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| <h2>As You Like It</h2> |
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| by William Shakespeare |
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| <h3>ACT I, SCENE III. A room in the palace.</h3> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div class="direction">Enter CELIA and ROSALIND</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech1" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.1">Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word?</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech2" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.2">Not one to throw at a dog.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech3" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.3">No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.4">curs; throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons.</div> |
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| <div id="speech4" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div id="speech5" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.8">But is all this for your father?</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.5">Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.6">should be lamed with reasons and the other mad</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.7">without any.</div> |
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| <div id="speech6" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.9">No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.10">full of briers is this working-day world!</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech7" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.11">They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.12">holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.13">paths our very petticoats will catch them.</div> |
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| <div id="speech8" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.14">I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart.</div> |
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| <div id="speech9" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.15">Hem them away.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech10" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.16">I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.</div> |
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| <div id="speech11" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.17">Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech12" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.18">O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself!</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech13" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.19">O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.20">despite of a fall. But, turning these jests out of</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.21">service, let us talk in good earnest: is it</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.22">possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.23">strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech14" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.24">The duke my father loved his father dearly.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech15" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.25">Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.26">dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.27">for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.28">not Orlando.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech16" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div title="wtf" class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.29">No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech17" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.30">Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech18" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.31">Let me love him for that, and do you love him</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.32">because I do. Look, here comes the duke.</div> |
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| <div id="speech19" class="character">CELIA</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.33">With his eyes full of anger.</div> |
| <div class="direction">Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords</div> |
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| <div id="speech20" class="character">DUKE FREDERICK</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.34">Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.35">And get you from our court.</div> |
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| <div id="speech21" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.36">Me, uncle?</div> |
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| <div id="speech22" class="character">DUKE FREDERICK</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.37">You, cousin</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.38">Within these ten days if that thou be'st found</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.39">So near our public court as twenty miles,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.40">Thou diest for it.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech23" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.41"> I do beseech your grace,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.42">Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.43">If with myself I hold intelligence</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.44">Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.45">If that I do not dream or be not frantic,--</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.46">As I do trust I am not--then, dear uncle,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.47">Never so much as in a thought unborn</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.48">Did I offend your highness.</div> |
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| <div id="speech24" class="character">DUKE FREDERICK</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.49">Thus do all traitors:</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.50">If their purgation did consist in words,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.51">They are as innocent as grace itself:</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.52">Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech25" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.53">Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.54">Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.</div> |
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| <div id="speech26" class="character">DUKE FREDERICK</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.55">Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech27" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.56">So was I when your highness took his dukedom;</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.57">So was I when your highness banish'd him:</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.58">Treason is not inherited, my lord;</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.59">Or, if we did derive it from our friends,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.60">What's that to me? my father was no traitor:</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.61">Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.62">To think my poverty is treacherous.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech28" class="character">CELIA</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.63">Dear sovereign, hear me speak.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech29" class="character">DUKE FREDERICK</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.64">Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.65">Else had she with her father ranged along.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech30" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.66">I did not then entreat to have her stay;</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.67">It was your pleasure and your own remorse:</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.68">I was too young that time to value her;</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.69">But now I know her: if she be a traitor,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.70">Why so am I; we still have slept together,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.71">Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.72">And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.73">Still we went coupled and inseparable.</div> |
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| <div id="speech31" class="character">DUKE FREDERICK</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.74">She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.75">Her very silence and her patience</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.76">Speak to the people, and they pity her.</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.77">Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name;</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.78">And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.79">When she is gone. Then open not thy lips:</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.80">Firm and irrevocable is my doom</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.81">Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.</div> |
| </div> |
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| <div id="speech32" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.82">Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege:</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.83">I cannot live out of her company.</div> |
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| <div id="speech33" class="character">DUKE FREDERICK</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.84">You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself:</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.85">If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.86">And in the greatness of my word, you die.</div> |
| <div class="direction">Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK and Lords</div> |
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| <div id="speech34" class="character">CELIA</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.87">O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.88">Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.89">I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech35" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.90">I have more cause.</div> |
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| <div id="speech36" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.91"> Thou hast not, cousin;</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.92">Prithee be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.93">Hath banish'd me, his daughter?</div> |
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| <div id="speech37" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.94">That he hath not.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech38" class="character">CELIA</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.95">No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.96">Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one:</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.97">Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl?</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.98">No: let my father seek another heir.</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.99">Therefore devise with me how we may fly,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.100">Whither to go and what to bear with us;</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.101">And do not seek to take your change upon you,</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.102">To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out;</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.103">For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.104">Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech39" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.105">Why, whither shall we go?</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech40" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.106">To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden.</div> |
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| <div id="speech41" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.107">Alas, what danger will it be to us,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.108">Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.109">Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech42" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.110">I'll put myself in poor and mean attire</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.111">And with a kind of umber smirch my face;</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.112">The like do you: so shall we pass along</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.113">And never stir assailants.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech43" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.114">Were it not better,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.115">Because that I am more than common tall,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.116">That I did suit me all points like a man?</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.117">A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.118">A boar-spear in my hand; and--in my heart</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.119">Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will--</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.120">We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.121">As many other mannish cowards have</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.122">That do outface it with their semblances.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech44" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.123">What shall I call thee when thou art a man?</div> |
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| <div id="speech45" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
| <div id="scene1.3.124">I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page;</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.125">And therefore look you call me Ganymede.</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.126">But what will you be call'd?</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech46" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.127">Something that hath a reference to my state</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.128">No longer Celia, but Aliena.</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech47" class="character">ROSALIND</div> |
| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.129">But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.130">The clownish fool out of your father's court?</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.131">Would he not be a comfort to our travel?</div> |
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| </div> |
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| <div id="speech48" class="character">CELIA</div> |
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| <div class="dialog"> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.132">He'll go along o'er the wide world with me;</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.133">Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,</div> |
| <div id="scene1.3.134">And get our jewels and our wealth together,</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.135">Devise the fittest time and safest way</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.136">To hide us from pursuit that will be made</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.137">After my flight. Now go we in content</div> |
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| <div id="scene1.3.138">To liberty and not to banishment.</div> |
| <div class="direction">Exeunt</div> |
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| </div> |
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| </div> |
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