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Ros. So I do; but i’ faith, I should have been a woman by right.

Cel. Come, you look paler and paler. Pray you draw homewards. Good sir, go with us.

Oli.

That will I, for I must bear answer back

How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.

Ros. I shall devise something; but I pray you commend my counterfeiting to him. Will you go?

Exeunt.

¶

Enter Clown [Touchstone] and Audrey.

Touch. We shall find a time, Audrey, patience, gentle Audrey.

Aud. Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old gentleman’s saying.

Touch. A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to you.

Aud. Ay, I know who ’tis; he hath no interest in me in the world. Here comes the man you mean.

Enter William.

Touch. It is meat and drink to me to see a clown. By my troth, we that have good wits have much to answer for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold.

Will. Good ev’n, Audrey.

Aud. God ye good ev’n, William.

Will. And good ev’n to you, sir.