Speeches (Lines) for Rosalind
in "As You Like It"
Total: 201

1

I,2,147

Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and
would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could teach me to forget...

2

I,2,157

Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to
rejoice in yours.

3

I,2,165

From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports.
Let me see; what think you of falling in love?

4

I,2,170

What shall be our sport, then?

5

I,2,173

I would we could do so; for her benefits are mightily
misplaced; and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her...

6

I,2,179

Nay; now thou goest from Fortune's office to Nature's:
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of...

7

I,2,187

Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when
Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of Nature's wit.

8

I,2,197

Where learned you that oath, fool?

9

I,2,203

Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.

10

I,2,222

With his mouth full of news.

11

I,2,224

Then shall we be news-cramm'd.

12

I,2,230

As wit and fortune will.

13

I,2,234

Thou losest thy old smell.

14

I,2,237

Yet tell us the manner of the wrestling.

15

I,2,245

With bills on their necks: 'Be it known unto all men by
these presents'-

16

I,2,253

Alas!

17

I,2,260

But is there any else longs to see this broken music in
his sides? Is there yet another dotes upon rib-breaking? Shall we...

18

I,2,270

Is yonder the man?

19

I,2,275

Ay, my liege; so please you give us leave.

20

I,2,285

Young man, have you challeng'd Charles the wrestler?

21

I,2,294

Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore be
misprised: we will make it our suit to the Duke that the...

22

I,2,306

The little strength that I have, I would it were with
you.

23

I,2,309

Fare you well. Pray heaven I be deceiv'd in you!

24

I,2,319

Now, Hercules be thy speed, young man!

25

I,2,322

O excellent young man!

26

I,2,345

My father lov'd Sir Rowland as his soul,
And all the world was of my father's mind;...

27

I,2,357

Gentleman, [Giving him a chain from her neck]
Wear this for me; one out of suits with fortune,...

28

I,2,365

He calls us back. My pride fell with my fortunes;
I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?...

29

I,2,370

Have with you. Fare you well.

30

I,3,410

Not one to throw at a dog.

31

I,3,413

Then there were two cousins laid up, when the one should
be lam'd with reasons and the other mad without any.

32

I,3,416

No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how full of
briers is this working-day world!

33

I,3,421

I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my
heart.

34

I,3,424

I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.

35

I,3,426

O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself.

36

I,3,431

The Duke my father lov'd his father dearly.

37

I,3,435

No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.

38

I,3,438

Let me love him for that; and do you love him because I
do. Look, here comes the Duke.

39

I,3,443

Me, uncle?

40

I,3,448

I do beseech your Grace,
Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me....

41

I,3,460

Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor.
Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.

42

I,3,463

So was I when your Highness took his dukedom;
So was I when your Highness banish'd him....

43

I,3,498

I have more cause.

44

I,3,502

That he hath not.

45

I,3,513

Why, whither shall we go?

46

I,3,515

Alas, what danger will it be to us,
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!...

47

I,3,522

Were it not better,
Because that I am more than common tall,...

48

I,3,532

I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page,
And therefore look you call me Ganymede....

49

I,3,537

But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal
The clownish fool out of your father's court?...

50

II,4,723

O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!

51

II,4,725

I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel,
and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as...

52

II,4,733

Well, this is the Forest of Arden.

53

II,4,737

Ay, be so, good Touchstone. Look you, who comes here, a
young man and an old in solemn talk.

54

II,4,761

Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,
I have by hard adventure found mine own.

55

II,4,772

Thou speak'st wiser than thou art ware of.

56

II,4,775

Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion
Is much upon my fashion.

57

II,4,782

Peace, fool; he's not thy kinsman.

58

II,4,786

Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend.

59

II,4,788

I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold
Can in this desert place buy entertainment,...

60

II,4,806

What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?

61

II,4,809

I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,
Buy thou the cottage, pasture, and the flock,...

62

III,2,1199

'From the east to western Inde,
No jewel is like Rosalinde....

63

III,2,1210

Out, fool!

64

III,2,1226

Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree.

65

III,2,1228

I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it with a
medlar. Then it will be the earliest fruit i' th' country; for...

66

III,2,1235

Peace!
Here comes my sister, reading; stand aside.

67

III,2,1267

O most gentle Jupiter! What tedious homily of love have
you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried 'Have...

68

III,2,1276

O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of them
had in them more feet than the verses would bear.

69

III,2,1279

Ay, but the feet were lame, and could not bear themselves
without the verse, and therefore stood lamely in the verse.

70

III,2,1283

I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder before you
came; for look here what I found on a palm-tree. I was never so...

71

III,2,1288

Is it a man?

72

III,2,1291

I prithee, who?

73

III,2,1294

Nay, but who is it?

74

III,2,1296

Nay, I prithee now, with most petitionary vehemence, tell
me who it is.

