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As You Like It, V. ii

was old Sir Rowland's will I estate upon you,

and here live and die a shepherd.

Orl. 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.

Ros. God save you, brother.

Oli. And you, fair sister.

Ros. O! my dear Orlando, how it grieves me

to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf.

Orl. It is my arm.

Ros. I thought thy heart had been wounded

with the claws of a lion.

Orl. Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a

lady.

Ros. Did your brother tell you how I coun-

terfeited to swound when he showed me your

handkercher?

Orl. Ay, and greater wonders than that.

Ros. O! I know where you are. Nay, 'tis

true: there was never anything so sudden but

the fight of two rams, and Cæsar's thrasonical

brag of 'I came, saw, and 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

 13 estate: ''bestow; cf. n.''

15-19 ''Cf. n.''

21 fair sister; cf. n.

23 heart in a scarf; cf. n.

33 where you are: i.e., what you are driving at

35 thrasonical: boastful; cf. n.

36 'I overcame'; cf. n. 