how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho! This was not counterfeit: there is too great testimony in your complexion that it was a passion of earnest. Counterfeit, I assure you. Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man. So I do: but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by right. Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw homewards. Good sir, go with us. That will I, for I must bear answer back How you excuse my brother, Rosalind. I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend my counterfeiting to him. Will you go? We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey. Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old gentleman's saying. A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to you. Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in the world: here comes the man you mean. It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my troth, we that have good wits have much to answer for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold. Good even, Audrey. God ye good even, William. And good even to you, sir. Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend? Five and twenty, sir. A ripe age. Is thy name William? William, sir. A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here? Ay, sir, I thank God. 'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich? Faith, sir, so so. 'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise? Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit. Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying, 'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man 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? I do, sir. Give me your hand. Art thou learned? No, sir. Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty the other; for all your