Note to As You Like It, 3.2.83: "out of all reasonable match"


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out of all reasonable match: contrary to any reasonable match (of lovers). —This the punchline of Touchstone's comic denunciation of Corin's breeding of sheep. Touchstone says that making a match between an old ram and a yearling she-lamb is as wrong as marrying off a teenage girl to a man of 80.