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courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many
lectures against it, and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so
many giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal. [335]

ORLANDO
Can you remember any of the principal evils that he laid to the charge of
women?

ROSALIND
There were none principal: they were all like one another as half-pence are,
every one fault seeming monstrous, till his fellow-fault came to match it.
[340]

ORLANDO
I prithee recount some of them.

ROSALIND
No; I will not cast away my physic but on those that are sick. There is a man

haunts the forest that abuses our young plants with carving ‘Rosalind’ on their
barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles; [345] all,
forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind. If I could meet that fancymonger, I
would give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of

love upon him.

ORLANDO
I am he that is so love-shaked. I pray you tell [350] me your remedy.

ROSALIND
There is none of my uncle’s marks upon you. He taught me how to know a
man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

ORLANDO
What were his marks? [355]

ROSALIND
A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye and sunken, which you have

not; an unquestionable spirit, which you have not; a beard neglected, which