75

III,2,1300

Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am
caparison'd like a man, I have a doublet and hose in my...

76

III,2,1309

Is he of God's making? What manner of man?
Is his head worth a hat or his chin worth a beard?

77

III,2,1312

Why, God will send more if the man will be thankful. Let
me stay the growth of his beard, if thou delay me not the...

78

III,2,1317

Nay, but the devil take mocking! Speak sad brow and true
maid.

79

III,2,1320

Orlando?

80

III,2,1322

Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and hose?
What did he when thou saw'st him? What said he? How look'd he?...

81

III,2,1330

But doth he know that I am in this forest, and in man's
apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the day he wrestled?

82

III,2,1336

It may well be call'd Jove's tree, when it drops forth
such fruit.

83

III,2,1339

Proceed.

84

III,2,1341

Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well becomes
the ground.

85

III,2,1345

O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart.

86

III,2,1348

Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.
Sweet, say on.

87

III,2,1352

'Tis he; slink by, and note him.

88

III,2,1391

[Aside to CELIA] I will speak to him like a saucy lackey,
and under that habit play the knave with him.- Do you hear,...

89

III,2,1395

I pray you, what is't o'clock?

90

III,2,1398

Then there is no true lover in the forest, else sighing
every minute and groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot...

91

III,2,1403

By no means, sir. Time travels in divers paces with
divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time...

92

III,2,1408

Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the
contract of her marriage and the day it is solemniz'd; if the...

93

III,2,1413

With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that hath
not the gout; for the one sleeps easily because he cannot study,...

94

III,2,1420

With a thief to the gallows; for though he go as softly
as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there.

95

III,2,1423

With lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep between term
and term, and then they perceive not how Time moves.

96

III,2,1426

With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the skirts of
the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.

97

III,2,1429

As the coney that you see dwell where she is kindled.

98

III,2,1432

I have been told so of many; but indeed an old religious
uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland...

99

III,2,1440

There were none principal; they were all like one another
as halfpence are; every one fault seeming monstrous till his...

100

III,2,1444

No; I will not cast away my physic but on those that are
sick. There is a man haunts the forest that abuses our young...

101

III,2,1453

There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me
how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you...

102

III,2,1457

A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye and sunken,
which you have not; an unquestionable spirit, which you have not;...

103

III,2,1467

Me believe it! You may as soon make her that you love
believe it; which, I warrant, she is apter to do than to confess...

104

III,2,1474

But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?

105

III,2,1476

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as
well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why...

106

III,2,1482

Yes, one; and in this manner. He was to imagine me his
love, his mistress; and I set him every day to woo me; at which...

107

III,2,1497

I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind, and
come every day to my cote and woo me.

108

III,2,1500

Go with me to it, and I'll show it you; and, by the way,
you shall tell me where in the forest you live. Will you go?

109

III,2,1503

Nay, you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you
go? Exeunt

110

III,4,1595

Never talk to me; I will weep.

111

III,4,1598

But have I not cause to weep?

112

III,4,1600

His very hair is of the dissembling colour.

113

III,4,1603

I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.

114

III,4,1605

And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of
holy bread.

115

III,4,1610

But why did he swear he would come this morning, and
comes not?

116

III,4,1613

Do you think so?

117

III,4,1617

Not true in love?

118

III,4,1619

You have heard him swear downright he was.

119

III,4,1624

I met the Duke yesterday, and had much question with him.
He asked me of what parentage I was; I told him, of as good as...

120

III,4,1646

O, come, let us remove!
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love....

121

III,5,1688

[Advancing] And why, I pray you? Who might be your
mother,...

122

III,5,1720

He's fall'n in love with your foulness, and she'll fall
in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as she answers thee...

123

III,5,1725

I pray you do not fall in love with me,
For I am falser than vows made in wine;...

124

IV,1,1799

They say you are a melancholy fellow.

125

IV,1,1801

Those that are in extremity of either are abominable
fellows, and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than...

126

IV,1,1805

Why then, 'tis good to be a post.

127

IV,1,1815

A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be
sad. I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's; then...

128

IV,1,1821

And your experience makes you sad. I had rather have a
fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad- and to...

129

IV,1,1826

Farewell, Monsieur Traveller; look you lisp and wear
strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be...

130

IV,1,1834

Break an hour's promise in love! He that will divide a
minute into a thousand parts, and break but a part of the...

131

IV,1,1840

Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight. I had
as lief be woo'd of a snail.

132

IV,1,1843

Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries
his house on his head- a better jointure, I think, than you make...

133

IV,1,1847

Why, horns; which such as you are fain to be beholding to
your wives for; but he comes armed in his fortune, and prevents...

134

IV,1,1851

And I am your Rosalind.

135

IV,1,1854

Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humour,
and like enough to consent. What would you say to me now, an I...

