Ros.

Let me love him for that; and do you love him, because I do. Look, here comes the Duke.

Cel.

With his eyes full of anger.

Duke.
Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste,
And get you from our court.

Ros.
Me, uncle!

Duke.
You, cousin.
Within these ten days if that thou be'st found
So near our publick court as twenty miles,
Thou diest for it.

Ros.
I do beseech your Grace
Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:
If with my self I hold intelligence,
Or have acquaintance with my own desires,
If that I do not dream, or be not frantick,
As I do trust I am not, then dear uncle,
Never so much as in a thought unborn
Did I offend your highness.

Duke.
Thus do all traitors,
If their purgation did consist in words,
They are as innocent as grace it self:
Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.

Ros.
Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor;
Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.

Duke.
Thou art thy father's daughter, there's enough.

Ros.
So was I when your Highness took his Dukedom,
So was I when your Highness banish'd him;

Treason is not inherited, my lord;
Or if we did derive it from our friends,
What's that to me, my father was no traitor:
Then good my Liege, mistake me not so much,
To think my poverty is treacherous.

Cel.
Dear Soveraign hear me speak.

Duke.
Ay Celia, we but staid her for your sake,
Else had she with her father rang'd along.

Cel.
I did not then entreat to have her stay;
It was your pleasure, and your own remorse;
I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her; if she be a traitor,
Why so am I; we still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled, and inseparable.

Duke.
She is too subtle for thee, and her smoothness,
Her very silence and her patience,
Speak to the people, and they pity her:
Thou art a fool, she robs thee of thy name,
And thou wilt show more bright, and seem more virtuous
When she is gone; then open not thy lips:
Firm and irrevocable is my doom,
Which I have past upon her; she is banish'd.

Cel.
Pronounce that sentence then on me, my Liege,
I cannot live out of her company.

Duke.
You are a fool: you neice provide your self;
If you out-stay the time, upon mine honour,
And in the greatness of my word, you die. [Exe. Duke, &c.

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