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Duke Frederick has usurped and exiled his brother, Duke Senior. He now demands that Duke Senior's daughter, Rosalind, leaves the court immediately or he will have her killed. Rosalind wants to know why she's being exiled like her father but Duke Frederick claims that she's likely to become a traitor. Duke Frederick's daughter, Celia, is especially close to Rosalind and she is gutted that Rosalind must leave. They hatch a plan to run away together to the Forest of Arden where Duke Senior lives.
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DUKE FREDERICK
Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste
And get you from our court.
ROSALIND
Me, uncle?
DUKE FREDERICK
You, cousin
Within these ten days if that thou be'st found
So near our public court as twenty miles,
Thou diest for it.
ROSALIND
I do beseech your grace,
Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:
If with
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