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As You Like It, III. ii

tray a she-lamb of a twelvemonth to a crooked- pated, old, cuckoldy ram, out of all reasonable match. If thou be'st not damned for this, the

devil himself will have no shepherds: I cannot

see else how thou shouldst 'scape.

Cor. Here comes young Master Ganymede,

my new mistress's brother.

Ros. 'From the east to western Ind,

No jewel is like Rosalind.

Her worth, being mounted on the wind,

Through all the world bears Rosalind.

All the pictures fairest lin'd

Are but black to Rosalind.

Let no face be kept in mind,

But the fair of Rosalind.'

Touch. I'll rime you so, eight years together,

dinners and suppers and sleeping hours ex-

cepted: it is the right butter-women's rank to

market.

Ros. Out, fool!

Touch. For a taste:—

'If a hart do lack a hind,

Let him seek out Rosalind.

If the cat will after kind,

So be sure will Rosalind.

Winter garments must be lin'd,

So must slender Rosalind.

They that reap must sheaf and bind,

 87 crooked-pated: crooked-headed; i.e., in reference to the ram's horns

88 cuckoldy; cf. n.

out match: quite unsuitable for her

98 lin'd: drawn

104 butter-women's rank; cf. n.

107 taste: i.e., sample of skill

110 after kind: follow the dictates of nature 