Note to As You Like It, 2.1.51-52: "'Tis right:" quoth he; "thus misery doth part / The flux of company"

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"'Tis right:" quoth he; "thus misery doth part / The flux of company": i.e., "That's just how it goes," he said, "thus misery separates the sufferer from the fellowship of his friends and neighbors."