
mightily
persuadedhim
to
before.
shall
your grace, you
so
mean
fall.
one
I
grace.
your
am
yet well
not
breath'd.
Duke
Le
Duke
F.
Orlando.
thou,Charles
speak,my
away.
Orlando, my
"
?
lord,
What
is thy name,
liege
; the youngest
son
young
man
?
of Sir Rowland
de Bois.
Duke
F.
The
world
1
A
2
"
I would
thou hadst been
esteem'd
son
to
some
man
else !
thy father honorable,
celebrated
hero of antiquity,
mythological
Be thyspeed,"i.e.,
speedyou; helpyou.
for his feats of
strength.
II.]
SCENE
AS
I did find him
But
better
thou descended
Hadst
another house.
gallant
youth.
a
of another
me
\ExeimtDuke
I my
Celia. Were
I
Orlando.
am
His youngest son,
To
would
would
not
adoptedheir to Frederick.
Rosalifid. My father lov'd Sir
Le
Beau,
I do this ?
be Sir Rowland's
proud to
and
"
father.
and
Frederick^
train,
father,
coz,
more
27
with this deed
me
pleas'd
from
thou hadst told
I would
IT.
enemy.
fare thee well ; thou art
But
LIKE
stillmine
shouldst have
Thou
YOU
son,
"
change that calling
be
And
all the world
Had
I before known
I should
tears
Ere he should thus have
unto
My
entreaties,
Gentle
cousin,
him and encourage him.
father's rough and envious ^ disposition
go thank
us
Sticks me
at
heart.
have
Sir,you
"
well deserved.
keep your promisesin love
have exceeded promise,
as you
justly,
mistress shall be happy.
do
If you
But
Your
Gentleman,
[Giving him a chain from
suits with fortune,^
Rosalind.
Wear
this for me,
That
could
Shall
we
Can
all thrown
a
1
"
3
"
4
A
His
means.
"
I not
down,
He
My better
say, I thank you ?
and that which here stands up
calls us
to
son," i.e.,
well,fair gentleman.
Fare you
"
parts
lifelessblock.
a mere
quintain,*
Rosalind.
lacks
her neck.
?
coz
Ay.
Orlando.
Is but
but that her hand
givemore,
go,
of
out
one
Celia.
Are
his soul,
ventur'd.
Celia.
Let
as
of my father's mind.
this young man
his son,i
was
givenhim
have
Rowland
back
be his
:
my
pridefellwith
2
son.
my
fortunes ;
Malicious.
in misfortune.
Out of suits with fortune,"i.e.,
was
quintain
a
post with
a
crossbeam
" "
afterwards
the
Image of
a
2
8
I'llask him
what
he would.
sir?
you call,
overthrown
than your enemies.
More
Will you
Celia.
with
Have
Eosalind.
What
Orlando.
speak to
I cannot
Charles
"
overthrown
art
Reenter
Good
Le Bean.
Fare
you.^
somethingweaker
or
go,
?
coz
you well.
\ExeuntRosalind a fid Celia.
passionhangs these weightsupon my tongue ?
her,yet she urg'dconference.
poor Orlando, thou
Or
i.
Did
"
wrestled well and
have
Sir,you
O
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
sir,I
masters
thee.
Beau.
Le
do in
!
counsel you
friendship
leave this place. Albeit you have deserv'd
High commendation, true applauseand love,
To
condition
the Duke's
such is now
Yet
2
all that you have done.
is humorous
;^what he is,indeed.
he misconstrues
That
Duke
The
suits you
More
to conceive
than I
Orlajido. I thank you, sir;
to
speakof.
and, pray
you,
tellme
daughterof the Duke
?
That here was
at the wrestling
if we judgeby
Neither his daughter,
Le Beau.
But yet, indeed,the smaller is his daughter.
The other is daughterto the banish'd Duke,
And here detain'd by her usurping
uncle.
To keep his daughtercompany
; whose loves
Which
of the two
was
Are
dearer than the natural bond
But
I
can
Hath
ta'en
man
set in
"
turn
and
manners;
of sisters.
tellyou that of late this Duke
his gentle
niece,
'gainst
displeasure
a
of the horseman
to
this:
and
pivot,
when
give the
used
as
target in
exercises.
military
If the lance
awkwardly aimed, it might cause
was
tilting
assailant
a
a
stroke
with
its
arm,
projecting
him.
1
2
"
you,"i.e.,I'll be with you.
s
Capricious.
Disposition.
Have
with
A
common
idiom.
the
figure
thus
gracing
dis-
AS
III.]
SCENE
Grounded
LIKE
IT.
29
1
other argument
no
upon
YOU
that the
peoplepraiseher for her virtues,
her for her good father's sake ;
And pity,
the lady
And, on my hfe,his malice 'gainst
2 break forth.
Will suddenly
Sir,fare you well.
But
Hereafter,in
a
I shall desire
more
better world
than
love and
Orlajido. I rest much
this,"^
knowledgeof
bounden
to
you.
Fare you well.
you.
\ExitLe
Thus
I from
must
the smoke
tyrant Duke
From
unto
heavenlyRosaHnd
But
Scene
not
a
word
curs
;
^
"
\Exit.
III.
A
in the Palace.
Room
Celia
Rosalind.
and
Rosalind
why,
Cupid
!
have
!
mercy
?
Rosalind.
Celia.
;
;
!
cousin !
Why,
tyrant brother
a
Enter
Celia.
into the smother
Beau.
Not
throw
to
one
No, thy words
throw
of them
some
Rosalifid. Then
there
should be lam'd with
too
are
at me
; come,
two
were
and
reasons
dog.
preciousto
at a
be cast
lame
me
away upon
with reasons.
cousins laid up, when
the other mad
the
one
without any.
is all this for your father ?
Rosalind. No, some
of it is for my father's child.
full of briers is this working-day
world !
Celia. But
Celia.
They are but burs,cousin,thrown upon
our
foolery.If we walk not in the trodden paths,
O, how
thee in
very
holiday
petticoats
will catch them.
Rosalifid. I could
shake
them
off my
coat
; these burs
are
heart.
my
^
Celia. Hem
1
them
away.
2
Reason.
^
Le
4
"
Beau
From
means
the
to
"
say,
When
quickly.
Speedily;
thingsare
from bad
smoke," etc., i.e.,
to
in
a
worse.
better state than now."
^
Cough.
in
SHAKESPEARE.
so
Rosalind.
Celia.
try,if I could cry
I would
Come,
[act
wrestle with
come,
O, theytake the part
Rosalind.
"
hem
"
and
have
i.
him.
thy affections.
of
a
better wrestler than myself
!
good wish upon you ! you will try in time in spite
of a fall. But, turningthese jests
let us talk in
out pf service,
Is it possible,
such a sudden,you should fall
on
good earnest.
into so strong a Hking with old Sir Rowland's
youngest son ?
Rosalifid. The Duke
my father lov'd his father dearly.
Celia.
O,
a
it therefore
Celia. Doth
dearly?
this kind
By
father hated his father
Why
Celia.
Rosalind.
should
Let
Celia. With
love him
me
And
for
So
our
Duke
our
Frederick,
Or
with your safest
haste,
court.
?
You, cousin.
days if that thou be'st found
publiccourt as twenty miles,
ten
I do beseech
your grace,
fault bear with
the
me.
knowledgeof my
with myselfI hold intelHgence,
have acquaintance
desires;
with mine own
me
If that I do not
1
2
or
Lords.
with
Me,^ uncle
Rosalind.
If
cause
be-
diest for it.
Thou
Let
well ?
do you love him
F.
these
near
sake.
the Duke.
comes
Rosalind.
Within
for my
Orlando.
deserve
that,and
Mistress,
dispatch
you
get you from
Duke
him,
son
his eyes full of anger.
Enter
F.
I hate not
? doth he not
I not
Look,,here
I do.
Dnke
dearly; 2 yet
hate him not, for my
No, faith,
Rosalind.
love his
that you should
of chase i I should hate
ensue
"
This
kind
of
dream
or
be
not
frantic,
"
chase," i.e.,this line
Shakespeareuses
hate,joy or sorrow."
"
dear
"
of
"
of
whatever
3
i.
reasoning.
touches us nearly,
either in love
AS
III.]
SCENE
As I do
Never
I
trust
much
so
not,
am
in
LIKE
are
Thus
innocent
as
as
Tell
words,
itself.
trust
thee not.
Yet
your mistrust
whereon
the likehhood
Rosalind.
do all traitors;
grace
it suffice thee that I
Let
1
a
^ did consist in
If their purgation
They
3
then,dear uncle,
"
F.
Duke
IT.
thoughtunborn
highness.
as
I offend your
Did
YOU
make
cannot
me
a
traitor.
depends.
Duke
F. Thou
art thy father's daughter there's enough.
I when
took his dukedom
Rosalifid. So was
;
your highness
banish'd him.
I when
So was
your highness
is not inherited,
Treason
my lord ;
me
"
did derive it from
Or, if we
What's
that
? my father was
mistake me
liege,
my
no
not
traitor.
much
so
think my poverty is treacherous.
hear me
Celia. Dear sovereign,
speak.
To
Duke
F.
Ay,
Celia. I did
It
was
your
too
was
But
so
Rose
at an
am
Her
the
I;
her.
If she be
2
a
traitor,
F.
we
went, hke Juno'sswans,^
coupledand inseparable.
She is too
the
subtle for thee ; and her
people,and
1
Clearance from
3
"
tell us
mythologists
the
by peacocks.
smoothness.
patience
theypityher.
Tenderness
2
guilt.
Juno'sswans," i.e.,the
drawn
her stay ;
stillhave
we
and her
very silence,
Speak to
have
slepttogether.
eat together,
instant,
learn'd,
play'd,
went
Duke
to
remorse.
your own
that time to value her ;
wheresoe'er
Stillwe
entreat
and
pleasure
young
Why,
stay'dher for your sake,
father rang'dalong.
we
then
not
I know
now
And
Celia ;
she with her
Else had
was
friends.
to me
Then, good
I
our
that drew
swans
swan
of heart.
was
sacred
to
chariot. But
goddess's
Venus, and that Juno'scar
the
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
32
Thou
art
a
fool
she robs thee of
;
thou wilt show
And
Then
she is gone.
When
Firm
Which
I have
live
I cannot
Duke
F.
If you
her
that
then
sentence
are
fool!
a
on
mine
outstay the time,upon
Wilt thou
I
my
word,
die.
you
Frederick and Lords,
Rosalind,whither
poor
change fathers
chargethee,be
wilt thou go ?
I will givethee mine.
?
thou
not
I have
Rosalind.
more
than
griev'd
more
Hath
banish'd me,
thou
Know'st
his
Which
Shall
daughter?
No
:
Therefore
Whither
And
? hath not
be sunder'd
let my
Rosalind
?
? shall
and
lacks then
I
i
am
one.
?.
girl
part, sweet
we
the love
father seek another heir.
devise with
to
do
he hath not.
That
teacheth thee that thou
we
the Duke
not
Rosalind.
Celia. No
am.
hast not, cousin ;
Thou
cheerful.
I
cause.
Celia.
be
Prithee,
not
go, and
seek
me
what
how
to
fly,
we
may
bear with
us
take the
chargeupon
and leave me
griefs
yourself
to
bear your
For, by this heaven,now
To
at our
;
you,
out
;
pale,
sorrows
Say what
thou canst, I'llgo alongwith thee.
Rosalind. Why, whither shall we go ?
Celia. To
Rosalind.
Maids
as
we
Hege;
honor,
Duke
\^Exeunt
Celia. O
my
me,
You, niece,provideyourself.
"
in the greatness of my
And
she is banish'd.
:
of her company.
out
You
virtuous
more
doom
pass'dupon
Celia. Pronounce
seem
thy lips.
not
open
irrevocable is my
and
thy name,
brightand
more
i.
seek my uncle in the Forest
Alas,what danger will it be
are, to travel forth
Beautyprovokeththieves sooner
1
so
to us,
far !
than
Are.
of Arden.
gold.
AS
III.]
SCENE
myselfin
Celia. I'llput
kind of umber
And
with
The
like do you ;
And
YOU
a
we
that I
face ;
along
pass
I did suit me
^
A
boar spear in my
ax
upon
; and
and
other mannish
a
?
man
thigh,
in my
"
"
martial
a
heart
fear there will
woman's
swashing2
a
better,
tall,
common
my
hand
hidden
Lie there what
many
it not
all pointslike
curtle
gallant
We'll have
than
more
am
A
As
attire,
mean
my
Were
Rosalind.
That
33
stir assailants.
never
Because
IT.
and
poor
smirch
shall
so
LIKE
cowards
outside,
have
do outface it with their semblances,
That
shall I call thee when
Celia. What
I'llhave
Rosalind.
therefore look you
And
will you
But what
worse
no
call
a
thou
than
name
a
The
father's
he
be
Would
not
alone
me
And
get
Devise
our
of your
out
comfort
a
Celia. He'll go
Leave
to
to
*
woo
jewelsand
reference
if we
?
Jove'sown
our
him.
state
my
:
?
court
travel ?
with me;
world
Let's away.
wealth
our
to
together,
safest way
pursuitthat will be made
After my flight.Now
go we in content
To liberty
and not to banishment.
To
1
"
us
page ;
assay'dto steal
the wide
along o'er
the fittesttime and
hide
man
be call'd ?
Something that hath
No longerCeha, but Aliena.
Rosalind.
But, cousin,what
fool
a
Ganymede.^
me
Celia.
clownish
art
from
Curtle ax," i.e.,
a short sword.
The
name
\Exeunt.
is
of
corruption
a
"
lass."
cut-
2
3
A
beautiful
father's flocks
the
on
youth
Mount
cupbearerof
of
Swaggering.
Phrygia,son of Tros, who,
Ida, was
the
gods.
taken up
to
^
while
feeding his
and
Olympus by Jupiter,
Persuade
;
gainover.
came
be-
SHAKESPEARE.
34
ACT
Scene
Enter Duke
Duke
S.
Hath
not
old
Than
that of
and
two
or
three
Lords, likeforesters,
and brothers in
co-mates
this life more
made
custom
II.
I. TJie Forest of Arden.
Senior,Amiens,
Now, my
[ACT ii.
exile',
sweet
paintedpomp ? Are not these woods
More free from peril
than the envious court ?
Here feel we but the penalty
of Adam,
The seasons' difference,
the icyfang
as
And churhsh chidingof the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body.
"
tillI shrink with
Even
**
cold,I
smile and
say,
This is no
flattery
; these are counselors
That feelingly
persuademe what I am."
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Which, like the toad,uglyand venomous,
Wears yet a precious
jewelin his head ; ^
And this our life,
exempt from publichaunt,
Finds tongues in trees,books in the runningbrooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I would not change it.
Amiens.
Happy is your grace,
That
Into
can
so
Duke
And
translate the stubbornness
quietand
S.
Come,
yet it irks^
sweet
so
a
shall we
of fortune
style.
go and
kill us
venison ?
the poor dappledfools.
^
of this desert city,
Beingnative burghers
1
old
were
to
That the toad
be
2
an
me
was
venomous,
and
that it had
a
in Shakespeare's
superstitions
day. The
antidote for
Distresses.
poison.
3
Citizens.
jewelin itshead,
precious
toadstone
was
supposed
I
Should in their
LIKE
with
confines',
own
their round
Have
YOU
AS
I.]
SCENE
haunches
IT.
35
^
forked heads
gor'd.
First Lord.
Indeed,my lord,
The melancholy
at that,
Jaquesgrieves
And, in that kind,^swears
you do more
usurp
doth your brother that hath banish'd you.
To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself
Than
Did
steal behind
him
he
layalong
Under an oak whose an'tique
root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls alongthis wood.
To the which placea poor sequester'd^
stag,
That
the hunter's aim
from
Did
come
The
wretched
had
ta'en
a
and indeed,my
languish;
to
animal
heav'd
hurt.
lord,
forth such groans
did stretch his leathern coat
their discharge
That
Almost
and
bursting,
to
Cours'd
one
another
chase
piteous
In
as
Much
marked
Stood
on
Did
down
; and
of the
tears
his innocent
nose
hairyfool,
melancholyJaques,
verge of the swift
But what
he not moralize this
O
brook.
tears.
S.
First Lord.
big round
thus the
the extremest
Augmenting it with
Duke
the
said
Jaques ?
?
spectacle
yes, into
thousand
a
similes.
for his weepinginto the needless stream : *
First,
Poor deer,"quoth he, thou mak'st a testament
As worldlings
do, giving
thysum of more
To that which had too much."
Then, beingthere alone,
Left and abandon'd
of his velvet ^ friends,
'*
"
"
'Tis right,"
quoth he ;
The
1
flux^ of
company."
thus
2
from
Separated
*
"
Needless
miserydoth part
Anon
Arrowheads.
3
5
"
careless herd,
a
Way.
the herd.
a
stream," i.e.,
Sleek ; prosperous.
had
already
Coming together.
stream
^
that
water
enough.
36
SHAKESPEARE.
Full of the pasture,jumps along by him
And never
Ay," quothJaques,
stays to greet him.
"
you fat and greasy citizens ;
'Tis justthe fashion ; wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankruptthere ?
"
Sweep
on,
"
he pierceth
through
invectively
The body of the country, city,
court,
swearingthat we
Yea, and of this our life,
Thus
most
"
Are
To
usurpers, tyrants,and what's worse,
the animals and to kill them up^
fright
mere
dwelling
place.
?
did you leave him in this contemplation
Duke
S. And
We
Seco7id Lord.
did,my lord,weepingand commenting
Upon the sobbingdeer.
Show me
the place.
Duke
S.
In their
native
and
assign'd
I love to cope
^
him
in these sullen
fits.
For then he's full of matter.^
I'llbringyou
First Lord.
Duke
It cannot
Are
F.
be ;
First Lord.
Enter
DuKE
it be
some
and
A
him
\Exeunt
straight.*
ifithe Palace.
Room
with Lords.
Frederick,
that
possible
no
man
them
saw
?
villains of my court
sufferance in this.^
I cannot
hear of any that did
see
her.
her attendants of her chamber,
ladies,
her abed, and in the morningearly
Saw
They
found
the bed
Second Lord.
Your
1
II.
Can
of consent
The
Scene
to
grace
"
was
Kill them
2
Meet
5
"
6
Rascally.
Are
with.
of
untreasur'd of their mistress.
^
clown, at whom
My lord,the roynish
is also missing.
to laugh,
wont
"
up ;
should say now,
we
3
Sound
sense.
knew
consent,"etc., i.e.,
"
kill them
^
so
oft
off."
Immediately.
of this escape and connived at it.
YOU
AS
III.]
SCENE
IT.
LIKE
37
the princess'
gentlewoman,
Hisperia,
o'erheard
Confesses that she secretly
commend
Your daughterand her cousin much
The
parts and graces of the wrestler
That
foil the sinewyCharles
lately
wherever theyare gone,
she believes,
in their company.
youth is surely
did but
And
That
Duke
If he be
his brother ; fetch that
to
absent,bringhis
him
I'llmake
And
Send
F.
find him.
brother to
me
hither.
gallant
;
this suddenly,
Do
inquisition
quail^
search and
let not
;
bringagainthese foolish runaways.
To
Scene
Who's
Orlando.
What!
Adam.
my
master
my sweet
Of old Sir Rowland
are
you
wherefore
Why
would you be
Your
are
you
so
of
bony priser^
praiseis come
Know
No
more
O,
what
meeting.
too
my
why
gentle,
strong,and
gentlemaster
!
Duke ?
home
swiftly
to
some
but
valiant ?
to overcome
the humorous*
them
serve
O
you here ?
do peoplelove you ?
fond^
you not, master,
Their graces
Adam,
?
young master
! O you memory
! why, what make
virtuous ?
And
The
and
ORLANDO
there ?
O
Why
BeforeOliver's House.
III.
Enter
\Exeunt,
as
before you.
kind of
enemies
men
?
do yours ; your virtues,
gentlemaster,
Are sanctified and holytraitors to you.
a
Envenoms
Orlando.
Adam.
1
3
world
him
is this,
when
what
is comely
that bears it !
Why,
what's the matter?
O
slacken.
i.e., inquiry
"Inquisition
quail,"
i.e., stalwart prizefighter.
Bony priser,"
"
unhappy youth!
2
Foolish.
4
See Note
3, p. 28.
