Act V, Scene 1

The forest

Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY

• Touchstone. We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.

• Audrey. Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old 2190
  gentleman's saying.

• Touchstone. A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile Martext.
  But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to
  you.

• Audrey. Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in the 2195
  world; here comes the man you mean.

Enter WILLIAM

• Touchstone. 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. 2200

• William. Good ev'n, Audrey.

• Audrey. God ye good ev'n, William.

• William. And good ev'n to you, sir.

• Touchstone. Good ev'n, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy
  head; nay, prithee be cover'd. How old are you, friend? 2205

• William. Five and twenty, sir.

• Touchstone. A ripe age. Is thy name William?

• William. William, sir.

• Touchstone. A fair name. Wast born i' th' forest here?

• William. Ay, sir, I thank God. 2210

• Touchstone. 'Thank God.' A good answer.
  Art rich?

• William. Faith, sir, so so.

• Touchstone. 'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and
  yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise? 2215

• William. Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.

• Touchstone. Why, thou say'st 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 2220
  thereby that grapes were made to eat and lips to open. You do
  love this maid?

• William. I do, sir.

• Touchstone. Give me your hand. Art thou learned?

• William. No, sir. 2225

• Touchstone. Then learn this of me: to have is to have; for it is a
  figure in rhetoric that drink, being pour'd out of cup into a
  glass, by filling the one doth empty the other; for all your
  writers do consent that ipse is he; now, you are not ipse, for I
  am he. 2230

• William. Which he, sir?

• Touchstone. He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you
  clown, abandon- which is in the vulgar leave- the society- which
  in the boorish is company- of this female- which in the common is
  woman- which together is: abandon the society of this female; or, 2235
  clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest;
  or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into
  death, thy liberty into bondage. I will deal in poison with thee,
  or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy with thee in faction;
  will o'er-run thee with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and 2240
  fifty ways; therefore tremble and depart.

• Audrey. Do, good William.

• William. God rest you merry, sir. Exit

Enter CORIN

• Corin. Our master and mistress seeks you; come away, away. 2245

• Touchstone. Trip, Audrey, trip, Audrey. I attend, I attend.

Exeunt