ABSTRACT

In Act V, Scene i, of As You Like It there appear a few lines of dialogue spoken by Touchstone and William, with Audrey also on the stage. The passage is as follows: TOUCHSTONE

Art thou learned?

WILLIAM

No, sir.

TOUCHSTONE

Then learn this of me – to have is to have; for it is a figure of rhetoric that drink, by being poured out of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse is he; now you are not ipse for I am he.

WILLIAM

Which he, sir?

TOUCHSTONE

He, sir, that must marry this woman.