humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

> Art Neuendorffer wrote:
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> > I've been on a family reunion & ski week at Lake Tahoe, California.
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Greg Reynolds wrote:
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> Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
> But those dreams have remained and they're turned around.
> Audrey and William got divorced.
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Do you mean: Audrey & *Touchstone* ?
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. As You Like It Act 3, Scene 3

TOUCHSTONE: Is the single man
. therefore blessed? No: as a walled town is more
. worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a
. *MARRIED* man more honourable than the bare brow of a
. bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no
. skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to
. want. HERE COMES Sir OliVER.

. [Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT]

. Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met: will you
. dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go
. with you to your chapel?
.
JAQUES. Will you be *MARRIED*, motley?
.
JAQUES. And will you, being a man of your breeding, be
. *MARRIED* under a bush like a beggar? Get you to
. church, and have a good priest that can tell you
. what marriage is: this fellow will but join you
. together as they join wainscot; then one of you will
. prove a shrunk panel and, like green timber, warp, warp.
.
TOUCHSTONE. [Aside] I am not in the mind but I were better to be
. *MARRIED* of him than of another: for he is not like
. to marry me well; and not being well *MARRIED*, it
. will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife.

TOUCHSTONE. 'Come, sweet Audrey:
. We must be *MARRIED*, or we must live in bawdry.
. Farewell, good Master Oliver: not,--
. O sweet Oliver,
. O brave Oliver,
. Leave me not behind thee: but,--
. Wind away,
. Begone, I say,
. I will not to wedding with thee.
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. Act 5, Scene 3
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TOUCHSTONE. To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey;
. to-morrow will we be *MARRIED*.
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Art Neuendorffer