3^
Come
of all your
enemy
Your
brother
Yet
the
not
Of him
Hath
I
brother,yet the
; I will not
about
was
Hves.
graces
no
no,
"
son
heard
call him
son
"
son
call his father
to
"
and this nighthe means
praises,
lodgingwhere you use to lie,i
your
the
To
burn
And
you within it; if he fail of
will have other means
to cut
I overheard
that,
you off.
practices.^
this house is but a butchery.*
him
his
and
place; ^
Abhor it,
do not enter it!
fear it,
Orlando,
Why, whither,Adam, wouldst
Adam.
No matter whither,
so you
come
This is no
What, wouldst thou have
Orlando.
Or with
A
base and
a
boisterous sword
thievish
on
living
must
do, or
This I
ii.
within these doors ; within this roof
not
The
He
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
Yet this I will
the
not
me
go ?
here.
go and
beg my
food ?
enforce
road ?
common
know
me
thou have
what
not
do ;
to
do, do how I can.
I rather will subjectme
to the malice
Of a diverted blood and bloodybrother.^
Adam.
The
not
But do
hire
thrifty
in
that ; and
He
Be comfort
"
Use
2
Evil
4
Here
5
"
to
to
my
Here
age !
'^
designs.
Malice
for the
lie,"i.e.,it is your
used
in the
thrown.
corners
that doth the
caters
Yea, providently
1
sense
Fit
of
"
feed.
sparrow,^
is the gold
custom
ravens
";
to
of," etc., i.e.,the alienated
See Ps. cxlvii.9, and
Luke
sleep.
dwelling.
slaughterhouse."
brother.
6
father.
your
to
unregardedage
Take
crowns,
be my foster nurse
service should in my old hmbs lie lame.
When
And
five hundred
I have
so.
I sav'd under
I did store
Which
not
xii. 6.
natural
affection of
a
murderous
AS
III.]
SCENE
All this I
Though
giveyou.
I look
YOU
Let
old,yet I
For in my youthI
Hot and rebellious
never
39
be your servant.
am
strong and lusty
;
did
apply
in
liquors
did not with unbashful
The
means
of weakness
^
but kindly.
Frosty,
I'lldo the service of
my blood,
forehead woo
and
age is as
my
IT.
me
Nor
Therefore
LIKE
a
debility
;
winter,
lusty
Let
go with you ;
me
younger man
In all your business and necessities.
Orlando. O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant ^ service of the an'tique
world.
service sweat
When
Thou
art not
Where
a
for
for the fashion of these
will sweat
none
havingthat,do
And
but for
!^
for meed
duty,not
times.
promotion,
their service up
choke
it is not so with thee.
having;"*
a rotten
But, poor old man, thou prun'st
tree.
much as a blossom yield
That cannot
so
In lieu ^ of all thypainsand husbandry.
But come
thyways ; we'll go alongtogether,
And ere we have thyyouthful
wages spent.
We'll light
settled low content.
upon some
with the
Even
Adam.
Master,go
I will follow
on, and
thee,
the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
almost fourscore
From seventeen
years tillnow
To
"
lived I, but
Here
At seventeen
But
at
now
live here
years many
fourscore itis too
no
more.
their fortunes seek ;
late
a
week.^
better
me
recompense
to die well and not my master's debtor.
Yet fortune cannot
Than
1
Natural; hence, healthy.
4
Because
5
"
In
6
"
Too
2
in
lieu,"i.e.,
return
3
Faithful.
of their promotionthey become
too
[Exeunt.
proud to
Reward.
serve.
for.
late a week," i.e.,
too late in the week; much
too
late.
SHAKESPEARE.
40
Scene
Enter
how
Jupiter,
O
I
Touchstone.
weary.
Rosalind.
to cry like
doublet and
and
as
vessel,
a
woman
^
heart to
disgrace
my
courage,
Celia. I pray you, bear with
man's
parel
ap-
itselfcourageous
; I cannot
me
not
the weaker
comfort
ought to show
good Aliena !
petticoat
; therefore
Touchstone.
my
; but I must
hose
and
!
spirits
if my
spirits,
legswere
for my
find in my
I could
of Arden.
are
weary
not
care
Forest
CELiA_/^rAliena,
/^r Ganymede,
Rosalind
Rosalind,
The
IV.
go
no
2
to
further.
my part, I had rather bear with you than
yet I should bear no cross ^ if I did bear you, for I
Touchsto?ie. For
bear you;
think you have
in your purse.
money
Well,this is the Forest of Arden.
Rosalind.
no
Toiichsto7ie. Ay, now
I
at
was
home
I
in
was
I in Arden
am
better
a
"
the
fool I !
more
place;but
When
be
travelers must
content.
Ay, be
Rosalind.
so,
good Touchstone.
Enter
you, who
Look
here?
comes
and
Corin
a
young
SiLVius.
man
and
an
old in solemn
*
talk.
That
Corin.
Silvius. O
1
"
Doublet
and
fitted
The
word
is the way to make her scorn
you still.
Corin,that thou knew'st how I do love her !
and hose," i.e.,
coat
to
tightly
'hose,'now
to implythe breeches
"
or
Double
negativesare
3
A
is a
cross
4
a
cross,
meanings.
Serious
The
; earnest.
doublet
was
close
tighttrousers.
in Shakespeare.
frequent
The penny
heavyburden, figuratively.
stampedwith
the two
"
body,the skirts reachinga littlebelow the girdle.
used originally
was
appliedsolelyto the stocking,
2
was
on
the
and breeches.
and
was
called.
so
familiarly
of
Queen Elizabeth
Touchstone
puns
AS
IV.]
SCENE
Corin.
I
Silvms.
partlyguess
YOU
LIKE
IT.
41
for I have lov'd
;
No, Corin,being old,thou
ere
now.
not
canst
guess,
in
thyyouth thou wast as true a lover
As ever sigh'd
upon a midnightpillow.
like to mine,
But if thylove were
ever
Though
"
As
I think did
sure
never
love so,
man
"
actions most
ridiculous
many
thou been drawn to by thyfantasy
? ^
How
Hast
Corm.
Into
a
thousand
that I have
forgotten.
Silviiis. O, thou didst then ne'er love
If thou remember'st
That
love did make
ever
Thou
the
not
Or if thou hast not
sat as
Wearing thy hearer
in
Or if thou hast not
Thou
0
slightest
folly
thee
into,
run
I do now,
thy mistress' praise,
lov'd ;
hast not
as
Abruptly,
!
heartily
lov'd ;
hast not
Thou
so
from
company
makes me.
passionnow
my
hast not
broke
lov'd.
Phebe, Phebe, Phebe !
{Exit.
Rosalind. Alas,poor shepherd! searching
of thy wound,
1 have
by
hard
adventure
Touchstone.
broke
sword
my
I mine.
And
to Jane Smile
a-night
and
the cow's
I remember
I took
dugs that
love.
Fancy; i.e.,
3
*'
I remember
employ
the
the stem,
sake."
2
I
in
was
take that for
the
of
kissing
had
love,I
coming
her batlet 2
milk'd ; and
^
We
that
a littlebat used
are
true
lovers
run
by laundresses.
accustomed
in their love
frequently
a
one
peascod [pea pod], by selecting
it
if
the
of
the
a
nd
omen
snatching away quickly,
peas
[English] ancestors
growingon
bid him
her pretty chopt hands
these for my
1
affairs to
and
stone
and
remember, when
wooing of a peascod instead of her,from whom
said with weeping
cods and, givingher them again,
tears, Wear
Our
;
I
own.
the
two
"
a
upon
mine
found
divination
were
of
remainingin the pod were
preserved,then presentingit to the lady of their
choice."
(Brand's PopularAntiquities,
quotedb^ \V. Aldis Wright.)
SHAKESPEARE,
42
into strangecapers ; but
[act
ii.
all is mortal in nature, so is all nature
as
^
folly.
wiser than thou art 'ware of.
Rosalifid. Thou speakest
wit
Touchstone. Nay, I shall ne'er be 'ware of mine own
break my shins against
it.
Rosalind,
passion
Jove,Jove ! this shepherd's
in love mortal in
upon my fashion.
mine ; but it grows somethingstale with
tillI
Is much
Touchstone.
And
of you question
Celia. I pray you, one
yond
If he for gold will giveus any food.
me.
man
I faint almost to death.
Holla,you clown !
Peace,fool ; he's not thy kinsman.
Touchstofie.
Rosalmd.
Who
Corin.
Touchstone.
Your
sir.
betters,
Else
Corin.
Rosalind.
Peace, I
say.
"
Good
are
theyvery wretched.
to
even
you, friend.
and to you all.
gentlesir,
Rosalind. I prithee,
shepherd,if that love or gold
Can in this desert placebuy entertainment.
Bringus where we may rest ourselves and feed.
Here's a young maid with travel much
oppress'd,
Corin.
And
And
to
faints for
you,
succor.
Fair
Corin.
And
My
wish,for
fortunes
But I
And
My
not
master
And
more
able
more
shepherdto
am
do
her sake
were
I pityher,
sir,
than for mine
to
reheve
own,
her;
another man,
shear the fleeces that I graze.
is of churlish
littlerecks
2
to
disposition.
find the way
to
heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality.
and bounds of feed
Besides,his cote,^his flocks,
Are now
on
sale,and at our sheepcotenow,
1
"
2
Cares.
Mortal in
foolish.
i.e.,extremely
folly,"
3
calls ?
Hut.
By
AS
v.]
SCENE
of his
reason
That
And
LIKE
absence,there
IT.
43
is nothing
see,
you will feed on ; but what is,come
in my voice most
welcome
shall you be.
What
Rosalind.
That
Corin.
Rosalind.
is he that shall buy his flock and pasture ?
swain
young
littlecares
That
VOC/
that you
saw
here but
erewhile,^
buyinganything.
for
thee,if it stand with honesty,
cottage,pasture, and the flock,
I pray
Buy
thou the
And
thou shalt have
Celia. And
to
pay
for it of
will mend
we
us.
thy wages.
I like this place,
wiUinglycould waste ^ my time in it.
the thingis to be sold.
Corin. Assuredly
And
with
Go
The
; if you
me
like upon
report
the profit,
and this kind
soil,
of
life,
^
I will your very faithful feeder
be.
And buy it with your goldright
suddenly.
Scene
Enter
V.
\Exeunt.
The Forest.
Amiens, Jaques, and others.
Song.
Amiens.
Under
the
Who
And
greenwood tree
loves to lie with
Unto the sweet
Come
bird^s
throat,
hither,come hitherj
hither,come
Here
;;?^,
his jnerry note
turn
shall he
see
No
ene77iy
winter and
But
Jaques.More,
Amiens.
more,
It will make
Jaques. I
thank
of
out
a
it.
song,
rough weather.
I
more!
prithee,
Monsieur
you melancholy,
I
!
more
More, I prithee,
as
a
weasel sucks eggs.
Jaques.
can
More,
more!
1
Just now.
2
Spend.
3
Servant.
suck melancholy
I
prithee,
SHAKESPEARE.
44
is ragged; I know
My voice
Amiens.
What
Monsieur
will,
you
Jaques. Nay, I care
Will you sing?
not
Jaques.
names
; theyowe
for their
II.
pleaseyou.
I cannot
desire you to please
me
; I do desire you
; call you 'em stanzos ?
; another stanzo
Jaques. I do not
sing. Come, more
Amiens.
[act
me
to
ing.
noth-
myself.
your request than to please
Jaques. Well,then,if ever I thank any man, I'llthank you;
of two
but that they call compHment is like the encounter
dog
More
Amiens.
at
apes, and when a
him a penny and
and
sing;
"
you
thanks
man
he renders
2
look
song.
this tree.
will drink under
Duke
me
that will not, hold your tongues,
Well, I'llend the
Amiens.
methinks I have given
heartily,
the beggarlytha,nks. Come,
me
the
hath been
He
"
^
cover
Sirs,
"
while; the
all this day
to
you.
Jaques. And I have been all
^ for
too disputable
my company.
thanks,and
he,but I giveHeaven
!
warble,come
this
day
to avoid
I think of
make
as
many
him.
matters
boast of them.
no
He
is
as
Come,
Song.
Who
doth ambition
loves to live V th^ sun,
And
Seekingthejood he eats
d with what
And pleas'
hither,
Come
Here
Preparethe table for
Fond
4
"
In
hither;
hither,
shall he
see
and
roughweather.
Jaques.I'llgiveyou a verse to
in despite
of my invention."^
3
gets,
enemy
But winter
1
he
come
come
No
here.
[A//together
shun,
the
banquet.
this note
2
that I made
Look
day
yester-
for.
of argument.
despiteof my
helpunwillingly.
invention,"i.e.,though my
imagination
gave
its
AS
VI.]
SCENE
And
Amiens.
it goes
:
If it do
That
Due da me,
What's
due
Jaques. 'Tis a
I'llgo sleep,
if I
Gross
foolsas he,
Greek
to me,
ducdame
"
?
call fools into
to
invocation,
cannot, I'llrail
againstall
a
circle.
the firstborn
Egypt.^
Amiens.
And
I'llgo seek the Duke
Scene
Enter
Adam.
Dear
lie I
Here
;
see
come
; if I
can
ease,
dame, due dame
shall he
*'
and
will to please,
Here
that
ass.
his wealth
ifhe will
An
turn
man
any
stubborn
A
to pass
come
Leaving
of
45
I'llsingit.
Jaqiies.Thus
Amiens.
IT,
LIKE
YOU
down, and
can
and
go
no
Adam.
further.
out
measure
banquet is prepared.
severally.
\^Exeimt
The Forest.
VI.
Orlando
master, I
; his
my
O,
grave.
I die for food
!
Farewell,kind
master,
Orlando.
Live
how
Why,
little
; comfort
a
now,
a
Adam
little; cheer
!
powers.
arm's end.
for it or
than
my sake be comfortable ; hold death awhile at the
I will here be with thee presently
; and if I bringthee
eat, I will
givethee
leave to die ; but if thou
of my labor. Well said !
I'llbe with thee quickly.Yet thou liest
thou art
and
thou look'st cheerly,^
a
mocker
Johnson notes that the expression"firstborn of Egypt"
for highborn persons.
one
proverbial
2 Imagination.
8
Cheerfully,
Dr.
thy
For
diest before I come,
1
little. If this uncouth
yieldanythingsavage, I will either be food
food to thee. Thy conceit ^ is nearer
death
somethingto
not
greater heart in thee ?
thyselfa
forest
bringit for
no
was
a
46
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
in the bleak air. Come, I will bear thee
shalt not
desert.
die for lack of
good Adam
Cheerly,
Scene
A
table set out.
S.
Duke
For
I
dinner,if
a
there live
anythingin
The Forest
Senior,Amiens, and
find him
like
a
into
a
Lords
like outlaws.
beast ;
man.
My lord,he is but even now gone hence
Here was
he merry, hearingof a song.
Duke
S. If he,compact of jars,i
grow musical,
discord in the spheres.^
We shall have shortly
Go, seek him ; tellhim I would speakwith him.
First Lord.
Enter
First Lord.
Duke
S.
He
Why,
saves
how
my
now,
by
monsieur
your poor friends must
!
What, you look merrily
;
Jaques.
labor
That
this
[Exeunt.
I think he be transform'd
nowhere
can
shelter ; and thou
to some
!
VII.
Duke
Enter
ii.
woo
his
approach.
own
! what
a
?
your company
Jaques.A fool,a fool ! I met a fool
A miserable world !
A motley^ fool !
As I do hve by food,I met a fool.
"
i'the
life is this,
forest,
"
Who
laid him
down
and bask'd him
And
rail'd on
Lady
Fortune
in the sun,
in
good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motleyfool.
Good
fool,"quoth I.
No, sir,"
quothhe,
morrow,
"
"
"
Call
And
me
not
fool tillHeaven
then he drew
a
dial from
hath sent
his
me
fortune."
poke,*
made up of discords.
i.e.,
jars,"
The doctrine of Pythagorasthat the heavenlybodies in their motion
referred to by Shakespeare.
produceharmonious sounds, is frequently
3
of
The dress
the professional
fool,who had a placein
Party-colored.
every largehousehold, was patchedwith various colors.
1
"Compact
2
4
Pocket.
of
VII.]
SCENE
AS
YOU
IT.
LIKE
And, lookingon it with lackluster eye,
Says very wisely, It is ten o'clock.
Thus we may see,"quoth he, "how
the
'Tis but an hour ago since it was
nine,
4^
"
hour
And
after
And
so, from
And
then,from hour
one
wags;
'twillbe eleven ;
more
hour to
world
hour,we ripeand ripe,
to hour,we
rot and rot ;
And
therebyhangs a tale." When I did hear
The motleyfool thus moral ^ on the time,
like chanticleer,
My lungsbegan to crow
That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
And I did laughsans ^ intermission
An hour by his dial. O noble fool !
0 worthyfool !
Motley'sthe onlywear.^
Zfu^e S.
What
fool is this ?
Jaques. A worthy fool
!
One
that hath been
a
courtier,
says, if ladies be but young and fair.
They have the giftto know it; and in his brain,
And
Which
is as
he hath strange placescramm'd
After
a
With
the
observation,
In
1
voyage,
ambitious
Duke
S.
for
Thou
which
O
mangled forms.
am
biscuit
the remainder
dryas
a
he vents
that I
were
a
fool !
motleycoat.
shalt have
one.
onlysuit,^
It is my
Jaques.
Provided
that you weed your better judgments
Of all opinionthat grows rank in them
That
I
wise.
am
Withal,as largea
blow
To
on
whom
I must
have
charter
as
I
please;
liberty
the
wind.
for
so
fools have ;
And
theythat are most galledwith my folly.
must
theyso
They most must laugh. And why, sir,
1
Moralize.
3
"
*
A
2
A
French
word
meaning
"
?
without."
Motley'sthe only wear," i.e.,there is no dress
playupon the word is doubtless intended.
like the fool's.
48
SHAKESPEARE.
"
The
why
that
He
Doth
a
very
But
[act
parishchurch
fool doth very wisely
hit,
fooHshly,
althoughhe smart,
"
is plainas way
to
ii.
:
senseless of the bob ;^ if not,
to seem
wise man's
is anatomiz'd
folly
2 of the fool.
Even by the squandering
glances
in my motley; giveme
leave
Invest me
To speakmy mind, and I will throughand through
Cleanse the foul body of the infected world.
receive my medicine.
If theywill patiently
The
S.
Duke
Fie
thee ! I
on
can
tellwhat
thou wouldst
do.
would I do but good ?
counter,^
in chiding
sin ;
Duke
S. Most mischievous foul sin,
For thou thyself
hast been a libertine,
Jaques,What,
As sensual
And
as
for
a
stingitself;
the brutish
all the embossed
and headed
evils.
That thou with license of free foot hast caught,
world.
into the general
Wouldst thou disgorge
Jaques. Why, who cries out on pride.
That can therein tax * any private
party ?
Doth it not flow as hugelyas the sea.
sores
Till that the wearer's very means
do ebb ?
AVhat woman
in the citydo I name,
When
that I say the citywoman
bears
cost of princes
on
unworthyshoulders ?
The
Who
can
such
When
in and
come
a
one
say that I mean
she,such is her
as
Or what is he of basest
her,
?
neighbor
function,^
says his braveryis not on my cost,^
him, but therein suits
Thinkingthat I mean
That
1
Blow.
2
"
i.e.,
gibesscattered
Squanderingglances,"
3
"
For
a
on
counter,"i.e.,
worthless coin,used
4
Censure.
6
"
His
onlyfor
5
the wager
of
a
without
aim.
special
The
counter.
counter
calculations.
Occupation.
his
etc.,i.e.,
bravery,"
fine clothes
are
not
at
my
expense.
was
a
SCENE
VII.]
His
to
folly
AS
YOU
the mettle of my
then ; how then ? what
There
he hath
man.
Enter
"
Jaques.
Orla?ido. Nor
Jaques. Of
Orlando,
if he be
with
eat
no
right,
flies,
here ?
his sword
draivn.
more.
Why, I have
be serv'd.
shalt not, tillnecessity
what
kind should this cock
touch'd my vein
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me
You
Of smooth
civility
; yet am
And
some
know
wherein
see
free,
bolden'd,man,
Or else a rude despiser
of good manners,
thou seem'st so empty ?
That in civility
Orlando.
me
If it do him
Art thou thus
S.
49
Let
goose
But who comes
Forbear,and
Orlando.
Duke
then ?
wrong'dhim.
wrong'd himself ;
taxinglike a wild
then my
Unclaim'd of any
Why
IT.
speech?
hath
My tongue
Then
LIKE
But
none
yet.
1
by thy distress,
thornypoint
the show
I inland
nurture.^
of ?
come
first; the
at
eat
bred,^
I say!
forbear,
dies that touches any of thisfruit
Till I and my affairsare answered.
