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Act 5 Scene 4

(Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, Jaques, Orlando, Oliver, and Celia as Aliena)
l1l    Duke Senior    Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
l2l        Can do all this that he hath promisΦd?
l3l    Orlando    I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not,
l4l        As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.
        (Enter Rosalind as Ganymede, with Silvius and Phoebe)
l5l    Rosalind    Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged.
l6l        (To the Duke) You say if I bring in your Rosalind
l7l        You will bestow her on Orlando here?
l8l    Duke Senior    That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.
    Rosalind    (to Orlando)
l9l        And you say you will have her when I bring her?
l10l    Orlando    That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.
l11l    Rosalind    (to Phoebe) You say youÆll marry me if I be willing?
l12l    Phoebe    That will I, should I die the hour after.
l13l    Rosalind    But if you do refuse to marry me
l14l        YouÆll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?
l15l    Phoebe    So is the bargain.
l16l    Rosalind    (to Silvius) You say that youÆll have Phoebe if she will.
l17l    Silvius    Though to have her and death were both one thing.
l18l    Rosalind    I have promised to make all this matter even.
l19l        Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daughter.
l20l        You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter.
l21l        Keep your word, Phoebe, that youÆll marry me,
l22l        Or else refusing me to wed this shepherd.
l23l        Keep your word, Silvius, that youÆll marry her
l24l        If she refuse me; and from hence I go
l25l        To make these doubts all even.
        (Exeunt Rosalind and Celia)
l26l    Duke Senior    I do remember in this shepherd boy
l27l        Some lively touches of my daughterÆs favour.
l28l    Orlando    My lord, the first time that I ever saw him,
l29l        Methought he was a brother to your daughter.
l30l        But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,
l31l        And hath been tutored in the rudiments
l32l        Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
l33l        Whom he reports to be a great magician
l34l        ObscurΦd in the circle of this forest.
        (Enter Touchstone the clown and Audrey)
l35l    Jaques    There is sure another flood toward, and these
l36l        couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of
l37l        very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called
l38l        fools.
l39l    Touchstone    Salutation and greeting to you all.
l40l    Jaques    (to the Duke) Good my lord, bid him welcome. This
l41l        is the motley-minded gentleman that I have so often
l42l        met in the forest. He hath been a courtier, he swears.
l43l    Touchstone    If any man doubt that, let him put me to my
l44l        purgation. I have trod a measure, I have flattered a
l45l        lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with
l46l        mine enemy, I have undone three tailors, I have had
l47l        four quarrels, and like to have fought one.
l48l    Jaques    And how was that taÆen up?
l49l    Touchstone    Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was
l50l        upon the seventh cause.
l51l    Jaques    How, seventh cause?ùGood my lord, like this
l52l        fellow.
l53l    Duke Senior    I like him very well.
l54l    Touchstone    God Æield you, sir, I desire you of the like. I
l55l        press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country
l56l        copulatives, to swear, and to forswear, according as
l57l        marriage binds and blood breaks. A poor virgin, sir, an
l58l        ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. A poor humour
l59l        of mine, sir, to take that that no man else will. Rich
l60l        honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as
l61l        your pearl in your foul oyster.
l62l    Duke Senior    By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.
l63l    Touchstone    According to the foolÆs bolt, sir, and such
l64l        dulcet diseases.
l65l    Jaques    But for the seventh cause. How did you find the
l66l        quarrel on the seventh cause?
l67l    Touchstone    Upon a lie seven times removed.ùBear your
l68l        body more seeming, Audrey.ùAs thus, sir: I did dislike
l69l        the cut of a certain courtierÆs beard. He sent me word
l70l        if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind
l71l        it was. This is called the Retort Courteous. If I sent him
l72l        word again it was not well cut, he would send me
l73l        word he cut it to please himself. This is called the Quip
l74l        Modest. If again it was not well cut, he disabled my
l75l        judgement. This is called the Reply Churlish. If again
l76l        it was not well cut, he would answer I spake not true.
l77l        This is called the Reproof Valiant. If again it was not
l78l        well cut, he would say I lie. This is called the
l79l        Countercheck Quarrelsome. And so to the Lie
            Circumstantial,
l80l        and the Lie Direct.
l81l    Jaques    And how oft did you say his beard was not well
l82l        cut?
l83l    Touchstone    I durst go no further than the Lie
l84l        Circumstantial, nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct;
l85l        and so we measured swords, and parted.
l86l    Jaques    Can you nominate in order now the degrees of
l87l        the lie?
l88l    Touchstone    O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as
l89l        you have books for good manners. I will name you the
l90l        degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second,
l91l        the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the
l92l        fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck
l93l        Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the
l94l        seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but
l95l        the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that, too, with an
l96l        ôifö. I knew when seven justices could not take up a
l97l        quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves,
l98l        one of them thought but of an ôifö, as ôIf you said so,
l99l        then I said soö, and they shook hands and swore
l100l        brothers. Your ôifö is the only peacemaker; much virtue
l101l        in ôifö.
