the degrees. The first, the Retort courteous; the second, the Quip modeft; the third, the Reply churlifh; the fourth, the Reproof valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck quarrelsome; the fixth, the Lye with circumstance; the seventh, the Lye direct. All these you may avoid, but the Lye direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. I knew, when seven Juftices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If; as, if you faid so, then I faid fo; and they fhook hands, and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

Jaq. Is not this a rare fellow, my Lord? he's good at any thing, and yet a fool.

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

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VII.

... Enter Hymen, Rofalind in woman's cloaths,

and Celia.

STILL MUSICK.

Hym. Then is there mirth in heav'n,

When earthly things-made even
Atone together.

Good Duke, receive thy daughter,
Hymen from heaven brought her,
Yea, brought ber bither :
That thou might'ft join her hand with his,
Whose heart within his bosom is.

Rof. To you I give myself; for I am yours.

[To the Duke.

To you I give myfelf; for I am yours. [To Orlando.

Enter Hymen.] Rosalind is ment, and is therefore introduced imagined by the rest of the com by a supposed aerial being in the pany to be brought by enchant- character of Hymen. H 4

Duke

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Duke Sen. If there be truth in fight, you are my daughter.

Orla. If there be truth in sight *, you are my Rofalind.

Phe. If fight and shape be true,

Why, then my love adieu!

Rof. I'll have no father, if you be not he.

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.
Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.
Hym. Peace, hoa! I bar confusion:
'Tis I must make conclufion

Of these most strange events;
Here's eight that must take hands,
To join in Hymen's bands,

If truth holds true contents 42

You and you no Cross shall part;

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[To the Duke. [To Orlando. [To Phebe.

[To Orlando and Rosalind. You and you are heart in hearts al pot

[To Oliver and Celia. You to his love must accord, lo to not Looted ms I Or have a woman to your lord.: [To Phebe. You and you are sure together, As the winter to foul weather:

[To the Clown and Audrey.

Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,

Feed yourselves with questioningen

That reason wonder may diminish,

How thus we meet, and these things finish.

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* If there be truth in fight.] cannot ufurp the form of another. The answer of Phebe makes it 4 If truth holds true contents.] probable that Orlando says, if That is, if there be truth in there be truth in shape: that is, truth, unless truth fails of veraif a form may be trusted; if one city,

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SONG.

Wedding is great Juno's Crown,
O bleffed bond of board and bed!
'Tis Hymen peoples every town,
High wedlock then be honoured :
Honour, high honour and renown
To Hymen, God of every town!

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Duke Sen. O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me,

Ev'n daughter-welcome, in no less degree.

Phe. I will not eat my word-now thou art mine,

Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.

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Jaq. de B. Let me have audience for a word or

two

I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,

That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.

Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
Men of great worth reforted to this forest,.....
Address'd a mighty power, which were on foot
In his own conduct purposely to take
His brother here, and put him to the sword':
And to the skirts of this wild wood he came,...
Where meeting with an old religious man,
After some question with him, was converted
Both from his enterprize, and from the world;
His Crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,
And all their lands restor'd to them again,
That were with him exil'd. This to be true,
I do engage my life.

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Duke Sen. Welcome, young man :
Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding;
To one, his lands with-held; and to the other,
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A land

A land itself at large, a potent Dukedom.
First, in this forest, let us do those ends
That here were well begun, and well begot:
And, after, every of this happy number,
That have endur'd shrewd days and nights with us
Shall share the good of our returned fortune,ht
According to the measure of their states.
Mean time, forget this new-fall'n dignity,
And fall into our rustick revelry:
Play, musick; and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to th' measures fall.

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

Jaq. de B. He hath.

Jag. To him will I: out of these convertites There is much matter to be heard and learn'd. You to your former Honour I bequeath. [To the Duke. Your patience and your virtue well deserve it. You to a love, that your true faith doth merit;

[To Orla.

You to your land, and love, and great allies;

You to a long and well-deserved bed;

And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage

[To Oli. [To Silv.

[To the Clown.

Is but for two months victual'd-fo to your pleasures:
I am for other than for dancing meafures.
Duke Sen. Stay, Jaques, stay.

Faq. To fée no pastime, I-what you would have,
I'll stay to know at your abandon'd Cave.
Duke Sen. Proceed, proceed; we will begin these

rites;

As, we do trust, they'll end, in true delights.

[Exit.

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Ref. It is not the fashion to see the lady the Epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome, than to fee the lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good Play needs no Epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes; and good Plays prove the better by the help of good Epilogues. What a cafe am I in then, that am neither a good Epilogue, nor can infinuate with you in the behalf of a good Play? I am not furnish'd like a beggar; therefore to beg will not become me. My way is to conjure you, and I'll begin with the women. I charge you, O women', for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this Play as pleases you and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women (as I perceive by your fimpring, none of you hate them)

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- What a cafe am I in then, &c.] Here feems to be a chasm, or fome other depravation, which destroys the sentiment here intended. The reasoning probably stood thus, Good wine needs no bush, good plays need no epilogue, but bad wine requires a good bush, and a bad play a good Epilogue. What cafe am I in then? To reftore the words is impofsible; all that can be done with out copies is, to note the fault.

6- furnish'd like a beggar;] That is, dressed: fo before, he was furnished like a huntsman.

- I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleases YOU:, and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, that between you and the women, &c.] This passage should be read thus, I charge you, O wo

men, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleases THEM: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, - TO LIKE AS MUCH AS PLEASES THEM, that between you and the women, &c. Without the alteration of You into Them, the invocation is nonsense; and without the addition of the words, to like as much as pleases them, the inference of, that between you and the women the play may pass, would be unsupported by any precedent premises. The words seem to have been struck out by some senseless Player, as a vicious redundancy.

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