1    We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.

2    Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old
3    gentleman's saying.

4    A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile
5    Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the
6    forest lays claim to you.

7    Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in
8    the world: here comes the man you mean.

9    It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my
10   troth, we that have good wits have much to answer
11   for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold.

12   Good even, Audrey.

13   God ye good even, William.

14   And good even to you, sir.

15   Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy
16   head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend?

17   Five and twenty, sir.

18   A ripe age. Is thy name William?

19   William, sir.

20   A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here?

21   Ay, sir, I thank God.

22   'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich?

23   Faith, sir, so so.

24   'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and
25   yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise?

26   Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.

27   Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying,
28   'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man
29   knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen
30   philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape,
31   would open his lips when he put it into his mouth;
32   meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and
33   lips to open. You do love this maid?

34   I do, sir.

35   Give me your hand. Art thou learned?

36   No, sir.

37   Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it
38   is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out
39   of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty
40   the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse
41   is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he.

42   Which he, sir?

43   He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you
44   clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the
45   society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this
46   female,--which in the common is woman; which
47   together is, abandon the society of this female, or,
48   clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better
49   understanding, diest; or, to wit I kill thee, make
50   thee away, translate thy life into death, thy
51   liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with
52   thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy
53   with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with
54   policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways:
55   therefore tremble and depart.

56   Do, good William.

57   God rest you merry, sir.

58   Our master and mistress seeks you; come, away, away!

59   Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend.