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Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY
| TOUCHSTONE
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We shall find a time,
Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey. |
| AUDREY
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Faith, the priest was good
enough, for all the old
gentleman's saying. |
| TOUCHSTONE
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A most wicked Sir Oliver,
Audrey, a most vile
Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the
forest lays claim to you. |
| AUDREY
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Ay, I know who 'tis; he
hath no interest in me in
the world: here comes the man you mean. |
| TOUCHSTONE
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It is meat and drink to me
to see a clown: by my
troth, we that have good wits have much to answer
for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold. |
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[Enter WILLIAM]
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| WILLIAM
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Good even, Audrey.
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| AUDREY
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God ye good even, William.
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| WILLIAM
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And good even to you, sir.
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| TOUCHSTONE
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Good even, gentle friend.
Cover thy head, cover thy
head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend? |
| WILLIAM
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Five and twenty, sir.
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| TOUCHSTONE
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A ripe age. Is thy name
William? |
| WILLIAM
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William, sir. |
| TOUCHSTONE
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A fair name. Wast born i'
the forest here? |
| WILLIAM
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Ay, sir, I thank God.
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| TOUCHSTONE
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'Thank God;' a good
answer. Art rich? |
| WILLIAM
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Faith, sir, so so.
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| TOUCHSTONE
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'So so' is good, very
good, very excellent good; and
yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise? |
| WILLIAM
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Ay, sir, I have a pretty
wit. |
| TOUCHSTONE
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Why, thou sayest 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 lips when he put it into his mouth;
meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and
lips to open. You do love this maid? |
| WILLIAM
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I do, sir. |
| TOUCHSTONE
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Give me your hand. Art
thou learned? |
| WILLIAM
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No, sir. |
| TOUCHSTONE
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Then learn this of me: to
have, is to have; for it
is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out
of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty
the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse
is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he. |
| WILLIAM
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Which he, sir?
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| TOUCHSTONE
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He, sir, that must marry
this woman. Therefore, you
clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the
society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this
female,--which in the common is woman; which
together is, abandon the society of this female, or,
clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better
understanding, diest; or, to wit I kill thee, make
thee away, translate thy life into death, thy
liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with
thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy
with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with
policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways:
therefore tremble and depart. |
| AUDREY
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Do, good William.
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| WILLIAM
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God rest you merry, sir.
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[Exit] |
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[Enter CORIN] |
| CORIN
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Our master and mistress
seeks you; come, away, away! |
| TOUCHSTONE
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Trip, Audrey! trip,
Audrey! I attend, I attend. |
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Act III, Scene 3 The Forest |
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Act I, Scene 1 Orchard of Oliver's house |
Act III, Scene 4 The Forest |
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Act I, Scene 2 Lawn Before the Duke's Palace |
Act III, Scene 5 Another Part of the Forest |
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Act I, Scene 3 A room in the Palace |
Act IV, Scene 1 The Forest |
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Act II, Scene 1 The Forest of Arden/Act II, Scene 2 A room in the Palace |
Act IV, Scene 2 The Forest/Act IV, Scene 3 The Forest |
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Act II, Scene 3 Before Oliver's House |
Act V, Scene 1 The Forest |
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Act II, Scene 4 The Forest of Arden |
Act V, Scene 2 The Forest |
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Act II, Scene 5 The Forest |
Act V, Scene 3 The Forest |
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Act V, Scene 4 The Forest |
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