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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 F.

She is too subtile 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 pass’d upon her; she is banish’d.

Cel.

Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege,

I cannot live out of her company.

Duke F.

You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself;

If you outstay the time, upon mine honor,

And in the greatness of my word, you die.

Exit Duke [with Lords].

Cel.