Term
"From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let me see—what think you of falling in love?”
"Marry, I prithee do, to make sport withal. But love no man in good earnest, nor no further in sport neither, than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in honor come off again."
"What shall be our sport then?" |
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As You Like It
Rosalind and Celia
[Love as a game] |
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Now go we in content
To liberty, and not to banishment. |
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As You Like It
I.iii.137
Celia
[to Rosalind; Banishment and Freedom] |
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Now my co-mates and brothers in exile
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Here feel we not the penalty of Adam,
The seasons difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter’s wind,
Which when it bites and blows upon my body
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say,
“This is no flattery: these are counselors
That feelingly persuade me what I am."
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. |
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Definition
As You Like It
II.i
Duke Senior
[first speech to his followers;
redemption in the Forest of Arden;
Banishment and Freedom] |
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I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please, for so fools have; And they that are most galled with my folly,
They most must laugh. |
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As You Like It
II.vii.47-51
Jaques
[to Duke Senior; Banishment and Freedom] |
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Term
Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:
For thou thyself hast been a libertine… |
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As You Like It
Duke Senior
[to Jaques; Banishment and Freedom] |
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Term
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players |
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Definition
As You Like It
Jaques
Ages of Man |
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Term
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. |
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As You Like It
Jaques
Ages of Man |
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At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severed and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixt age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloons,
With spectacles on the nose, and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. |
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As You Like It
Jaques
Ages of Man |
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Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love,
And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey
With they chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,
Thy huntress’ name that my full life doth sway. O Rosalind, these trees shall be my books,
And in there barks my thoughts I’ll character,
That every eye which in this forest looks
Shall see thy virtue witness’d every where.
Run, run, Orland, carve on every tree
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. |
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Love is merely a madness, and I tell you,
deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen
do; and the reason why they are not so punish’d and
cur’d is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the
whippers are in love to. |
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As You Like It
Ganymede (Rosalind)
to Orlando |
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Term
Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to
imagine me his love, his mistress; and I set him
every day to woo me. At which time would I, being
but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate,
changeable, longing and liking, proud, fantastical,
apish, shallow, inconstant full of tears, full of smiles;
for every passion something, and for no passion truly any thing, as boys and women are for the
most part cattle of this color; wold now like
him, now loathe him; then entertain him, then forswear
him; now weep for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor from his mad humor of love to a living humor of madness, which was,to forswear
the full stream of the world, and to live in a nook
merely monastic. And thus I cur’d him, and this way will I take upon me to wash your liver as clean
as a sounds heep’s heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in’t. |
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As You Like It
Ganymede (Rosalind) |
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Term
No, truly; for the truest poetry is the
most feigning, and lovers are given to poetry;
and what they swear in poetry may be said as lovers
they do feign. |
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As You Like It
Touchstone
[to Audrey, on poesy and being poetical] |
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Term
| Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, “Who ever lov’d that lov’d not at first sight?” |
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Definition
As You Like It
Phebe
to Silvius |
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Term
’Twas I; but ‘tis not I. I do not shame
To tell you what I was, since my conversion
So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am |
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As You Like It
Oliver
[to Rosalind and Celia; Oliver banished to find his brother and finds himself; Banishment and Freedom] |
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