Page 1963 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

CELIA

Nay certainly there is no truth in him. [20]

ROSALIND
Do you think so?

CELIA
Yes, I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horsestealer, but for his verity in love,
I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut.

ROSALIND
Not true in love? [25]

CELIA

Yes, when he is in, but I think he is not in.

ROSALIND

You have heard him swear downright he was.

CELIA
‘Was’ is not ‘is’; besides, the oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a
tapster. They are both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends here in
the [30] forest on the Duke your father.

ROSALIND
I met the Duke yesterday and had much question with him. He asked me of

what parentage I was: I told him of as good as he, so he laughed and let me
go. But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a man as [35] Orlando?

CELIA
O that’s a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears
brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of

his lover, as a puisny tilter that spurs his horse but on one [40] side breaks
his staff like a noble goose. But all’s brave that youth mounts and folly
guides. Who comes here?

Enter Corin.