He
Jaques. An
will
you
not
be
with
answered
reason,
I must
die.
Duke
What
S.
would
you
have
shall
gentleness
Your
?
force
than your force move
to gentleness.
us
have
Orlando. I almost die for food ; and let me
More
Duke
S.
Sit down
feed,and welcome
and
Pardon
Orlando.
I
Speak you so gently?
thoughtthat all thingshad been
therefore put I
And
Of
stern
*
This
2
"
3
Good
on
the
commandment.
repeatingof
Inland
bred,"
the
savage
table.
I pray you ;
here
countenance
is often
preposition
a
our
me,
But whate'er you
i.e.,not
breeding.
to
it.
rustic
met
brought up
are
with in
on
Shakespeare.
the frontier.
SHAKESPEARE.
50
[act
ii.
That in this desert inaccessible,
melancholyboughs,
the creeping
hours of time ;
Lose and neglect
If ever you have look'd on better days,
If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,
If ever
sat at any good man's feast,
If ever
from your eyehdswip'da tear.
And
know what 'tisto pityand be pitied,
Let gentleness
my strong enforcement be ;
In the which hope I blush,
and hide my sword.
Duke
S. True is it that we have seen better days,
And have with holybell been knoll'd to church.
and wip'dour eyes
And sat at good men's feasts,
Of dropsthat sacred pityhath engender'd
;
And therefore sit you down in gentleness.
what helpwe have
And take upon command
That to your wantingmay be minister'd.
Orlando. Then but forbear your food a littlewhile,
Under
the shade
of
"
Whiles like a doe I go to find my fawn
And giveit food.
There is an old poor man.
hath many
a weary
step
Limp'd in pure love ; tillhe be firstsuffic'd,
Who
after
me
"
d with
Oppress'
I will not
Duke
And
we
weak
two
touch
a
Go
will
and
hunger,
"
bit.
S.
Orlando.
evils,^
age
find him
out.
tillyou return.
I thank ye ; and be blest for your
nothingwaste
good
comfort
!
[Exit
Duke
S.
Thou
seest
we
are
not
This wide and
universal theater
Presents
more
woful
Wherein
we
all the
pageants than the
unhappy.
scene
playin.
All the world's
Jaques.
And
all alone
and
men
1
"
Weak
women
a
stage.
merelyplayers.
evils causingweakness.
evils,"i.e.,
AS
VII.]
SCENE
in his time
man
one
LIKE
their exits and their
They have
And
YOU
IT.
entrances
playsmany
51
;
parts,
beingseven ages. At firstthe infant,
Mewhng and pukingin the nurse's arms.
And then the whiningschoolboy,
with his satchel
like snail
And shining
morningface,creeping
And then the lover.
to school.
Unwillingly
Sighinglike furnace,with a woful ballad
Made
to his mistress' eyebrow. Then
a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard;i
Jealousin honor,sudden and quickin quarrel.
Seekingthe bubble reputation
His
acts
in the cannon's mouth.
Even
In fair round
And
then the
justice.
bellywith good capon lin'd.
With
and beard of formal cut.
eyes severe
Full of wise saws
and modern
instances
i^
playshis part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd
pantaloon,*^
With spectacles
and pouch on side.
on
nose
His youthful
hose,well sav'd,a world too wide
For his shrunk shank ; and his bigmanly voice,
Turningagaintoward childish treble,
pipes
And
so
he
And
whistles in his * sound.
That
ends this strange,eventful
history,
childishness and
obhvion,
Is second
Sans
sans
teeth,
eyes,
sans
Reenter
Duke
let him
And
1
S.
"
Bearded
Welcome.
Last
mere
scene
Set down
all.
everything.
taste,sans
Orlando
of
with
Adam.
your venerable
burden.
feed.
like the
pard,"i.e.,with long,pointedmustaches
like the
feelers.
leopard's
2
"
3
The
Full
of wise
saws," etc., i.e.,crammed
with wise
sayingsand
illustrations.
4
The
name
of
a
"
pronoun
comic
"
its
character
was
in Italian
rarelyused
in
plays.
Shakespeare's
day.
monplace
com-
SHAKESPEARE.
52
Orlando.
I thank
So had
Adam.
I
scarce
can
Duke
S.
speakto
Welcome
Give
us
some
music ;
you need
;
"
thank
you for myself.
I will not trouble you,
; fall to.
yet, to question
you about your fortunes.
As
ii.
for him.
most
you
[act
"
and, good cousin,sing.
Song.
Blow, blow, tkoii winter wind,
Amiens.
Thou
As
Thy
art not
fnan^s
so
unkind
ingratitude
,
tooth is not
so
keen,
Because thou art 7iot seen.
Althoughthy breath be rude.
/ unto the green holly
I
Heigh-ho/ sing,heigh-ho
Most friendship
most loving
isfeigning,
mere
folly;
/
the
Theti,heigh-ho, holly
This life
is most Jolly,
thou bittersky.
Freeze,freeze,
That dost not bite so
As
nigh
benefits
forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy stingis not so sharp
As
friendremember*
d not.^
Heigh-ho/ sing,etc.
good Sir Rowland's
As you have whisper'd
faithfully
you were,
witness
And as mine eye doth his effigies
in your face,
limn'd and living
Most truly
Be truly
welcome
hither. I am the Duke
Duke
That
Go
S.
If that you
son,
lov'd your father ; the residue of your fortune,
Good
old man,
and tellme.
to my
cave
"
Thou
rightwelcome
Supporthim by the arm.
And
the
were
art
let me
1
"As
as
"
thy master
Give
me
is.
"
your
hand,
all your fortunes understand.
friend," etc., i.e.,as what
an
unremembered
\Exeunt,
friend feels.
YOU
AS
II.]
SCENE
ACT
Scene
DuKK
EnUr
But
Not
F.
Duke
I
were
in the Palace,
Room
Lords, and Oliver.
Frederick,
him
see
seek
since ?
Sir,sir,that
cannot
be ;
mercy,
^
absent argument
an
53
III.
the better part made
not
I should not
A
I.
IT.
LIKE
Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
wheresoe'er he is ;
Find out thy brother,
with candle
Seek him
seek
in our territory.
living
and all things
which thou
a
lands
Thy
thou
this twelvemonth,or turn
Within
To
;2bringhim dead
do
seizure,
Worth
seize into
we
or
no
hands,
our
quitthee by thy brother's
thee.
think against
we
that your highnessknew
lov'd my brother in my life.
Oliver. O
I
never
Duke
And
officersof such
let my
Make
an
villainthou.
More
F.
^
extent
upon
Enter
heart in this !
out
of
doors;
nature
a
turn
Scene
my
mouth
Well, push him
"
his house
and
this expediently,*
Do
more
dost call thine.
Till thou canst
Of what
living
him
II.
Orlando,
lands.
and
going.
The
[Exeunt,
Forest.
with
a
paper.
Hang there,my verse, in witness of my love.
And thou,thrice-crowned Queen of Night,^
survey
Orlando.
"
2
1
Object.
3
"
4
Expeditiously.
"
Make
an
See Luke
xv.
8.
extent,"i.e.,seize by writ of attachment.
known
as
Night," i.e.,the moon;
Cynthiain heaven, Hecate or Proserpinain the lower regions,and
also goddessof the chase and of chastity.
as Diana,who
was
5
Thrice-crowned
Queen
of
Luna
on
or
earth
SHAKESPEARE.
54
With
thy chaste eye,
Thy huntress' name
O
That
The
hi.
thypalesphereabove,
"
in their barks my thoughts
I'llcharacter;^
every eye which in this forest looks,
Shall
Run,
from
that my fulllifedoth sway.
! these trees shall be my books.
Rosalind
And
[act
thy virtue witness'd everywhere.
see
"
Orlando
run,
; carve
on
every tree
^ she.
the chaste,
and unexpressive
fair,
Enter
Corin. And
how
CoRiN
hke you
Touchstone.
and
this
\Exit.
Hfe,Master
shepherd's
stone
Touch-
?
Touchstone.
in respect of itself,
it is a good
Truly,shepherd,
life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's
it is naught.^ In
life,
I like it very well ; but in respect that
respect that it is solitary,
it is private,
it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it is in the
it pleaseth
well ; but in respect it is not in the court,
me
fields,
it is tedious. As it is a spare life,
look you, it fits my humor
well ; but as there is no more
plentyin it,it goes much again.^
in thee,shepherd
Hast any philosophy
?
my stomach.
Corin.
at
worse
No
ease
but that I know
more
he
is,and
is without three
content
is to wet, and
the
that he that wants
good
more
sickens the
one
money,
means,
and
friends ; that the property of rain
fire to burn ; that
good pasture makes fat sheep,
and that a great cause
of the nightis lack of the sun; that he
that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complainof good
^
of a very dull kindred.
or
comes
breeding
Touchstone. Such a one is a natural philosopher.Wast ever
in court, shepherd
?
Corin. No, truly.
"
Touchstone.
Corin.
1
Carve.
4
"
Then
thou art damn'd.
Nay, I hope.
2
3
Inexpressible.
Complain,"etc., i.e.,complainof
not
gee Note 2, p.
havingbeen
well
22.
broughtup.
AS
II.]
SCENE
Truly,thou
Touchstone.
For
Corin.
good
saw'st
; if thou
manners
ill-roastedegg all
an
must
damnation.
Thou
Corifi. Not
court
reason.
good
saw'st
never
court, thou
at
wast
is
wickedness
; and
be wicked
thy manners
the
Your
beingat court ?
Why, if thou never
not
Touchsto7ie.
at
like
damn'd,
art
55
IT.
side.
one
on
LIKE
YOU
never
manners,
then
sin,and
sin is
^
state, shepherd.
parlous
whit.Touchstone ; those that are good manners
a
are
in
art
a
ridiculous in the country
as
the behavior
as
of
told me
You
mockable
at the court.
the country is most
you
^
salute not at the court but you kiss your hands ; that courtesy
if courtiers were
would be uncleanly
shepherds.
Touchstone.
Coriji.
Why,
you know, are
Touchstone.
we
the grease of
Shallow,shallow.
a
And
Corin.
I say
instance,
hands
^
are
would
and
good pieceof
civet is of
Touchstone.
God
!
man
have
Wilt thou
1
Perilous.
3
Give
6
Double
7
A
9
to
Alluding
an
am
a
2
example;
"
Mend
tar.
rest
worms'-meat, in respect of
wit for
damn'd
prove
are
comparatives
from
derived
perfume
the old
laborer.
you
wise,and perpendi^
of the
Learn
a
courtly
true
But
Shallow
sooner.
with the surgery of our
The
courtier's hands
?
?
the
me
I
instance,
shepherd.
;
God
incision in thee ! ^ thou
make
Sir,I
Corin.
too
tar
! thou
man
flesh indeed!
over
kiss
us
baser birth than
a
You
Corin.
shallow
Most
Touchstone.
?
come.
instance,
you have
perfum'dwith civet.'^
sheep;
is
come.
;
the
them
feel
often tarr'd
theyare
fells,-^
hard.
are
lipswill
sounder
more
their
and
ewes,
your courtier's hands sweat ? and
of a man
the sweat
as
as wholesome
better
A
our
Besides,
again. A
not
mutton
Touchsto7ie. Your
a
^
still
handlingour
are
greasy.
Why, do
not
Corin.
instance.
Instance,^
briefly
; come,
I'llrest.
helpthee,shallow
art raw.
that I eat, get that I
earn
kiss,"i.e.,without kissing.
^
it.
used
by
the civet
^
Continually.
all Elizabethan
cat.
^
of bloodletting
as
practice
Skins.
writers.
Consider.
a
cure
for most
diseases.
56
SHAKESPEARE.
wear
;
no
owe
hate,envy
man
with
good, content
men's
prideis to
young
see
Master
Rosalind,
Enter
Rosalind.
a
paper, reading.
Ind,
the east to western
From
other
my lambs
mistress's brother.
new
ivith
hi.
the greatest of my
Here comes
suck.
harm;^ and
my
Ganymede, my
happiness
; glad of
man's
no
graze and
ewes
my
[act
jewel is like Rosalind.
Her worth, beingmounted
No
Throughall the world
All the
on
the
wind,
bears Rosalind.
lin'd
pictures
fairest
but black to Rosalind.
Are
facebe keptin mind
the fairof Rosalifid.
Let
no
But
dinners
Touchsto7ie. I'll rhyme you so eightyears together,
butterhours excepted
and suppers and sleeping
; it is the right
women's
rank
Rosalind.
Touchstone.
^
to
market.
Out, fool
For
!
taste
a
:
hart do lack
If a
seek out Rosalind.
Let him
If the
So be
hind,
a
cat will
sure
afterkind,
will Rosalind.
7nust be
Wiiiter gari7ie7its
li7i'd,
So 77iust slender Rosali7id.
They that reap 77iust sheafand bi7id;
Rosali7id.
The7i to cart with
Sweetest 7iut hath so2irest
Such
He
nut
is Rosali7id.
that sweetest
Must
This is the very false
with them ?
1
a
rind.
rose
will
find love's prickand
gallopof
verses
;
find
Rosalind.
why
do you
bear my misfortunes
with my harm," i.e.,
3
"Goingone after another at a jogtrot."
"Content
infect yourself
patiently,
AS
11.]
SCENE
Rosalind.
LIKE
voir
! I found
Peace, you dull fool
Truly,the
Touchsto7ie.
tree
IT.
bad
yields
57
them
on
tree.
a
fruit.
^ it
it with
with you, and then I shall graff
I'llgraff
a
medlar;2 then it will be the earliest fruit i' the country; for
and that's the rightvirtue
be rotten ere you be half ripe,
you'll
Rosalind.
of the medlar.
Toiichsto7ie.You
forest
said ; but whether
Enter
Celia, with
wiselyor
no, let the
judge.
Rosalind.
Here
have
comes
Celia.
Peace
my
a
writing.
!
sister,
reading. Stand
aside.
[Reads]
should this
Why
3
a
desert be ?
unpeopledf No j
ril hang on every tree,
Tottgues
That shall civil sayings^ show.
the life
Some, how brief
of7nan
Runs his erring^
pilgrimage
y
That^ the stretching
ofa span
Buckles in his sufn ofage;
Some, ofviolated vows
Twixt the soids offriendand friend.
But upon the fairest
boughs,
For
it is
'
Or at every sentence end.
Will I Rosalinda write,
all that
Teachijtg
The
read to know
ofevery sprite
quintessence
Heaven
would
in littleshow.
Heaven
Nature charged
Therefore
That one body should be fird
With
all graces
Nature
1
wide-enlarg'd.
distilVd
presently
Graft.
European tree, the fruit of which, like that of the American
persimmon, is not fitto be eaten tillit is overripe.
4
3 Because.
Civil sayings,"
i.e.,sayingsof civilized society.
6
5 Errant
So that.
; wandering.
2
A
small
"
SS
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
^
Helen's
cheek,but
not her
hi.
hearts
2
Cleopatra'smajesty;
Atalanta's
Sad
betterpart j^
Lucretia's
^
modesty.
Rosalind
Thus
of maiiy parts
was
devised,
By heavenlysytiod
0/ many faces eyes, and hearts,
To have the touches ^ dearest prized.
that she these gifts
should have,
would
Heaven
y
A?id I to live and die her slave.
tedious homily of
! what
gentlepulpiter
and never
love have you wearied your parishioners
cried,
withal,
Have
patience,
good people"!
Celia. How
! Back, friends !
now
Shepherd,
go off a httle.
Rosalind.
O
most
"
"
him, sirrah.
let
Touchstone. Come, shepherd,
with
Go
"
with
though not
scrippage.
;
and
bag
and
baggage,yet
verses
beautiful
of her time.
woman
with
treat
re-
scripand
Touchstone.
and
?
daughter of Jupiter,
the
Helen, accordingto classic mythology,was
the most
honorable
an
Corin
\Exeiint
Celia. Didst thou hear these
1
make
us
Her
treacherous
desertion
of
and her elopement with Paris, a
Sparta,
princeof Troy,occasioned the TrojanWar, the theme of Homer's Iliad.
2
the celebrated Egyptianqueen, famed in historyand fiction
Cleopatra,
and for the wonderful fascination of her
for her beautyand mental perfections,
years.
coquetry, died in 30 B.C., after a reignof twenty-four
3 "Atalanta's better
her
well-proportioned
part" was, probably, graceful,
the daughterof a king of Scyros; a great huntress,and very
form.
She was
husband, King Menelaus
her
swift-footed.
She
did
of her
importunities
winner
to
were
to
be her
many
wish
to
marry,
be put to death.
Lucretia,a Roman
are
and,
admirers,proposedto
husband; but if she reached
stratagem devised,we
*
not
of
She would
run
the
have
easily
to
free herself
a
race
from
the
with them, the
goalfirsther competitors
distanced them
all but for
a
told,by Venus, goddessof beauty.
lady,wife of TarquiniusCollatinus,having been
and father the
revealed to her husband
by Sextus Tarquinius,
she had suffered,
entreated them to avenge her wrongs, and then
indignities
stabbed herself with a dagger she had concealed on her person.
dishonored
5
Features and traitsof character.
AS
II.]
SCENE
IT.
59
too ; for
yes, I heard them all,and more
would
bear.
in them more
feet than the verses
had
That's
Cclia.
LIKE
O
Rosalind.
of them
V0[/
Rosalind.
Ay,
but
without
themselves
might bear
; the feet
matter
no
the
feet
and
lame
were
the
verses.
could
not
bear
lamelyin
therefore stood
the verse, and
some
the
verse.
should
be
hang'dand
I
Rosalind.
was
of the nine
seven
here
thy name
these trees ?
carv'd upon
; for look
came
you
wonderinghow
didst thou hear without
Celia. But
of the wonder
days out
I found
what
palm
a
on
^
time,that
berhym'd since Pythagoras'
Irish rat,2
which I can
hardlyremember.
never
was
so
Celia. Trow
Rosalind.
Celia. And
Change
who
prithee,
I
Celia. O
Lord,
once
you
about
wore,
his neck.
?
! it is
Lord
mountains
; but
an
color ?
you
Rosalind.
meet
was
?
chain, that
a
I
tree.
this ?
hath done
you who
Is it a man
I
fore
be-
may
hard
a
be remov'd
for
matter
friends
to
and
earthquakes,
with
so
encounter.
Rosalind.
Celia. Is
Rosalind.
tell me
who
Celia. O
and
and
wonderful,wonderful,
Good
One
?
tell me
prithee,
1
A
Greek
"
The
alluded to
3
"
Out
man,
inch of
who
a
dost
wonderful
!
of all
that,out
thou
whooping \^
think,though I
and
doublet
of whose
doctrines
bodies,either human
belj-^f that rats
by
I have
wonderful
hose in my
position
dis-
is a South Sea of discovery
;
delaymore
I would
and speak apace.
is it quickly,
one
philosopher,
the soul into successive
2
a
after
most
complexion!
my
hke
caparison'd
am
vehemence,
petitionary
most
it is.
yet againwonderful,and
Rosalind.
I
Nay, but who is it?
it possible
?
with
now
Nay, I prithee
were
rhymed
or
to
was
the
of
transmigration
animal.
death in Ireland
the old dramatists."
of all whooping,"i.e.,past all exclamation.
is
frequently
6o
SHAKESPEARE.
thou couldst stammer, that thou
of
out
wine
thy mouth, as
either too much
"
cork out
at once,
of
his chin worth
hat,or
Nay, he hath
Rosalind. Why, God
Celia.
Let
the
out
or
but
none
of
at
all.
man
narrow-mouth'd
tle,
bot-
I
take the
prithee,
thy tidings.Is he of
Is his head
?
man
worth
Rosalind.
a
?
littlebeard.
a
will send more,
if the
will be thankful.
man
not
his chin.
Celia. It is young Orlando,that
and your heart both in an instant.
true
a
hi.
stay^ the growthof his beard,if thou delayme
me
knowledgeof
and
of
drink
I may
beard
a
thisconceal' d
mightstpour
comes
thy mouth, that
making ? What manner
God's
[act
tripp'd
up
the devil take
Nay, but
the wrestler's heels
mocking; speak,sad
brow
maid.^
Celia. V
'tishe.
faith,
coz,
Rosali?id. Orlando
?
Celia. Orlando.
Rosalind.
hose ?
Alas the
What
"
did he when
look'd he ?
How
Did
he ask for
thee ? and
! what
day
Wherein
when
thou
shalt thou
saw'st him
he ? ^
went
Where
?
me
shall I do with my
remains
?
