Page 1951 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

ORLANDO

I do desire we may be better strangers.

JAQUES
I pray you mar no more trees with writing love-songs in their barks.

ORLANDO
I pray you mar no more of my verses with reading them ill-favouredly. [255]

JAQUES
Rosalind is your love’s name?

ORLANDO
Yes, just.

JAQUES
I do not like her name.

ORLANDO

There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened. [260]

JAQUES

What stature is she of?

ORLANDO
Just as high as my heart.

JAQUES
You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with
goldsmiths’ wives, and conned them out of rings? [265]

ORLANDO
Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from whence you have studied
your questions.

JAQUES

You have a nimble wit; I think ’twas made of Atalanta’s heels. Will you sit