As You Like It (1623 First Folio Edition)

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As You Like It (1623 First Folio Edition)
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Scene ii

2407: Scoena Secunda.
2408: [ Enter Orlando & Oliuer.]

2409:
Orl.
Is't possible, that on so little acquaintance you
2410: should like her? that, but seeing, you should loue her?
2411: And louing woo? and wooing, she should graunt? And
2412: will you perseuer to enioy her?
2413:
Ol.
Neither call the giddinesse of it in question; the
2414: pouertie of her, the small acquaintance, my sodaine wo-ing,
2415: nor sodaine consenting: but say with mee, I loue
2416: Aliena: say with her, that she loues mee; consent with
2417: both, that we may enioy each other: it shall be to your
2418: good: for my fathers house, and all the reuennew, that
2419: was old Sir Rowlands will I estate vpon you, and heere
2420: liue and die a Shepherd.
2421: [ Enter Rosalind.]

2422:
Orl.
You haue my consent.
2423: Let your Wedding be to morrow: thither will I
2424: Inuite the Duke, and all's contented followers:
2425: Go you, and prepare Aliena; for looke you,
2426: Heere comes my Rosalinde.
2427:
Ros.
God saue you brother.
2428:
Ol.
And you faire sister.
2429:
Ros.
Oh my deere Orlando, how it greeues me to see
2430: thee weare thy heart in a scarfe.
2431:
Orl.
It is my arme.
2432:
Ros.
I thought thy heart had beene wounded with
2433: the clawes of a Lion.
2434:
Orl.
Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a Lady.
2435:
Ros.
Did your brother tell you how I counterfeyted
2436: to sound, when he shew'd me your handkercher?
2437:
Orl.
I, and greater wonders then that.
2438:
Ros.
O, I know where you are: nay, tis true: there
2439: was neuer any thing so sodaine, but the sight of two
2440: Rammes, and Cesars Thrasonicall bragge of I came, saw,
2441: and ouercome. For your brother, and my sister, no soo-ner
2442: met, but they look'd: no sooner look'd, but they
2443: lou'd; no sooner lou'd, but they sigh'd: no sooner sigh'd
2444: but they ask'd one another the reason: no sooner knew
2445: the reason, but they sought the remedie: and in these
2446: degrees, haue they made a paire of staires to marriage,
2447: which they will climbe incontinent, or else bee inconti-nent
2448: before marriage; they are in the verie wrath of
2449: loue, and they will together. Clubbes cannot part
2450: them.
2451:
Orl.
They shall be married to morrow: and I will
2452: bid the Duke to the Nuptiall. But O, how bitter a thing
2453: it is, to looke into happines through another mans eies:
2454: by so much the more shall I to morrow be at the height
2455: of heart heauinesse, by how much I shal thinke my bro-ther
2456: happie, in hauing what he wishes for.
2457:
Ros.
Why then to morrow, I cannot serue your turne
2458: for Rosalind?
2459:
Orl.
I can liue no longer by thinking.
2460:
Ros.
I will wearie you then no longer with idle tal-king.
2461: Know of me then (for now I speake to some pur-pose)
2462: that I know you are a Gentleman of good conceit:
2463: I speake not this, that you should beare a good opinion
2464: of my knowledge: insomuch (I say) I know you are: nei-ther
2465: do I labor for a greater esteeme then may in some
2466: little measure draw a beleefe from you, to do your selfe
2467: good, and not to grace me. Beleeue then, if you please,
2468: that I can do strange things: I haue since I was three
2469: yeare old conuerst with a Magitian, most profound in
2470: his Art, and yet not damnable. If you do loue Rosalinde
2471: so neere the hart, as your gesture cries it out: when your
2472: brother marries Aliena, shall you marrie her. I know in-to
2473: what straights of Fortune she is driuen, and it is not
2474: impossible to me, if it appeare not inconuenient to you,
2475: to set her before your eyes to morrow, humane as she is,
2476: and without any danger.
2477:
Orl.
Speak'st thou in sober meanings?
2478:
Ros.
By my life I do, which I tender deerly, though
2479: I say I am a Magitian: Therefore put you in your best a-ray,
2480: bid your friends: for if you will be married to mor-row,
2481: you shall: and to Rosalind if you will.
2482: [ Enter Siluius & Phebe.]

2483: Looke, here comes a Louer of mine, and a louer of hers.
2484:
Phe.
Youth, you haue done me much vngentlenesse,
2485: To shew the letter that I writ to you.
2486:
Ros.
I care not if I haue: it is my studie
2487: To seeme despightfull and vngentle to you:
2488: you are there followed by a faithful shepheard,
2489: Looke vpon him, loue him: he worships you.
2490:
Phe.
Good shepheard, tell this youth what 'tis to loue
2491:
Sil.
It is to be all made of sighes and teares,
2492: And so am I for Phebe.
2493:
Phe.
And I for Ganimed.
2494:
Orl.
And I for Rosalind.
2495:
Ros.
And I for no woman.
2496:
Sil.
It is to be all made of faith and seruice,
2497: And so am I for Phebe.
2498:
Phe.
And I for Ganimed.
2499:
Orl.
And I for Rosalind.
2500:
Ros.
And I for no woman.
2501:
Sil.
It is to be all made of fantasie,
2502: All made of passion, and all made of wishes,
2503: All adoration, dutie, and obseruance,
2504: All humblenesse, all patience, and impatience,
2505: All puritie, all triall, all obseruance:
2506: And so am I for Phebe.
2507:
Phe.
And so am I for Ganimed.
2508:
Orl.
And so am I for Rosalind.
2509:
Ros.
And so am I for no woman.
2510:
Phe.
If this be so, why blame you me to loue you?
2511:
Sil.
If this be so, why blame you me to loue you?
2512:
Orl.
If this be so, why blame you me to loue you?
2513:
Ros.
Why do you speake too, Why blame you mee
2514: to loue you.
2515:
Orl.
To her, that is not heere, nor doth not heare.
2516:
Ros.
Pray you no more of this, 'tis like the howling
2517: of Irish Wolues against the Moone: I will helpe you
2518: if I can: I would loue you if I could: To morrow meet
2519: me altogether: I wil marrie you, if euer I marrie Wo-man,
2520: and Ile be married to morrow: I will satisfie you,
2521: if euer I satisfi'd man, and you shall bee married to mor-row.
2522: I wil content you, if what pleases you contents
2523: you, and you shal be married to morrow: As you loue
2524: Rosalind meet, as you loue Phebe meet, and as I loue no
2525: woman, Ile meet: so fare you wel: I haue left you com-mands.
2526: _
2527:
Sil.
Ile not faile, if I liue.
2528:
Phe.
Nor I.
2529:
Orl
Nor I. [ Exeunt.]