Page:As You Like It (1919) Yale.djvu/89

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
As You Like It, IV. i
77

Ros. Are you not good?

Orl. I hope so.

Ros. Why then, can one desire too much of
a good thing?—Come, sister, you shall be the
priest and marry us.—Give me your hand, Or-
lando. What do you say, sister?

Orl. Pray thee, marry us. 132

Cel. I cannot say the words.

Ros. You must begin,—'Will you, Orlando,'—

Cel. Go to.—Will you, Orlando, have to wife
this Rosalind? 136

Orl. I will.

Ros. Ay, but when?

Orl. Why now; as fast as she can marry us.

Ros. Then you must say, 'I take thee, Ro-
salind, for wife.' 141

Orl. I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.

Ros. I might ask you for your commission;
but, I do take thee, Orlando, for my husband:
there's a girl goes before the priest; and, cer-
tainly, a woman's thought runs before her ac-
tions. 147

Orl. So do all thoughts; they are winged.

Ros. Now tell me how long you would have
her after you have possessed her?

Orl. For ever and a day. 151

Ros. Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no,
Orlando; men are April when they woo, De-
cember when they wed: maids are May when
they are maids, but the sky changes when they
are wives. I will be more jealous of thee than
a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more cla-

135 Go to: here an ejaculation of assent
145 there's . . . goes; cf. n.