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Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].

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SCENE IV. Enter Rosalind, with a paper.
Ros.
From the east to western Inde,
No jewel is like Rosalind,
Her worth, being mounted on the wind,
Through all the world bears Rosalind.
All the pictures, fairest limn'd,
Are but black to Rosalind;
Let no face be kept in mind,
But the face of Rosalind.

Clo.

I'll rhime you so, eight years together; dinners, and suppers, and sleeping hours excepted: it is the right butter-woman's rate to market.⁴ ^note

Ros.

Out, fool!

Clo.

For a taste.—

If a hart doth lack a hind,
Let him seek out Rosalind.
If the cat will after kind,
So, be sure, will Rosalind.
Winter-garments must be lin'd,
So must slender Rosalind.
They, that reap, must sheaf and bind;
Then to Cart with Rosalind.
Sweetest nut hath sowrest rind,
Such a nut is Rosalind.
He that sweetest rose will find,
Must find love's prick, and Rosalind.

This is the very false gallop of verses; why do you infect yourself with them?

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Ros.

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

Clo.

Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.

Ros.

I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it with a medler; then it will be the earliest fruit i'th' country; for you will be rotten ere you be half ripe, and that's the right virtue of the medler.

Clo.

You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the Forest judge.

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