What
he ?
What
said he?
makes
How
he here ?
partedhe
see
him
me
mouth
Gargantua's*
again?
doublet and
Answer
with
in
me
one
word.
Celia. You
word
too
"no"
to
borrow
great for any mouth
these
Rosalind.
man's
must
of this age'ssize. To
is more
particulars
But
apparel?
doth
than to
he know
Looks
he
that I
say
in
answer
a
"ay" and
catechism.
in this forest and
am
as
freshly
as
'tisa
first;
he
did
the
day
in
he
wrestled ?
Celia. It is as easy to count
atomies
of a lover ; but take a taste of my
1
"
2
"
3
"
4
A
Let
stay,"i.e.,I
as
resolve the
to
him, and
finding
willingto wait.
Sad brow," etc.,i.e.,
without joking;in honest
me
Wherein
giantin
went
one
he?
"
tions
proposirelishit
am
how
i.e.,
was
he dressed
of Rabelais' satires,
who
swallows
earnest.
?
five pilgrims
in
a
salad.
with
V0[/
AS
II.]
SCENE
I found
observance.
good
LIKE
6
IT.
him
under
tree,Hke
a
a
1
dropp'd
acorn.
It may
Rosalind.
it
when
Jove'stree,i
called
well be
drops
forth such fruit.
Celia. Give
Rosali?id.
audience,good madam.
me
Proceed,
layhe, stretched along,like a wounded knight.
it well becomes
Though it be pityto see such a sight,
Celia. There
Rosalind.
the
Celia.
ground.
Cry
"
He
holla
out
! he
ominous
Celia. I would
me
singmy
Do
know
not
you
speak. Sweet,say
Celia. You bring^ me
must
to kill my
without
Rosalind.
'Tis he !
Jaques. I
thank
burden
a
I
am
a
out.
Soft !
"
and
Orlando
liefhave
Slink
so
had
I do desire
Orlando.
Jaques. I
pray you,
in their barks.
Orlando.
by, and
I ; but
we
mar
I pray you,
may
no
mar
Jaques. Rosalind is your
Orlando. Yes, just.
Jaques. I do not like her
2
An
oak
was
sacred
used
expression
I
I
think,
he not here ?
comes
him.
note
I
but, good faith,
yet,for fashion's sake,I thank
littleas
can.
we
be better strangers.
trees
more
no
as
more
with
of my
love
writing
verses
ill-favoredly.
The
bring'st
Jaques.
you too for your society.
Jaques. God be wi' you ; let'smeet
1
; thou
? when
woman
you for your company;
been myselfalone.
Orlafido. And
them
heart.
on.
Enter
as
hunter.
a
comes
song
sonably.
unsea-
of tune.
Rosalind.
had
; itcurvets
thytongue, I prithee
to
furnish'd Hke
was
O,
Rosalind.
^
"
love's
name
?
name.
Jove,or Jupiter.
in checkinga horse.
to
3
^xxt.
with
songs
reading
62
SHAKESPEARE.
Orlando. There
was
[act
when
thoughtof pleasing
you
no
she
hi.
was
christen'd.
Jaques. What
Orlando.
is she of ?
stature
Justas highas
Jaques. You
heart.
my
full of pretty answers.
are
Have
been
not
you
wives,and conn'd them out of
acquaintedwith goldsmiths'
rings? 1
from
Orlando. Not so ; but I answer
cloth,^
you rightpainted
whence you have studied your questions.
Jaques. You have a nimble wit ; I think 'twas made of Atalanta's heels.
Will you
sit down
Orlafido. I will chide
I know
whom
against
Jaques. The worst
Orla7ido. 'Tis
am
? and
me
mistress the world and all our
our
against
I
with
breather
no
misery.
in the world
but
myself,
faults.
most
fault you have is to be in love,
fault I will not
a
will rail
two
we
change for
your
best virtue.
of you.
weary
Jaques. By
I
troth,
my
was
seekingfor
a
I found
fool when
you.
Orlando.
is drown'd
He
in the brook ; look but
in,and
you
shall see him.
Jaques. There
Orlando.
I shall see
Which
mine
figure.
own
I take to be either
Jaques. I'lltarry no
longerwith
fool
a
cipher.
farewell,
good Signior
you;
or
a
Love.
Orlajido. I
gladof
am
your
departure
; adieu,
good
Melancholy.
[ExitJaques.
Celia
and
Rosalind
come
fot-ward.
Rosaliiid.
and
lackey,
Monsieur
I will speak to him like
[Asideto Celia]
under that habit playthe knave with him.
"
a
Do
saucy
you
hear,forester ?
1
The
"
meaning is, Have
the favor of their
2
"
you
not
had
access
wives, and studied the mottoes
to
shopsthrough
goldsmiths'
in
rings?
"
The painted
tioned
cloths often menRightpaintedcloth,"i.e.,
sententiously.
were
by Shakespeare
and
on
which
hangingsof tapestrywith
various
mottoes
were
wrought.
which
rooms
were
orated,
dec-
YOU
AS
II.]
SCENE
Orlando.
Orlando.
well ; what
Very
Rosalind.
LIKE
would
you ?
is'to'clock ?
you, what
should ask
I pray
You
63
IT,
what
me
time
o'
day; there's
no
clock in the forest.
every
minute
foot of Time
Orlando.
been
as
there is no
Then
Rosalind.
and
well
as
And
why
would
hour
detect
clock.
a
not
the swift foot of Time
?
Had
not
that
?
proper
Rosalind.
groaningevery
as
sighing
the lazy
lover in the forest ; else
true
By
no
sir. Time
means,
travels in divers paces with
divers persons. I'lltellyou who Time ambles withal,who Time
who Time
trots withal,
gallopswithal,and who he stands still
withal.
Orlando.
Marry, he
Rosalind.
the contract
who
prithee,
I
lengthof
Orlando.
not
hard
trots
with
a
withal ?
a
maid between
young
it is solemniz'd. If the
marriageand the day
Time's pace is so
se'nnight,i
seven
Who
With
Rosalind.
hath
trot
of her
interim be but
the
doth he
year.
ambles Time
a
that it seems
withal ?
that
priest
the gout ; for the
hard
one
lacks Latin and
a
rich
because
sleepseasily
that
man
he
cannot
because he feels no pain, the
and the other lives merrily
study,
the other
one
lackingthe burden of lean and wasteful learning,
knowingno burden of heavy,tedious penury. These Time ambles
"
withal.
Orlando.
Who
Rosalind.
as
softly
foot
Orlando.
Rosalind.
term
With
can
Who
With
and
doth he
a
thief
gallopwithal ?
for though he
to the gallows;
he thinks himself
fall,
too
soon
go
as
there.
stays he stillwithal ?
then
term, and
tween
they sleepbetheyperceivenot how Time
the vacation ; for
lawyersin
moves.
Orlando.
1
for
Seven
two
Where
dwell you, pretty youth?
a week;
nights,i.e.,
weeks.
as
we
say
fourteen nights,
i.e.,
"fortnight,"
64
SHAKESPEARE.
here
shepherdess,
my sister,
the forest,
Hke fringe
upon a petticoat.
Orla7ido. Are you native of this place?
With
Rosalind.
of
[act
this
the cony
Rosali7id. As
that you
see
hi.
in the skirts
she is kin-
dwell where
dled.i
Orlando.
2
in
Your
accent
remov'd
so
a
uncle of mine
inland man;
fell in love.
and
one
I have
I thank God
giddyoffenses
Orlando.
laid
to
the
Rosalind.
another
I
Can
not
am
There
Orlajido. I
Rosalind.
sick.
ligious
re-
to
be touch'd with
any of the
sex
so
many
withal.
evils that
principal
all like
principal
; they were
fault seemingmonstrous
every one
none
he
is a
one
till
it.
match
I will not
There
to
?
women
were
to
woman,
recount
prithee,
No,
old
but,indeed,an
tax'd their whole
generally
half-pence
are,
as
are
a
you remember
chargeof
;
chase
you could pur-
speak,who was in his youth
^
for there he
that knew courtship
too well,
heard him read many lectures against
it,
he hath
as
of many
so
taughtme
his fellow-fault came
that
somethingfiner than
dwelhng.
I have been told
Rosalind.
an
is
of them.
some
cast
man
away my
haunts the
"
physicbut
that
forest,
on
those
abuses
our
"
with carving Rosalind
their barks ; hangs odes
on
plants
hawthorns
and elegies
on
brambles,all,forsooth,
deifying
upon
I
the name
of Rosahnd.
that fancymonger,*
If I could meet
would give him some
for he seems
to have the
good counsel,
^ of love
quotidian
upon him.
young
Orlando.
your
taughtme
am
he that is so
am
love-shak'd ; I pray you, tell me
remedy.
Rosalind.
I
I
There
how
to
sure
you are
Orlando. What
1
Brought forth.
3
Court
5
Quotidianfevers
manners.
is none
know
a
He
of my uncle's marks upon you.
in love,in which cage of rushes
man
not
prisoner.
were
his marks
2
Rosalind
are
?
Acquire.
puns
on
those in which
the word.
"*
the paroxysms
One
who
occur
deals in love.
daily.
AS
II.]
SCENE
Rosalind.
LIKE
cheek, which
lean
A
YOU
65
IT.
have
blue
eye,^
and sunken, which
unquestionablespirit,
you have not; an
which you have not
which you have not; a beard neglected,
^
but I pardon you for that,for simply
your having*in beard is a
; then your hose should be ungarter'd,
younger brother's revenue
your shoe unti'd,
your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbutton'd,
and everything
about you demonstrating
a careless desolation.
^
in your
But you are no such man
; you are rather point-device
than seemingthe lover of any
accouterments, as lovingyourself,
you
not;
a
^
"
other.
Fair
Orlando.
youth,I
^
you
Me
believe it !
she does; that is
confess
stillgive the lie
their
to
you he that hangs the
admired ?
so
Orlando.
I
I
at
he,that
But
are
I love.
You
pointsin the which women
consciences.
But, in good sooth,are
on
the trees,wherein
thee,youth,by
much
so
the white hand
is
of Rosalind,
he.
unfortunate
you
Rosalind
in love
as
your
rhymesspeak?
can
rhyme nor reason
express how much.
Rosalind. Love is merelya madness, and, I tellyou, deserves
well a dark house and a whip "^ as madmen
do ; and the reason
why theyare not so punishedand cured is that the lunacyis
that the whippersare in love too.
Yet I profess
curing
ordinary
it by counsel.
Orlando.
Neither
Orlando.
Did
Rosalind.
me
thee beheve
of the
one
verses
to
swear
that
am
Rosalind.
so
I could make
make
her that
may as soon
love believe it^
which,I warrant, she is apter to do than to
Rosalind.
as
would
you
ever
Yes, one,
any so ?
in this manner.
cure
and
his
and I set
love,his mistress,
which time would I, beingbut a
1
"
2
Unsociable.
6
Objectof "make"
"^
This
years.
Blue
eye,"i.e.,blue
barbarous
8
3
beneath the
Indeed.
him
He
every
moonish ^
was
to
imagine
day to woo me ;
be
youth,grieve,
not in the iris.
eyelids,
^ Faultless.
^
Property.
understood.
treatment
Changeable.
of lunatics
tillwithin
prevailed
the last fifty
66
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
hi.
effeminate,
longingand liking,
changeable,
proud,fantastical,
full of tears, full of smiles,
for every
apish,shallow,inconstant,
passion
somethingand
women
for the most
are
him, now
for
loathe him
no
as boysand
passiontruly
anything,
part cattle of this color
; then entertain
him, then
;
would
like
now
him ;
forswear
now
suitor from his
at him ; that I drave my
weep for him, then spit
^ humor
of love to a living
mad humor
of madness; which was,
forswear
to
merely2
the full stream
monastic.
And
of
the world
thus I cured
and
to
live in
'him; and this way
^
take upon me
to wash
your liver as clean as a sound
heart,that there shall not be one spot of love in't.
Orlando.
I would
Rosalind.
and
come
Orlajido.
where
not
I would
cure
nook
will I
sheep's
cured,youth.
be
but call
you, if you would
to my cote and woo
day
Now, by the
every
a
faith of
lind
Rosa-
me
me.
love,I will; tell
my
me
it is.
Rosalind.
Go
with
to
me
it and
it you ; and
I'llshow
by
the
you shall tell me where in the forest you live. Will you go ?
Orlando. With all my heart,good youth.
RosaHnd.
Rosalifid. Nay, you must
call me
Come, sister,
way
"
will you go ?
\Exeimt.
Scene
Enter Touchstone
goats, Audrey. And
simplefeature ^ content
Audrey. Your features
Touchstofie. I
am
The
and
Audrey
3
4
6
Real.
;
Jaques behind.
!
Lord
warrant
here with thee and
us
Doth
features ?
the most
the Goths.^
among
2
Entirely.
regardedthe liver as the seat
physiologists
5 Personal
Quickly.
appearance.
pun
! what
thy goats, as
Old
A
your
you ?
capricious
poet, honest Ovid, was
1
Forest.
apace,*
good Audrey ; I will fetch up
I the man
how, Audrey ? am
yet ?
Touchsto7ie. Come
my
III.
is intended
of Goths
on
the words
"
goats
being as though it were
"
and
of the affections.
"
"
Goths," the old pronunciatio
spelled Gotes."
The
pun is
III.]
SCENE
AS
.
VOLT
LIKE
67
IT.
Jaqiics.\Aside\O knowledgeill inhabited,
worse
in
thatch'd
a
house
man's
a
man's
wit seconded
good
it strikes a
Jove
^
When
ToucJistone.
a
!
than
be
cannot
verses
with the forward
dead
than
understood,nor
child Understanding,
reckoningin a little
2
room.
Truly,I would the gods had made thee poetical.
Audrey, I do not know what "poetical"is. Is it honest in
deed and word ?
Is it a true thing?
ToucJistone. No, truly
; for the truest poetry is the most
ing
feignlovers are
in
; and
given to poetry, and what they swear
poetry may be said as lovers theydo feign.
Audrey. Do you wish, then, that the gods had made me
?
poetical
Touchsfoue.
I do, truly
thou art honest
; for thou swear'st to me
; now,
man
more
if thou wert
a
great
a
poet, I might have
hope
some
thou didst
feign.
Aud^ry. Would
Touchstone.
not
you
have
me
honest ?
unless thou
No, truly,
wert
hard-favored
honestycoupledto beautyis to have honey a sauce
A material ^ fool !
Jaques. [Aside]
Audrey. Well, I am not fair;and therefore I
make
me
to sugar.
pray the
gods
honest.
Touchstone.
slut were
; for
to
Truly,and
put good
Audrey. I
Touchsto7ie.
tishness may
not
am
meat
a
to
cast
into
an
away honestyupon
unclean dish.
slut,
thoughI
thank the
a
gods I
am
Well, praisedbe the gods for thy foulness
come
hereafter.
But
be
it
as
it may
fouH
foul.
! slut-
be, I
will
which is derived from the Latin
helped out by the word "capricious,"
caper (" goat").
1
the earth in disguise,
ble
came
Jupiterand Mercury,visiting
upon the humof
Philemon
and
and Baucis,
entertained by
were
so
dwelling
hospitably
the worthy couple that Jupiterchanged their thatched
cottage into a superb
of
which
Baucis
and
her
husband
made
were
temple,
priests.(SeeGuerber's
Greece
and
Rotne, p. 43. )
Myths of
2
Great reckoning,"
a largebill for a small accommodation.
etc., i.e.,
3 Full of matter
*
; sensible.
Homely.
"
68
SHAKESPEARE.
thee ; and
marry
I have
that end
to
[act
"
with Sir Ohver
been
who hath
text,the vicar of the next village,
in this placeof the forest and to coupleus.
Jaques. [Aside]I
fain
would
promis'dto
hi.
Mar-
meet
me
this meeting.
see
Audrey. Well, the gods giveus joy !
Touchstone,
Amen
Here
!
under
Martext,you
well
are
Sir Oliver. Is there
Sir Oliver.
Truly,she
to
us
dispatch
chapel?
your
here to givethe woman
none
Touchsto7ie. I will not
Will you
met.
go with you
this tree,or shall we
"
Martext.
SiR Oliver
Enter
Sir Oliver
Sir Oliver.
comes
take her
be
must
giftof
given,or
on
any
the
here
?
man.
marriageis not
lawful.
Jaques. [Advancing]
Proceed,proceed;
Good
Touchstone.
you, sir?
You
company;
I
very well met.
are
am
very
glad to
What-ye-call't
; how
Master
good
even,
see
God
you;
I'llgiveher.
'ildi you
even
"
a
do
for your last
toy^ in hand
here,sir; nay, pray be cover'd.
Jaques. Will you be married,motley?
"
Touchstone.
As
and the falcon her
so wedlock
bill,
Jaques. And
the
ox
hath his
so
bells,
the
bow,^sir,
horse his curb,
hath his desires; and
man
pigeons
as
be
nibbling.
will you, beinga man
of your breeding,
be married
Get you to church,and have
under a bush like a beggar?
is. This fellow will
that can tellyou what marriage
a good priest
but joinyou together
wainscot ; then one of you will
as theyjoin
prove
a
shrunk
Touchsto7ie.
be married
for
panel,and, like green timber,warp,
I am
[Aside]
of him
well,and
me
would
Jaques. Go
1
in the mind
another; for
than of
but I
leave my
thou with me,
a
to
good
wife.
to
Yield ; reward.
be
better to
were
like
he is not
beingwell married,it will
not
hereafter
me
not
warp.
and let me
2
a
counsel thee.
matter.
trifling
3
Yoke.
marry
excuse
AS
IV.]
SCENE
Touchstone.
Come,
Farewell,
good
69
IT.
LIKE
VOU
Audrey.
sweet
"
Oliver; not,^
Master
O sweet
Oliver J
O brave
Oliver
Leave
not behind
me
y
thee:
but,"
Wind
Begone,I say,
will not to weddijtgwjththee.
\ExeimtJaques,Touchstone,and Audrey.
I
Sir Oliver. 'Tis
all shall flout me
of my
out
Enter
Celia.
tears
do not
IV.
The
become
a
But
Celia. As
good
\Exit.
Celia.
; I will weep.
me
the grace to consider that
have
man.
have
Rosalind.
of them
Forest.
and
prithee
; but yet
I
Do,
fantastical knave
a
calling.
Rosalind
talk to
Never
; ne'er
matter
no
Scene
Rosalind.
away,
I not
cause
as
to weep
cause
one
would
?
desire ; therefore weep.
Rosalifid. His very hair is of the dissembHngcolor.
^
Celia. Somethingbrowner than Judas's
; marry, his kisses
are
children.
Judas'sown
Rosaliiid.
V
Celia. An
his
faith,
excellent
hair is of
a
color; your
good
color.
chestnut
was
ever
the
only
color.
Rosalind.
And
his
is as
kissing
full of
as
sanctity
the touch of
holybread.
Celia. He
hath
boughta pairof
of winter's sisterhood kisses not
is in
chastity
1
lipsof Diana.^
religiously
; the
A
nun
very ice of
them.
and tapestries
with
in old paintings
Judas is constantly
represented
hair and beard.
2
more
chaste
See Note
5, p. 53.
red
SHAKESPEARE.
yo
Rosalind.
and
But
Celia,
he would
swear
hi.
this morning,
come
?
not
comes
did he
why
[act
is no
there
Nay, certainly,
you think so ?
Celia. Yes ; I think he is not
truth in him.
Rosalitid. Do
but for his
gobletor
a
Celia.
Celia.
'*
is not
stronger than the word
of false
him
heard
have
"
Was
covered
a
as
h^ is in ; but I think he is not
Yes, when
"
concave
stealer,
in love ?
true
You
as
horse
a
nut.
worm-eaten
Rosalind.
nor
pickpurse
do think him
in love,I
verity
Rosalifid. Not
a
is ;
of
"
in.
downrighthe
swear
the
besides,
oath of
a
lover is no
tapster; theyare both the confirmers
a
attends here in the forest
reckonings.He
was.
on
the Duke
your father.
Rosalind.
with him.
of
we
good
as
ask'd
He
as
he ;
when
fathers,
Celia. O, that's a
brave
traverse, athwart
his horse
spurs
there is such
brave
let me
man
as
He
oaths and
but
on
much
was
go.
him,
But what
talk
Orlando ?
speaks
them bravely,
quite
^
that
a puisny tilter,
breaks
as
youthmounts
and
Enter
Corin.
Mistress and
"
CoRlN.
oft
master, you have
inquired
shepherdthat complain'dof love.
