No Fear Shakespeare
As You Like It
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 5, Scene 4
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Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER, and CELIA
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DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER, and CELIA enter. | |
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DUKE SENIOR
Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
Can do all this that he hath promisèd?
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DUKE SENIOR
Orlando, do you really believe that this boy can do everything he’s promised?
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ORLANDO
I sometimes do believe and sometimes do not,
As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.
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ORLANDO
Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. I’m afraid of hoping, but I hope anyway.
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Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHOEBE
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ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHOEBE enter. | |
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ROSALIND
(as Ganymede) Patience once more whiles our compact is urged.
(to DUKE SENIOR
) You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,
You will bestow her on Orlando here?
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ROSALIND
(as Ganymede) Be patient for a bit longer while I go over the terms of our agreement. (to DUKE SENIOR
) You say that if I bring Rosalind here, you will give her to Orlando in marriage?
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DUKE SENIOR
That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.
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DUKE SENIOR
Yes, even if I had whole kingdoms to give along with her.
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ROSALIND
(to ORLANDO
) And you say you will have her when I bring
her?
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ROSALIND
(to ORLANDO
) And you promise to marry her, when I bring her here?
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ORLANDO
That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.
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ORLANDO
I will, even if I were king of all kingdoms.
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ROSALIND
(to PHOEBE
) You say you’ll marry me if I be willing?
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ROSALIND
(to PHOEBE
) And you say you’ll marry me, if I’m willing to marry you?
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PHOEBE
That will I, should I die the hour after.
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PHOEBE
Yes, even if I die an hour later.
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ROSALIND
But if you do refuse to marry me,
You’ll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?
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ROSALIND
But if you decide not to marry me, you’ll marry this faithful shepherd instead?
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