Comedy plays; Exiles -- Drama; Fathers and daughters -- Drama; Pastoral drama
though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and
scrippage.
Exeunt CORIN and TOUCHSTONE
CELIA. Didst thou hear these verses?
ROSALIND. O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of
them
had in them more feet than the verses would bear.
CELIA. That's no matter; the feet might bear the verses.
ROSALIND. Ay, but the feet were lame, and could not bear
themselves
without the verse, and therefore stood lamely in the verse.
CELIA. But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name
should be
hang'd and carved upon these trees?
ROSALIND. I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder before
you
came; for look here what I found on a palm-tree. I was never
so
berhym'd since Pythagoras' time that I was an Irish rat,
which I
can hardly remember.
CELIA. Trow you who hath done this?
ROSALIND. Is it a man?
CELIA. And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck.
Change you colour?
ROSALIND. I prithee, who?
CELIA. O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to meet;
but
mountains may be remov'd with earthquakes, and so encounter.
ROSALIND. Nay, but who is it?
CELIA. Is it possible?
ROSALIND. Nay, I prithee now, with most petitionary vehemence,
tell
me who it is.
CELIA. O wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful wonderful, and
yet
again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!
ROSALIND. Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am
caparison'd like a man, I have a doublet and hose in my
disposition? One inch of delay more is a South Sea of
discovery.
I prithee tell me who is it quickly, and speak apace. I would
thou could'st stammer, that thou mightst pour this conceal'd
man
out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of narrow-mouth'd bottle-
either too much at once or none at all. I prithee take the
cork
out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings.
CELIA. So you may put a man in your belly.
ROSALIND. Is he of God's making? What manner of man?
Is his head worth a hat or his chin worth a beard?
CELIA. Nay, he hath but a little beard.
ROSALIND. Why, God will send more if the man will be thankful.
Let
me stay the growth of his beard, if thou delay me not the
knowledge of his chin.
CELIA. It is young Orlando, that tripp'd up the wrestler's
heels
and your heart both in an instant.
ROSALIND. Nay, but the devil take mocking! Speak sad brow and
true
maid.
CELIA. I' faith, coz, 'tis he.
ROSALIND. Orlando?
CELIA. Orlando.
ROSALIND. Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and
hose?
What did he when thou saw'st him? What said he? How look'd
he?
Wherein went he? What makes he here? Did he ask for me? Where
remains he? How parted he with thee? And when shalt thou see
him
again? Answer me in one word.
CELIA. You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first; 'tis a word
too
great for any mouth of this age's size. To say ay and no to
these
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