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Act 3, Scene 4

Another part of the Forest. Before a Cottage.

  1. [Enter ROSALIND and CELIA.]
  2. Rosalind
  3. 1530 Never talk to me; I will weep.
  4. Celia
  5. 1531 Do, I pr'ythee; but yet have the grace to consider that
  6. 1532 tears do not become a man.
  7. Rosalind
  8. 1533 But have I not cause to weep?
  9. Celia
  10. 1534 As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep.
  11. Rosalind
  12. 1535 His very hair is of the dissembling colour.
  13. Celia
  14. 1536 Something browner than Judas's: marry, his kisses are Judas's own
  15. 1537 children.
  16. Rosalind
  17. 1538 I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.
  18. Celia
  19. 1539 An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour.
  20. Rosalind
  21. 1540 And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy
  22. 1541 bread.
  23. Celia
  24. 1542 He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun of
  25. 1543 winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice
  26. 1544 of chastity is in them.
  27. Rosalind
  28. 1545 But why did he swear he would come this morning, and comes not?
  29. Celia
  30. 1546 Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.
  31. Rosalind
  32. 1547 Do you think so?
  33. Celia
  34. 1548 Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer; but
  35. 1549 for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered
  36. 1550 goblet or a worm-eaten nut.
  37. Rosalind
  38. 1551 Not true in love?
  39. Celia
  40. 1552 Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in.
  41. Rosalind
  42. 1553 You have heard him swear downright he was.
  43. Celia
  44. 1554 'Was' is not 'is': besides, the oath of a lover is no
  45. 1555 stronger than the word of a tapster; they are both the
  46. 1556 confirmer of false reckonings. He attends here in the forest
  47. 1557 on the duke, your father.
  48. Rosalind
  49. 1558 I met the duke yesterday, and had much question with
  50. 1559 him. He asked me of what parentage I was; I told him, of as good
  51. 1560 as he; so he laughed and let me go. But what talk we of fathers
  52. 1561 when there is such a man as Orlando?
  53. Celia
  54. 1562 O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave
  55. 1563 words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite
  56. 1564 traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puny tilter,
  57. 1565 that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a
  58. 1566 noble goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly guides.
  59. 1567 —Who comes here?
  60. [Enter CORIN.]
  61. Corin
  62. 1568 Mistress and master, you have oft enquired
  63. 1569 After the shepherd that complain'd of love,
  64. 1570 Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,
  65. 1571 Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
  66. 1572 That was his mistress.
  67. Celia
  68. 1573 Well, and what of him?
  69. Corin
  70. 1574 If you will see a pageant truly play'd
  71. 1575 Between the pale complexion of true love
  72. 1576 And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,
  73. 1577 Go hence a little, and I shall conduct you,
  74. 1578 If you will mark it.
  75. Rosalind
  76. 1579 O, come, let us remove:
  77. 1580 The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
  78. 1581 Bring us to this sight, and you shall say
  79. 1582 I'll prove a busy actor in their play.
  80. [Exeunt.]