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Then to cart with Rosalind.

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind, lie

Such a nut is Rosalind.

He that sweetest rose will find

Must find love's prick and Rosalind.'

This is the very false gallop of verses: why do

you infect yourself with them?

Ros. Peace! you dull fool: I found them on

a tree.

Touch. Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.

Ros. I'll graff it with you, and then I shall

graff it with a medlar: then it will be the earliest

fruit i' the country; for you'll be rotten ere you

be half ripe, and that's the right virtue of the

medlar.

Touch. You have said; but whether wisely or

no, let the forest judge.

Ros. Peace!

Here comes my sister, reading: stand aside.

Cel. 'Why should this a desert be?

For it is unpeopled? No;

Tongues I'll hang on every tree,

That shall civil sayings show.

Some, how brief the life of man

Runs his erring pilgrimage,

That the stretching of a span

Buckles in his sum of age;

Some, of violated vows

'Twixt the souls of friend and friend:

 115 cart: a pun on farmer's cart which bore the harvest to market and the sheriff's cart on which female offenders were publicly disgraced

121 infect: contaminate (?)

125 graff: graft

126 medlar: a fruit, with quibble on 'meddler'

137 civil sayings; cf. n.

139 erring: wandering

140 span; cf. n.

141 Buckles in: limits 