Page 1953 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

ORLANDO

Very well. What would you?

ROSALIND
I pray you, what is’t o’clock? [290]

ORLANDO
You should ask me what time o’ day; there’s no clock in the forest.

ROSALIND
Then there is no true lover in the forest, else sighing every minute and
groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot of Time, as well as a clock.

[295]

ORLANDO
And why not the swift foot of Time? Had not that been as proper?

ROSALIND
By no means sir. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I’ll tell you
who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal,
and [300] who he stands still withal.

ORLANDO
I prithee, who doth he trot withal?

ROSALIND

Marry he trots hard with a young maid, between the contract of her marriage
and the day it is solemnized. If the interim be but a se’nnight, Time’s pace is
[305] so hard that it seems the length of seven year.

ORLANDO
Who ambles Time withal?

ROSALIND
With a priest that lacks Latin, and a rich man that hath not the gout, for the

one sleeps easily because he cannot study, and the other lives merrily
because he [310] feels no pain; the one lacking the burden of lean and