Page 1976 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

thought runs before her actions.

ORLANDO
So do all thoughts, they are winged.

ROSALIND
Now tell me how long you would have her, [130] after you have possessed
her?

ORLANDO
For ever, and a day.

ROSALIND
Say a day, without the ever. No, no, Orlando, men are April when they woo,

December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky
[135] changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of thee than a
Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain,
more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey. I

will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I [140] will do that
when you are disposed to be merry. I will laugh like a hyen, and that when
thou art inclined to sleep.

ORLANDO
But will my Rosalind do so?

ROSALIND
By my life, she will do as I do. [145]

ORLANDO
O but she is wise.

ROSALIND
Or else she could not have the wit to do this. The wiser, the waywarder.
Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut
that, and ’twill out at the keyhole; stop that, ’twill fly with the [150] smoke
out at the chimney.