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family and for warning him to leave before he meets sea#
vengeance
Oliver is rather roundly treated by the usurping (ink#
when the latter sends him to warn hi© brother Orlando t©
com© to him. Failure, he threatens, will mean that Oliver
loses the lands and ether preperty which he holds In fief
from the duke,1* The happy conoluslon never allows this
issue to be brought to a head. However, just before Oliver
reaches hie destination in the Forest of Arden, he is made
the subject of an argument between a green and geld snake
and a hungry lioness, each determined to have him if the
other faiIs—perhaps as a sort of providential justice for
the Mission that he 1® on. But Orlando, against whoa the
mission is aimed, saves him from both,17 It goes without
saying that Oliver receives more than poetie Justice in this
adventure,
The two shepherds, Corin and Silvius, both serve as
messengers, Corin is always held in high respect by every-
one, except possibly by Touchstone, who, in pure fun, damns
hlra to hell for living by the copulati on of cattle•18
Silvius too is treated deeently, except by Phebe{ but when
Silvius brings Phebefs "challenge11 to Ganymede, the latter
arranges it so that Silvius eventually gets the girl.
ISjbld,, I, 11, 274-280. 3%bid.. Ill, i, 1-12,
17Ibld,, IV, 111, 105-133. 18Ibid,, III, 11, 83-90,
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Branch, James Wesley. The Messenger in Shakespeare, thesis, May 1955; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130421/m1/75/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .