As You Like It

by: William Shakespeare

Act 3 Scene 4

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Original Text	Modern Text
Enter ROSALIND and CELIA	ROSALIND and CELIA enter.
ROSALIND Never talk to me. I will weep.	ROSALIND Don’t talk to me. I’m going to cry.
CELIA Do, I prithee, but yet have the grace to consider that tears do not become a man.	CELIA Go ahead if you want, but remember that crying doesn’t suit a man.
ROSALIND But have I not cause to weep?	ROSALIND But don’t I have good reason to cry?
CELIA 5As good cause as one would desire. Therefore weep.	CELIA As good a reason as any. So go ahead and cry.
ROSALIND His very hair is of the dissembling color.	ROSALIND I mean, his hair Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was commonly depicted with red hair. hair is even red—the same color as that lying Judas.
CELIA Something browner than Judas’s. Marry, his kisses are Judas’s own children.	CELIA No, it’s a shade browner than Judas’s Judas betrayed Jesus to the Romans with a kiss. Judas’s—but his kisses are just like Judas’s.
ROSALIND I' faith, his hair is of a good color.	ROSALIND No, really, his hair is a nice color.
CELIA 10An excellent color. Your chestnut was ever the only color.	CELIA A very good color, this chestnut.
ROSALIND And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread.	ROSALIND His kiss is as holy as bread blessed by a priest.
CELIA He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana. A nun of winter’s sisterhood kisses not more religiously. The very ice of chastity is in them.	CELIA He must have bought a cast-iron pair of Diana’s Diana was the patron goddess of virgins. Diana’s lips: an elderly nun isn’t anymore devoted in her kissing than he is. His kiss is cold and chaste.
ROSALIND But why did he swear he would come this morning, and comes not?	ROSALIND But why would he promise to come visit me this morning and then not come?

Read the Summary of Act III, scenes iii–v

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