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As You Like It, IV. i

Ros. Are you not good?

Orl. I hope so.

Ros. Why then, can one desire too much of

a good thing?—Come, sister, you shall be the

priest and marry us.—Give me your hand, Or-

lando. What do you say, sister?

Orl. Pray thee, marry us.

Cel. I cannot say the words.

Ros. You must begin,—'Will you, Orlando,'—

Cel. Go to.—Will you, Orlando, have to wife

this Rosalind?

Orl. I will.

Ros. Ay, but when?

Orl. Why now; as fast as she can marry us.

Ros. Then you must say, 'I take thee, Ro-

salind, for wife.'

Orl. I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.

Ros. I might ask you for your commission;

but, I do take thee, Orlando, for my husband:

there's a girl goes before the priest; and, cer-

tainly, a woman's thought runs before her ac-

tions.

Orl. So do all thoughts; they are winged.

Ros. Now tell me how long you would have

her after you have possessed her?

Orl. For ever and a day.

Ros. Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no,

Orlando; men are April when they woo, De-

cember when they wed: maids are May when

they are maids, but the sky changes when they

are wives. I will be more jealous of thee than

a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more cla-

 135 Go to: here an ejaculation of assent

145 there's goes; cf. n. 