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Page. Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking, or spitting, or faying we are hoarfe, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?

2 Page. I'faith, i'faith, and both in a tune, like two Gypfies on a horse.

SONG 3.

It was a lover and his lafs,

With a bey, and a bo, and a bey nonino,
That o'er the green corn field did pass,

In the fpring time; the pretty fpring time,
When birds did fing, bey ding a ding, ding,
Sweet lovers love the spring.

Between the acres of the rye,

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With a bey, and a bo, and a bey ncnino,
These pretty country-folks would lie,

In the fpring time, &c.

The Carrol they began that hour,

With a bey, and a bo, and a hey nonino,

How that a life was but a flower,

In the spring time, &c.

And therefore take the prefent time,

With a bey, and a bo, and a bey nonino;

For love is crowned with the prime,
In the Spring time, &c.

Clo. Truly, young gentleman, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very un

tunable 4.

3 The ftanzas of this fong are in all the editions evidently tranfpofed: as I have regulated them, that which in the former copies VOL. II.

I Page.

was the ad ftanza is now the last.

Truly, young Gentleman, tho' there was no great Matter in the Ditty, yet the note was very un

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tunable.]

1 Page. You are deceiv'd, Sir, we kept time, we' loft not our time.

Clo. By my troth, yes: I count it but time lost to hear fuch a foolish Song. God b'w'you, and God: mend your voices. Come, Audrey.

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[Exeunt.

Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, Jaques, Orlando, Oliver, and Celia.

Duke Sen. DOST thou believe, Orlando, that the

boy

Can do all this that he hath promised?

Orla. I fometimes do believe, and fometimes do

not;

As those that fear, they hope, and know they fear".

Enter Rofalind, Silvius, and Phebe.

Rof. Patience once more, whiles our compact is urg'd:

tunable.] Tho' it is thus in all the printed Copies, it is evident, from the Sequel of the Dialogue, that the Poet wrote as I have reform'd in the Text, untimeableTime and Tune, are frequently mifprinted for one another in the old editions of Shakespeare.

THEOBALD. This emendation is received, I think very undeservedly, by Dr. Warburton.

5 As thofe that fear THEY HOPE, and know THEY fear.] This ftrange nonfenfe should be read thus.

As thofe that fear THEIR HAP, and know THEIR fear. i. e. As thofe who fear the iffue of a thing when they know their fear to be well grounded.

WARBURTON.

The depravation of this line is evident, but I do not think the learned Commentator's emend ation very happy. I read thus,

As those that fear with hope, and hope with fear. Or thus, with less alteration,

As thofe that fear, they hope, and now they fear. You

[To the Duke,

You fay, if I bring in your Rofalind,
You will bestow her on Orlando here?
Duke Sen. That would I, had I Kingdoms to give

with her.

her.

Rof. And you fay, you will have her when I bring [To Orlando. Orla. That would I, were I of all Kingdoms King. Rof. You fay, you'll marry me, if I be willing.

[To Phebe. Phe. That will I, fhould I die the hour after. Raf. But if you do refufe to marry me, You'll give yourself to this moft faithful fhepherd. Phe. So is the bargain.

Rof. You fay that you will have Phebe if the will?

[To Silvius. Sil. Tho' to have her and death were both one

thing.

Rof. I've promis'd to make all this matter even. Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daugh

ter:

You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter:

Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,
Or elfe, refusing me, to wed this fhepherd:
Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her,
If the refufe me; and from hence I go
To make these doubts all even."

[Exeunt Rof. and Celia.
Duke Sen. I do remember in this fhepherd-boy
Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.
Orla. My lord, the first time that I ever faw him,
Methought he was a brother to your daughter;
But, my good Lord, this boy is foreft-born,
And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments

Of many defperate ftudies by his uncle;
Whom he reports to be a great magician,
Obscured in the circle of this foreft.

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SCENE VI.

Enter Clown and Audrey.

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Jaq. There is, fure, another flood toward, and thefe couples are coming to the Ark. Here come a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are call'd fools.

Clo. Salutation, and greeting, to you all!

Jaq. Good, my Lord, bid him welcome. This is the motley-minded gentleman, that I have fo often met in the foreft: he hath been a Courtier, he fwears.

Clo. If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation. I have trod a meafure; I have flatter'd a lady; I have been politick with my friend, fmooth with mine enemy; I have undone three taylors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought one.

Jaq. And how was that ta'en up.

Clo. 'Faith, we met; and found, the quarrel was upon the seventh cause 7.

Jaq. How the feventh cause?-Good my lord, like this fellow.

Duke Sen. I like him very well.

Clo. God'ild you, Sir, I defire you of the like: I press in here, Sir, among the reft of the country cÒpulatives, to fwear and to forfwear, according as

• Here come a pair of VERY STRANGE beafts, &c.] What! frange beafts? and yet fuch as have a name in all fanguages? Noah's Ark is here alluded to; into which the clean beafts entered by sevens, and the unclean by to, male and female. It is plain then that Shakespeare wrote, bere come a pair of UNCLEAN beafts, which is highly humourWARBURTON. Strange beafts are only what we call odd animals. There is

ous.

no need of any alteration.

7 We found the quarrel was upon the feventh caufe.] So all the copies; but it is apparent from the fequel that we must read, the quarrel was not upon the feventh caufe.

8 I defire you of the like.] We fhould read, I defire of you the like. On the Duke's faying, I like him very well, he replies, I defire you will give me caufe that I may like you too.

WARBURTON.

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marriage binds, and blood breaks—a poor virgin, Sir, an ill-favour'd thing, Sir, but mine own — a poor humour of mine, Sir, to take That that no man else will. Rich honefty dwells like a mifer, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl, in your foul oyster. Duke Sen. By my faith, he is very swift and fententious. Clo. According to the fool's bolt, Sir, and fuch dulçet diseases *,

Jaq. But, for the feventh caufe; how did you find the quarrel on the seventh caufe?

Clo. Upon a lye feven times removed; (bear your body more feeming, Audrey) as thus, Sir, I did diflike the cut of a certain Courtier's beard'; he sent me word, if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was. This is call'd the Retort courteous. If I fent him word again it was not well cut, he would fend me word he cut it to please himself. This is call'd the Quip modeft. If again, it was not well cut, he difabled my judgment. This is call'd the Reply churlish. If again, it was not well cut, he would anfwer, I fpake not true. This is call'd the Reproof valiant. If again, it was not well cut, he would fay, I lye. This is call'd the Countercheck quarrelsome; and so, the Lye circumftantial, and the Lye direct.

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