Page 1899 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

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. [5]

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 [10] love to me were so righteously

tempered 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 [15] 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. [20]

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 [25] come off again.

ROSALIND