You and you no cross fhall part;

[To Orlando and Rofalind.
[To Oliver and Celia.

You and you are heart in heart:
You to his love must accord,
Or have a woman to your lord :-
You and you are fure together,

[To Phebe.

As the winter to foul weather. [To the Clown and Audrey;

Whiles a wedlock-hymn we fing,

Feed yourselves with questioning;

That reafon wonder may diminish,

How thus we met, and these things finish.

SONG.

Wedding is great Juno's crown ;
O bleffed bond of board and bed!
'Tis Hymen peoples every town;
High wedlock then be honoured:
Honour, high bonour and renown,
To Hymen, god of every town!

Duke Sen. O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me; Even daughter, welcome in no less degree.

Phe. I will not eat my word, now thou art mine; Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine,

Enter Jaques de Boys.

Jaq. de B. Let me have audience for a word, or two.

I am the fecond fon of old fir Rowland,

That bring these tidings to this fair assembly :-
Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
Men of great worth reforted to this forest,
Addrefs'd a mighty power; which were on foot,

questioning;-converfation.

Addrefs'd]-Levied.

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In his own conduct, purposely to take
His brother here, and put him to the sword :
And to the skirts of this wild wood he came ;
Where, meeting with an old religious man,
After fome question with him, was converted
Both from his enterprize, and from the world:
His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,
And all their lands reftor'd to them again
That were with him exil'd: This to be true,
I do engage my life.

Duke Sen. Welcome, young man ;

Thou offer'ft fairly to thy brother's wedding:
To one, his lands with-held; and to the other,
A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
Firft, in this foreft, let us do those ends
That here were well begun, and well begot :
And after, every of this happy number,

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That have endur'd fhrewd days and nights with us,
Shall share the good of our returned fortune,
According to the measure of their states.

Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity,
And fall into our ruftick revelry :-

Play, mufick;—and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall.

Jaq. Sir, by your patience :-If I heard you rightly, The duke hath put on a religious life,

And thrown into neglect the pompous court?

Jaq. de B. He hath.

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Jaq. To him will I: out of these convertites There is much matter to be heard and learn’d.—

i queftion]-difcourse, conference. kfbrewd]-adverse, calamitous. 1 your patience:]-good leave.

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convertites]-converts, penitents.

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You to your former honour I bequeath; [To the Duke.
Your patience, and your virtue, well deserves it :-
You to a love, that your true faith doth merit:-

[To Orlando.

You to your land, and love, and great allies:

You to a long and well deferved bed ;-
And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage

[To Oliver. [To Silvius.

[To the Clown.

Is but for two months victual'd:-So to your pleafures;
I am for other than for dancing measures.
Duke Sen. Stay, Jaques, ftay.

Jaq. To fee no paftime, I :-what you would have
I'll ftay to know at your abandon'd cave.

[Exit. Duke Sen. Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites, As we do truft they'll end, in true delights.

E P I L O G U E.

Rof. It is not the fashion to fee the lady the epilogue: but it is no more unhandfome, than to fee the lord the prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bufb, 'tis true, that a good play needs no epilogue: Yet to good wine they do ufe good bufhes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor can infinuate with you in the behalf of a good play? I am not furnish'd like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become me my way is, to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear

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"that am neither a good epilogue, nor can infinuate with you in the be half of a good play ?]-that have neither prefented you with a good play, nor come prepared with a good epilogue to prejudice you in favour of a bad one,

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to men, to like as much of this play as pleases them; and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, (as I perceive by your fimpering, none of you hate them) that between you and the women, the play may please. If I were a woman, I would kifs as many of you as had beards that pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defy'd not: and I am fure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or fweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curt'fy, bid me farewell. [Exeunt omnes.

• If I were a woman,]—indeed—the part being performed by a boy. defy'd not: :]-did not difapprove, difrelish.

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