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As You Like It, V. iv

Jaq. And how was that ta'en up?

Touch. Faith, we met, and found the quarrel

was upon the seventh cause.

Jaq. How seventh cause? Good my lord,

like this fellow.

Duke S. I like him very well.

Touch. God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the

like. I press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the

country copulatives, to swear, and to forswear,

according as marriage binds and blood breaks.

A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but

mine own: a poor humour of mine, sir, to take

that that no man else will. Rich honesty dwells

like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl

in your foul oyster.

Duke S. By my faith, he is very swift and

sententious.

Touch. According to the fool's bolt, sir, and

such dulcet diseases.

Jaq. But, for the seventh cause; how did you

find the quarrel on the seventh cause?

Touch. Upon a lie seven times removed:—

bear your body more seeming, Audrey:—as thus,

sir. I did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's

beard: he sent me word, if I said his beard was

not cut well, he was in the mind it was: this is

called 'the retort courteous.' If I sent him word

again, it was not well cut, he would send me

word, he cut it to please himself: this is called

the 'quip modest.' If again, it was not well cut,

 50 ta'en up: made up

56 desire like; cf. n.

58 copulatives: i.e., persons about to be married

59 blood: passion

65 swift: quick-witted

66 sententious: pithy

67 fool's bolt: i.e., which is soon shot

68 dulcet diseases: sweet vexations (?)

72 seeming: becomingly

73 dislike: express disapproval of

79 'quip modest': i.e., a moderate flout 