If that I do not dream, or be not frantic, (As I do trust I am not) then, dear uncle, Never, so much as in a thought unborn, Did I offend your highness. Duke F. Thus do all traitors; If their purgation did consist in words, Let it suffice thee, that I trust thee not. Ros. Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor. Tell me, whereon the likelihood depends.. Duke F. Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough. Ros. So was I, when your highness took his dukedom; So was I, when your highness banish'd him. Or, if we did derive it from our friends, What's that to me? My father was no traitor. Cel. Dear sovereign, hear me speak. Duke F. Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake, Else had she with her father ranged along. Cel. I did not then entreat to have her stay; SHAK. 1 Compassion. IV. R Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together; Duke F. 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. Cel. Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege: I cannot live out of her company. Duke F. You are a fool.--You, niece, provide yourself; If you outstay the time, upon mine honor, [Exeunt Duke F. and Lords. Cel. Thou hast not, cousin. Pr'ythee, be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke Hath banish'd me his daughter ? Ros. That he hath not. Cel. No? hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one. Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl? Cel. To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden. Cel. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, And never stir assailants. Ros. Were it not better, Because that I am more than common tall, That do outface it with their semblances. Umber is a dusky, yellow-colored earth, brought from Umbria, in Italy. • Swaggering. 2 Soil. 3 Cutlass. Cel. What shall I call thee, when thou art a man? Ros. 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? Cel. Something that hath a reference to my state; No longer Celia, but Aliena. Ros. 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? Cel. 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; [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. The forest of Arden. Enter DUKE SENIOR, Amiens, and other Lords, in the dress of foresters. Duke S. Now, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Ami. I would not change it. Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Duke S. Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me,1 the poor dappled fools,Being native burghers of this desert city,— Should, in their own confines, with forked heads 2 Have their round haunches gored. 1 Lord. Indeed, my lord, The melancholy Jaques grieves at that; And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp 2 Barbed arrows. i It gives me pain. |