As You Like It: ACT III
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III SCENE I. A room in the palace. SCENE II. The forest. SCENE III. The forest. SCENE IV. The forest. SCENE V. Another part of the forest. ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE IV. The forest. Enter ROSALIND and CELIA ROSALIND       Never talk to me; I will weep. CELIA       Do, I prithee; but yet have the grace to consider       that tears do not become a man. ROSALIND       But have I not cause to weep? CELIA 5     As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep. ROSALIND       His very hair is of the dissembling colour. CELIA       Something browner than Judas's marry, his kisses are       Judas's own children. ROSALIND       I' faith, his hair is of a good colour. CELIA 10    An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour. ROSALIND       And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch       of holy bread. CELIA       He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun       of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; 15    the very ice of chastity is in them. ROSALIND       But why did he swear he would come this morning, and       comes not? CELIA       Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him. ROSALIND       Do you think so? CELIA 20    Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a       horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do       think him as concave as a covered goblet or a       worm-eaten nut. ROSALIND       Not true in love? CELIA 25    Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in. ROSALIND       You have heard him swear downright he was. CELIA       'Was' is not 'is:' besides, the oath of a lover is       no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are       both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends 30    here in the forest on the duke your father. ROSALIND       I met the duke yesterday and had much question with       him: he asked me of what parentage I was; I told       him, of as good as he; so he laughed and let me go.       But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a 35    man as Orlando? CELIA       O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses,       speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks       them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of       his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse 40    but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble       goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly       guides. Who comes here? Enter CORIN CORIN       Mistress and master, you have oft inquired       After the shepherd that complain'd of love, 45    Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,       Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess       That was his mistress. CELIA       Well, and what of him? CORIN       If you will see a pageant truly play'd, 50    Between the pale complexion of true love       And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,       Go hence a little and I shall conduct you,       If you will mark it. ROSALIND       O, come, let us remove: 55    The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.       Bring us to this sight, and you shall say       I'll prove a busy actor in their play. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene