ACT 1
Scene 2

...Monsieur Le Beau.
Enter Le Beau.

...What’s the news?
Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.

...Of what color?
What color, madam? How shall I answer you?

...thy old smell.
You amaze me, ladies. I would have told you of
good wrestling, which you have lost the sight of.

...of the wrestling.
I will tell you the beginning, and if it please
your Ladyships, you may see the end, for the best is
yet to do, and here, where you are, they are coming
to perform it.

...dead and buried.
There comes an old man and his three sons—

...an old tale.
Three proper young men of excellent growth
and presence.

...by these presents.”
The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles,
the Duke’s wrestler, which Charles in a moment
threw him and broke three of his ribs, that there is
little hope of life in him. So he served the second,
and so the third. Yonder they lie, the poor old man
their father making such pitiful dole over them that
all the beholders take his part with weeping.

...ladies have lost?
Why, this that I speak of.

...this wrestling, cousin?
You must if you stay here, for here is the place
appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to
perform it.

...yonder the man?
Even he, madam.

...He steps aside.
to Orlando
Monsieur the challenger, the
Princess calls for you.

...dost thou, Charles?
He cannot speak, my lord.

...of another father.
Duke exits with Touchstone, Le Beau, Lords, and Attendants.

...weaker masters thee.
Enter Le Beau.
Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved
High commendation, true applause, and love,
Yet such is now the Duke’s condition
That he misconsters all that you have done.
The Duke is humorous. What he is indeed
More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.

...at the wrestling?
Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners,
But yet indeed the smaller is his daughter.
The other is daughter to the banished duke,
And here detained by her usurping uncle
To keep his daughter company, whose loves
Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.
But I can tell you that of late this duke
Hath ta’en displeasure ’gainst his gentle niece,
Grounded upon no other argument
But that the people praise her for her virtues
And pity her for her good father’s sake;
And, on my life, his malice ’gainst the lady
Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well.
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

...Fare you well.
Le Beau exits.