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Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,

Or else, refusing me, to wed this shepherd;

Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her,

If she refuse me: and from hence I go,

To make these doubts all even.

Exeunt Rosalind and Celia.

Duke S. I do remember in this shepherd boy

Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.

Orl. My lord, the first time that I ever saw him,

Methought he was a brother to your daughter;

But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,

And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments

Of many desperate studies by his uncle,

Whom he reports to be a great magician,

Obscured in the circle of this forest.

Jaq. There is, sure, another flood toward, and

these couples are coming to the ark. Here comes

a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues

are called fools.

Touch. Salutation and greeting to you all!

Jaq. Good my lord, bid him welcome. This

is the motley-minded gentleman that I have so

often met in the forest: he hath been a courtier,

he swears.

Touch. If any man doubt that, let him put

me to my purgation. I have trod a measure; I

have flattered a lady; I have been politic with

my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have un-

done three tailors; I have had four quarrels,

and like to have fought one.

 25 doubts: ambiguities

32 desperate: reckless, heterodox

34 Obscured: hidden, or, living in retirement

35 toward: forthcoming

44 put purgation; cf. n.

45 measure: stately dance

47 undone three tailors; cf. n. 