Whom
sitting
by me on the turf,
you saw
the proud,disdainful shepherdess
Praising
After the
was
his mistress.
Celia.
Corin.
Between
Well,and
If you
the
will
see
a
what
of him
?
play'd,
pageant truly
palecomplexionof
1
true
love
Unskillful.
a
noble
guides. Who
folly
here ?
comes
That
; I told
side,breaks his staff hke
one
question
writes brave verses,
the heart of his lover ;
But all'sbrave that
goose.
a
!
man
brave
words, swears
parentage I
laugh'dand
he
so
of
of what
me
had
and
yesterday,
the Duke
I met
glow of
the red
And
hence
Go
I shall conduct
you,
it.
will mark
If you
71
IT.
proud disdain,
and
scorn
httle and
a
LIKE
YOU
AS
v.]
SCENE
O,
Rosalitid.
let
come,
;
remove
us
sightof lovers feedeth those in fove.
and you shall say
Bringus to see this sight,
I'llprove a busy actor in their play.
The
"
Scene
Another
V.
Enter
Phebe, do
Silvius. Sweet
Say that
love
you
In bitterness.
the
not
1
ax
he that dies and
Than
^"^^r
I would
Phebe.
I
Will you
flythee,for
I would
be
not
be
by bloodydrops ?
Cori^, behind,
and
thy executioner
thee.
injure
in mine
there is murder
tell'stme
Thou
lives ^
;
eye !
'Tis pretty,sure, and very probable.
That eyes, that are the frail'stand softest
Should
I do frown
Now
if mine
And
eyes
counterfeit
Now
Or if thou canst
Lie not,
1
2
to
show
Now
"
Dies
on
can
gates
on
thee with all my
wound,
to swoon
;
killthee!
let them
now
and
the
!
heart ;
fall down
why, now
;
not, O, for shame, for shame!
say mine eyes are murderers !
mine eye hath made
the wound
Falls not
"
things,
atomies.
murderers
b'e call'd tyrants,butchers,
shut their coward
Who
hard,
neck
sterner
Rosalind, Celia,
not
so
death makes
sightof
the humbled
upon
first begs pardon.
But
not
Phebe;
executioner,
common
heart the accustom'd
Whose
Falls
The
do not,
me;
scorn
not, but say
me
Phebe.
and
not
Forest,
of the
Part
SiLvius
\Exeunt
lets
ax," i.e.,
lives
lives,"i.e.,
not
the
and
dies ;
ax
in thee.
fall.
earns
a
livelihood.
Scratch thee but with
Some
rush,
^
capableimpressure
cicatrice ^ and
Thy palm some
Which
I have
Nor, I
am
That
can
darted
You
meet
Then
at
sure, there
but
thee,hurt
is no
O
that
in
dear
not
Afflict me
not
;
Phebe,
may be
fresh cheek
ever
some
near"
the power
Phebe.
Come
thee
eyes,
force in eyes
But
thou
near
; and
me
of
fancy,
invisible
shall you know the wounds
love's keen arrows
make.
That
mine
now
do hurt.
as
"
a
keeps;
moment
Silvius,
ever
liL
there remains
pin,and
a
of it; lean but upon
scar
The
If
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
72
when
tillthat time
that time comes,
with
thy mocks, pityme not ;
As tillthat time I shall not pitythee.
Rosalind.
\Advancing\And why, I pray
Who
you ?
might
be your
mother,
insult,
exult,and
That
you
the wretched
Over
What
?
thoughyou
no
Why,
"
more
in you than in the
Of Nature's salework.
'Od's my
see
beauty,
no
"
Must
I
have
in you
without candle may go dark to bed,
?
you be therefore proud and pitiless
what means
this ?
Why do you look on
I see
faith,
As, by my
Than
all at once,
no
more
"
I think she
me
?
ordinary
littlehfe,
tanglemy eyes too !
No, faith,
hope not after it.
proud mistress,
'Tis not your inky brows, your black-silkhair,
Your bugle^ eyeballs,
nor
your cheek of cream,
That can entame
to your worship.
my spirits
You
foolish shepherd,
wherefore do you follow her.
Like foggysouth puffing
with wind and rain ?
to
means
"
"
1
Scar; mark.
3
Jet black,like
i.e.,sensible impression.
Capableimpressure,"
beads called
bugles."
2
the
"
"
AS
v.]
SCENE
You
are
Than
she
That
make
And
a
properer
fools
IT.
^
73
man
as
you
full of ill-favor'dchildren.
the world
but
glass,
she
of you
out
a
LIKE
'Tis such
woman.
her
'Tis not
times
thousand
a
VOU
that flatters her ;
you,
herself
sees
more
.
proper
any of her lineaments can show her.
know
on
But, mistress,
yourself
; down
your knees,
for a good man's love ;
And thank Heaven, fasting,
Than
For
"
I must
Sell when
Cry the
can,
you
man
So take her
you
"
mercy
Foul is most
Phebe.
in
friendly
tellyou
; love
are
your ear,
not
for all markets.
him ; take his offer.
foul,beingfoul to be a scoffer.
to thee,shepherd
; fare you well.
"
Sweet
pray you, chide
chide than this man
youth,I
a
I had rather hear you
Rosalind. He's fallen in love with your
fallin love with my
with
you
so
For
no
Rosalind.
I
foulness,^ and
fast as she
as
she'll
"
thee
answers
look
Why
"
illwill I bear you.
you, do not
I pray
falser than
am
woo.
?
me
upon
together
;
her with bitterwords.
frowninglooks,I'llsauce
Phebe.
For
If itbe so,
anger.
year
made
vows
fallin love with me,
in wine ;
If you will know
hke you not.
'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.
Besides,I
"
my
house,
"
go, sister?
Will you
Shepherd,ply her hard.look on him better,
Come, sister. Shepherdess,
And
be not proud; though all the world could see,
None
could be so abus'd*^ in sight
as he.
"
"
"
Come,
flock.
and
[ExeuntRosalind,Celia,
of might:
Phebe. Dead
I find thy saw
now
shepherd,^
"Who
?"
loved that loved not at firstsight
ever
to
our
1
Handsomer.
4
The
reference
2
is to
4, p.
and
Leander.
languageof pastoral
poetry."
3
67.
Marlowe,
Christopher
linequoted is from his Hero
in the
gee Note
"
'
who
Corin.
Deceived.
died
in
'
1593; and
Shepherd is used
for
*
the
poet
'
SHAKESPEARE.
74
Silvius. Sweet
[act
hi.
Phebe,
"
Ha, what say'st
thou, Silvius ?
Phebe.
Phebe, pityme.
Phebe. Why, I am
sorry for thee,gentleSilvius.
Silvius. Wherever
sorrow
is,reliefwould be ;
Silvius. Sweet
do
If you
in love.
grief
and my grief
sorrow
at
sorrow
my
By givinglove
your
both extermin'd.i
Were
hast my love ; is not that neighborly
?
Silvius. I would have you.
Phebe.
Why, that were covetousness.
Thou
Phebe.
the
Silvius,
time
yet it is not
And
that I hated
was
that I bear thee love ;
since that thou
But
thee,
talk of love
canst
so
well,
which erst ^ was
irksome to me,
company,
I will endure ; and I'llemploy thee too ;
Thy
do
But
Than
look for further recompense
not
thine
own
Silvius. So
that thou art employ'd.
gladness
is my love,
holy and so perfect
And
I in such
That
I shall think it a most
gleanthe
To
That
A
poverty of grace.
a
broken
plenteous
crop
after the
ears
man
the main
harvest reaps.
Loose now
scatter'd smile,
and that I'lllive upon.
Phebe.
Silvius. Not
And
he hath
That
'Tis but
But
very
what
Think
a
well,but
I have
met
was
once
peevish^boy ;
care
"
I for words
oft ;
of.
master
him, thoughI
I love
not
him
erewhile ?
me
the bounds
bought the cottage and
the old carlot ^
Phebe.
youth that spoketo
thou the
Know'st
and then
ask for him ;
yet he talks well.
?
yet words
do well
he that
those that hear.
speaksthem pleases
It is a pretty youth
not very pretty;
But, sure, he's proud,and yet his pridebecomes him
When
"
1
Exterminated.
2
Lately.
3
Rustic.
*
;
Wayward.
AS
r.]
SCENE
He'll make
Is his
a
IT.
best
faster than
thingin
There
A
tall,
yet
very
littleriperand
Betwixt the
be
some
I have
had
what
He
said mine
And,
I marvel
But
I
now
mingleddamask.
had theymark'd
Silvius,
he
than
chide
to
black
were
?
at me
and
I answer'd
one
him
hair black ;
my
at me.
again;
not
omittance
"
love him ;
is no
quittance.
letter,
very taunting
thou shalt bear it; wilt thou,Silvius ?
And
to
Silvius.
a
Phebe, with
all my
heart.
I'llwrite it straight
;
Phebe.
The
matter's in my
head
with me,
in my
and
heart ;
him, and passingshort.
I will be bitter with
Go
him
yet
to
remember'd, scorn'd
am
why
do
to
; and
not
hate him
to
eyes
that's all
I'llwrite
red and
hate him
nor
cause
For
difference
did,would have gone near
with him ; but,for my part,
not
more
justthe
I
fall in love
I love him
^
women,
-
To
in his cheek ; 'twas
constant
parcels as
In
lustyred
more
that mix'd
There
tall;
pretty redness in his lip,
a
was
Than
him
his tongue
for his y^ars he's
His legis but so-so, and yet 'tiswell ;
is not
He
75
offense his eye did heal it up.
make
Did
and
LIKE
The
man.
proper
complexion;
YOU
Silvius.
\Exeunt.
ACT
Scene
Enter
IV.
The
I.
Rosalind,
Forest.
Celia, rt-//^/
Jaques.
Jaques. I prithee,
pretty youth,let
be
me
better
with thee.
Rosalijid.
They
1
say you
Uniform.
are
a
"
melancholyfellow.
2
Detail.
acquainted
76
SHAKESPEARE.
Jaqiies.I
am
Rosalind.
Those
so
and
fellows,
love it better than
; I do
that
[act
in
are
laughing.
either
extremityof
betraythemselves
to
iv.
modern
every
nable
abomi-
are
^
censure
than drunkards.
worse
Jaqiies.Why,
'tisgood
be sad and say
to
nothing.
Rosalmd.
Why, then,'tisgood to
Jaqiies.I
have neither the scholar's melancholy,
which
be
a
post.
is emulation,
which is fantastical,
the courtier's,
nor
musician's,
which is proud,nor
the
the soldier's,
which is ambitious,
nor
which is politic,
the lady's,
which is nice,'-^
the
nor
nor
lawyer's,
which is all these; but it is a melancholyof mine own,
lover's,
extracted from many objects,
and,
compounded of many simples,
in which my often
of my travels,
indeed,the sundrycontemplation
the
nor
rumination
in a
wraps me
Rosalind. A traveler !
be sad.
then
to
I fear you
have
and poor
seen
Rosalmd.
a
By
^
faith,
you
my
sadness.
have
sold your own
lands to see other men's ;
and to have nothingis to have rich eyes
have
much
fool
have
And
to
your
make me
and to travel for it too
gain'dmy experience.
I had
makes you sad.
experience
to make
me
merry than experience
Orlando.
Good
rather
sad ;
!
Enter
Orlando.
dear Rosalind
day and happiness,
Jaques. Nay, then, God
be
wi' you, an*
!
talk in blank
you
\Exlt.
verse.
Monsieur Traveler ; look
Farewell,
disable^ all the benefits of your
strange suits,
Rosalind.
of love with your
out
to
great reason
hands.
Jaques. Yes, I
have
humorous
most
that
you
in
swam
and
nativity,
countenance
a
are,
or
gondola.^ ^Vhy,how
"
1
"
2
Fastidious.
6
Venice, built on
Modern
you
and
lisp
you
country, be
own
almost chide God
I will
now,
scarce
Orlando
wear
for
making
think you
have
! where
have
censure,"i.e.,
ordinary
judgment.
3
Fanciful.
*
If.
"
Depreciate.
small islands in a' lagoon,is intersected
by canals ; and
AS
YOU
you been all this while ?
another trick,
never
come
You
SCENE
I
J
Orlando.
IT.
77
lover !
a
An
such
me
serve
you
in my
sightmore.
within
Rosalind,I come
fair
My
LIKE
hour
an
of my
promise.
Break
Rosalind.
divide
into
minute
a
the thousandth
said of him
had
a
be
I'll
on
snail ; for
a
his
head,
"
he
thoughhe comes
slowly,
^ I
better jointure,
think,than
a
Come,
woman.
me
in my
more
no
snail ?
a
holidayhumor
you say to
Orlando.
love,it may
Rosalind,
dear
me,
Ay, of
his house
a
part of
a
shoulder,but
o' the
come
you be so tardy,
Hef be woo'd of a snail.
as
Of
Rosalind.
in
in the affairs of
Nay, an
Orlando.
can
minute
that will
He
break but
parts, and
Cupid hath clappedhim
Pardon
Rosalind.
make
a
love !
heart-whole.
Orlando.
sight. I
promisein
thousand
a
part of
that
him
warrant
hour's
an
and
me,
woo
me,
enough to
I would
I
were
am
would
What
consent.
you
I
now
your very, very Rosalind
kiss before I spoke.
an
now,
like
woo
for
ries
car-
?
and when
better speak first,
Nay, you were
you
^ for lack of
were
matter, you might take occasion to
graveled
kiss. Very good orators, when theyare out, theywill spit
; and
for lovers lacking God
us!
warn
matter, the cleanliest shift
Rosalind.
""
"
is to kiss.
How
Orlando.
Then
Rosalind.
if the kiss be denied ?
she
to
puts you
there
and
entreaty^,
begins
matter.
new
Orlando.
the
gondola,the
gayest and
had
hardlycounted
"
The
Run
a
never
In the sixteenth century Venice,
of Europe, vi^as
capitals
visited that city never
"
of the cab
the purpose
pleasureboat, serves
a
swam
in
a
or
of the
being one
great resort
"
of travelers ;
gondola"
"
was
traveler at all.
settlement
her husband
2
Venetian
attractive
most
who
one
1
could be out, beingbefore his beloved mistress ?
of other cities.
omnibus
and
Who
of property made
dyingbefore her."
aground,figuratively.
at
marriageon
the wife, in
case
of
78
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
Marry,that should you, if I were
should think my honestyranker than my wit.
Orla7ido. What, of my suit ?
and yet
Rosalind. Not out of your apparel,
Rosalind.
I
Am
Rosahnd
I your
not
Orlando.
I take
or
mistress,
your
of your
out
iv.
suit.
?
joy to
some
say you
are, because
I would
be
of her.
talking
Rosalind. Weh,
in her person I say I will not have you.
Then in mine own
person I die.
die by attorney.^
most
The poor world is alNo, faith,
Orlando.
Rosalind.
six thousand
died
man
any
Troilus
years
in his own
^
in
person, videlicet,^
his brains dash'd out with a Grecian
had
did what
he could
of love.
Leander,he
Hero
had
old, and in all this time there
die
to
before,and
would
turn'd nun,
have
if it had
he is
not
night; for,good youth,he went
and being taken with
Hellespont,
but
been
a
for
forth
the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was
But these are
all lies; men
have died from
have
worms
Orlando.
them, but
eaten
I would
not
for,I protest,her frown
Rosalind.
1
By
this
not
club ;
yet he
him
wash
was
*'
cause.
hot midsummer
a
to
the cramp,
love
a
not
of the patterns
fair year, though
one
liv'd many
was
drown'd
; and
of Sestos." ^
Hero
time
in the
time,and
to
for love.
my rightRosalind
might killme.
have
hand, it will not
killa
of this
fly. But
come,
mind,
now
Substitute.
2
abbreviated to viz.
Namely ; usually
3 A
of Priam, King of Troy,who was
son
killed by Achilles during the
is
TrojanWar. The story of his love for Cressida,his faith and her perfidy,
the subjectof Shakespeare's
tragedyof Troilus and Cressida.
^
"Leander
is familiar,
Venus
at
.
.
.
Hero
of Sestos."
The
story,the theme
Leander, a youth of Abydos, enamored
the Hellespont
Sestos,nightly
swam
to meet
of
of many
Hero,
a
her, she
poets,
of
priestess
guidinghis
from a high tower ; tillon one
wild and
by a torchlight
displayed
threw
stormy nightthe adventurous lover was drowned, and Hero in despair
herself into the sea and perishedin the waves.
(See Guerber's
Myths of
Greece and Rome, pp. 1 1 i-i 1 7.)
course
AS
I.]
SCENE
LIKE
YOU
IT.
"ic^
and
coming-ondisposition,
your Rosalind in a more
I will grant it.
what you will,
I will be
ask
me
Orlando.
Then
Rosalind.
will I, Fridaysand Saturdays
and all.
Yes, faith,
Rosalind.
wilt thou have
And
Orlando.
love me,
Ay, and twenty
Rosalmd.
Orlando.
What
Rosalind.
Are
?
me
such.
sayest thou ?
good ?
not
you
hope so.
Why, then, can
I
Orlando.
Rosalind.
desire
one
Come, sister,
you shall be
Give me
What
your hand, Orlando.
Orlando. Pray thee,marry us.
thing?
"
the
cannot
Rosalind.
You
Celia. Go
to.
of
much
and
priest
a
good
us."
marry
do you say, sister?
"
Celia. I
too
say the words.
must
begin, Will you, Orlando,"
Will you, Orlando,have to wife this Rosahnd
"
"
"
?
Orlajido. I will.
Rosalind.
Orlando.
Rosalind.
Ay, but
Why, now
Then
when
?
fast
; as
"
must
you
she
as
say,
can
marry
I take
us.
thee, Rosalind,for
wife."
Orlando.
I take
thee,RosaHnd, for
wife.
^
might ask
I do
you for your commission; but
There's a girl
take thee,Orlando,for my husband.
goes before the
a woman's
priest
thoughtruns before her actions.
; and certainly
Rosalind.
Orlando.
Rosalind.
I
"
wing'd.
thoughts
; theyare
tell me
how long you would have
So do all
Now
her.
you have possess'd
Orlando. For ever
and
a
her
after
day.
"
are
day,"without the "ever." No, no, Orlando ;
when theywed ; maids
are
Aprilwhen theywoo, December
May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they
are
wives.
Rosalind.
men
pigeonover
Say
a
I will be
more
his hen, more
1
jealousof
clamorous
Warrant
;
Barbary cock
rain,
parrot against
thee than
than
a
authority.
a
8o
[act
SHAKESPEARE.
iv.
^ than
an
giddyin my desires than a
newfangled
ape, more
like Diana
in the fountain,^
monkey; I will weep for nothing,
to be merry ; I will
and I will do that when
you are dispos'd
laughlike a hyen,^and that when thou art inclin'd to sleep.
more
Rosalind
will my
do
Orlando.
But
Rosalind.
she will do
By my life,
O, but she is wise.
Orlafido.
else she could
Rosalijid. Or
Make*
way warder.
it will out at the
wiser,the
and
not
?
so
I do.
as
have
the wit
the doors
the smoke
keyhole; stop that,'twillflywith
'twill out
out
wit,
woman's
a
upon
that,and
; shut
casement
do this ; the
to
at
the
at
the
chimney.
hours,Rosalind,I will leave thee.
love,I cannot lack thee two hours.
For these two
Orlando.
Rosali7id.
Alas ! dear
Orlando.
I must
will be with thee
attend the Duke
at
dinner ; by
two
o'clock I
again.
Ay, go your ways, go your ways ; I knew what you
My friends told me as much, and I thoughtno
prove.
cast
That flattering
me
; 'tisbut one
tongue of yours won
Rosalind.
would
less.
o'clock is your hour?
Two
away, and so, come, death !
Rosalind.
Orlando. Ay, sweet
"
Rosalind.
and
me,
By
by
all
in
and
troth,
my
pretty oaths that
good earnest,and
not
are
so
God
dangerous,if you
mend
break
minute behind your hour,I
one
or come
promise,
^
and the most
will think you the most
break-promise,
pathetical
hollow lover,and the most
unworthy of her you call Rosalind,
jotof
one
your
that may
be chosen
therefore beware my
Orlando.
With
no
out
of the
of the gross band
unfaithful;
keep your promise.
than if thou wert indeed
less religion
censure
and
Rosalind.
my
So, adieu !
that examines all such
Rosalind.
Well,Time is the old justice
and let Time try. Adieu.
offenders,
[ExitOrlafido.
1
2
3
4
Changeable.
Images of Diana
Hyena.
Close.
