Reading As You Like It — William Shakespeare

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Yes one, and in this manner. Hee was to ima

gine me his Loue, his Mistris: and I set him euerie day

to woe me. At which time would I, being but a moonish

youth, greeue, be effeminate, changeable, longing, and

liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, ful

of teares, full of smiles; for euerie passion something, and

for no passion truly any thing, as boyes and women are

for the most part, cattle of this colour: would now like

him, now loath him: then entertaine him, then forswear

him: now weepe for him, then spit at him; that I draue

my Sutor from his mad humor of loue, to a liuing humor

of madnes, wc was to forsweare the ful stream of yͤ world,

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