As You Like It: Act V

The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and lips to open.

For it is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty the other.

Therefore, you clown, abandon—which is in the vulgar “leave”—the society—which in the boorish is “company”—of this female—which in the common is “woman”; which together is, abandon the society of this female, or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage.

Therefore, you clown, abandon—which is in the vulgar “leave”—the society—which in the boorish is “company”—of this female—which in the common is “woman”; which together is, abandon the society of this female, or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage.

I will bandy with thee in faction.

They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid the Duke to the nuptial.

I will weary you then no longer with idle talking.

I have, since I was three year old, conversed with a magician, most profound in
his art and yet not damnable.

I know into what straits of fortune she is driven, and it is not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow, human as she is, and without any danger.

It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
That o’er the green cornfield did pass
In springtime, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.

Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untunable.

But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born
And hath been tutored in the rudiments
Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
Whom he reports to be a great magician
Obscurèd in the circle of this forest.

But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born
And hath been tutored in the rudiments
Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
Whom he reports to be a great magician
Obscurèd in the circle of this forest.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster.

By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.

According to the fool’s bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases.

This is called “the retort courteous.”

This is called “the quip modest.”

This is called “the reply churlish.”

This is called “the reproof valiant.”

This is called “the countercheck quarrelsome,” and so to “the lie circumstantial,” and “the lie direct.”

This is called “the countercheck quarrelsome,” and so to “the lie circumstantial,” and “the lie direct.”

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

Meantime, forget this new-fall’n dignity,
And fall into our rustic revelry.

Meantime, forget this new-fall’n dignity,
And fall into our rustic revelry.—

Sir, by your patience: if I heard you rightly,
The Duke hath put on a religious life
And thrown into neglect the pompous court.

And you to wrangling, for thy loving voyage
Is but for two months victualled.
So to your pleasures.

We’ll begin these rites,
As we do trust they’ll end, in true delights.

What a case am I in then that am neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play!

And I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women—as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them—that between you and the women the play may please.