...They collapse in a heap. ) AUDREY. Well, this is the forest of Arden. CLOWN. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home, I was in a better place. AUDREY. Look you who comes here: a young man and an old in solemn talk. ROSALIND. Two Shepherds, Corin...

...Sky is from As You Like It and encapsulates the theme of the fiction-elegy: "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." If to lose "home" is to experience psychic dislocation, then exiled...

...have no money in your purse. ROSALIND Well, this is the forest of Arden! TOUCH. 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. ROSALIND Ay. Be so, good Touchstone. CORIN and SILVIUS draw near Look...

...money in your purse. ROSALIND Well, this is the Forest of Arden. TOUCHSTONE 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. Enfer Corin and Silvius ROSALIND Ay, be so, good Touchstone. - Look...

...arrives there with Ganymede and Aliena in Act II, Scene 4, he is not impressed: 'now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place' (11.13-14). Figure 6.5 Michael Gardiner as Jaques in the Cheek by Jowl production of As You Like It,...

...underneath it all he's quite glad to be away from the court). So a line like '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' (n. iv. 13-15) can positively drip with sarcasm. My biggest problem...

...and the fool enter they are tired and show no enthusiasm. The fool states: "Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place. . . ." (2.4.13-13; Rosalind describes the forest "desert," as does Orlando later on (2.7.16). 16. Claus...

...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...

...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...

...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...