Orlando: "What were his marks?"

Rosalind:

"A lean cheek, _which you have not_, a blue eye and sunken,

_which you have not_ ... a beard neglected, _which you have

not_ ... Then your hose _should be_ ungartered, your bonnet

unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and

everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation."

Shakspere knew that love makes a man tidy, not untidy, hence Rosalind

fails to find the artificial Greek symptoms of love in Orlando, while

she admits that he carves her name on trees and hangs poems on them;

acts of which lovers are quite capable. In Japan it is a national

custom to hang love-poems on trees.

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