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Oli. Good morrow, fair ones. Pray you if you know,

Where in the purlieus of this forest stands

A sheepcote fenc'd about with olive-trees.

Cel. West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom:

The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream

Left on your right hand brings you to the place.

But at this hour the house doth keep itself;

There's none within.

Oli. If that an eye may profit by a tongue,

Then should I know you by description;

Such garments, and such years: 'The boy is fair,

Of female favour, and bestows himself

Like a ripe sister: the woman low,

And browner than her brother.' Are not you

The owner of the house I did inquire for?

Cel. It is no boast, being ask'd, to say, we are.

Oli. Orlando doth commend him to you both,

And to that youth he calls his Rosalind

He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?

Ros. I am: what must we understand by this?

Oli. Some of my shame; if you will know of me

What man I am, and how, and why, and where

This handkercher was stain'd.

Cel.I pray you, tell it.

Oli. When last the young Orlando parted from you

He left a promise to return again

 77 Pray: I pray

78 purlieus: tracts of land on the border of a forest

80 neighbour bottom: neighboring valley

81 rank of osiers: row of willow trees

88 favour: features

bestows himself: carries himself

89 ripe: grown up

low: i.e., in stature

95 napkin: handkerchief 