Note to As You Like It, 3.2.117-118: "then I shall graff it / with a medlar"

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Act 3, Scene 2, lines 117-118.

then I shall graff it / with a medlar: —Rosalind is punning on the soundalikes medlar/meddler. The medlar is a fruit which isn't edible until it has become soft, like a rotten apple, and Rosalind may mean that Touchstone is somehow like a medlar, soft in the head or prematurely rotten.

Edmund Gwenn as Touchstone, circa 1900