The
were,
bark
5
and are,
of this animal
Canting;used
ornaments
frequent
is not
here in
a
in fountains.
a
rude
ludicrous
sense.
unlike
laugh.
AS
II.]
SCENE
have
Celia. You
O
Rosaluid.
YOU
LIKE
simplymisused
81
IT.
in your love prate.
pretty littlecoz, that thou didst
coz, coz, coz, my
our
sex
in love !
be
But it cannot
many fathom deep I am
affection hath an unknown
bottom,like the bay of
; my
how
know
sounded
1
Portugal.
Celia.
Or
in,it runs
that
rather,
bottomless,
as
fast
as
you
pour
affection
out.
No, that
jRosalmd.
wicked
same
bastard
of Venus
that
was
and born of madness,
conceived of spleen,
that
begotof thought,
blind,
boy that abuses every one's eyes because his own
rascally
in love. I'lltellthee,
let him be judgehow deep I am
are
out,
Aliena,I cannot be out of the sightof Orlando; I'llgo find a
"
"
shadow,2 and sightillhe
Celia. And
come.
I'llsleep.
\Exeu7it.
Scene
Enter
II.
The
Forest.
Jaques, Lords, and Foresters.
Jaques. Which is he that killed the deer ?
A Lord.
Sir,it was I.
Jaques. Let's present him to the Duke,
head, for
a
this purpose
Forester.
branch
of
Roman
a
well to set the deer's horns
victory. Have
"
you
no
song,
queror
con-
upon
his
for
forester,
?
Yes, sir.
Jaques. Singit;
noise
do
it would
; and
like
'tisno
matter
how
it be in tune,
so
it make
enough.
Song.
Forester.
What
shall he have that kilVd the deer?
His leather skin and
Then
singhim
horns
hotne ;
[The
1
There
is
Portugal,near
no
such
Oporto,the
Shady place.
6
rest
shall bear this burden.
off the coast
; but
by geographers
bay recognized
water
twenty miles from shore attains a
2
to wear.
is
exceedingly
deep,and
at
hundred
depthof eighty-five
a
distance
feet.
of
of
S2
SHAKESPEARE.
thou
Take
It
was
crest
a
to
scorn
no
[act
the horn ;
wear
born
thou wast
ere
horn, the horn, the lustyhortiy
The
Is fiot a
thingto laughto
Orlando
here much
hath
ta'en
Look
who
his bow
Celia.
two
o'clock ?
troubled
brain,he
past
!
you, with
Celia. I warrant
Forest.
Is it not
?
now
you
say
[Exeunt.
scorn.
and
Rosalind
Enter
How
The
III.
Scene
and
:
ity
s fatherwore
Thy father''
And
thyfatherbore it
Rosalind.
iv.
and
love
pure
and
arrows
and
forth
is gone
"
to
sleep.
"
here.
comes
Enter
SiLVius.
My errand is to you, fair youth.
My gentlePhebe bid me giveyou this.
I know
not the contents' ; but,as I guess
By the stern brow and waspishaction
of it,
Which
she did use as she was
writing
Silvius.
It bears
I
am
but
an
angry
Patience
Rosalind.
And
playthe
She says I am
She calls me
Were
Her
Why
man
as
me
letter.
;
guiltless
messenger.
a
as
Pardon
tenor.
a
[Giving
herself would
swaggerer
not
; bear
that
fair,
starde at this letter,
bear
this,
I lack
manners
all!
;
proud,and that she could not love
will !
rare
as phenix.i 'Od's my
love is not
writes she
me
the hare that I do hunt.
so
?
to me
This is a letter of your
own
"
well,
Well,shepherd,
device.
dred
Accordingto the old and familiar fable,this bird,after livingfive hunarises from the ashes,
and its successor
years, destroysitself by fire,
there being but one
phenixin existence at a time.
1
AS
III.]
SCENE
YOU
LIKE
Silvius. No, I protest,I know
Come,
Rosalind.
I
A
turn'd into the
She has
I say she
hand,
think
on, but 'twas her hands
gloveswere
; but
that's no
matter.
invention and his hand.
This is a man's
Silvius.
Sure,it is hers.
Rosalmd.
Why, 'tisa boisterous and
; why, she defies
challengers
to
Could
drop forth
such
Ethiopwords, blacker
Than
in their countenance.
much
for I
of Phebe's
She Phebes
Rosalind.
me.
in their effect
Will you
pleaseyou,
heard too
Yet
style,
Woman's
Such
Silvius. So
cruel
a
gentlebrain
invention.
giant-rude
Christian!
Like Turk
not
;
did invent this letter ;
never
for
style
fool,
a
love.
did
verily
; I
huswife's hand
a
are
you
leathern
a
freestone-color'd hand
her old
come,
of
extremity
; she has
her hand
saw
That
A
the contents' ;
not
did write it.
Phebe
And
^:^
IT.
never
heard
it yet ;
cruelty.
; mark
me
hear the letter?
the tyrant writes.
how
\Reads.
Art
thou
That
Can
a
Call you
Rosalind.
to
shepherdturn'd,
maideii's heart hath burn'd?
a
rail thus ?
woman
Silvius.
god
"
"
this railing
?
\Reads\
Why, thygodhead laid apart,
thou
Warr'st
Did you
ever
hear such
Meaning
me
a
could
beast.
"
a
heart?
woman's
?
railing
"
the eye
Whiles
That
with
do
ofman
no
did
vengeance
woo
to
me.
me.
"
"
SHAKESPEARE.
54
If the
ofyour bright
eyne
scorn
Have
to raise such
power
Alack, in me
theywork
Whiles
you
iv.
i
inittef
strange effect
what
Would
How
[act
love in
in mild
/
aspect'
chid vie, I did love ;
then
that
He
mightyour prayers move!
this love to thee
brijtgs
Little knows
this love i?tnie j
And
seal
by him
Whether
that
up thymind
/
kind^
thyyouth and
Will the faithful
offertake
Of
and
me
all that I
Or else by him
then Pll
And
Silvius. Call you
Celia. Alas,poor
Rosalind.
thou
and
Do
love such
deny,
to die.
studyhow
this
you
a
love
my
7nake s
can
chiding?
shepherd!
pityhim ? No,
?
woman
playfalse strains upon
What,
thee !
he deserves
not
"
to
"
for her.
comes
If you
more
be
a
true
A
rank
Left
But
on
at
There's
chargeher
not
a
word
^
of this
; pray
you, if you
with oHve
place,down
trees
in the
3
fellow.
Contemptible
old
know,
neighborbottom
within.
The
love
; for here
?
of osiers by the
1
^
entreat
this forest stands
murmuring stream
hand bringsyou to the place.
your right
this hour the house doth keep itself;
none
to
OLIVER.
fair ones
morrow,
in the
Celia. West
snake
tame
\ExitSilvius.
* of
purlieus
sheepcotefenc'd about
The
I
a
company.
Oliver. Good
Well,go
her unless thou
lover,hence,and
Enter
Where
have
thee
Wilt
instrument
an
"
"
never
"
be endur'd !
for I see love hath made
your way to her
and say this to her: that if she love me,
thee ; if she will not, I will
thee
make
to
pity.
no
pluralof "eye."
2
Natural
4
Borders.
disposition.
^
Row.
;
AS
III.]
SCENE
Oliver. If that
an
I know
should
Such
garments and such
ripe2
And
browner
The
owner
sends
low,
woman
of the house
him
doth commend
I
What
am.
of my
I am,
and
handkercher
was
must
shame
how
we
we
are.
to you
both,
and
why
left a
an
mark
and
hour
food
me
where
you, tell it.
Orlando
partedfrom
you
again
pacingthroughthe forest,
of sweet
bitter fancy,
and
threw his eye aside.
objectdid present itself;
befell !
what
of
return
and
;
this ?
by
stain'd.
last the young
promiseto
Chewing the
Lo, what
will know
I pray
Oliver. When
he ?
understand
; if you
Celia.
And
you
I did
"
man
Within
not
for ?
inquire
boast,beingask'd,to say
Oliver. Some
He
Are
youthhe calls his Rosalind
this bloodynapkin.^ Are you
Rosalind.
This
himself
that
to
What
^
than her brother."
Oliver. Orlando
He
"
bestows
sister; the
Celia. It is no
And
85
IT.
profit
by a tongue,
by description
;
The boy is fair,
years :
you
Of female favor,and
a
LIKE
eye may
Then
Like
YOU
He
oak, whose
boughs were moss'd with age,
And
high top bald with dryantiquity,
A wretched, raggedman, o'ergrownwith hair,
his back.
About his neck
on
Lay sleeping
A green and gildedsnake had wreath'd itself,
with her head, nimble in threats,
Who
approach'd
The openingof his mouth ; but suddenly.
SeeingOrlando, it unlink'd itself.
And with indented glides
did slip
away
Under
Into
A
an
a
bush
which
; under
with udders
lioness,
head
Lay couching,^
1
Conducts.
2
on
bush's shade
all drawn
dry.
ground,with
Elder.
3
catlike
Handkerchief.
watch,
^
Crouching.
86
SHAKESPEARE.
that the
When
[act
should stir; for 'tis
man
sleeping
of that beast
royaldisposition
To prey on nothingthat doth seem
as dead.
This seen, Orlando did approachthe man,
The
it was
found
And
Celia.
^
he did render
And
liv'd
That
him
well he
And
he
was
the suck'd and
Oliver. Twice
did he
nobler
kindness,
ever
:
did he leave him
there,
hungrylioness ?
turn
his back
and
purpos'dso
;
than revenge,
nature, stronger than his justoccasion.
And
Made
Who
him
givebattle to the
quicklyfellbefore him
miserable slumber
From
Hon ess.
I awaked.
you he rescu'd ?
oft contrive to killhim ?
Was't
Rosalind.
you that did so
Oliver. 'Twas I ; but 'tisnot
Celia. Was't
tellyou what
To
2
hurtling
; in which
you his brother ?
Celia. Are
So
might so do,
unnatural.
But, to Orlando
Rosaruid.
But
brother;
same
'mongst men.
For well I know
to
that
unnatural
the most
Oliver.
Food
elder brother.
speakof
him
heard
I have
O,
brother,his
his
I was,
I do
I.
not
shame
conversion
since my
sweetlytastes,being the thingI am.
Rosalind.
But, for the bloodynapkin?
By
Oliver.
When
from
Tears
our
the firstto last betwixt
how
In
he
brief,
Who
I
gave
came
by.
two
kindlybath'd,
into that desert place;
to the gentle
me
Duke,
recountments
As
us
and
had
most
"
led
fresh array and entertainment,
unto
my brother's love ;
me
Committingme
Who
led me
unto
instantly
and
There stripp'd
himself,
1
Report.
his cave.
here upon
2
Noise
his
arm
of the conflict.
iv.
AS
III.]
SCENE
lioness had
The
Which
torn
YOU
all this while had
bled ; and
cried,in fainting,
upon
Brief,I recover'd him, bound
after
sent
To
tell this
me
His broken
Dyed
That
up his wound
;
I am,
story,that you might excuse
promise,and
in his blood
he in
fainted,
beingstrong at heart,
hither,
stranger as
He
he
now
Rosahnd.
small space,
some
87
IT.
flesh away,
some
And
And,
LIKE
to
the
unto
givethis napkin
shepherdyouth
sport doth call his Rosalind.
sivoons,
[Rosalind
Ganymede !
Why, how now, Ganymede ! sweet
when theydo look on blood.
Oliver. Many will swoon
in it. Cousin
Celia. There is more
Ganymede !
Celia.
"
Look, he
Oliver.
I would
Rosalmd.
"
recovers.
I
at
were
home.
I pray you, will you
of
Oliver. Be
man's
"
take him
by the arm ?
good cheer,youth. You
a
man!
lack
you
a
heart.
it.
so, I confess
I do
Rosalind.
well counterfeited !
think this was
how
thither.
We'll lead you
Celia.
well I counterfeited.
Oliver. This
was
not
I pray
you, tell your brother
counterfeit ; there is too
Well,then,take
would
Heigh-ho!
"
in your complexionthat it was
a
I assure
Rosalind. Counterfeit,
Oliver.
a
Ah, sirrah,
body
a
passionof
great
testimony
earnest.
you.
heart and
good
counterfeit to be
a
man.
So I do ;
Rosalind.
I
but,i' faith,
should have been
a
woman
by right.
Celia.
Come,
homewards.
you
Good
"
Oliver. That
How
you
excuse
Rosalind.
my
will
my
look
sir,
go
I, for
paler and
with
you,
draw
us.
bear
I must
paler;pray
answer
back
brother,Rosahnd.
I shall devise
something;but, I
to him.
counterfeiting
"
Will you
go ?
pray
you,
mend
com-
[Exeunt.
S8
SHAKESPEARE,
[act v,
ACT
Scene
V.
The Forest.
I.
and
Enter Touchstone
Touchstone.
shall find
We
a
time,Audrey; patience,
gentle
Audrey.
was
Audrey. Faith,the priest
saying.
gentleman's
Touchsto7ie. A
But, Audrey,there is a
Martext.
all the old
good enough,for
Sir
wicked
most
Audrey.
Oliver;
Audrey,a
youth here in the
most
vile
forest
lays
claim to you.
the world.
Here
he
'tis;
who
I know
Audrey. Ay,
the
comes
Touchstojte. It is meat
man
and
hath
no
you mean.
drink to me
that have good wits have
we
my troth,
hold.i
shall be flouting
cannot
; we
to
much
interest in
in
me
clown.
see
a
to
answer
By
for ;
we
Enter William.
Good
William.
Audrey.
even,
good even,- William.
to you, sir.
William. And good even
friend.
Touchsto7ie. Good
even, gentle
be cover'd.
How
thy head ; nay, prithee,
Audrey.
God
Five and
William.
Touchstone.
A
Touchstone.
Is
fair name.
"Thank
Touchstone.
"We
old
thy name
2
"
God
?
thank
Wast
born
i'the forest here ?
God.
God,"
a
"
good answer.
Art rich ?
so-so.
Faith,sir,
cannot
ye
you, friend ?
are
William
hold," i.e.,we
cannot
restrain
ourselves;we
gibe.
our
thyhead,cover
twenty, sir.
ripeage.
Ay, sir,I
William.
1
A
Cover
William,sir.
William.
William.
ye
good even," i.e.,God
giveyou good
even.
must
have
I.J
SCENE
AS
"
Touchstone.
and
"
YOU
LIKE
So-so ".is good,very
yet it is not
it is but
;
89
IT.
Art
so-so.
excellent
good,very
good ;
thou wise ?
William.
Ay, sir,I have a pretty wit.
Touchstone. Why, thou say'st
well. I do now
remember
a saying,
"The
fool doth think he is wise,but the wise man
knows
himself to be a fool." The heathen philosopher,
when he had a
desire to eat a grape, would open his hps when he put it into his
mouth ; meaning therebythat grapes were
made
to eat and lips
to
do love this maid
You
open.
I
William.
do, sir.
Give
Touchstone.
?
me
your hand.
Art thou learned ?
No, sir.
William.
Then
Touchstone.
learn this of
me
:
to
have
is to have ; for it
in rhetoric that drink,
figure
beingpour'dout of a cup into a
the one
doth empty the other ; for all your writers
glass,
by filling
do consent
that ipseis he ; now, you are not ipse,
for I am
he.
William. Which
he, sir?
Touchstone.
He, sir,that must marry this woman.
Therefore,
which is in the vulgarleave
the society
you clown, abandon
is a
"
"
which
the
common
"
of this female
in the boorish is company
is woman
; which
togetheris,abandon
"
"
which
the
in
society
of this female,or,
standing,
clown,thou perishest
; or, to thy better underdiest ; or, to wit,I kill thee,make thee away, translate
into bondage ; I will deal in poison
thy life into death,thy liberty
with thee,or in bastinado,^
in steel ; I will bandy 2 with
or
thee in faction ; I will o'errun thee with pohcy ; I will kill thee
and depart.
and fifty
a hundred
ways ; therefore tremble,
Audrey. Do, good William.
God
William.
rest you
merry, sir.
\Exit.
Ente)' CoRiN.
Covin.
Our
master
Touchstone.
and mistress seek you
; come,
Trip,Audrey ! trip,
Audrey !
"
I
away, away
attend,I
!
attend.
\^Excunt.
1
A
blow
with
a
cudgel.
2
Contend.
90
SHAKESPEARE.
Scene
Enter
Orlando.
like her ? that but
and
Orlando
wooing she
seeingyou
should
v.
The Forest.
II.
that
Is'tpossible
[act
Oliver.
and
on
so
littleacquaintance
you should
should love her ? and
grant 1 and will you
lovingwoo ?
^
to enjoy
persever
her?
Oliver. Neither call the
the poverty
of itin question,
giddiness
den
acquaintance,
my sudden wooing, nor her sud-
of
her,the small
consenting
; but
that she loves
other.
me
It shall be
that
revenue
was
here live and die
Orlando.
say with me, I love Aliena ; say with her
with both that we may
; consent
enjoyeach
your good ; for my father's house and all the
old Sir Rowland's
will I estate upon you, and
to
shepherd.
a
have
You
Let your wedding be tomorrow.
my consent.
Thither will I invite the Duke and all'scontented
followers.
Go
and
you
Aliena ; for look you, here
prepare
comes
Rosalind.
my
Enter
Rosalind.
God
you, brother.
you, fair sister.
my dear Orlando,how
Oliver. And
Rosalind.
O
thy heart
wear
Orlando.
claws of
a
in
I
Rosalind.
when
Orlando.
Rosalind.
1
Persevere
2
"
Where
me
grieves
to
see
thee
scarf !
a
arm.
thoughtthy heart
had
been
wounded
with
the
Wounded
it is,but with the eyes of a lady.
Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited
he show'd me
?
yoiu" handkercher
Ay, and greaterwonders
O,
to
than that.
where you are.2
Nay, 'tistrue ; there was
of two rams, and Caesar's
sudden but the fight
I know
anythingso
never
\Exit.
it
lion.
Orlando.
swoon
save
It is my
Rosalind.
Rosalind.
(accenton
"
the second
what
you are," i.e.,
syllable).
you
mean.
AS
II.]
SCENE
thrasonical^
brag of
brother and
my
"
YOU
LIKE
I came,
sisterno
IT.
saw, and
2
overcame."
but
met
sooner
9
1
For your
theylook'd,no
no
theysigh'd,
sooner
lov'd but
no
sooner
sooner
theylov'd,
but theyask'd one another the reason, no sooner
knew the
sigh'd
but theysought the remedy ; and in these degreeshave
reason
contine
they made a pairof stairsto marriagewhich theywill climb in3
gether
; theyare in the very wrath of love,and theywill tolook'd but
; clubs cannot
part them.
They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the
Duke to the nuptial.But, O, how bitter a thingit is to look into
happinessthroughanother man's eyes ! By so much the more
shall I to-morrow
be at the heightof heart-heaviness,
by how
much
I shall think my brother happy in having what he wishes
Orla7ido.
for.
Rosalind.
Rosalind
Why, then,to-morrow
I
cannot
serve
turn
your
for
?
Orlaiido. I
live
longerby thinking.
Rosalind, I will weary you then no longerwith idle talking.
I speak to some
then
for now
Know
of me
that I
purpose
know
you are a gentlemanof good conceit.^ I speak not this
that you should bear a good opinion
of my knowledge,
insomuch
can
no
"
I say I know
than may in
you
that I
neither do
are;
littlemeasure
some
good
yourself
"
and
not
to
draw
grace
do strange things.I
can
convers'd with
a
I labor for
most
magician,
a
behef
Beheve
me.
a
have,since I
profoundin
greater esteem
from
you, to do
then,if you please,
three year old,
was
his art and
yet not
damnable.^
the heart as your
If you do love Rosalind so near
shall you
gesture^ cries it out, when 3^our brother marries Aliena,
marry
her.
I know
into what
1
boastful.
Extravagantly
2
It
Zela
was
after his swift and
total defeat of Pharnaces, King of Pontus,
(45B.C.),that JuliusCsesar
Veni,vidi,vici (" I came,
3
Immediately.
5
Worthyof condemnation.
^
straitsof fortune she is driven ; and
sent
to the Roman
I saw,
I
overcame
senate
").
Intelligence,
6
Speechand
at
patch,
the celebrated dis-
action.
SHAKESPEARE.
