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. 46
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. 53
Ros. Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve
your turn for Rosalind?
Orl. I can live no longer by thinking. 56
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 60
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 65
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 70
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
