Page 1971 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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ROSALIND
A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad. I fear you have sold
your own lands to see [20] other men’s. Then to have seen much and to have
nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.
JAQUES
Yes, I have gained my experience.
Enter Orlando.
ROSALIND
And your experience makes you sad. I had rather have a fool to make me
merry than experience to [25] make me sad, and to travel for it too!
ORLANDO
Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind.
JAQUES
Nay then God buy you, and you talk in blank verse!
ROSALIND
Farewell Monsieur Traveller. Look you lisp, [30] and wear strange suits;
disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your nativity,
and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will
scarce think you have swam in a gondola. (Exit Jaques.) Why how now
Orlando, where have you [35] been all this while? You a lover! And you serve
me such another trick, never come in my sight more.
ORLANDO
My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise.
ROSALIND
Break an hour’s promise in love! He that will [40] divide a minute into a
thousand parts, and break but a part of the thousand part of a minute in the
affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapped him o’ th’
shoulder, but I’ll warrant him heart-whole.
