Page 1903 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
P. 1903
LE BEAU
What colour madam? How shall I answer you?
ROSALIND
As wit and fortune will. [95]
TOUCHSTONE
Or as the Destinies decrees.
CELIA
Well said! That was laid on with a trowel.
TOUCHSTONE
Nay, if I keep not my rank −
ROSALIND
Thou losest thy old smell.
LE BEAU
You amaze me ladies. I would have told you of [100] good wrestling, which
you have lost the sight of.
ROSALIND
Yet tell us the manner of the wrestling.
LE BEAU
I will, tell you the beginning, and if it please your ladyships, you may see the
end, for the best is yet to do, and here where you are they are coming to
perform it. [105]
CELIA
Well, the beginning that is dead and buried.
LE BEAU
There comes an old man, and his three sons −
CELIA
