Page 1915 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

It was your pleasure and your own remorse.
I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why so am I. We still have slept together,

Rose at an instant, learn’d, play’d, eat together, [70]
And whereso’er we went, like Juno’s swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable.

DUKE FREDERICK
She is too subtle for thee, and her smoothness,

Her very silence, and her patience
Speak to the people and they pity her. [75]
Thou art a fool; she robs thee of thy name,
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. [80]

CELIA
Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege.
I cannot live out of her company.

DUKE FREDERICK

You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself.
If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,
And in the greatness of my word, you die. [85]
Exeunt Duke (Frederick) and train.

CELIA
O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?

Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.
I charge thee be not thou more griev’d than I am.

ROSALIND
I have more cause.

CELIA