Page 1901 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

CELIA

Were you made the messenger? [55]

TOUCHSTONE
No by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you.

CELIA
Where learned you that oath, fool?

TOUCHSTONE
Of a certain knight, that swore by his honour they were good pancakes, and
swore by his honour [60] the mustard was naught. Now I’ll stand to it, the

pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight
forsworn.

CELIA
How prove you that in the great heap of your knowledge? [65]

ROSALIND
Ay marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.

TOUCHSTONE
Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and swear by your beards that I
am a knave.

CELIA

By our beards, if we had them, thou art.

TOUCHSTONE

By my knavery, if I had it, then I were. But [70] if you swear by that that is
not, you are not forsworn. No more was this knight, swearing by his honour,
for he never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away before ever he saw

those pancakes or that mustard.

CELIA

Prithee, who is’t that thou mean’st? [75]