Himself. I don’t trust you. Enough said. ROSALIND: But your mistrust alone can’t make me a traitor.
On what basis do you suspect me? DUKE FREDERICK: You are your father’s daughter. That’s enough. ROSALIND: I was his daughter when your Highness took my father’s dukedom.
I was his daughter when you banished him. Treason is not inherited, my lord. But even if we did inherit it from our family, what does that have to do with me? My father .
What is the new order spelled out by Duke Fredrick? Why? . What is the treason committed by Rosalind?
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CELIA: Dear master, listen to me. DUKE FREDERICK: Yes, Celia, we kept her here for your sake. Otherwise, she would have been banished with her father. CELIA: At that time, I didn’t beg you to keep her here; you wanted her here, and you felt guilty.
I was too young at the time to appreciate her value, but now I know her. If she’s a traitor, why then, so am I. DUKE FREDERICK: She’s too devious for you. Her smoothness, her silence, and her patient suffering appeal to the people, and they pity her.
You’re a fool. She’s robbing you of the attention you deserve. You will seem even brighter and more virtuous when she’s out of the picture. So be quiet.
The sentence I’ve passed down on her is firm and unshakeable. She is banished. CELIA: Then lay that sentence on me too, my lord. I cannot live without her.
DUKE FREDERICK: You are a fool.— You, niece, prepare to leave. On my honour and by my word, if you outstay the ten days, you will die. (Exit DUKE FREDERICK and lords) CELIA: Oh, my poor Rosalind, where will you go? Do you want to exchange fathers?
I’ll give you mine. I insist, don’t be more distressed than I am. ROSALIND: