Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)/As You Like It/Act 5 Scene 1
Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.
Enter Clowne and Awdrie.
Clow.
We shall finde a time Awdrie, patience gentle Awdrie.
Awd.
Faith the Priest was good enough, for all the olde gentlemans saying.
Clow.
A most wicked Sir Oliuer, Awdrie, a most vile Mar-text. But Awdrie, there is a youth heere in the Forrest layes claime to you.
Awd.
I, I know who 'tis: he hath no interest in mee in the world: here comes the man you meane.
Enter William.
It is meat and drinke to me to see a Clown, by
my troth, we that haue good wits, haue much to answer for: we shall be flouting: we cannot hold.
Will.
Good eu'n Audrey.
Aud.
God ye good eu'n William.
Will.
And good eu'n to you Sir.
Clo.
Good eu'n gentle friend. Couer thy head, couer thy head: Nay prethee bee couer'd. How olde are you Friend?
Will.
Fiue and twentie Sir.
Clo.
A ripe age: Is thy name William?
Will.
William, sir.
Clo.
A faire name. Was't borne i'th Forrest heere?
Will.
I sir, I thanke God.
Clo.
Thanke God: A good answer:
Art rich?
Will.
'Faith sir, so, so.
Cle.
So, so, is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not, it is but so, so:
Art thou wise?
Will.
I sir, I haue a prettie wit.
Clo.
Why, thou saist well. I do now remember a saying: The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole. The Heathen Philosopher, when he had a desire to eate a Grape, would open his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby, that Grapes were made to eate, and lippes to open. You do loue this maid?
Will.
I do sir.
Clo.
Giue me your hand: Art thou Learned?
Will.
No sir.
Clo.
Then learne this of me, To haue, is to haue. For it is a figure in Rhetoricke, that drink being powr'd out of a cup into a glasse, by filling the one, doth empty the other. For all your Writers do consent, that ipse is hee: now you are not ipse, for I am he.
Will.
Which he sir?
Clo.
He sir, that must marrie this woman: Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female, or Clowne thou perishest: or to thy better vnderstanding, dyest; or (to wit) I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death, thy libertie into bondage: I will deale in poyson with thee, or in bastinado, or in steele: I will bandy with thee in faction, I will ore-run thee with policie: I will kill thee a hundred and fifty wayes, therefore tremble and depart.
Aud.
Do good William.
Will.
God rest you merry sir. Exit.
Enter Corin.
Cor.
Our Master and Mistresse seekes you: come away, away
Clo.
Trip Audry, trip Audry, I attend, I attend. Exeunt.