No Fear Shakespeare
As You Like It
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 2, Page 8
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He sent me hither, stranger as I am,
To tell this story, that you might excuse
His broken promise, and to give this napkin
Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth
That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.
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he sent me out to find you, even though I’m a stranger to you. He wanted me to tell you this story and beg your forgiveness for his having broken his promise. He wanted me to give this handkerchief, soaked in his blood, to the boy that he jokingly calls his Rosalind.
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ROSALIND swoons |
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CELIA
Why, how now, Ganymede, sweet Ganymede?
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CELIA
Oh no! Ganymede! Ganymede, sweetheart?
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OLIVER
Many will swoon when they do look on blood.
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OLIVER
Many people faint when they see blood.
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CELIA
There is more in it.—Cousin Ganymede.
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CELIA
There’s more to it than that.—Ganymede!
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OLIVER
Look, he recovers.
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OLIVER
Look, he’s recovering.
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ROSALIND
I would I were at home.
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ROSALIND
I want to go home.
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CELIA
We’ll lead you thither.
—I pray you, will you take him by the arm?
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CELIA
We’ll take you there. Please, will you take his arm?
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OLIVER
Be of good cheer, youth. You a man? You lack a man’s heart.
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OLIVER
Buck up, boy! You’re a man? You don’t have a man’s courage.
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ROSALIND
I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would think this was
well-counterfeited. I pray you tell your brother how well I
counterfeited. Heigh-ho.
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ROSALIND
It’s true, I confess. Oh, sir, someone would think I was a good fake. Please tell your brother what a convincing show I put on. Whoo-hoo!
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OLIVER
This was not counterfeit. There is too great testimony in
your complexion that it was a passion of earnest.
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OLIVER
That was no show. Your cheeks are too flushed for me to believe that was a fake faint.
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ROSALIND
Counterfeit, I assure you.
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ROSALIND
Fake, I’m telling you.
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OLIVER
Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man.
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OLIVER
Well, then, be brave and pretend to be a man.
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