d him, I would soon cure him
of his folly."

Orlando confessed that he was the foolish lover, and Rosalind said--"If
you will come and see me every day, I will pretend to be Rosalind, and I
will take her part, and be wayward and contrary, as is the way of women,
till I make you ashamed of your folly in loving her."

And so every day he went to her house, and took a pleasure in saying to
her all the pretty things he would have said to Rosalind; and she had
the fine and secret joy of knowing that all his love-words came to the
right ears. Thus many days passed pleasantly away.

One morning, as Orlando was going to visit Ganymede, he saw a man asleep
on the ground, and that there was a lioness crouching near, waiting for
the man who was asleep to wake: for they say that lions will not prey on
anything that is dead or sleeping. Then Orlando looked at the man, and
saw that it was his wicked brother, Oliver, who had tried to take his
life. He fought with the lioness and killed her, and saved his brother's
life.

While Orlando was fighting the lioness, Oliver woke to see his brother,
whom he had treated so badly, saving him from a wild beast at the risk
of his own life. This made him repent of his wickedness, and he begged
Orlando's pardon, and from thenceforth they were dear brothers. The
lioness had wounded Orlando's arm so much, that he could not go on to
see the shepherd, so he sent his brother to ask Ganymede to come to him.

Oliver went and told the whole story to Ganymede and Aliena, and Aliena
was so charmed with his manly way of confessing his faults, that she
fell in love with him at once. But when Ganymede heard of the danger
Orlando had been in she fainted; and when she came to herself, said
truly enough, "I should have been a woman by right."

Oliver went back to his brother and told him all this, saying, "I love
Aliena so well that I will give up my estates to you and marry her, and
live here as a shepherd."

"Let your wedding be to-morrow," said Orlando, "and I will ask the Duke
and his friends."

When Orlando told Ganymede how his brother was to be married on the
morrow, he added: "Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness
through another man's eyes."

Then answered Rosalind, still in Ganymede's dress and speaking with his
voic--"If you do love Rosalind so near the heart, then when your brother
marries Aliena, shall you marry her."

Now the next day the Duke and his followers, and Orlando,