92
it is
to
impossible
not
if it appear
me,
any danger.
thou
Orlando. Speak'st
I
a
am
in sober
tender
Look, here
Phebe.
have
done
I
not
care
and
best array;
to-morrow,
a
shall,
ungentleness,
to
you.
if I have ; it is my
study
and ungentle
to you.
despiteful
there followed by a faithful shepherd
You
are
;
Look upon him, love him ; he worships
you.
tellthis youth what 'tisto
Phebe. Good
shepherd,
Sllvius. It is to be all made of sighsand tears ;
To
you
lover of hers.
much
me
the letterthat I writ ^
Rosalind.
though I
dearly,^
and Phebe.
SiLVius
lover of mine
a
Youth, you
show
To
comes
you,
she is and without
in yom-
you
bid your friends ; for if you will be married
and to Rosalind,if you will.
Enter
as
to
meanings?
By my hfe,I do ; which I
magician.^Therefore put
Rosalmd.
inconvenient
not
your eyes to-morrow, human
to set her before
say
[act v.
seem
And
so
I for Phebe.
am
And
Phebe.
I for
And
Rosalind.
Ganymede.
I for Rosalind.
And
Orlando.
I for
no
woman.
so
I for Phebe.
am
Phebe.
And
I for
And
Orlando.
Rosalind.
And
Ganymede.
I for Rosalind.
I for
no
woman.
Silvius. It is to be all made
All made
1
2
"
service ;
of faith and
Silvius. It is to be all made
And
love.
of
passionand
of
all made
fantasy,
of
wishes,
value highly.
i.e.,
dearly,"
in force
of statutes
the provisions
Tender
Under
England in Shakespeare's
with
offense punishable
an
in
of witchcraft,magic, etc., was
time, the practice
one
year'simprisonmentfor the first conviction,and
goodsfor
the second.
3
Old form of
"
death
and
wrote."
forfeiture of
AS
III.]
SCENE
YOU
IT.
LIKE
93
adoration,
duty,and observance,^
All
and
All humbleness,all patience
impatience,
all trial,
all observance
purity,
All
And
I for Phebe.
am
so
;
And
Phebe.
so
Oi'lando. And
I for
am
so
Rosali7id. And
I for Rosalind.
am
so
Ganymede.
I for
am
no
woman.
why blanie you me to love you ?
Silvius. If this be so, why blame you me
to love you ?
Orlando. If this be so, why blame you me
to love you ?
do you speak to, "Why
blame you me
Rosalind. Who
If this be so,
Phebe.
"
love you ?
Orlando.
Pray you, no
the
against
Irish wolvescan.
meet
all together.
me
will
"
to-morrow.
contents
As
if
satisfy
you,
you
meet;
"
I have
moon.
"
to-morrow.
will
content
I
I
[To Orlando]
"
you shall be married
you
you, if what pleases
and
[To Orlando]
you, and you shallbe married to-morrow.
As you love Phebe,
love Rosalind,meet.
[To Silvius]
I'llmeet.
So fare you well;
and as I love no woman,
"
"
"
left you
Phebe.
Nor
Orlando.
commands.
if I live,
fail,
I.
Nor
[Exeunt.
I.
Scene
Enter
Touchstone.
and
howlingof
will helpyou, if
\ToSilvms]I
"
I satisfi'dman,
ever
Silvius. I'llnot
will we
hear.
not
To-morrow
love you, if I could.
[To Phebe]I will marry you, if ever
[To Silvms]I
"
doth
of this ; 'tislike the
more
I'llbe married
and
woman,
here,nor
would
[To Phebe]I
"
marry
her that is not
To
Rosalind.
I
to
III.
Touchstone
To-morrow
The Forest.
and
Audrey.
is the
joyfulday, Audrey ;
wolves
is monotonous
to-morrow
be married.
1
Readiness
2
The
to serve.
howling of
wherever
heard.
a
pack of
and
dismal
whenever
SHAKESPEARE,
94
[act
v.
desire it with all my heart ; and I hope it is no
of the world.^
dishonest desire to desire to be a woman
Here
Audrey.
of the banish' d Duke's
two
come
I do
Enter
First
Touchstone.
By
First
are
Shall
Page.
we
or
sayingwe
spitting
to
a
bad
Pages.
gentleman.
well
troth,
my
Secofid Page. We
pages.
tzvo
Well met, honest
Page.
and
sit,
Come, sit,
met.
hoarse,which
are
both
i' faith;and
faith,
I'
Page.
on
gypsies
hawking or
only2 prologues
the
in
a
tune, like two
horse.
a
Song.
//
was
lover and
a
With
his
hey,and
a
a
lass,
ho, and
a
hey noninOj
did pass
o'er the green corjifield
the onlyprettyringtime,
hi the springtime,
That
sing,hey dijiga ding,ding;
love7's love the spring.
When
birds do
Sweet
Betweeji
With
These
In
the
a
In
And
In
2
"
A
woman
The
a
that
hey,and
a
rye,
ho, and
a
hey nonino,
lie.
theybega^ithat hour.
hey^and a ho, and a hey nonino.
but a flower
was
a life
etc.
springtime,
take
therefore
With
For
of the
etc.
springtime,
With
How
acres
prettycountryfolkswould
This carol
**
song.
voice ?
Second
1
a
for you ; siti'the middle.
clapinto't roundly,without
are
a
hey,and
love is crowned
the presenttime.
a
hey nonino
the prifne
ho, and
with
a
etc.
springtijne,
of the
world," i.e.,a
only,"i.e.,only the.
I
married
woman.
;
I
AS
IV.]
SCENE
LIKE
YOU
IT.
95
Truly,young gentlemen,though there was no
in the ditty,
yet the note was very untunable.
great matter
sir; we
First Page. You
are
deceiv'd,
kept time,we lost not
Touchstone.
time.
our
Touchstone.
such
By
troth,
yes
my
God
foolish song.
a
voices !
Duke
Duke
Can
S.
The
God
mend
Dost
Oliver, and Celia.
Orlando,that
believe,
thou
I sometimes
do
the
boy
promised?
and
believe,
theyhope,and
Enter
your
Forest.
Senior,Amiens, Jaques, Orlando,
As those that fear
know
do not ;
sometimes
theyfear.
Rosalind, Silvius, and Phebe.
Rosalifid. Patience
You
and
\Exeunt.
IV.
do all this that he hath
Orlando.
You
wi' you;
be
Come, Audrey.
"
Scene
Enter
it but time lost to hear
; I count
once
more,
whiles
our
compact'is urg'd.
"
say, if I bringin your Rosalind,
will bestow her on Orlando here ?
Duke
S.
That
would
Rosalijid. And
you
Orhmdo.
That
would
Rosalind.
You
Fhebe.
That
I, had
say you
I, were
I
kingdoms to givewith
will have
her,when
I
her.
bringher
?
king.
?
willing
I of all kingdoms
marry me, if I be
say you'll
will I, should I die the hour after.
But if you do refuse to marry me,
You'll giveyourself
faithful shepherd?
to this most
Rosalind.
Phebe.
So is the
bargain.
have Phebe, if she will ?
Rosalind. You say that you'll
both one thing.
Silvius. Though to have her and death were
all this matter
even.
Rosalind. I have promis'd
to make
Keep you your word, O Duke, to giveyour daughter.
You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter.
Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll
marry me,
Or else refusing
me, to wed this shepherd.
"
"
"
"
g6
SHAKESPEARE.
Keep
me:
I go,
\ExetmtRosalind
in this shepherdboy
favor.
daughter's
touches of my
lively
Orlando.
My lord,the firsttime that I ever saw
Methought he was a brother to your daughter;
But, my good lord,this boy is forest-born,
Some
him
tutor'd in the rudiments
hath been
And
a?td Celia.
all even.
I do remember
S.
Duke
hence
and from
"
these doubts
make
v.
that you'll
word, Silvius,
marry her,
your
If she refuse
To
[act
^ studies
Of many
desperate
by his uncle,
he reports to be a great magician.
Whom
in the circle of this forest.
Obscured
Touchstone
Enter
which
in all tongues
Jaques. Good
hath been
If any
Touchstone.
have
purgation.I
beasts,
to
greeting
I have
so
in the
often met
motley-
forest;he
swears.
doubt
man
trod
a
measure
that,let him
;
^
I have
put
to
me
flatter'd a
my
lady;
my friend,smooth with mine enemy ;
and like
three tailors; I have had four quarrels,
with
politic
I have
been
I have
undone
have
my
couples
very strange
you all !
This is the
lord,bid him welcome.
he
courtier,
a
these
called fools.
are
gentlemanthat
minded
pairof
a
comes
Salutation and
Touchstone.
to
Here
the ark.
coming to
and
toward,^
flood
Jaques.There is,
sure, another
are
Audrey.
and
foughtone.
how
Jaques. And
Touchstone.
the seventh
met, and
Faith,we
*
the
found
quarrelwas
upon
cause.
Jaques.How
Duke
that ta'en up ?
was
S.
seventh
cause
?
"
Good
my
lord,like this fellow.
I like him
very well.
Touchsto7ie. God 'ildyou, sir; I desire you of the like. I press
to swear
in here,sir,
amongst the rest of the country copulatives,^
1
Unlawful.
4
Taken
up,
2
i.e.,made
At hand.
up.
3
dance.
Stately
5
Candidates
for
marriage.
AS
IV.]
SCENE
LIKE
YOU
IT.
97
binds and blood breaks.
as marriage
according
ill-favor'dthing,
but mine own
A poor virgin,
an
sir,
sir,
; a poor
else will. Rich honesty
man
of mine,sir,
humor
to take that that no
in a poor house ; as your pearlin
dwells like a miser,sir,
and to forswear ;
your foul oyster.
Duke
S. By my
he
faith,
is very swift and sententious.^
and such dulcet
ToucJistojie.Accordingto the fool's bolt,^
sir,
diseases.
But,
Jaqices.
the seventh
on
quarrel
Touchstone.
body
beard
a
was
Upon
lie
a
how
did you
find the
?
cause
times
seven
seeming,^
Audrey,
more
of
cut
for the seventh cause;
"
as
bear your
I did dislike the
removed,
"
thus,sir.
certain courtier's beard ; he sent me word, if I said his
he was in the mind it was ; this is call'd
not cut well,
againit was not
word he cut it to pleasehimself ;
well cut, he would send me
it was
not well cut,
this is call'd the Quip ^ Modest.
If,again,
If
he disabled my judgment; this is call'd the Reply Churlish.
againit was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true ;
this is call'd the Reproof Valiant. If againit was
not well cut,
he would say, I Hed; this is call'd the Countercheck
some
Quarrel; and
If I sent
Courteous.
the Retort
to
so
the Lie Circumstantial and the Lie Direct.
oft did you say his beard was
I durst go no further than the Lie
Touchstone.
he durst not
swords and
word
how
Jaqucs. And
nor
him
giveme
parted.
the Lie Direct ; and
not
well cut ?
Circumstantial,
so
we
measur'd
the degreesof the lie?
you nominate in order now
Touchstojie. O sir,
we
quarrelin print,
by the book, as you
I will name
have books for good manners.
you the degrees.
Jaques. Can
the Retort Courteous ; the second,the Quip Modest ;
first,
the third,
the Reply Churlish ; the fourth,
the ReproofValiant ;
the fifth,
the Lie with
the Countercheck
Quarrelsome; the sixth,
The
1
"
Swift and
2
"
The
3
fool's bolt is
Seemly.
7
sententious,"
i.e.,
ready-witted.
shot
soon
4
A
"
is
proverbial.
quipis a gibe.
98
SHAKESPEARE.
[act
All these you
seventh,the Lie Direct.
Circumstance
; the
but when
were
parties
v.
may
avoid but the Lie Direct ; and you may avoid that,too, with an
could not take up a quarrel,
If. I knew
v\^hen seven
justices
but
of
shook
the
If,as,
an
and
; much
virtue in If.
.
this a
not
and yet
anything,
the
S.
He
swore
a
uses
thought
I said so;" and they
If is the only peacemaker
fellow,
my
lord ?
He's
as
good
at
fool.
his
of that
presentation
Enter
rare
of them
themselves,one
you said so, then
Your
brothers.
hands
Jerques Is
Duke
"If
met
like
folly
a
and under
stalking-horse,^
he shoots his wit.
Hymen,
Rosalind,
and
Celia.
music.
[Still
Hyme7i. Then
is there mirth in
heaven,
When
earthly
thingsmade even
Atone together.2
Good
Duke, receive thydaughter;
Hymen ^ from heaven broughther.
Yea, broughther hither,
That thou mightst
joinher hand with his
Whose
heart within her bosom
is.
for I am
yours.
[To Duke\ To you I givemyself,
for I am
To you I givemyself,
[To Orlando]
yours.
Duke
S. If there be truth in sight,
you are my daughter.
Orlando. If there be truth in sight,
you are my Rosahnd
Phebe. If sight
and shapebe true,
Why, then,my love,adieu !
Rosalind.
[ToDuke] I'llhave no father,if you be not he.
I'llhave no husband,if you be not he.
[To Orlando]
[To Phebe] Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.
Rosalind.
"
"
"
1
A
is a horse,or
stalking-horse
the sportsman
2
"
Atone
conceals himself
from
the semblance
of one,
by means
of which
his prey.
i.e.,harmonize.
together,"
3
The
god
of
marriage.
AS
iv.J
SCENE
'Tis I
IT.
99
! I bar confusion.
Peace, ho
Hymen.
LIKE
YOU
conclusion
make
must
Of these
most
strange events.
eightthat must take hands
joinin Hymen's bands,
Here's
To
If truth holds
and you
You
and you are heart in heart ;
to his love must
accord,
and you
As the winter
shall part ;
"
to
are
to
sure
your lord ;
"
together.
foul weather.
"
wedlock
hymn we sing,
with questioning;
yourselves
a
may diminish,
met, and these thingsfinish.
wonder
reason
thus
How
cross
woman
a
You
Whiles
no
"
Or have
That
"
You
You
Feed
contents^
true
we
Song.
Wedding
is great Juno's
Tis
Hymen peoplesevery
High
Phebe.
Thy
^
O
S.
dear
my
I will not
faith my
eat
fancyto
thou
my word, now
thee doth combine.^
Enter
Jaquesde
I
am
That
;
then be honored.
wedlock
niece,welcome thou art
welcome, in no less degree.
daughter,
Duke
Even
town
high honor a7id renow?ty
Hymen, god ofevery town /
Honor
To
;
of board and bed /
O blessed bond
'
crown
Bois.
the second
Let
son
me
Jaques
mine ;
art
for
a
word
Rowland,
this fair assembly,
1
Bind.
"
Bois.
audience
have
of old Sir
to
bringthese tidings
de
!
to me
or
two.
SHAKESPEARE.
lOO
Duke
Address'd
In his
i
own
His brother
mightypower ; which were
to take
conduct,purposely
a
here and
to the
And
^
question
some
Both
from
his
w^ere
with him
old
an
with
he
foot,
on
the sword
to
skirts of this wild wood
After
;
came.
religious
man,
him, was
converted
and from the world,
enterprise
crown
bequeathingto his banish'd brother,
all their lands restor'd to them again
That
I do
engage
Duke
|j
"
This to be true,
life.
my
Welcome,
young man;
offer'stfairly
to thy brothers' wedding.
his lands
one
land
itselfat
in
First,
That
exil'd.
S.
Thou
A
put him
meetingwith
Where
To
that every day
resorted to this forest,
of great worth
And
v.
Frederick,
hearinghow
Men
His
[act
withheld,and
a potent
large,
this forest let us
here
do
to
the other
dukedom.
those ends
well
begun and well begot;
And
after,
every of this happy number
That have endur'd shrewd ^ days and nightswith us
Shall share the good of our returned fortune,
of their states.
Accordingto the measure
Meantime, forgetthis new-fall'n dignity.
And fallinto our rustic revelr}\
Play,music ! And you, brides and bridegroomsall,
fall.
AVith measure
heap'din joy,to the measures
Jaques. Sir,by your patience. If I heard you rightly.
The Duke hath put on a religious
life
were
"
"
"
And
thrown
into
neglectthe
de Bo is.
Jaqiies
Jaques. To him
There
is much
[To Duke\ You
1
Made
He
to be
2
of these convertites*
heard
former
to your
ready.
?
hath.
will I ; out
matter
court
pompous
and learn'd.
honor
Discourse.
"
I
bequeath;
3
Evil.
^
Converts.
and
patience
Your
"01/
AS
IV.]
SCENE
LIKE
IT.
loi
your virtue well deserves it.
"
You to a love that your true faith doth merit.
[To Orlando]
You
to your land and love and great allies.
[To Oliver]
You to a long and well-deserved bed.
[To Silvius]
And you to wrangling;
for thy lovingvoyage
\To Touchsto7ie\
"
"
"
months
Is but for two
I
victual'd.
for other than for
am
Duke
dancingmeasures.
S.
Stay,Jaques,stay.
Jaqiies.To see no pastimeI
know
to
your abandon'd
at
Duke
As
S.
; what
you
would
have
end, in
they'll
I'll sta,y
\Exit.
cave.
Proceed, proceed;
do trust
we
So, to your pleasures;
"
will
begin these rites,
delights.
\A daiice^
we
true
Epilogue.
Rosalind.
but it is no
It is not
the fashion to
unhandsome
the
see
than to
lady the epilogue;
the lord the
prologue.
If it be true that good wine needs no bush,i'tistrue that a good
good
; yet to good wine they do use
play needs no epilogue
bushes,and good playsprove the better by the help of good
epilogues.What a case am I in,then,that am neither a good
cannot
insinuate with you in the behalf of a good
nor
epilogue
I
play!
more
not
am
furnish'd^ like
a
see
beggar,therefore
beg will
I'llbeginwith
to
My way is to conjureyou ; and
I chargeyou, O women,
for the love you bear to
the women.
of this playas pleaseyou;
to like as much
and I charge
men,
I perceive,
as
by
you, O men, for the love you bear to women
that between you and
of you hates them
none
your simpering,
^ I would
the playmay please. If I were
the women
a woman
become
not
me.
"
"
"
I
"
hang
Good
a
wine," etc.
tuft of
than any other
**
It appears
ivyat the door
plantas it has
of
a
formerlyto
vintner.
have
been
the custom
to
I suppose
relation to Bacchus."
ivywas chosen rather
note, quoted
(Steevens's
by Furness.)
'
3
Dressed.
There
were
no
actresses
on
the stage in
England before
the time
of
SHAKESPEARE.
I02
kiss
as
that
as
of
many
me,i
lik'd
for
kind
my
I
pleased
defied
good
or
make
I
when
that
that
beards
good
offer,
beards
breaths
and
have
as
many
had
as
you
[act
not
faces
;
complexions
I
and,
~
am
sure,
breaths
sweet
or
bid
curtsy,
me,
v.
will,
farewell.
me
\Exeu7it.
has
this
acted
saw
a
1
"
That
lik'd
2
"
That
I
defied
plays
it
being
come
woman
me,"
in
i.e.,
not,"
upon
that
i.e.,
I
that
performed
were
"January
Diary:
Bush,
Beggar's
I
ever
parts
his
in
note
The
that
Women's
II.
Charles
3,
very
the
1660.
by
To
the
done
;
here,
and
stage."
liked.
were
not
repulsive
to
me.
Pepys
where
theater,
"
well
Samuel
men.
the
first
was
time
AND
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
The.
Periods."
"Four
For
has
scholarship
been striving
to follow Shakespeare from his fourteenth
to his eighteenth
he obtained his marvelous
knowledge
year; to discover where
of medicine,law, and theology;to learn where he accumulated and
assimilated the enormous
body of practical
psychologywhich must
have been his
even
"
before he went
a
century or
up to London
more,
"
and
a
host of similar
and instructive results of all
things. Among the most interesting
this work is generalagreement regardingthe so-called "four periods"
of Shakespeare's
development as a writer of plays. By collating
written by persons who attended the plays,
accounts
historicalfacts,
privatereferences to the dramas, and casual m.ention of Shakespeare
but chieflyby studying certain differences
by his contemporaries,
within the plays themselves,the investigators
have
substantially
work fallsinto four periodswhich probably
agreedthat Shakespeare's
correspondto his experienceof Ufe:
which
extends from his arrival in London
to 1595,
1. The
first,
was
a periodof experimentation.It was
pected,
marked, as might be exby sanguinenessand exuberant imagination,and was productive
of
of
this
principally comedy. Typicalplays
periodare Lovers
Labour's Lost, Comedy of Errors,Two Gentlemen of Verona,Romeo
and Richard IIL
and Juliet,
The second,1 595-1600, was
2.
a period of rapidgrowth and remarkable
technical development, characterized by deeper insight
into human
nature, greater dramatic power, and, towards the end,
by justa touch of sadness. (Jaquesin As You Like It.) Among the
plays representativeof this periodare Merchant of Venice, Taming
ofthe Shrew,Much Ado About Nothing,Henry V, and ^4^ You Like It.
in the third period,1601-1608, that Shakespearereached
3. It was
the fullmaturityof his powers.
