Act IVScene IThe forestEnter Rosalind, Celia, and JaquesJaquesI prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with thee.RosalindThey say you are a melancholy fellow.JaquesI am so; I do…
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Scene IIThe forestEnter Orlando and OliverOrlandoIs't possible that on so little acquaintance you should like her? that but seeing you should love her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should…
Author:Harold BloomScribner Who reads books anymore? The question's been beaten to death by many a scholar. Harold Bloom, an academic as well as a beloved teacher, reinvigorates the question…
SongI The lintwhite and the throstlecock
Have voices sweet and clear;
All in the bloomèd May.
They from the blosmy brere
Call to the fleeting year,
If that he would them hear…
