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As You Like It - Act 3, scene 1
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As You Like It - Act 3, scene 1Act 3, scene 1
Scene 1
Synopsis:
Duke Frederick gives Oliver one year to produce Orlando. In the interim, he seizes Oliver’s lands.
Enter Duke ⌜Frederick,⌝ Lords, and Oliver.DUKE FREDERICK, ⌜to Oliver⌝
1171 Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be.
1172 But were I not the better part made mercy,
1173 I should not seek an absent argument
1174 Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
1175 5 Find out thy brother wheresoe’er he is.
1176 Seek him with candle. Bring him, dead or living,
1177 Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more
1178 To seek a living in our territory.
1179 Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine,
1180 10 Worth seizure, do we seize into our hands
1181 Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother’s mouth
1182 Of what we think against thee.
OLIVER
1183 O, that your Highness knew my heart in this:
1184 I never loved my brother in my life.
DUKE FREDERICK
1185 15 More villain thou.—Well, push him out of doors,
1186 And let my officers of such a nature
1187 Make an extent upon his house and lands.
1188 Do this expediently, and turn him going.
They exit.