The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Уильям Шекспир

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СКАЧАТЬ You shall try but one fall.

       CHARLES

       No; I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him from a first.

       ORLANDO

       You mean to mock me after; you should not have mocked me before; but come your ways.

       ROSALIND

       Now, Hercules be thy speed, young man!

       CELIA

       I would I were invisible, to catch the strong fellow by the leg.

       [CHARLES and ORLANDO wrestle.]

       ROSALIND

       O excellent young man!

       CELIA

       If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should down.

       [CHARLES is thrown. Shout.]

       DUKE FREDERICK

       No more, no more.

       ORLANDO

       Yes, I beseech your grace; I am not yet well breathed.

       DUKE FREDERICK

       How dost thou, Charles?

       LE BEAU

       He cannot speak, my lord.

       DUKE FREDERICK

       Bear him away.

       [CHARLES is borne out.]

       What is thy name, young man?

       ORLANDO

       Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Bois.

       DUKE FREDERICK

       I would thou hadst been son to some man else.

       The world esteem’d thy father honourable,

       But I did find him still mine enemy:

       Thou shouldst have better pleas’d me with this deed

       Hadst thou descended from another house.

       But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth;

       I would thou hadst told me of another father.

       [Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK, Train, and LE BEAU.]

       CELIA

       Were I my father, coz, would I do this?

       ORLANDO

       I am more proud to be Sir Rowland’s son,

       His youngest son;—and would not change that calling

       To be adopted heir to Frederick.

       ROSALIND

       My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,

       And all the world was of my father’s mind:

       Had I before known this young man his son,

       I should have given him tears unto entreaties

       Ere he should thus have ventur’d.

       CELIA

       Gentle cousin,

       Let us go thank him, and encourage him:

       My father’s rough and envious disposition

       Sticks me at heart.—Sir, you have well deserv’d:

       If you do keep your promises in love

       But justly, as you have exceeded promise,

       Your mistress shall be happy.

       ROSALIND

       Gentleman,

       [Giving him a chain from her neck.]

       Wear this for me; one out of suits with fortune,

       That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.—

       Shall we go, coz?

       CELIA

       Ay.—Fare you well, fair gentleman.

       ORLANDO

       Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts

       Are all thrown down; and that which here stands up

       Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.

       ROSALIND

       He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes:

       I’ll ask him what he would.—Did you call, sir?—

       Sir, you have wrestled well, and overthrown

       More than your enemies.

       CELIA

       Will you go, coz?

       ROSALIND

       Have with you.—Fare you well.

       [Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA.]

       ORLANDO

       What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?

       I cannot speak to her, yet she urg’d conference.

       O poor Orlando! thou art overthrown:

       Or Charles, or something weaker, masters thee.

       [Re-enter LE BEAU.]

       LE BEAU

       Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you

       To leave this place. Albeit you have deserv’d

       High commendation, true applause, and love,

       Yet such is now the duke’s condition,

       That he miscónstrues all that you have done.

       The Duke is humorous; what he is, indeed,

       More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.

       ORLANDO

       I thank you, sir: and pray you tell me this;

       Which of the two was daughter of the duke

       That here was at the wrestling?

       LE BEAU

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