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- $Unique_ID{SSP00970}
- $Title{As You Like It: Act V, Scene II}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*00950.txt}
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- Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
-
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
-
- AS YOU LIKE IT
-
-
- 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 10
- the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I
- estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd.
-
- 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.
-
- {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.
-
- 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 30
- 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. 40
-
- 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.
-
- ROSALIND: Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for
- Rosalind?
-
- ORLANDO: I can live no longer by thinking.
-
- ROSALIND: I will weary you then no longer with idle talking. 50
- 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 60
- 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.
-
- ORLANDO: Speakest thou in sober meanings?
-
- ROSALIND: By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I
- say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your 70
- best array: bid your friends; for if you will be
- married to-morrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if
- you will.
-
- {Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE.}
-
- Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
-
- 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. 80
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- ORLANDO: And I for Rosalind. 90
-
- 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.
-
- PHEBE: And so am I for Ganymede.
-
- ORLANDO: And so am I for Rosalind.
-
- ROSALIND: And so am I for no woman. 100
-
- 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?
-
- 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. 110
-
- [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. 120
-
- SILVIUS: I'll not fail, if I live.
-
- PHEBE: Nor I.
-
- ORLANDO: Nor I.
-
- [Exeunt.]
-