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As You Like It, I. ii
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if ever he go alone again, I'll never wrestle for
prize more; and so God keep your worship! 171

Exit.

Oli. Farewell, good Charles. Now will I stir
this gamester. I hope I shall see an end of him;
for my soul, yet I know not why, hates nothing
more than he. Yet he's gentle, never schooled
and yet learned, full of noble device, of all sorts
enchantingly beloved, and, indeed so much in 177
the heart of the world, and especially of my own
people, who best know him, that I am altogether
misprised. But it shall not be so long; this
wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that
I kindle the boy thither, which now I'll go about.

Exit.

Scene Two

[A Lawn before the Duke's Palace]

Enter Rosalind and Celia.

Cel. I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be
merry.

Ros. Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I
am mistress of, and would you yet I were mer-
rier? Unless you could teach me to forget a
banished father, you must not learn me how to
remember any extraordinary pleasure. 7

Cel. Herein I see thou lovest me not with the
full weight that I love thee. If my uncle, thy

170 go alone: walk without aid, i.e., of crutches
173 gamester: frolicsome person
175 gentle: well born
176 noble device: a noble cast of mind
177 enchantingly beloved: i.e., loved as if he put men under a spell of fascination
180 misprised: despised
181 clear all: settle everything
182 kindle . . . thither: incite to take up the wrestling match

1 coz: cousin
4 I; cf. n.
6 learn: teach