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 CELIA
  What shall I call thee when thou art a man?
CELIA
What should I call you when you're a man?
 ROSALIND
  I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page,
  And therefore look you call me Ganymede.
  But what will you be called?
ROSALIND
I'll take no lesser name than that of Jove's own servant. So call me Ganymede. And what will you be called?
 CELIA
125 Something that hath a reference to my state:
  No longer Celia, but Aliena.
CELIA
Something that refers to my current state. Instead of Celia, call me Aliena.
 ROSALIND
  But, cousin, what if we assayed to steal
  The clownish fool out of your father's court?
  Would he not be a comfort to our travel?
ROSALIND
Cousin, what if we brought that clownish fool of your father's court, Touchstone? Wouldn't he be a comfort to us in our travels?
 CELIA
130 He'll go along o'er the wide world with me.
  Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away
  And get our jewels and our wealth together,
  Devise the fittest time and safest way
  To hide us from pursuit that will be made
135 After my flight. Now go we in content
  To liberty, and not to banishment.
CELIA
He'd walk the whole wide world with me. Leave me alone to go convince him. Let's go gather our jewels and money. We'll figure out the best time and safest route to avoid being found out by my father's guards, whom he'll send out as soon as he discovers I've gone. Now, we go contentedly to freedom—not banishment.
Exeunt
They exit.

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