If you look at Act I scene 3, the answer to this question
can be seen. Following the banishment of Rosalind from court, just like her father,
Celia suggests that they leave together to take refuge in the Forest of Arden. However,
in response to this idea, Rosalind shows that she is greatly afraid of what could happen
to them both, as two young, virgin women, travelling by themselves in a location so far
from the safety of court. Note what she says to
Celia:
Alas,
what danger will it be to us,Maids as we are, to travel
forth so far!Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than
gold.
Thus it is that
Rosalind expresses fear about the potential consequences of such a flight to the Forest
of Arden, where they will have to fend for themselves in an area which is so far from
the law and order of city life.
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