Characterized as a periodof "gloom
103
I04
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
and
these six or seven
depression,"
years producedin rapidsuccession
the most powerfulgroup of tragedies
of his
ever
penned. The causes
manifest sadness are not certainly
known; but we attribute it to the
the imprisonmentof one
of his friends,
death of his father,
the execution
of another,
and the sickening
disappointmentcaused,probably,
who
had
deceived
the
of
third
him. Julius Coesar,
act
a
by
Hamlet,
Othello,
Macbeth,and King Lear are the great playsof the period.
productivelife closed with a periodof peace and
4. Shakespeare's
withdrawn
from the turmoil of London
serenity.He had practically
hfe at quiet Stratford. Written
here among
the
to live his own
the playsof this periodbreathe
earliest recollections of his childhood,
of peace and forgiveness,
of atonement
and reconciliation.
the spirit
Of these latest works, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest are the
best known.
Shakespearewas first an actor; then a reviser of old plays;and
an
finally
independentdramatist. His firstplaysare relatively
crude;
his work increases in power
and in dramatic technique;
his finished
productionscame only after years of assiduous labor. Grantingthen,
transcendent genius,
that his was
we
are
greatlyhelpedto understand
and the playsby knowing that it was
the orderlydevelopmen
both the man
of that geniusthrough years of study and labor that produced
all the world loves. He, like the rest of
the works
which
and it was
our
mankind, had to learn his business;
great fortune that
his geniusfellinto justthe world needed to energize
it.
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
developmentof the
of parsing,
side of the study;questions
pointsof Elizabethan
literary
and so on, have all been
listsof subjectsfor compositions,
grammar,
excluded.
It is believed that whatever of these matters
intentionally
is necessary
the play can be best dealt with by the
to understanding
and go
who will probably touch them as hghtlyas possible
teacher,
with the main business of the literature lesson,
on
viz.,the study of
outline aims almost
The following
at
solely
the
literature.
It is hoped,then,that the
to
outline
following
will prove
it
literary
appreciation.
Variouslymodified,
a
real stimulus
has been
tried in
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
105
it has almost always proved its worth.
It is not
classes;
it is practical.It is appended
nor
nor
''original,"
startling,
brilliant;
here not because it offers the only way to teach this play,but because
ithas proved,in many
It is onlyhoped that
cases, a stimulating
way.
whoever may
it will find at the end of the study that his students
use
have come
sincere appreciationof the play itself,
to some
and to a
reasonable understandingof Shakespeare's
genius.
many
I. Preparation.
If the class has
alreadyworked through one
of the Shakespeareplays,a good approach to the study of
or more
As You Like It will include a rapid review of the facts previously
learned about the author and his work
of the
say, an ampKfication
in the introduction to this volume.
matter on these pointssummarized
of the points so
Specialemphasismight be laid upon one
any one
treated. This work will naturally
send the students to the authorities,
"
"
"
and
well be the formulation
of its results may
one
"
of
a
number
of
questionsregardinggeneralquahtiesof Shakespeare'swork which
the class may layaside to answer
at the close of the study of this play.
If,however, this is the first experiencein Shakespeare,the best
introduction is,of course, readingthe play itself.
II. The
First
be read aloud
Reading.
"
As
far
class;but owing
rarelybe followed.
in
perfectioncan
readingis to get a
as
to
possibleevery play should
lack of time, this counsel of
chief purpose
of the first
clear idea of the development of the story. Often
The
in
by having the pupilsouthne the movement
the teacher
their notebooks,scene
by scene, as the readingproceeds,
examining the books at convenient intervals. The teacher might
begin the readingin order to strike the keynote and put the class in
the rightattitude toward the play. If lack of time forbids reading
this can
best be done
play in class,
part of it may be done at home; then a few
pointedquestionsat the beginningof each lesson must determine
how inteUigently
the students have read out of class. As You Like
other phases of the
It especially
if some
oral reading;even
repays
work have to be abridged,the finest passages should be read aloud.
should
While this is going forward,the memory
passages, which
be recited,
have been announced
at the beginningof the study,may
the whole
one
or
two
at
each lesson.
"
I06
SUGGESTIONS
The
FOR
first reading,then, should
should know
the story in
STUDY.
show
three results: the student
orderlyway; he should have the
and he should have memorized
clearlydifferentiated;
ready for the Second Reading.
passages selected. He is now
III. Second
Reading.
explanationof unusual
an
Here
"
the
close
analyticstudy:
of
constructions;
interpretation
want
we
and
words
acters
char-
a
difficultpassages;
study of plot,and of character and motive; arousal
of appreciation
of the universal truth,or beauty,or power
of the
well to assignfor
In practice,
it has worked
passages.
memory
and study questions
like the following:
and suggestions
investigation
Act I, Scene i. Compare this scene
with the opening scene
of the
"
Merchant
scene
of Venice.
is almost
tellso much
Which
of
entirely
exposition
of the court
of it? Is any
the
seems
character
unmentioned?
Resolve
news?
direct?
more
the situation.
Does
not
OHver
the main
importantto
Note
that this
Why does Charles
probablyknow all
story either absent
the characters into groups
and show
how
or
they
preparingfor the complication.Here have a comparisonof one
other opening scenes
skillin the expoto show Shakespeare's
or two
sition
of his plays. Have
we
any hint in Charles' last speechof the
result of the wrestling
match?
Is Oliver's motive simplejealousy,
or
wounded
his last speech. How
do we account
pride? Study carefully
for his injustice
to Orlando?
Scene ii. What
in situation and mood is there between
similarity
Orlando and Rosalind when we first meet
them?
May this partly
for their falling
in love at firstsight? What
is the dramatic
account
of Rosalind's playfulinquiry "what think you of falHngin
purpose
are
"
"
love"?
Ceha
Does
RosaKnd
at firstmanifest
more
interest in Orlando
than
does?
"Pity is akin to love." Why the change from prose to
in the Duke's speech,
bottom p. 26? Does Orlando call Rosahnd
verse
and Celia back?
Had he done anythingto justify
Rosalind's return?
Why is Le Beau, like every one else,favorablydisposedtoward
Orlando at their firstmeeting?
Scene Hi.
Where
"
foreshadowed?
of Orlando
Charles'
with
account
in Scenes i and iihas Rosalind's banishment
Why
is she banished?
the Duke's
of the date
Charles' referencesto the
same
Compare
of Rosahnd.
diver's
How
of the old Duke's
event?
shall
real
we
to
opinion
reconcile
banishment
Is it necessary
been
with
reconcile
SUGGESTIONS
them?
Is Touchstone
take him with them?
Note.
We
"
and
force,
this
point
Act
Compare
STUDY.
107
If so, why should the ladies desire to
him with Wamba.
have in Act I the
the exposition,
the
introduction,
the
the
beginningof
work
some
At
risingaction (complication).
dramatic
on
ing
excit-
might
structure
well be introduced.
II, Scene i. If we judge from the opening speech,should
S. or his usurpingbrother make the better ruler? What
is the
"
Duke
dramatic
of the rest of the scene?
purpose
basis of the mutual
is
all fool?
FOR
accomphshed
Scene it.
"
woman
Duke
to
Duke
Is there any movement
of the plot?
of the complication
; note also that it is a
progress
intimates
that
the runaway
is an
all the runaways? How
F. wish to
managed
do you think is the
S. and Jaques? What
in this scene?
Note
who
attraction between
What
bringback
give the impressionthat
elopement. Does
has Shakespeare
the firstthree
scenes
in Act II
concurrent?
are
Scene in.
Here
is one
of
best
to study Orlando.
opportunities
and how clearly
Note how he reacts to his difficulties,
Duke
F.'s
for banishingRosalind are paralleled.
reasons
Why is Orlando's lodging to be burnt "this night"? Interpret
master's debtor"
Adam's
"...
not
in the rime closingthe
my
to the Forest of
scene.
Why should both our banished groups gravitate
Arden
i. e., why not to some
other part of the country?
cityor some
Scene iv. Many editions show in the firstline the word merry where
for your own
Give reasons
have weary.
we
preference.Does Ceha
"
our
"
"
hear the firstsix lines?
The
of Corin and
entrance
Silvius marks
one
of the
this
Can you account
for
frequentchanges from prose to verse.
tended
or
any other of these changes? Do you think that Rosalind instone
her "Alas,poor shepherd!
as an
aside,and that Touchhe alreadyprivy to her having fallen in
overheard it,or was
"
.
love?
Is Touchstone
be 'ware of mine
a
"true"
.
.
shins
wit tillI break my
actuallyaccomplishedin this scene?
Scene
whom
we
v.
"
own
Where
firstmeet
Note
and how
have
in this scene?
that "ducdame"
Latin (due ad me); it
possibly
we
been
How
is not
of his "I shall ne'er
What
lover?
againstit"?
preparedfor
What
is
the character
stone's?
does his wit differfrom TouchGreek
affords
at
all,but if anything,
of
Jaques the opportunity
io8
FOR
SUGGESTIONS
STUDY.
ventinga characteristic morsel,"fools into a circle." What is the
(SeeThird Reading.)
purpose of this scene?
is parallel
to what earlier one?
Scene vi. This scene
make
Scene vii. Here we
must
our
principal
study of Jaques,if
Is he a mere
it that
to understand him.
we
cynic? How comes
are
is Touchstone?
Note Duke S.'s
the onlyhuman
beinghe ever praises
talk to Jaques,apropos of the latter'searlier life. Note
very straight
the last Hne, "Sans
"table talk"
the tone of the cynic's
especially
to know
sans
everything."It is interesting
teeth,sans eyes
Totus mimdus
that the motto of the Globe,Shakespeare's
was
theater,
agithistrionem. Has Amiens' song any bearing upon the story?
What is goingforward duringthe singing?Why does Adam
disappear
from the play at this point?
^Act II carries the comphcation well towards the cHmax.
Note.
"
"
"
.
.
.
"
Note
that five of the
seven
scenes
in the Forest of Arden.
occur
does this scene
accomphsh? Oliver's
III,Scene ^'.-T-What
of Duke
demands
its penalty.What is the significance
now
injustice
Act
villain thou"?
F.'s "More
this
Scene ii. In
"
and
Jaques',
Towards
Rosalind's humor.
situation in this
what
working? Why Rosalind's
eager
that she
Remember
verses?
the best
have
we
scene
Can
to
curiosity
no
previousscene
to
even
natural?
Orlando is in the forest. Is Celia's teasing
Point
out
that has
Orlando.
refer to herself. Whence
Note
and
of love?
that Orlando
should not
reverse
to
the
situation,
an
the
answers
reaUy derived
the symptoms
reasonable
she
had she
knowledge of
more
how
cure
"
What
we
love with her?
her with
surance
as-
questionsthat
comprehensive
it seem
natural
pierceRosahnd's disguise?Would this seem
audience?
Elizabethan
Compare, for the
interview between
do
her
Does
Ivanhoe
and Rowena.
do you think Celia has been doing all this while?
that Orlando and Jaquesshould jar?
Scene in.
Rosahnd's
she is in love with
suddenly endowed
so
suspect that
Why
to believe that he is in
reason
any
the passage
to tease
She knows
she learns the truth?
when
trepidation
Orlando;has she
been
the author of the
know
reason
stone's,
Touch-
characterize each?
you
has every
scene
has
of
expositions
know
Is it reasonable that he should
of Touchstone's
woo
so
What
Is it in character
previouslove
affairs?
a person
unsophisticated
as
SUGGESTIONS
Audrey?
Note
STUDY.
FOR
109
that
"simple feature" in his opening questionmaythe modest love-verses presently
alluded to. Was not Touchstone
mean
this scene
somethingof a poet himself? How shall we classify
as to dramatic purpose?
Scene iv. What
is the immediate
of Rosalind's crying?
cause
Note that Celia dehberately
fallsin with Rosalind's abuse of Orlando,
and is soundlyberated for her pains. Is this littleby-playnatural?
Scene v.
Why do you think Rosalind takes Silvius' part? How
examples of love at first sighthave we in the play? Try to
many
realize Phebe by readingcarefully
her speechbeginningat the bottom
of page 74. Is she attracted by Ganymede's appearance
or
by his
quahties? What is the dramatic purpose of this scene?
^Act III bringsus to the climax. Now
Note.
beginsthe resolution.
"
"
"
IV, Scene i. Can you imagine why Jaques is introduced at
the beginningof this scene? Why Rosalind's unusuallykeen chiding
Is
of Orlando here?
Does she overdo in the mock-marriagescene?
of
Celia vexed by Rosalind's abusing their sex, or is she only tiring
in this
her part in another's love-making? What
is accomplished
Act
"
scene?
Scene ii.
Scene Hi.
"
Phebe's
is the purpose
What
"
How
are
letter and
of this "noisy"scene?
for Rosalind's heat in
to account
we
for her characterization of Silvius
snake "?
Can you think of any reason
rather than acted on the stage? Have
"conversion"
of Oliver?
Do
you
she faints? Is there any
and Oliver?
sex
when
Note.
Act IV continues
"
Our
Act
several groups
V, Scene i. What
"
do
why Oliver'srescue
we
had
any
as
you
"dehcious
a
"tame
is described,
intimation
of the
Oliver guesses Rosahnd's
indication here of the love of Celia
think
the resolution and foreshadows
are
handling
the
clusion.
con-
rapidlydrawing together.
consider the best
thingsin this
foolery"? Has he been at a feast
of knowledge,and "stolen the scraps"?
Scene ii. In view of his own
what do you think of
experience,
Orlando's opening questionsto Oliver? Is there a double meaning
in Oliver's addressingRosahnd
Has
"Sister"?
Ceha told? Is
as
there any ground for thinking
that Oliver has,in turn, told Orlando?
passage
of Touchstone's
"
FOR
SUGGESTIONS
no
STUDY.
love-stroke?
haste to beginon OHver's own
Why Rosalind's nervous
of
Can you see why Rosalind "leads the whole party into this game
Why should she not here have thrown off her
cross-purposes"?
how
tickhsh a
Note
disguise why all this magician mummery?
has involved herself in, and how
situation Rosahnd
cleverlyshe
It is evident that
escapes by a promise to each of her questioners.
the finalresolution is at hand, for she can go no further in any direction
without tripping.
of this brief
Scetie in. What, again,do you think is the purpose
"
"
scene?
Is Touchstone
Scene iv.
"
true
to liimselfin his famous
"
.
.
an
.
Does not Touchstone's long
thing,sir,but mine own"?
harangue seem to delaythe imminent conclusion? Why does Jaques
at Touchstone.
leave the party? Note his final fling
Why does the Epiloguesay, "If I were a woman"?
illfavor'd
Reading.
IV. Third
The
"
gatherinto a well-rounded
A plan that has worked
final readingof the
whole
the results of the
play attempts
entire study.
in his
the student enter
well is to have
to
questionsand his development of the
topicssuggestedbelow. He will thus have, at the conclusion of the
study,a body of notes which he may not only submit for a grade,
but which will be well worth preserving.He ought,in every case,
however, to substantiate his statements or give the groundsfor his
to specific
opinionsby referring
pr.ssages of the play.
Is it in a temperate
I. Setting.Where is the Forest of Arden?
of the trees,
description
or
a tropical
region? Is there any specific
How
do we get to know so much
or streams?
undergrowth,thickets,
notebook
his
to the
answers
"
about it? Is it because
come
we
know
feel that the whole
Sherwood
Forest?
opportunityto
II. Plot.
"
cause;
trace
know
Can
you
see
how
of life in the
open?
lead? Had Shakespeare
play breathes
sort of lifedo the dwellers in the Forest
What
had
to
we
this life?
plotsimpleor complex? Point
plot through the complicationto
Is the
out
the
the
follow the resolution to the end.
How
many
subordinate
the
exciting
climax;and
stories
are
Are they genuine subplots?
Why are they introduced?
characters
Show how they are connected with the main plot. What
are
Shakespeare's
own, i. e., neither mentioned nor hinted at in The
there?
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
STUDY.
ill
Tale
ofGamelyn,or in Lodge'sRosalynd? What lightdoes this throw
his method
of usingmaterials that were
to all writers of
on
common
his time? Account for the name
of the play. Does it not end exactly
should like it to do?
What
of the lions,
as
we
serpents,palm trees,
bitter
and
other
wintry winds,
skies,
incongruities?
May not this
indicate intention on
Shakespeare's
part? Are any of the events
render the play less enjoyable?
improbable? Does the improbability
III. Characters.
as
"
(a)Orlando : Why
possible.Has he
are
a
we
drawn
to
him?
Adduce
as
many
trait?
or faulty
singledisagreeable
reasons
Note
pecially
es-
what
others say of him.
{h)Oliver: Can you account for his "conversion"?
and
Are his banishment
his
subsequentrescue
by the brother he had injured
adequate to bringabout the change?
(c)The two Dukes: Are they mere
or do they seem
lay figures,
to be real persons?
{d)Jaques: What characteristicof Jaques differentiateshim from
the rest of the Duke's party? What, exactly,
do you understand
by
his
his "melancholy"? Try to distinguish
for yourselfbetween
and to determine which you like better.
philosophyand Touchstone's,
Does Jaques belong in so care-free a
Which was
the better man?
company? Why do you suppose Shakespeareplacedhim there?
And, especially,
why has Jaques so many of the finest passages?
{e)Touchstone:
Compare him with a few other Shakespeare
clowns, Gobbo and Autolycus,for instance. He is a greater general
favorite than any other of his kind;can you see why?
"
(/)RosaHnd:
characteristics that she
love at firstsightseem
{g)Celia:
Rosalind
more
first makes
What
Do
reasonable?
lovable?
again Act III,ii,for
IV. Contrast and
one
like Rosalind?
in the
evinces
successively
note
you
us
how
Name
Remember
play.
Does
the
the
her situation.
Shakespeare's
handlingof
a
Name
Celia makes
few of Celia'scharacteristics. Reaa
of Celia's moods.
Parallelism.
"
Contrasts
in character should
be
thoughtout; as, Oliver and Orlando,Duke S. and Duke F.,Duke S.
and Jaques. Contrasts in the same
character;
as, Oliver earlyand
later in the play. Contrasts in situation;
as, Oliver's wooing and
Touchstone's.
ought to be worked out; as,
parallelisms
Similarly,
situations when
Oliver's and Rosahnd's
banished;Shakespeare's
SUGGESTIONS
112
of Adam
handling
interest
our
in
and
Celia
Orlando
and
V.
Form.
As
verse.
Point
"
meter.
Select
account
for
the
of
of
its
or
who
characters
noted
for
heighten
to
move
the
it
and
throughout
speak
to
because
i. e.,
"
triteness, coUoquialness,
their
try
occur
thought
in
normal
Note
verse,
the
us
etc.
in
Does
of
to
lyrics.
and
other.
nature
and
sight,
its
prose
the
the
play
variation
of
both
to
one
the
first
at
instances
particularly
of
respectively,
of love
cases
from
wisdom,
any
Rosalind,
because
or
STUDY.
early part
containing
change
beauty,
there
Are
the
speaker,
depth,
It is
scene
a
the
specific
out
Like
You
in
the
them;
compassionate
to
FOR
its
simplicity?
alone
prose
in
or
alone?
verse
VI.
the
Memory
Passages.
if so,
teacher;
of
worthy
wisdom,
have
the
VII.
or
been
songs
both
of
studied
similarity
profitably
student's
life,and
as
a
and
Character
notebook
might
succinct
as
a
set
the
the
show
a
character
selected
their
for
or
by
them
classify
to
as
power,
affairs.
human
to
Why
music?
to
play might
Merchant
be
now
of
noted.
Venice
This
with
compared
and
"
points
has
work
been
debate.
classroom
of
be
been
poetic beauty,
difference
of
able
application
This
"
say,
"
and
conducted
Life
VIII.
Study.
have
may
now
their
repeatedly
so
Comparative
previously
one
for
universal
their
these
of
should
student
memorized
being
their
the
Some
"
Author.
Under
"
chronological
sketch
of
this
table
Shakespeare
caption,
of
the
as
the
author's
the
student
write.
can
Critical
IX.
his
own,
selections
views
work.
of
is at
of
the
Opinion.
this
standard
critics.
"
point
The
student,
prepared
criticism,
This
can
be
read
to
and
made
who
to
now
with
agree
a
very
or
has
some
pleasure
take
issue
views
and
profit
with
interesting part
of
of
the
the
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