Comedy plays; Exiles -- Drama; Fathers and daughters -- Drama; Pastoral drama
Ros. I doe so, I confesse it:
Ah, sirra, a body would thinke this was well counterfeited,
I pray you tell your brother how well I counterfeited:
heigh-ho
Oli. This was not counterfeit, there is too great testimony
in your complexion, that it was a passion of earnest
Ros. Counterfeit, I assure you
Oli. Well then, take a good heart, and counterfeit to
be a man
Ros. So I doe: but yfaith, I should haue beene a woman
by right
Cel. Come, you looke paler and paler: pray you draw
homewards: good sir, goe with vs
Oli. That will I: for I must beare answere backe
How you excuse my brother, Rosalind
Ros. I shall deuise something: but I pray you commend
my counterfeiting to him: will you goe?
Exeunt.
Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.
Enter Clowne and Awdrie.
Clow. We shall finde a time Awdrie, patience gentle
Awdrie
Awd. Faith the Priest was good enough, for all the
olde gentlemans saying
Clow. A most wicked Sir Oliuer, Awdrie, a most vile
Mar-text. But Awdrie, there is a youth heere in the
Forrest layes claime to you
Awd. I, I know who 'tis: he hath no interest in mee
in the world: here comes the man you meane.
Enter William.
Clo. It is meat and drinke to me to see a Clowne, by
my troth, we that haue good wits, haue much to answer
for: we shall be flouting: we cannot hold
Will. Good eu'n Audrey
Aud. God ye good eu'n William
Will. And good eu'n to you Sir
Clo. Good eu'n gentle friend. Couer thy head, couer
thy head: Nay prethee bee couer'd. How olde are you
Friend?
Will. Fiue and twentie Sir
Clo. A ripe age: Is thy name William?
Will. William, sir
Clo. A faire name. Was't borne i'th Forrest heere?
Will. I sir, I thanke God
Clo. Thanke God: A good answer:
Art rich?
Will. 'Faith sir, so, so
Cle. So, so, is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not, it is but so, so:
Art thou wise?
Will. I sir, I haue a prettie wit
Clo. Why, thou saist well. I do now remember a saying:
The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman
knowes himselfe to be a Foole. The Heathen Philosopher,
when he had a desire to eate a Grape, would open
his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby,
that Grapes were made to eate, and lippes to open.
You do loue this maid?
Will. I do sir
Clo. Giue me your hand: Art thou Learned?
Will. No sir
Clo. Then learne this of me, To haue, is to haue. For
it is a figure in Rhetoricke, that drink being powr'd out
of a cup into a glasse, by filling the one, doth empty the
other. For all your Writers do consent, that ipse is hee:
now you are not ipse, for I am he
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