Or have acquaintance with mine own desires; Duke F. Thus do all traitors: If their purgation did consist in words, They are as innocent as grace itself: Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not. Ros. Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor : 50 Duke F. Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough. 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. Cel. I did not then entreat to have her stay; It was your pleasure and your own remorse : 70 r But now I know her: if she be a traitor, 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; 80 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. Duke F. You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself: 90 [Exeunt Duke Frederick and Lords. Cel. O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go? Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine. I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am. Ros. I have more cause. Cel. Thou hast not, cousin ; Ros. Prithee, be cheerful: know'st thou not, the Duke That he hath not. Cel. No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one : No: let my father seek another heir. Whither to go and what to bear with us; Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee. Maids as we are, to travel forth so far! Ros. And with a kind of umber smirch my face; Were it not better, 110 A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh, A boar-spear in my hand; and-in my heart We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have That do outface it with their semblances. Cel. What shall I call thee when thou art a man? 120 Ros. I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page; Cel. Something that hath a reference to my state : Ros. But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal The clownish fool out of your father's court? Cel. He'll go along o'er the wide world with me; 130 [Exeunt. 140 Act Second. Scene I. The Forest of Arden. Enter Duke senior, Amiens, and two or three Lords, like foresters. Duke S. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, ΙΟ Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, |