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remedy: and in these degrees have they made a

pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb

incontinent, or else be incontinent before mar-

riage. They are in the very wrath of love, and

they will together: clubs cannot part them.

Orl. 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.

Ros. Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve

your turn for Rosalind?

Orl. I can live no longer by thinking.

Ros. I will weary you then no longer with

idle talking. 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 know-

ledge, 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 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 Aliena, shall you marry her.

I know into what straits of fortune she is driven;

 42 degrees: pun on two meanings: 'successive gradations' and 'steps'

44 incontinent: forthwith; cf. n.

45 wrath: ardor

46 clubs; cf. n.

60 conceit: understanding

62-65 neither good; cf. n.

65 grace me: do honor to myself

69 damnable; cf. n.

70 gesture: bearing 