Page 1977 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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ORLANDO
A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say, ‘Wit, whither wilt?’
ROSALIND
Nay, you might keep that check for it, till you met your wife’s wit going to
your neighbour’s bed. [155]
ORLANDO
And what wit could wit have to excuse that?
ROSALIND
Marry to say she came to seek you there. You shall never take her without
her answer, unless you take her without her tongue. O that woman that
cannot make her fault her husband’s occasion, let her never nurse her [160]
child herself, for she will breed it like a fool.
ORLANDO
For these two hours Rosalind, I will leave thee.
ROSALIND
Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours.
ORLANDO
I must attend the Duke at dinner. By two o’clock I will be with thee again.
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ROSALIND
Ay, go your ways, go your ways. I knew what you would prove. My friends
told me as much, and I thought no less. That flattering tongue of yours won
me. ’Tis but one cast away, and so, come death! Two o’clock is your hour?
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ORLANDO
Ay, sweet Rosalind.
ROSALIND
By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend me, and by all pretty