Page 1914 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,
If that I do not dream, or be not frantic, [45]
As I do trust I am not, then dear uncle,
Never so much as in a thought unborn

Did I offend your Highness.

DUKE FREDERICK
Thus do all traitors.
If their purgation did consist in words,
They are as innocent as grace itself. [50]

Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.

ROSALIND

Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor.
Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.

DUKE FREDERICK
Thou art thy father’s daughter, there’s enough.

ROSALIND
So was I when your Highness took his dukedom, [55]
So was I when your Highness banish’d him.

Treason is not inherited, my lord,
Or if we did derive it from our friends,
What’s that to me? My father was no traitor.
Then good my liege, mistake me not so much [60]

To think my poverty is treacherous.

CELIA
Dear sovereign, hear me speak.

DUKE FREDERICK
Ay Celia, we stay’d her for your sake,
Else had she with her father rang’d along.

CELIA
I did not then entreat to have her stay; [65]