Act 5 scene 2

  Act V  Scene II The forest.  
  [Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER]  
ORLANDO Is't possible that on so little acquaintance
you should like her? that but seeing you should
love her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should
grant? and will you persever to enjoy her?		  
OLIVER Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the
poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden
wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with
me, I love Aliena; say with her that she loves me;
consent with both that we may enjoy each other: it
shall be to your good; for my father's house and all
the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I estate
upon you, and here live and die a shepherd.		 5




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ORLANDO You have my consent. Let your wedding be
to-morrow: thither will I invite the duke and all's
contented followers. Go you and prepare Aliena;
for look you, here comes my Rosalind.

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  [Enter ROSALIND]  
ROSALIND God save you,
brother.		  
OLIVER And you, fair sister.  
  [Exit]  
ROSALIND O, my dear Orlando, how it
grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf!		 20
ORLANDO It is my arm.  
ROSALIND I thought thy heart had been
wounded with the claws of a lion.		  
ORLANDO Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady. 25
ROSALIND Did your brother tell you
how I counterfeited to swoon when he showed me
your handkerchief?		  
ORLANDO Ay, and greater wonders than that.  
ROSALIND








O, I know where you are:
nay, 'tis true: there was never any thing so sudden
but the fight of two rams and Caesar's thrasonical
brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame:' for your
brother and my sister no sooner met but they
looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner
loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they
asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the
reason but they sought the remedy; and in these
degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage
which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: they are in the very wrath
of love and they will together; clubs cannot part
them.		 30




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ORLANDO They shall be married to-morrow, and I will
bid the duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a
thing it is to look into happiness through another
man's eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow
be at the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I
shall think my brother happy in having what he
wishes for.
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ROSALIND Why then, tomorrow I can-
not serve your turn for Rosalind?		  
ORLANDO I can live no longer by thinking.  
ROSALIND











I will weary you then no
longer with idle talking. Know of me then, for
now I speak to some purpose, that I know you are
a gentleman of good conceit: I speak not this that
you should bear a good opinion of my knowledge,
insomuch I say I know you are; neither do I labour
for a greater esteem than may in some little mea-
sure draw a belief from you, to do yourself good and
not to grace me. Believe then, if you please, that I
can do strange things: I have, since I was three year
old, conversed with a magician, most profound in
his art and yet not damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart as your gesture cries it out,
when your brother marries Aliena, shall you marry
her: I know into what straits of fortune she is
driven; and it is not impossible to me, if it appear
not inconvenient to you, to set her before your eyes
tomorrow human as she is and without any
danger.
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ORLANDO Speakest thou in sober meanings?  
ROSALIND By my life, I do; which I
tender dearly, though I say I am a magician. There-
fore, put you in your best array: bid your friends; for
if you will be married to-morrow, you shall, and to
Rosalind, if you will.
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  [Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE]  
  Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of
hers.
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PHEBE Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,
To show the letter that I writ to you.		  
ROSALIND I care not if I have: it is my study
To seem despiteful and ungentle to you:
You are there followed by a faithful shepherd;
Look upon him, love him; he worships you.

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PHEBE Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.  
SILVIUS It is to be all made of sighs and tears;
And so am I for Phebe.		  
PHEBE And I for Ganymede. 90
ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.  
ROSALIND And I for no woman.  
SILVIUS It is to be all made of faith and service;
And so am I for Phebe.		  
PHEBE And I for Ganymede. 95
ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.  
ROSALIND And I for no woman.  
SILVIUS It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion and all made of wishes,
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance;
And so am I for Phebe.

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PHEBE And so am I for Ganymede.  
ORLANDO And so am I for Rosalind. 105
ROSALIND And so am I for no
woman.		  
PHEBE If this be so, why blame you me to love you?  
SILVIUS If this be so, why blame you me to love you?  
ORLANDO If this be so, why blame you me to love you? 110
ROSALIND Who do you speak to,
'Why blame you me to love you?'		  
ORLANDO To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.  
ROSALIND








Pray you, no more of this;
'tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the
moon. [To SILVIUS] I will help you, if I can: [To
PHEBE] I would love you, if I could. To-morrow
meet me all together. [To PHEBE] I will marry
you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be married
to-morrow: [To ORLANDO] I will satisfy you, if ever I
satisfied man, and you shall be married to-morrow:
[To SILVIUS] I will content you, if what pleases you
contents you, and you shall be married to-morrow.
[To ORLANDO] As you love Rosalind, meet: [To
SILVIUS] as you love Phebe, meet: and as I love
no woman,I'll meet. So fare you well: I have left
you commands.
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SILVIUS I'll not fail, if I live.  
PHEBE Nor I.  
ORLANDO Nor I. 130
  [Exeunt]