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CELIA and ROSALIND enter. |
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I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry. |
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Please, Rosalind, my sweet cousin—be happy. |
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Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of, and |
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would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could teach me to |
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forget a banished father, you must not learn me how to |
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remember any extraordinary pleasure. |
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Dear Celia—I already look much happier than I feel, but you want me to look even happier? Unless you can also teach me how to forget my banished father, you shouldn't try to teach me how to be happy. |
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Herein I see thou lov'st me not with the full weight that I |
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love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father, had banished |
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thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou hadst been still with |
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me, I could have taught my love to take thy father for mine. |
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So wouldst thou, if the truth of thy love to me were so |
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righteously tempered as mine is to thee. |
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Well, by this I can see that you don't love me as much as I love you. If your father had banished my father, I could have learned to love your father as my own, as long as I still had you. You'd do the same, if your love for me were as true as mine for you. |
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Well, I will forget the condition of my estate to rejoice in |
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yours. |
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Well, I'll just forget the difficulties of my situation, in order to focus on the happiness of yours. |
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You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is like to |
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have, and, truly, when he dies, thou shalt be his heir, for |
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what he hath taken away from thy father perforce, I will |
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render thee again in affection. By mine honor I will, and |
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when I break that oath, let me turn monster. Therefore, my |
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sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry. |
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You know I'm my father's only child, and he isn't likely to have another. And when he dies, you will inherit his fortune—because whatever he took from your father by force, I will return to you as affection. I swear I will, and if I ever break my promise let me turn into a monster. So please, my sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be happy. |
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From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let me |
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see—what think you of falling in love? |
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From now on I will, cousin, and I'll think of all kinds of games for us. Let me see—what do you think about falling in love? |
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Marry, I prithee do, to make sport withal, but love no man |
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in good earnest, nor no further in sport neither than with |
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safety of a pure blush thou mayst in honor come off again. |
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Yes, please do, so we can have a good laugh about it. But don't fall in love for real, and don't take the game too far. You want to get out of it easily, and with your honor intact. |
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