136

IV,1,1858

Nay, you were better speak first; and when you were
gravell'd for lack of matter, you might take occasion to kiss....

137

IV,1,1864

Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new
matter.

138

IV,1,1867

Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress; or I
should think my honesty ranker than my wit.

139

IV,1,1870

Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit.
Am not I your Rosalind?

140

IV,1,1874

Well, in her person, I say I will not have you.

141

IV,1,1876

No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost six
thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man...

142

IV,1,1890

By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now I
will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition; and ask me...

143

IV,1,1894

Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays, and all.

144

IV,1,1896

Ay, and twenty such.

145

IV,1,1898

Are you not good?

146

IV,1,1900

Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? Come,
sister, you shall be the priest, and marry us. Give me your hand,...

147

IV,1,1905

You must begin 'Will you, Orlando'-

148

IV,1,1908

Ay, but when?

149

IV,1,1910

Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'

150

IV,1,1912

I might ask you for your commission; but- I do take thee,
Orlando, for my husband. There's a girl goes before the priest;...

151

IV,1,1916

Now tell me how long you would have her, after you have
possess'd her.

152

IV,1,1919

Say 'a day' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando; men are
April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when...

153

IV,1,1929

By my life, she will do as I do.

154

IV,1,1931

Or else she could not have the wit to do this. The wiser,
the waywarder. Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out...

155

IV,1,1937

Nay, you might keep that check for it, till you met your
wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.

156

IV,1,1940

Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall never
take her without her answer, unless you take her without her...

157

IV,1,1946

Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours!

158

IV,1,1949

Ay, go your ways, go your ways. I knew what you would
prove; my friends told me as much, and I thought no less. That...

159

IV,1,1954

By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend me, and
by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous, if you break one jot...

160

IV,1,1963

Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such
offenders, and let Time try. Adieu. Exit ORLANDO

161

IV,1,1968

O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst
know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded;...

162

IV,1,1973

No; that same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of
thought, conceiv'd of spleen, and born of madness; that blind...

163

IV,3,2001

How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock?
And here much Orlando!

164

IV,3,2014

Patience herself would startle at this letter,
And play the swaggerer. Bear this, bear all....

165

IV,3,2024

Come, come, you are a fool,
And turn'd into the extremity of love....

166

IV,3,2033

Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style;
A style for challengers. Why, she defies me,...

167

IV,3,2041

She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes. [Reads]
'Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,...

168

IV,3,2046

'Why, thy godhead laid apart,
Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?'...

169

IV,3,2068

Do you pity him? No, he deserves no pity. Wilt thou love
such a woman? What, to make thee an instrument, and play false...

170

IV,3,2096

I am. What must we understand by this?

171

IV,3,2129

But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,
Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness?

172

IV,3,2138

Was't you he rescu'd?

173

IV,3,2143

But for the bloody napkin?

174

IV,3,2168

I would I were at home.

175

IV,3,2173

I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would think
this was well counterfeited. I pray you tell your brother how...

176

IV,3,2178

Counterfeit, I assure you.

177

IV,3,2180

So I do; but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by
right.

178

IV,3,2186

I shall devise something; but, I pray you, commend my
counterfeiting to him. Will you go? Exeunt

179

V,2,2264

God save you, brother.

180

V,2,2266

O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee wear
thy heart in a scarf!

181

V,2,2269

I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a
lion.

182

V,2,2272

Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon
when he show'd me your handkercher?

183

V,2,2275

O, I know where you are. Nay, 'tis true. There was never
any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar's...

184

V,2,2290

Why, then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for
Rosalind?

185

V,2,2293

I will weary you, then, no longer with idle talking. Know
of me then- for now I speak to some purpose- that I know you are...

186

V,2,2309

By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I say I
am a magician. Therefore put you in your best array, bid your...

187

V,2,2317

I care not if I have. It is my study
To seem despiteful and ungentle to you....

188

V,2,2326

And I for no woman.

189

V,2,2331

And I for no woman.

190

V,2,2340

And so am I for no woman.

191

V,2,2344

Why do you speak too, 'Why blame you me to love you?'

192

V,2,2346

Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling of Irish
wolves against the moon. [To SILVIUS] I will help you if I can....

193

V,4,2407

Patience once more, whiles our compact is urg'd:
You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,...

194

V,4,2411

And you say you will have her when I bring her?

195

V,4,2413

You say you'll marry me, if I be willing?

196

V,4,2415

But if you do refuse to marry me,
You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?

197

V,4,2418

You say that you'll have Phebe, if she will?

198

V,4,2420

I have promis'd to make all this matter even.
Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daughter;...

199

V,4,2509

[To DUKE] To you I give myself, for I am yours.
[To ORLANDO] To you I give myself, for I am yours.

200

V,4,2515

I'll have no father, if you be not he;
I'll have no husband, if you be not he;...

201

V,4,2596

It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but
it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it...