Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Phe. [Act 4, Scene 1]
Phe. Enter Rosalind, and Celia, and Iaques.
Iaq. Iaq.
Iaq. I prethee, pretty youth, let me better acquainted
Iaq. with thee.
Ros. Ros.
Ros. They say you are a melancholly fellow.
Iaq. I am so: I doe loue it better then laughing.
Ros. Those that are in extremity of either, are abho
Ros. minable fellowes, and betray themselues to euery mo
Ros. derne censure, worse then drunkards.
Iaq. Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.
Ros. Why then 'tis good to be a poste.
Iaq. I haue neither the Schollers melancholy, which
Iaq. is emulation: nor the Musitians, which is fantasticall;