Comedy plays; Exiles -- Drama; Fathers and daughters -- Drama; Pastoral drama
of him; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must
blush
and weep, and thou must look pale and wonder.
CHARLES. I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come
to-morrow I'll give him his payment. If ever he go alone
again,
I'll never wrestle for prize more. And so, God keep your
worship!
Exit
OLIVER. Farewell, good Charles. Now will I stir this gamester.
I
hope I shall see an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not
why,
hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle; never school'd
and
yet learned; full of noble device; of all sorts enchantingly
beloved; and, indeed, so much in the heart of the world, and
especially of my own people, who best know him, that I am
altogether misprised. But it shall not be so long; this
wrestler
shall clear all. Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy
thither, which now I'll go about. Exit
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SCENE II.
A lawn before the DUKE'S palace
Enter ROSALIND and CELIA
CELIA. I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.
ROSALIND. Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of;
and
would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could teach me to
forget
a banished father, you must not learn me how to remember any
extraordinary pleasure.
CELIA. Herein I see thou lov'st me not with the full weight
that I
love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father, had banished thy
uncle, the Duke my father, so thou hadst been still with me,
I
could have taught my love to take thy father for mine; so
wouldst
thou, if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously
temper'd
as mine is to thee.
ROSALIND. Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to
rejoice in yours.
CELIA. You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is like
to
have; and, truly, when he dies thou shalt be his heir; for
what
he hath taken away from thy father perforce, I will render
thee
again in affection. By mine honour, I will; and when I break
that
oath, let me turn monster; therefore, my sweet Rose, my dear
Rose, be merry.
ROSALIND. From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports.
Let me see; what think you of falling in love?
CELIA. Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal; but love no
man
in good earnest, nor no further in sport neither than with
safety
of a pure blush thou mayst in honour come off again.
ROSALIND. What shall be our sport, then?
CELIA.
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