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Ros. With this shepherdess, my sister; here

in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a

petticoat.

Orl. Are you native of this place?

Ros. As the cony, that you see dwell where

she is kindled.

Orl. Your accent is something finer than you

could purchase in so removed a dwelling.

Ros. I have been told so of many: but indeed

an old religious uncle of mine taught me to

speak, who was in his youth an inland man;

one that knew courtship too well, for there he

fell in love. I have heard him read many

lectures against it; and I thank God, I am not

a woman, to be touched with so many giddy

offences as he hath generally taxed their whole

sex withal.

Orl. Can you remember any of the principal

evils that he laid to the charge of women?

Ros. There were none principal; they were

all like one another as half-pence are; every one

fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault

came to match it.

Orl. I prithee, recount some of them.

Ros. No, I will not cast away my physic, but

on those that are sick. There is a man haunts

the forest, that abuses our young plants with

carving 'Rosalind' on their barks; hangs odes

upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles; all,

forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind: if I

could meet that fancy-monger, I would give him

 361 cony: rabbit

362 kindled: brought forth

364 purchase: acquire

removed: remote, secluded

366 religious: i.e., belonging to a religious order (?)

368 courtship: courtliness of manners, with quibble on 'wooing'

370 lectures: admonitions

387 fancy-monger: dealer in love 