morous than a parrot against rain; more new- 158
fangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires
than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like
Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when
you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like
a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep.
Orl. But will my Rosalind do so? 164
Ros. By my life, she will do as I do.
Orl. O! but she is wise.
Ros. Or else she could not have the wit to do
this: the wiser, the waywarder: make the doors 168
upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the case-
ment; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;
stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the
chimney. 172
Orl. A man that hath a wife with such a wit,
he might say, 'Wit, whither wilt?'
Ros. Nay, you might keep that check for it
till you met your wife's wit going to your neigh-
bour's bed. 177
Orl. And what wit could wit have to excuse
that?
Ros. Marry, to say she came to seek you there.
You shall never take her without her answer,
unless you take her without her tongue. O!
that woman that cannot make her fault her
husband's occasion, let her never nurse her child
herself, for she will breed it like a fool. 185
Orl. For these two hours, Rosalind, I will
leave thee.
Ros. Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two
hours. 189
158 against: in expectation of
new-fangled: fond of what is new
161 Diana . . . fountain; cf. n.
163 hyen: hyena
168 make: bar
174 'Wit . . . wilt'; cf. n.
175 check: rebuke
184 husband's occasion; cf. n.
