Act 3
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Enter ROSALIND and CELIA
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ROSALIND and CELIA enter.
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ROSALIND Never talk to me. I will weep.
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ROSALIND Don’t talk to me. I’m going to cry.
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CELIA Do, I prithee, but yet have the grace to consider that tears
do not become a man.
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CELIA Go ahead if you want, but remember that crying doesn’t suit a man.
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ROSALIND But have I not cause to weep?
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ROSALIND But don’t I have good reason to cry?
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CELIA
5As good cause as one would desire. Therefore weep.
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CELIA As good a reason as any. So go ahead and cry.
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ROSALIND His very hair is of the dissembling color.
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ROSALIND I mean, his
hairJudas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was commonly depicted with red hair. hair is even red—the same color as that lying Judas. |
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CELIA Something browner than Judas’s. Marry, his kisses are
Judas’s own children.
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CELIA No, it’s a shade browner than
Judas’sJudas betrayed Jesus to the Romans with a kiss. Judas’s —but his kisses are just like Judas’s. |
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ROSALIND I' faith, his hair is of a good color.
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ROSALIND No, really, his hair is a nice color.
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CELIA
10An excellent color. Your chestnut was ever the only color.
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CELIA A very good color, this chestnut.
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ROSALIND And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy
bread.
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ROSALIND His kiss is as holy as bread blessed by a priest.
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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.
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CELIA He must have bought a cast-iron pair of
Diana’sDiana 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. |
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ROSALIND But why did he swear he would come this morning, and
comes not?
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ROSALIND But why would he promise to come visit me this morning and then not come?
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No Fear As You Like It
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