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ORLANDO

They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid [40] 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 tomorrow be at the height of heart-

heaviness, by how much I shall think my brother happy in having what he
wishes for. [45]

ROSALIND
Why then tomorrow 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. Know of me then − for now I
speak to some [50] 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 labour for a greater
esteem than may in some little measure draw a belief from you to do yourself
good, and [55] 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 [60]
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. [65]

ORLANDO
Speak’st 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 best array, bid your friends; for if you will be

married tomorrow, you shall; and to Rosalind if you will. Look, here [70]
comes a lover of mine, and a lover of hers.

Enter Silvius and Phebe.