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As You Like It, I. ii

if ever he go alone again, I'll never wrestle for

prize more; and so God keep your worship!

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

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.

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.

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 