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| Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES
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ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES enter. |
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I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with |
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thee. |
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Please, pretty young man, I'd like to get to know you better. |
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They say you are a melancholy fellow. |
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They say you are a melancholy fellow. |
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I am so. I do love it better than laughing. |
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I am. I like it better than laughing. |
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Those that are in extremity of either are abominable fellows |
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and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than |
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drunkards. |
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People who are either too serious or too silly are awful. They make themselves targets for ridicule even faster than drunks do. |
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Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing. |
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Well, I think it's good to be serious and keep quiet. |
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| | ROSALIND |
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Why then, 'tis good to be a post. |
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In that case it's good to be a post. |
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I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; |
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nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, |
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which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor |
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the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; |
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nor the lover's, which is all these, but it is a melancholy of |
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mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from |
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many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my |
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travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most |
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humorous sadness. |
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I'm not a scholar's kind of melancholy, which is all about impressing one's peers, or a musician's, which comes from his passion for his art. I don't have the proud melancholy of a courtier or the ambitious melancholy of a soldier or the calculated melancholy of a lawyer. My melancholy is not like a lady's—which is nothing more than an affectation—nor like a lover's, which combines all of these qualities. My melancholy is purely my own—a compound made from many ingredients. I'm serious because I've traveled so much. When I think about all the things I've seen, I sink into deep thoughts. |
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