Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,
Or else, refusing me, to wed this shepherd;
Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her,
If she refuse me: and from hence I go, 24
To make these doubts all even.
Duke S. I do remember in this shepherd boy
Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.
Orl. My lord, the first time that I ever saw him, 28
Methought he was a brother to your daughter;
But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,
And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
Of many desperate studies by his uncle, 32
Whom he reports to be a great magician,
Obscured in the circle of this forest.
Enter Clown [i.e., Touchstone] and Audrey.
Jaq. There is, sure, another flood toward, and
these couples are coming to the ark. Here comes
a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues
are called fools. 38
Touch. Salutation and greeting to you all!
Jaq. Good my lord, bid him welcome. This
is the motley-minded gentleman that I have so
often met in the forest: he hath been a courtier,
he swears. 43
Touch. If any man doubt that, let him put
me to my purgation. I have trod a measure; I
have flattered a lady; I have been politic with
my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have un-
done three tailors; I have had four quarrels,
and like to have fought one. 49
25 doubts: ambiguities
32 desperate: reckless, heterodox
34 Obscured: hidden, or, living in retirement
35 toward: forthcoming
44 put . . . purgation; cf. n.
45 measure: stately dance
47 undone three tailors; cf. n.
