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As You Like It, III. ii

some good counsel, for he seems to have the

quotidian of love upon him.

Orl. I am he that is so love-shaked. I pray

you, tell me your remedy.

Ros. There is none of my uncle's marks upon

you: he taught me how to know a man in love;

in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not

prisoner.

Orl. What were his marks?

Ros. A lean cheek, which you have not; a

blue eye and sunken, which you have not; an

unquestionable spirit, which you have not; a

beard neglected, which you have not: but I

pardon you for that, for, simply, your having in

beard is a younger brother's revenue. Then,

your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet

unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe

untied, and everything about you demonstrating

a careless desolation. But you are no such man:

you are rather point-device in your accoutre-

ments as loving yourself than seeming the lover

of any other.

Orl. Fair youth, I would I could make thee

believe I love.

Ros. Me believe it! you may as soon make her

that you love believe it; which, I warrant, she is

apter to do than to confess she does; that is

one of the points in the which women still give

the lie to their consciences. But, in good sooth,

 389 quotidian: an intermittent daily fever; cf. n.

394 cage of rushes: i.e., ineffectual prison

398 blue eye: i.e., with a dark circle about the eye

399 unquestionable: unwilling to talk

401 having: possessions

403 ungartered untied: i.e., the signs of a disconsolate lover

404 unbanded: without a hatband

407 point-device: extremely precise 