l102l    Jaques    (to the Duke) Is not this a rare fellow, my lord?
l103l        HeÆs as good at anything, and yet a fool.
l104l    Duke Senior    He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and
l105l        under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
        (Still music. Enter Hymen with Rosalind and Celia as
        themselves)
l106l    Hymen    Then is there mirth in heaven
l107l        When earthly things made even
l108l        Atone together.
l109l        Good Duke, receive thy daughter;
l110l        Hymen from heaven brought her,
l111l        Yea, brought her hither,
l112l        That thou mightst join her hand with his
l113l        Whose heart within his bosom is.
l114l    Rosalind    (to the Duke) To you I give myself, for I am yours.
l115l        (To Orlando) To you I give myself, for I am yours.
l116l    Duke Senior    If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.
l117l    Orlando    If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.
l118l    Phoebe    If sight and shape be true,
l119l        Why then, my love adieu!
l120l    Rosalind    (to the Duke) IÆll have no father if you be not he.
l121l        (To Orlando) IÆll have no husband if you be not he,
l122l        (To Phoebe) Nor neÆer wed woman if you be not she.
l123l    Hymen    Peace, ho, I bar confusion.
l124l        ÆTis I must make conclusion
l125l        Of these most strange events.
l126l        HereÆs eight that must take hands
l127l        To join in HymenÆs bands,
l128l        If truth holds true contents.
        (To Orlando and Rosalind)
l129l        You and you no cross shall part.
l130l        (To Oliver and Celia) You and you are heart in heart.
l131l        (To Phoebe) You to his love must accord,
l132l        Or have a woman to your lord.
l133l        (To Touchstone and Audrey) You and you are sure
together
l134l        As the winter to foul weather.ù
l135l        Whiles a wedlock hymn we sing,
l136l        Feed yourselves with questioning,
l137l        That reason wonder may diminish
l138l        How thus we met, and these things finish.
l139l        (Song)    Wedding is great JunoÆs crown,
l140l                    O blessΦd bond of board and bed.
l141l                ÆTis Hymen peoples every town.
l142l                    High wedlock then be honourΦd.
l143l                Honour, high honour and renown
l144l                To Hymen, god of every town.
l145l    Duke Senior    (to Celia) O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me,
l146l        Even daughter; welcome in no less degree.
l147l    Phoebe    (to Silvius) I will not eat my word. Now thou art mine,
l148l        Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.
        (Enter Jaques de Bois, the second brother)
l149l    Jaques De Bois    Let me have audience for a word or two.
l150l        I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,
l151l        That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.
l152l        Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
l153l        Men of great worth resorted to this forest,
l154l        Addressed a mighty power, which were on foot,
l155l        In his own conduct, purposely to take
l156l        His brother here, and put him to the sword.
l157l        And to the skirts of this wild wood he came
l158l        Where, meeting with an old religious man,
l159l        After some question with him was converted
l160l        Both from his enterprise and from the world,
l161l        His crown bequeathing to his banished brother,
l162l        And all their lands restored to them again
l163l        That were with him exiled. This to be true
l164l        I do engage my life.
    Duke Senior                        Welcome, young man.
l165l        Thou offerÆst fairly to thy brothersÆ wedding:
l166l        To one his lands withheld, and to the other
l167l        A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
l168l        First, in this forest let us do those ends
l169l        That here were well begun, and well begot.
l170l        And after, every of this happy number
l171l        That have endured shrewd days and nights with us
l172l        Shall share the good of our returnΦd fortune
l173l        According to the measure of their states.
l174l        Meantime, forget this new-fallen dignity
l175l        And fall into our rustic revelry.
l176l        Play, music, and you brides and bridegrooms all,
l177l        With measure heaped in joy to thÆ measures fall.
l178l    Jaques    Sir, by your patience.
        (To Jaques de Bois)    If I heard you rightly
l179l        The Duke hath put on a religious life
l180l        And thrown into neglect the pompous court.
l181l    Jaques De Bois    He hath.
l182l    Jaques    To him will I. Out of these convertites
l183l        There is much matter to be heard and learned.
l184l        (To the Duke) You to your former honour I bequeath;
l185l        Your patience and your virtue well deserves it.
l186l        (To Orlando) You to a love that your true faith doth merit;
l187l        (To Oliver) You to your land, and love, and great allies;
l188l        (To Silvius) You to a long and well-deservΦd bed;
        (To Touchstone)
l189l        And you to wrangling, for thy loving voyage
l190l        Is but for two months victualled.ùSo, to your pleasures;
l191l        I am for other than for dancing measures.
l192l    Duke Senior    Stay, Jaques, stay.
l193l    Jaques    To see no pastime, I. What you would have
l194l        IÆll stay to know at your abandoned cave.
        (Exit)
l195l    Duke Senior    Proceed, proceed. WeÆll so begin these rites
l196l        As we do trust theyÆll end, in true delights.
        (They dance; then exeunt all but Rosalind)