As You Like It: ACT V
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. The forest. SCENE II. The forest. SCENE III. The forest. SCENE IV. The forest. EPILOGUE 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 I. The forest. Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY TOUCHSTONE       We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey. AUDREY       Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old       gentleman's saying. TOUCHSTONE       A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile 5     Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the       forest lays claim to you. AUDREY       Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in       the world: here comes the man you mean. TOUCHSTONE       It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my 10    troth, we that have good wits have much to answer       for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold. Enter WILLIAM WILLIAM       Good even, Audrey. AUDREY       God ye good even, William. WILLIAM       And good even to you, sir. TOUCHSTONE 15    Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy       head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend? WILLIAM       Five and twenty, sir. TOUCHSTONE       A ripe age. Is thy name William? WILLIAM       William, sir. TOUCHSTONE 20    A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here? WILLIAM       Ay, sir, I thank God. TOUCHSTONE       'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich? WILLIAM       Faith, sir, so so. TOUCHSTONE       'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and 25    yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise? WILLIAM       Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit. TOUCHSTONE       Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying,       'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man       knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen 30    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. You do love this maid? WILLIAM       I do, sir. TOUCHSTONE 35    Give me your hand. Art thou learned? WILLIAM       No, sir. TOUCHSTONE       Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it       is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out       of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty 40    the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse       is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he. WILLIAM       Which he, sir? TOUCHSTONE       He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you       clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the 45    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 50    thee away, translate thy life into death, thy       liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with       thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy       with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with       policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways: 55    therefore tremble and depart. AUDREY       Do, good William. WILLIAM       God rest you merry, sir. Exit Enter CORIN CORIN       Our master and mistress seeks you; come, away, away! TOUCHSTONE       Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene