SCENE I. A room in the palace. As You Like It  Shakespeare homepage  |  As You Like It  | Act 3, Scene 1 

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 Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and OLIVER  DUKE FREDERICK  Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be: 

 But were I not the better part made mercy, 

 I should not seek an absent argument 

 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. 

 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 brothers mouth 

 Of what we think against thee. 

 OLIVER  O that your highness knew my heart in this! 

 I never loved my brother in my life. 

 DUKE FREDERICK  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. 



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