. Ay, but if you would have one, you must bespeak it, for I
am sure you have none ready made.

_Cel_. What say you, shall I marry Flavia?

_Flo_. No, she'll be too cunning for you.

_Cel_. What say you to Olinda, then? she's tall, and fair, and
bonny.

_Flo_. And foolish, and apish, and fickle.

_Cel_. But Sabina there's pretty, and young, and loving, and
innocent.

_Flo_. And dwarfish, and childish, and fond, and flippant: If you
marry her sister, you will get may-poles; and if you marry her, you
will get fairies to dance about them.

_Cel_. Nay, then, the case is clear, Florimel; if you take 'em
all from me, 'tis because you reserve me for yourself.

_Flo_. But this marriage is such a bugbear to me! much might be
if we could invent but any way to make it easy.

_Cel_. Some foolish people have made it uneasy, by drawing the
knot faster than they need; but we that are wiser will loosen it a
little.

_Flo_. 'Tis true, indeed, there's some difference betwixt a
girdle and a halter.

_Cel_. As for the first year, according to the laudable custom of
new-married people, we shall follow one another up into chambers,
and down into gardens, and think we shall never have enough of one
another. So far 'tis pleasant enough, I hope.

_Flo_. But after that, when we begin to live like husband and
wife, and never come near one another--what then, sir?

_Cel_. Why, then, our only happiness must be to have one mind,
and one will, Florimel.

_Flo_. One mind, if thou wilt, but pr'ythee let us have two
wills; for I find one will be little enough for me alone. But how, if
those wills should meet and clash, Celadon?

_Cel_. I warrant thee for that; husbands and wives keep their
wills far enough asunder for ever meeting. One thing let us be sure to
agree on, that is, never to be jealous.

_Flo_. No; but e'en love one another as long as we can; and
confess the truth when we can love no longer.

_Cel_. When I have been at play, you shall never ask me what
money I have lost.

_Flo_. When I have been abroad, you shall never enquire who
treated me.

_Cel_. _Item_, I will have the liberty to sleep all night,
without your interrupting my repose for any evil design whatsoever.

_Flo_. _Item_, Then you shall bid me goodnight before you
sleep.

_Cel_. Provided always, that whatever liberties we take with
other people, we continue very honest to one another.

_Flo_. As far as will consist with a pleasant life.

_Cel_. La