My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! But it is a pathos entirely different from that which later tinges her sad good-night to her mother and nurse when she has determined to counterfeit death: Farewell!--God knows when we shall meet again. Miss Neilson also possesses, in an eminent degree, the power to portray that sly humor without malice known as _archness_. In the earlier phases of Juliet's career, and throughout the whole impersonation of Rosalind in _As You Like It_, this accomplishment stands the actress in good stead: she undoubtedly owes to it much of her power to charm. It strikes one when she first comes on the stage as Juliet and gently checks the garrulous old Nurse, taking up the thread of the discourse-- And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I again, in her witty word-fencing with the mock palmer at the ball-- For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss; so too in the garden-scene, when she half rebukes herself, and all encourages her lover-- O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully; Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. And she shows it wonderfully in her coaxing, half-pettish behavior to the provoking old woman--talkative and reticent by fits and starts, now whining and now laughing--who has been to seek out Romeo, and brought back news of him. In _As You Like It_, Rosalind's bright humor ripples and laughs like a silver brook through the glades of Ardennes, and trickles gently even into the epilogue: in this lively comedy--so much lighter and easier than the heavy tragedy we are discussing too--love and despair never come to overlay and destroy the arch humor. If there be any defect in the performance of the banished princess, it must still remain, like Orlando's verses, tacked to some tree in the forest, but, unlike those verses, still unseen.