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As You Like It, IV. i

Orl. I must attend the duke at dinner: by

two o'clock I will be with thee again.

Ros. Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew

what you would prove, my friends told me as

much, and I thought no less: that flattering

tongue of yours won me: 'tis but one cast away,

and so, come, death! Two o'clock is your hour?

Orl. Ay, sweet Rosalind.

Ros. By my troth, and in good earnest, and

so God mend me, and by all pretty oaths that

are not dangerous, if you break one jot of your

promise or come one minute behind your hour,

I will think you the most pathetical break-

promise, and the most hollow lover, and the

most unworthy of her you call Rosalind, that

may be chosen out of the gross band of the

unfaithful. Therefore, beware my censure, and

keep your promise.

Orl. With no less religion than if thou wert

indeed my Rosalind: so, adieu.

Ros. Well, Time is the old justice that ex-

amines all such offenders, and let Time try.

Adieu.

Cel. You have simply misused our sex in your

love-prate: we must have your doublet and hose

plucked over your head, and show the world

what the bird hath done to her own nest.

Ros. O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that

thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in

love! But it cannot be sounded: my affection hath

an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.

 195 cast away: forsaken

199 mend: amend

202 pathetical: miserable (?)

205 gross: whole

208 religion: fidelity

211 Time try: i.e., prove your fidelity

213 simply: completely

misused: reviled

216 bird nest; cf. n.

220 bay of Portugal; cf. n. 