...and enters the rustic environs of the forest, he takes pains to stress his discomfort: "Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. / When I was at home, I was in a better place" (2.4.16-17). Unlike one of Kemp's clowns, Touchstone is emphatically not a rustic, yet he points up...

...now am I in Arden," moaned Touchstone, sitting down on a tree-stump and nursing his blistered feet, "the more fool I; when I was at home I was in a better place — " There came a sound of footfalls and a murmur of voices! The three travellers looked to one another...

...spirits, if my legs were not weary' (2. 4. 23). The forest has few comforts: 'Ay, now am I in Ardenne; the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place' (14-15). To him the shepherd's life has a seamy side; Touchstone scolds Corin: That is another simple...

...to which you were accustomed, Madame Maryna?" In reply she tossed him, in English: 178 Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. "I beg your pardon?" "Shakespeare, Mr. Halek. As You Like It." "And so I do, which...

...rest of the way.' 16 CHAPTER II Rosalind. Well, this is the Forest of Arden. Touchstone. Aye, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place ; but travellers must be content, Ros. Aye, be so, good Touchstone — Look you, who comes here ; a young man and an...

...Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More fee from peril than the envious court? and ' . . . now I am in Arden, the more fool I! When I was at home, I was in a better place'. C3 Produce a holiday brochure or television commercial for Duke's Travel Agency Forest Retreats (perhaps...

...that Gallant chose for her early novel Green Water Green Sky, seems painfully ironic: "Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home, I was in a better place, but travellers must be content." "All immigration is based on misapprehension," Gallant has written, and she catches...

...announce their arrival in the pastoral world: ROSALIND: Well, this is the Forest of Arden. TOUCHSTONE: Ay, now I am in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home, I was in a better place, but travellers must be content. When Viola makes her second appearance in Twelfth Night, we learn in the very first...

...mess NOTES OF j SUNNY fOKTtfiesnr Of THM PROVINCES JUtE 1SSCRIBBB, AND THAT SOE1 OF THUG. "Ay, BOW I am in Arden : the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be conteat." — TOTOHSTQHB, WO comrades and travellers, who sought a better country than the...

...says Rosalind on their arrival, "this is the forest of Arden." "Ay," replies Touchstone, "now am 1 in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travellers must be content" (II, iv, 15-18). This is the attitude of the Fool in King Lear also. Having rejected...