The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Ros._ Peace, fool: he’s not thy kinsman.
_Cor._ Who calls?
_Touch._ Your betters, sir.
_Cor._ Else are they very wretched.
_Ros._ Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend.
_Cor._ And to you, gentle sir, and to you all. 65
_Ros._ I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold
Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed:
Here’s a young maid with travel much oppress’d
And faints for succour.
_Cor._ Fair sir, I pity her 70
And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,
My fortunes were more able to relieve her;
But I am shepherd to another man
And do not shear the fleeces that I graze:
My master is of churlish disposition 75
And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality:
Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed
Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now,
By reason of his absence, there is nothing 80
That you will feed on; but what is, come see,
And in my voice most welcome shall you be.
_Ros._ What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?
_Cor._ That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,
That little cares for buying any thing. 85
_Ros._ I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,
Buy thou the cottage, pasture and the flock,
And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.
_Cel._ And we will mend thy wages. I like this place,
And willingly could waste my time in it. 90
_Cor._ Assuredly the thing is to be sold:
Go with me: if you like upon report
The soil, the profit and this kind of life,
I will your very faithful feeder be
And buy it with your gold right suddenly. [_Exeunt._ 95
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Linenotes: _As You Like It_, II, 4.
SCENE IV...Enter...] Enter Rosaline...and Clowne, alias
Touchstone. Ff.
1: _weary_] Theobald (Warburton). _merry_ Ff.
8: _cannot_] F1. _can_ F2 F3 F4.
13: _Arden_] _a den_ Upton conj.
16, 17: S. Walker would read as verse _Ay, Be so...here; A
young...talk._
16: Enter C. and S.] Ff (after line 15).
24: _ever_] F1. _ere_ F2 F3 F4.
30: _ne’er_] Rowe. _never_ Ff.
34: _sat_] F1. _sate_ F2 F3 F4. _spake_ Collier MS.
35: _Wearing_] F1. _Wearying_ F2 F3 F4. _Wear’ing_ Grant White.
39: [Exit.] F1. Exeunt. F2 F3 F4.
41: _of thy wound_] Rowe. _of they would_ F1. _of their wound_ F2
F3 F4.
45: _a-night_] _a night_ F1. _a nights_ F2 F3 F4. _o’ nights_
Capell. _o’ night_ Malone.
46: _batlet_] F2 F3 F4. _batler_ F1.
48: _cods_] _peas_ Johnson conj.
56: _Jove, Jove_] _Love, Love_ Collier (Collier MS.).
57: _much upon_] _too much on_ Collier (from Collier MS).
58: After this line Collier (from Collier MS.) inserts _And begins
to fail with me._
59: _yond_] _you’d_ Ff.
63: _are they very_] _they are_ Rowe (ed. 1) _they are very_ Rowe
(ed. 2). _they’re very_ Hanmer.
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