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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!

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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 [25] 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 anything so sudden,

but the fight of two rams, and Caesar’s thrasonical brag of I came, saw, and
overcame. [30] 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 [35]
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.