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Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER
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Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER
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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?
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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?
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OLIVER |
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ORLANDO You have my consent. Let your wedding be tomorrow.
Thither will I invite the duke and all’s contented followers.
Go you and prepare Aliena, for look you, here comes my
15 Rosalind.
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ORLANDO You have my consent. Let your wedding be tomorrow.
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
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Enter ROSALIND
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ROSALIND (as Ganymede) God save you, brother.
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ROSALIND (as Ganymede) God save you, brother.
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OLIVER And you, fair sister.
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OLIVER And you, fair sister.
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Exit
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Exit
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ROSALIND O my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf.
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ROSALIND O my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf.
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ORLANDO 20 It is my arm.
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ORLANDO It is my arm.
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ROSALIND I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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ROSALIND I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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ORLANDO Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
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ORLANDO Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
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ROSALIND Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon when he showed me your handkercher?
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ROSALIND Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon when he showed me your handkercher?
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ORLANDO Ay, and greater wonders than that.
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ORLANDO Ay, and greater wonders than that.
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ROSALIND Oh, I know where you are. Nay, ’tis true. There was never anything 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.
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ROSALIND Oh, I know where you are. Nay, ’tis true. There was never anything 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.
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ORLANDO They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid the duke to the nuptial. But Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. By so much the more shall I tomorrow 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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ORLANDO They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid the duke to the nuptial. But Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. By so much the more shall I tomorrow 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 cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
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ROSALIND Why, then, tomorrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
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ORLANDO 45 I can live no longer by thinking.
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ORLANDO I can live no longer by thinking.
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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 labor for a greater esteem than may in some little measure 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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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 labor for a greater esteem than may in some little measure 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 Speak’st thou in sober meanings?
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ORLANDO Speak’st thou in sober meanings?
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ROSALIND By my life I do, which I tender dearly, though I say I am a magician. Therefore put you in your best array, bid your friends; for if you will be married tomorrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.
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ROSALIND By my life I do, which I tender dearly, though I say I am a magician. Therefore put you in your best array, bid your friends; for if you will be married tomorrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.
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Enter SILVIUS and PHOEBE
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Enter SILVIUS and PHOEBE
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Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
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Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
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PHOEBE Youth, you have done me much ungentleness
To show the letter that I writ to you.
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PHOEBE Youth, you have done me much ungentleness
To show the letter that I writ to you.
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ROSALIND 70 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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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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PHOEBE Good shepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love.
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PHOEBE Good shepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love.
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SILVIUS 75 It is to be all made of sighs and tears,
And so am I for Phoebe.
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SILVIUS It is to be all made of sighs and tears,
And so am I for Phoebe.
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PHOEBE And I for Ganymede.
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PHOEBE And I for Ganymede.
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ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
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ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
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ROSALIND And I for no woman.
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ROSALIND And I for no woman.
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SILVIUS 80 It is to be all made of faith and service,
And so am I for Phoebe.
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SILVIUS It is to be all made of faith and service,
And so am I for Phoebe.
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PHOEBE And I for Ganymede.
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PHOEBE And I for Ganymede.
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ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
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ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
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ROSALIND And I for no woman.
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ROSALIND And I for no woman.
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SILVIUS 85 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,
90 And so am I for Phoebe.
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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 Phoebe.
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PHOEBE And so am I for Ganymede.
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PHOEBE And so am I for Ganymede.
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ORLANDO And so am I for Rosalind.
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ORLANDO And so am I for Rosalind.
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ROSALIND And so am I for no woman.
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ROSALIND And so am I for no woman.
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PHOEBE If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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PHOEBE If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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SILVIUS 95 If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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SILVIUS If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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ORLANDO If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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ORLANDO If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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ROSALIND Why do you speak, too, “Why blame you me to love you?”?
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ROSALIND Why do you speak, too, “Why blame you me to love you?”?
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ORLANDO To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.
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ORLANDO To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.
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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 PHOEBE) I would love you if I could.—Tomorrow meet me all together. (to PHOEBE) I will marry you if ever I marry woman, and I’ll be married tomorrow. (to ORLANDO) I will satisfy you if ever I satisfy man, and you shall be married tomorrow. (to SILVIUS) I will content you, if what pleases you contents you, and you shall be married tomorrow. (to ORLANDO) As you love Rosalind, meet. (to SILVIUS) As you love Phoebe, meet.—And as I love no woman, I’ll meet. So fare you well. I have left you commands.
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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 PHOEBE) I would love you if I could.—Tomorrow meet me all together. (to PHOEBE) I will marry you if ever I marry woman, and I’ll be married tomorrow. (to ORLANDO) I will satisfy you if ever I satisfy man, and you shall be married tomorrow. (to SILVIUS) I will content you, if what pleases you contents you, and you shall be married tomorrow. (to ORLANDO) As you love Rosalind, meet. (to SILVIUS) As you love Phoebe, 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.
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SILVIUS I’ll not fail, if I live.
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PHOEBE Nor I.
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PHOEBE Nor I.
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ORLANDO Nor I.
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ORLANDO Nor I.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER
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Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER
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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?
