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You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate

Celia
You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate.
We must have your doublet and hose plucked
over your head and show the world what the bird
hath done to her own nest.

O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou
didst know how many fathom deep I am in love.

Rosalind
O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou
didst know how many fathom deep I am in love. But
it cannot be sounded; my affection hath an
unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.
Celia
Or rather bottomless, that as fast as you pour
affection in, it runs out.
Rosalind
No, that same wicked bastard of Venus, that
was begot of thought, conceived of spleen, and born
of madness, that blind rascally boy that abuses
everyone’s eyes because his own are out, let him be
judge how deep I am in love. I’ll tell thee, Aliena, I
cannot be out of the sight of Orlando. I’ll go find a
shadow and sigh till he come.
Celia
And I'll sleep.Bathos

 They exit.

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Act 4
Scene 1
Line 214

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