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Men procure nothing for Rosalind's lover (7)

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I believe the answer is:

orlando

'rosalind's lover' is the definition.
(characters in Shakespeare's As You Like it)

'men procure nothing' is the wordplay.
'men' becomes 'or' (military abbreviation for Other Ranks).
'procure' becomes 'land' (both can mean to obtain).
'nothing' becomes 'o' (looks like zero - 0).
'or'+'land'+'o'='ORLANDO'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for orlando that I've seen before include "Romantic lead in "As You Like It" - the Marmalade Cat" , "Florida city; V. Woolf book" , "Floridian city of Disney World" , "Bloom for one" , "Florida resort -- Virginia Woolf novel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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