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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?
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OLIVER |
OLIVER |
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ORLANDO You have my consent. Let your wedding be tomorrow.
Thither will I invite the duke and all’s contented followers.
Go you and prepare Aliena, for look you, here comes my
15 Rosalind.
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ORLANDO You have my consent. Let your wedding be tomorrow.
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
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Enter ROSALIND
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ROSALIND (as Ganymede) God save you, brother.
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ROSALIND (as Ganymede) God save you, brother.
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OLIVER And you, fair sister.
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OLIVER And you, fair sister.
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Exit
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Exit
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ROSALIND O my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf.
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ROSALIND O my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf.
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ORLANDO 20 It is my arm.
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ORLANDO It is my arm.
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ROSALIND I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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ROSALIND I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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ORLANDO Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
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ORLANDO Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
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ROSALIND Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon when he showed me your handkercher?
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ROSALIND Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon when he showed me your handkercher?
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ORLANDO Ay, and greater wonders than that.
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ORLANDO Ay, and greater wonders than that.
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ROSALIND Oh, I know where you are. Nay, ’tis true. There was never anything 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.
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ROSALIND Oh, I know where you are. Nay, ’tis true. There was never anything 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.
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ORLANDO They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid the duke to the nuptial. But Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. By so much the more shall I tomorrow 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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ORLANDO They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid the duke to the nuptial. But Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. By so much the more shall I tomorrow 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 cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
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ROSALIND Why, then, tomorrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
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ORLANDO 45 I can live no longer by thinking.
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ORLANDO I can live no longer by thinking.
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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 labor for a greater esteem than may in some little measure 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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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 labor for a greater esteem than may in some little measure 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 Speak’st thou in sober meanings?
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ORLANDO Speak’st thou in sober meanings?
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ROSALIND By my life I do, which I tender dearly, though I say I am a magician. Therefore put you in your best array, bid your friends; for if you will be married tomorrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.
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ROSALIND By my life I do, which I tender dearly, though I say I am a magician. Therefore put you in your best array, bid your friends; for if you will be married tomorrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.
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Enter SILVIUS and PHOEBE
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Enter SILVIUS and PHOEBE
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Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
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Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
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PHOEBE Youth, you have done me much ungentleness
To show the letter that I writ to you.
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PHOEBE Youth, you have done me much ungentleness
To show the letter that I writ to you.
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ROSALIND 70 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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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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PHOEBE Good shepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love.
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PHOEBE Good shepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love.
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SILVIUS 75 It is to be all made of sighs and tears,
And so am I for Phoebe.
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SILVIUS It is to be all made of sighs and tears,
And so am I for Phoebe.
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PHOEBE And I for Ganymede.
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PHOEBE And I for Ganymede.
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ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
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ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
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ROSALIND And I for no woman.
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ROSALIND And I for no woman.
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SILVIUS 80 It is to be all made of faith and service,
And so am I for Phoebe.
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SILVIUS It is to be all made of faith and service,
And so am I for Phoebe.
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PHOEBE And I for Ganymede.
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PHOEBE And I for Ganymede.
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ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
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ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.
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ROSALIND And I for no woman.
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ROSALIND And I for no woman.
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SILVIUS 85 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,
90 And so am I for Phoebe.
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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 Phoebe.
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PHOEBE And so am I for Ganymede.
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PHOEBE And so am I for Ganymede.
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ORLANDO And so am I for Rosalind.
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ORLANDO And so am I for Rosalind.
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ROSALIND And so am I for no woman.
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ROSALIND And so am I for no woman.
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PHOEBE If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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PHOEBE If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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SILVIUS 95 If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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SILVIUS If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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ORLANDO If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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ORLANDO If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
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ROSALIND Why do you speak, too, “Why blame you me to love you?”?
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ROSALIND Why do you speak, too, “Why blame you me to love you?”?
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ORLANDO To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.
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ORLANDO To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.
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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 PHOEBE) I would love you if I could.—Tomorrow meet me all together. (to PHOEBE) I will marry you if ever I marry woman, and I’ll be married tomorrow. (to ORLANDO) I will satisfy you if ever I satisfy man, and you shall be married tomorrow. (to SILVIUS) I will content you, if what pleases you contents you, and you shall be married tomorrow. (to ORLANDO) As you love Rosalind, meet. (to SILVIUS) As you love Phoebe, meet.—And as I love no woman, I’ll meet. So fare you well. I have left you commands.
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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 PHOEBE) I would love you if I could.—Tomorrow meet me all together. (to PHOEBE) I will marry you if ever I marry woman, and I’ll be married tomorrow. (to ORLANDO) I will satisfy you if ever I satisfy man, and you shall be married tomorrow. (to SILVIUS) I will content you, if what pleases you contents you, and you shall be married tomorrow. (to ORLANDO) As you love Rosalind, meet. (to SILVIUS) As you love Phoebe, 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.
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SILVIUS I’ll not fail, if I live.
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PHOEBE Nor I.
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PHOEBE Nor I.
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ORLANDO Nor I.
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ORLANDO Nor I.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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