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Act 5, Scene 2

Another part of the Forest.

  1. [Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER.]
  2. Orlando
  3. 2160 Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you should
  4. 2161 like her? that but seeing you should love her? and loving woo?
  5. 2162 and, wooing, she should grant? and will you persever to enjoy
  6. 2163 her?
  7. Oliver
  8. 2164 Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the poverty
  9. 2165 of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden wooing, nor her sudden
  10. 2166 consenting; but say with me, I love Aliena; say, with her, that
  11. 2167 she loves me; consent with both, that we may enjoy each other: it
  12. 2168 shall be to your good; for my father's house, and all the revenue
  13. 2169 that was old Sir Rowland's will I estate upon you, and here
  14. 2170 live and die a shepherd.
  15. Orlando
  16. 2171 You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow: thither will
  17. 2172 I invite the duke and all's contented followers. Go you and
  18. 2173 prepare Aliena; for, look you, here comes my Rosalind.
  19. [Enter ROSALIND.]
  20. Rosalind
  21. 2174 God save you, brother.
  22. Oliver
  23. 2175 And you, fair sister.
  24. [Exit.]
  25. Rosalind
  26. 2176 O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee
  27. 2177 wear thy heart in a scarf!
  28. Orlando
  29. 2178 It is my arm.
  30. Rosalind
  31. 2179 I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
  32. Orlando
  33. 2180 Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
  34. Rosalind
  35. 2181 Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon
  36. 2182 when he show'd me your handkercher?
  37. Orlando
  38. 2183 Ay, and greater wonders than that.
  39. Rosalind
  40. 2184 O, I know where you are:—nay, 'tis true: there was never
  41. 2185 anything so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar's
  42. 2186 thrasonical brag of "I came, saw, and overcame:" for your brother
  43. 2187 and my sister no sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked,
  44. 2188 but they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner
  45. 2189 sighed, but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the
  46. 2190 reason, but they sought the remedy: and in these degrees have
  47. 2191 they made pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb
  48. 2192 incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: they are in
  49. 2193 the very wrath of love, and they will together: clubs cannot part
  50. 2194 them.
  51. Orlando
  52. 2195 They shall be married to-morrow; and I will bid the duke
  53. 2196 to the nuptial. But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into
  54. 2197 happiness through another man's eyes! By so much the more shall I
  55. 2198 to-morrow be at the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I
  56. 2199 shall think my brother happy in having what he wishes for.
  57. Rosalind
  58. 2200 Why, then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
  59. Orlando
  60. 2201 I can live no longer by thinking.
  61. Rosalind
  62. 2202 I will weary you, then, no longer with idle talking. Know
  63. 2203 of me then,—for now I speak to some purpose,—that I know you
  64. 2204 are a gentleman of good conceit: I speak not this that you should
  65. 2205 bear a good opinion of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you
  66. 2206 are; neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in some
  67. 2207 little measure draw a belief from you, to do yourself good, and
  68. 2208 not to grace me. Believe then, if you please, that I can do
  69. 2209 strange things: I have, since I was three year old, conversed
  70. 2210 with a magician, most profound in his art and yet not damnable.
  71. 2211 If you do love Rosalind so near the heart as your gesture cries
  72. 2212 it out, when your brother marries Aliena, shall you marry her:—
  73. 2213 I know into what straits of fortune she is driven; and it is not
  74. 2214 impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient to you, to set
  75. 2215 her before your eyes to-morrow, human as she is, and without any
  76. 2216 danger.
  77. Orlando
  78. 2217 Speak'st thou in sober meanings?
  79. Rosalind
  80. 2218 By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I say I
  81. 2219 am a magician. Therefore put you in your best array, bid your
  82. 2220 friends; for if you will be married to-morrow, you shall; and
  83. 2221 to Rosalind, if you will. Look, here comes a lover of mine, and a
  84. 2222 lover of hers.
  85. [Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE.]
  86. Phebe
  87. 2223 Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,
  88. 2224 To show the letter that I writ to you.
  89. Rosalind
  90. 2225 I care not if I have: it is my study
  91. 2226 To seem despiteful and ungentle to you:
  92. 2227 You are there follow'd by a faithful shepherd;
  93. 2228 Look upon him, love him; he worships you.
  94. Phebe
  95. 2229 Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.
  96. Silvius
  97. 2230 It is to be all made of sighs and tears;—
  98. 2231 And so am I for Phebe.
  99. Phebe
  100. 2232 And I for Ganymede.
  101. Orlando
  102. 2233 And I for Rosalind.
  103. Rosalind
  104. 2234 And I for no woman.
  105. Silvius
  106. 2235 It is to be all made of faith and service;—
  107. 2236 And so am I for Phebe.
  108. Phebe
  109. 2237 And I for Ganymede.
  110. Orlando
  111. 2238 And I for Rosalind.
  112. Rosalind
  113. 2239 And I for no woman.
  114. Silvius
  115. 2240 It is to be all made of fantasy,
  116. 2241 All made of passion, and all made of wishes;
  117. 2242 All adoration, duty, and observance,
  118. 2243 All humbleness, all patience, and impatience,
  119. 2244 All purity, all trial, all observance;—
  120. 2245 And so am I for Phebe.
  121. Phebe
  122. 2246 And so am I for Ganymede.
  123. Orlando
  124. 2247 And so am I for Rosalind.
  125. Rosalind
  126. 2248 And so am I for no woman.
  127. [To ROSALIND.]
  128. Phebe
  129. 2249 If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
  130. [To PHEBE.]
  131. Silvius
  132. 2250 If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
  133. Orlando
  134. 2251 If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
  135. Rosalind
  136. 2252 Why do you speak too,—'Why blame you me to love you?'
  137. Orlando
  138. 2253 To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.
  139. Rosalind
  140. 2254 Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling of Irish wolves
  141. 2255 against the moon.—
  142. [to SILVIUS]
  143. Rosalind
  144. 2256 I will help you if I can;—
  145. [to PHEBE]
  146. Rosalind
  147. 2257 I would love you if I could.—
  148. 2258 To-morrow meet me all together.—
  149. [to PHEBE]
  150. Rosalind
  151. 2259 I will marry you if ever I marry woman, and I'll be
  152. 2260 married to-morrow:—
  153. [to ORLANDO]
  154. Rosalind
  155. 2261 I will satisfy you if ever I satisfied man, and you
  156. 2262 shall be married to-morrow:—
  157. [to SILVIUS]
  158. Rosalind
  159. 2263 I will content you if what pleases you contents you,
  160. 2264 and you shall be married to-morrow.
  161. [to ORLANDO]
  162. Rosalind
  163. 2265 As you love Rosalind, meet.
  164. [to SILVIUS]
  165. Rosalind
  166. 2266 As you love Phebe, meet;—
  167. 2267 and as I love no woman, I'll meet.—So, fare you well; I have
  168. 2268 left you commands.
  169. Silvius
  170. 2269 I'll not fail, if I live.
  171. Phebe
  172. 2270 Nor I.
  173. Orlando
  174. 2271 Nor I.
  175. [Exeunt.]