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George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].

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SCENE IV. Enter Rosalind with a paper.
Ros.
From the east to the western Inde,
No jewel is like Rosalind.
Her worth being mounted on the wind,
Through all the world bears Rosalind.
All the pictures fairest lin'd,
Are but black to Rosalind;

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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 women's rank to market.

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 ^a ^notenut 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 your self with them?

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'll 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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