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is wise, but the wiseman [30] knows himself to be a fool’. The heathen
philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open his lips when
he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and
lips to open. You do love this maid? [35]

WILLIAM
I do sir.

TOUCHSTONE
Give me your hand. Art thou learned?

WILLIAM
No sir.

TOUCHSTONE
Then learn this of me. To have is to have: for it is a figure in rhetoric that
drink, being poured out [40] of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth
empty the other. For all your writers do consent that ipse is he. Now you are

not ipse, for I am he.

WILLIAM
Which he sir?

TOUCHSTONE
He sir that must marry this woman. Therefore [45] you clown, abandon −
which is in the vulgar leave − the society − which in the boorish is company
− of this female − which in the common is woman. Which together is,

abandon the society of this female, or clown thou perishest; or to thy better
understanding, [50] diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate
thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage, I will deal in poison with thee, or
in bastinado, or in steel. I will bandy with thee in faction; I will o’er-run thee

with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. Therefore tremble [55]
and depart.

AUDREY
Do, good William.