| William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare. 1914. | | | |
| As You Like It | | | | Act III. Scene I. |
| | A Room in the Palace. | |
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Enter DUKE FREDERICK, OLIVER, Lords, and Attendants. | |
| Duke F. Not seen him since! Sir, sir, that cannot be: | |
| But were I not the better part made mercy, | |
| I should not seek an absent argument | 5 |
| Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it: | |
| Find out thy brother, wheresoe’er he is; | |
| Seek him with candle; bring him, dead or living, | |
| Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more | |
| To seek a living in our territory. | 10 |
| Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine | |
| Worth seizure, do we seize into our hands, | |
| Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother’s mouth | |
| Of what we think against thee. | |
| Oli. O that your highness knew my heart in this! | 15 |
| I never lov’d my brother in my life. | |
| Duke F. More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors; | |
| And let my officers of such a nature | |
| Make an extent upon his house and lands. | |
| Do this expediently and turn him going. [Exeunt. | 20 | | |
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