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As You Like It, V. i

Will. Ay, sir, I thank God.

Touch. 'Thank God'; a good answer. Art

rich?

Will. Faith, sir, so so.

Touch. 'So so,' is good, very good, very excel-

lent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so. Art

thou wise?

Will. Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.

Touch. Why, thou sayest well. I do now re-

member a saying, 'The fool doth think he is

wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a

fool.' The heathen 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?

Will. I do, sir.

Touch. Give me your hand. Art thou learned?

Will. No, sir.

Touch. 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 fill-

ing the one doth empty the other; for all your

writers do consent that ipse is he: now, you are

not ipse, for I am he.

Will. Which he, sir?

Touch. He, sir, that must marry this woman.

Therefore, you clown, abandon,—which is in the

vulgar, leave,—the society,—which in the boorish

is, company,—of this female,—which in the com-

mon is, woman; which together is, abandon the

society of this female, or, clown, thou perishest;

or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit,

 49 ipse is he; cf. n. 