SCENE VII.-The same. A table set out. Enter DUKE senior, AMIENS, Lords, and others. DUKE S. I think he be transform'd into a beast; For I can nowhere find him like a man. 1 LORD. My lord, he is but even now gone hence; We shall have shortly discord in the spheres: 1 LORD. He saves my labour by his own approach. JAQ. A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool; Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool. "Good morrow, fool," quoth I: "No, sir," quoth he, "Call me not fool, till heaven hath sent me fortune: " And then he drew a dial from his poke'; And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says, very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags: T is but an hour ago, since it was nine; And after one hour more, 't will be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, The motley fool thus moral-on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh, sans intermission, An hour by his dial.-O noble fool! A worthy fool! Motley 's the only wear. DUKE S. What fool is this? JAQ. O worthy fool!-One that hath been a courtier ; And says, if ladies be but young, and fair, They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,- ■ Compact-compounded, made up of. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms:-O, that I were a fool! I am ambitious for a motley coat. DUKE S. Thou shalt have one. JAQ. It is my only suit": To blow on whom I please; for so fools have: They most must laugh: And why, sir, must they so? He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, [Not to b] seem senseless of the bob: if not, The wise man's folly is anatomis'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. Invest me in my motley; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through If they will patiently receive my medicine. DUKE S. Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do. JAQ. Why, who cries out on pride, That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea, Till that the weary d very means do ebb? • Suit-request. Rosalind plays in the same way upon the word: "Not out of your apparel, but out of your suit." Not to. These words are not in the original, but were added by Theobald. We cannot dispense with them, unless we adopt Whiter's ingenious but somewhat forced punctuation: • Bob-rap. "He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth, very foolishly although he smart, Seem senseless of the bob." • Weary exhausted. Whiter interprets it, "till that the very means, being weary, do ebb." The usual bald reading is, very, very. . What woman in the city do I name Or what is he of basest function, That says, his bravery is not on my cost, (Thinking that I mean him,) but therein suits His folly to the mettle of my speech? There then; How then? what then? Let me see wherein My tongue hath wrong'd him": if it do him right, Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free, Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn. ORL. Forbear, and eat no more. Why, I have eat none yet. JAQ. JAQ. Of what kind should this cock come of? DUKE S. Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress; ORL. You touch'd my vein at first; the thorny point Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred, He dies that touches any of this fruit Till I and my affairs are answered. JAQ. An you will not be answered with reason, I must die. More than your force move us to gentleness. ORL. I almost die for food, and let me have it. DUKE S. Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. ORL. Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you : I thought that all things had been savage here; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment: But whate'er you are, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days; If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church; Bravery-finery. • Comes. The original has come. Taxing-censure, reproach. If ever sat at any good man's feast; In the which hope, I blush, and hide my sword. And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church; And we will nothing waste till you return. ORL. I thank ye: and be bless'd for your good comfort ↑ JAQ. This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene All the world's a stage12, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth: and then, the justice; • Upon command-at your pleasure. Weak evils-causes of weakness. [Exit. • This construction, as we have often shown, is common to Shakspere and the writers of his age. shifts In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Re-enter ORLANDO, with ADAM. DUKE S. Welcome: Set down your venerable burthen, ORL. And let him feed. I thank you most for him. ADAM. So had you need; I scarce can speak to thank you for myself. DUKE S. Welcome, fall to: I will not trouble you As yet, to question you about your fortunes: Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, As benefits forgot: Though thou the waters warp", Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not. Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! &c. a Unkind-unnatural. Warp. There was an old Saxon proverb, Winter shall warp water. |