Page 2000 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

I do remember in this shepherd boy
Some lively touches of my daughter’s favour.

ORLANDO
My lord, the first time that I ever saw him,
Methought he was a brother to your daughter.
But my good lord, this boy is forest-born, [30]

And hath been tutored in the rudiments
Of many desperate studies, by his uncle,
Whom he reports to be a great magician,

Obscured in the circle of this forest.

JAQUES

There is sure another flood toward, and these [35] couples are coming to the
ark. Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called
fools.

Enter Touchstone and Audrey.

TOUCHSTONE
Salutation and greeting to you all.

JAQUES

Good my lord, bid him welcome. This is the motley-minded gentleman that I
have so often met in the [40] forest. He hath been a courtier he swears.

TOUCHSTONE
If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation. I have trod a
measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth
with mine enemy, I have undone three tailors, I have had four [45] quarrels,

and like to have fought one.

JAQUES
And how was that ta’en up?

TOUCHSTONE
Faith we met, and found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause.