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morous than a parrot against rain; more new-

fangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires

than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like

Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when

you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like

a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep.

Orl. But will my Rosalind do so?

Ros. By my life, she will do as I do.

Orl. O! but she is wise.

Ros. Or else she could not have the wit to do

this: the wiser, the waywarder: make the doors

upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the case-

ment; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;

stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the

chimney.

Orl. A man that hath a wife with such a wit,

he might say, 'Wit, whither wilt?'

Ros. Nay, you might keep that check for it

till you met your wife's wit going to your neigh-

bour's bed.

Orl. And what wit could wit have to excuse

that?

Ros. Marry, to say she came to seek you there.

You shall never take her without her answer,

unless you take her without her tongue. O!

that woman that cannot make her fault her

husband's occasion, let her never nurse her child

herself, for she will breed it like a fool.

Orl. For these two hours, Rosalind, I will

leave thee.

Ros. Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two

hours.

 158 against: in expectation of

new-fangled: fond of what is new

161 Diana fountain; cf. n.

163 hyen: hyena

168 make: bar

174 'Wit wilt'; cf. n.

175 check: rebuke

184 husband's occasion; cf. n. 