In another part of the forest Oliver is speaking to his brother Orlando. Oliver declares that he has completely and utterly fallen in love with Celia (although he believes her to be the country maiden named Aliena). Celia has also suddenly fallen in love with Oliver. Oliver tells Orlando that he intends to stay in the country and live with Aliena and that Orlando can have the estate in the city. Orlando gives his consent to the marriage and adds that they can be married the following day.
Rosalind (as Ganymede) then arrives and also comments that the love between Oliver and Celia was wondrously sudden. Rosalind even uses two metaphors to express the speed of their love: (1) like two rams who suddenly begin to fight, and (2) like Caesar’s bragging of “I came, saw, and overcame” (or “I came, I saw, I conquered” – Latin "Veni, vidi, vici" – to describe a quick and decisive battle as if it had been over in an instant). Rosalind adds that Oliver and Celia are so much embroiled “in the very wrath of love” (35) that they need to be married immediately or succumb to their physical urges and have premarital sex.
Orlando tells Rosalind that the wedding is already set for the next day, but he also tells Rosalind that the excessive joy of his brother makes him feel the sadness or bitterness of not having Rosalind all the more keenly. As Ganymede, Rosalind asks Orlando, “Why, then, tomorrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?” (43-44). She is suggesting that