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Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not. |
ROSALIND. Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor. |
Tell me whereon the likelihood depends. |
FREDERICK. Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough. |
ROSALIND. SO was I when your Highness took his dukedom; |
So was I when your Highness banish'd him. |
Treason is not inherited, my lord; |
Or, if we did derive it from our friends, |
What's that to me? My father was no traitor. |
Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much |
To think my poverty is treacherous. |
CELIA. Dear sovereign, hear me speak. |
FREDERICK. Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake, |
Else had she with her father rang'd along. |
CELIA. I did not then entreat to have her stay; |
It was your pleasure, and your own remorse; |
I was too young that time to value her, |
But now I know her. If she be a traitor, |
Why so am I: we still have slept together, |
Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together; |
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, |
Still we went coupled and inseparable. |
FREDERICK. She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness, |
Her very silence and her patience, |
Speak to the people, and they pity her. |
Thou art a fool. She robs thee of thy name; |
And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous |
When she is gone. Then open not thy lips. |
Firm and irrevocable is my doom |
Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd. |
CELIA. Pronounce that sentence, then, on me, my liege; |
I cannot live out of her company. |
FREDERICK. You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself. |
If you outstay the time, upon mine honour, |
And in the greatness of my word, you die. |
Exeunt DUKE and LORDS |
CELIA. O my poor Rosalind! Whither wilt thou go? |
Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine. |
I charge thee be not thou more griev'd than I am. |
ROSALIND. I have more cause. |
CELIA. Thou hast not, cousin. |
Prithee be cheerful. Know'st thou not the Duke |
Hath banish'd me, his daughter? |
ROSALIND. That he hath not. |
CELIA. No, hath not? Rosalind lacks, then, the love |
Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one. |
Shall we be sund'red? Shall we part, sweet girl? |
No; let my father seek another heir. |
Therefore devise with me how we may fly, |
Whither to go, and what to bear with us; |
And do not seek to take your charge upon you, |
To bear your griefs yourself, and leave me out; |
For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale, |
Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee. |
ROSALIND. Why, whither shall we go? |
CELIA. To seek my uncle in the Forest of Arden. |
ROSALIND. Alas, what danger will it be to us, |
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far! |
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. |
CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, |
And with a kind of umber smirch my face; |
The like do you; so shall we pass along, |
And never stir assailants. |
ROSALIND. Were it not better, |
Because that I am more than common tall, |
That I did suit me all points like a man? |
A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh, |
A boar spear in my hand; and- in my heart |
Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will- |
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, |
As many other mannish cowards have |
That do outface it with their semblances. |
CELIA. What shall I call thee when thou art a man? |
ROSALIND. I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page, |
And therefore look you call me Ganymede. |
But what will you be call'd? |
CELIA. Something that hath a reference to my state: |
No longer Celia, but Aliena. |
ROSALIND. But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal |
The clownish fool out of your father's court? |
Would he not be a comfort to our travel? |
CELIA. He'll go along o'er the wide world with me; |
Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away, |
And get our jewels and our wealth together; |
Devise the fittest time and safest way |
To hide us from pursuit that will be made |
After my flight. Now go we in content |
To liberty, and not to banishment. Exeunt |
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ACT II. SCENE I. |
The Forest of Arden |
Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three LORDS, like foresters |
DUKE SENIOR. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, |
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