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Jaq. Nay then, God be wi' you, an you talk

in blank verse.

Ros. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you

lisp, and wear strange suits, disable all the

benefits of your own country, be out of love with

your nativity, and almost chide God for making

you that countenance you are; or I will scarce

think you have swam in a gondola. Why, how

now, Orlando! where have you been all this

while? You a lover! An you serve me such

another trick, never come in my sight more.

Orl. My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour

of my promise.

Ros. Break an hour's promise in love! He

that will divide a minute into a thousand parts,

and break but a part of the thousandth part of a

minute in the affairs of love, it may be said of

him that Cupid hath clapped him o' the shoulder,

but I'll warrant him heart-whole.

Orl. Pardon me, dear Rosalind.

Ros. Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more

in my sight: I had as lief be wooed of a snail.

Orl. Of a snail!

Ros. Ay, of a snail; for though he comes

slowly, he carries his house on his head; a

better jointure, I think, than you make a wo-

man: besides, he brings his destiny with him.

Orl. What's that?

Ros. Why, horns; that such as you are fain

to be beholding to your wives for: but he comes

 36 lisp: i.e., talk with the affectation of a foreign accent

disable: disparage

38 nativity: place of birth

40 swam gondola; cf. n.

58 jointure: marriage portion

61 fain: i.e., glad under the circumstances, obliged

62 beholding: beholden 