Note to As You Like It, 3.2.144: "Nature presently distill'd"


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Act 3, Scene 2, line 144.
Nature presently distill'd: i.e., [as soon as Heaven commanded Nature to pack the quintessence of all graces into one body,] Nature immediately distilled. —Following this is a list of all the womanly perfections which are distilled into the person of Rosalind.






Helen Mirren as Rosalind, 1978