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AS YOU LIKE IT.

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COME D Y.

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DUKE.

Dramatis Perfonæ.

Frederick, Brother to the Duke, and ufurper of his duke

dom.

Amiens,}

Jaques,

Lords attending upon the Duke in his banish

ment.

Le Beu, a courtier attending on Frederick.

Oliver, eldest fon to Sir Rowland de Boys, who had formerly been a fervant to the Duke.

Jaques Younger brothers to Oliver.

Orlando.

Adam, an old fervant of Sir Rowland de Boys, now following the fortunes of Orlando.

Dennis, fervant to Oliver.

Charles, a wrefler, and fervant to the ufurping Duke Frederick.

Touchftone, a clown attending on Celia and Rofalind. Corin,

Sylvius, Shepherds.

A Clown, in love with Audrey.

William, another clown, in love with Audrey.

Sir Oliver Mar-text, a country curate.

Rofalind, Daughter to the Duke.

Celia, Daughter to Frederick,

Phebe, a fhepherdess.

Audrey, a country wench.

Lords belonging to the two Dukes; with pages, foresters, and other attendants.

The SCENE lies, firft, near Oliver's houfe; and, afterwards, partly in the Duke's Court; and partly in the Foreft of Arden.

AS YOU LIKE IT.

ACT I. SCENE I.

OLIVER's Orchard.

Enter Orlando and Adam.

ORLANDO.

S I remember, Adam, it was upon this my Father bequeath'd me by Will, but a poor thousand crowns; and, as thou fay'ft, charged my brother on his Bleffing to breed me well; and there begins my fadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report fpeaks goldenly of his profit; for my part, he keeps me ruftically at home; (or, to speak more proproperly) ftys me here at home, unkept: for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the ftalling of an ox? his horfes are bread better; for befides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Befides this Nothing that he fo plentifully gives me, the Something, that Nature gave me,*his discountenance feems to take from me. He lets me feed with his

hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grives me; and the Spirit of

his countenance feems to take from me.] We should certainly read his discountenance.

my

my father, which, I think, is within me, begins to mutiny against this fervitude. I will no longer endure it, tho' yet I know no wife remedy how to avoid it.

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Orla. Go apart, Adam, and thou fhalt hear how he will shake me up.

Oli. Now, Sir, what make you here?

Orla. Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.

Oli. What mar you then, Sir?

Orla. Marry, Sir, I am helping you to mar That which God made; a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.

Oli. Marry, Sir, be better employ'd, and be nought a while.

Orla. Shall I keep your hogs, and eat husks with them? what Prodigal's portion have I spent, that I fhould come to fuch penury?

Oli. Know you where you are,

Sir !

Orla. O, Sir, very well; here in your Orchard. Oli. Know you before whom, Sir?

...Orla. Ay, better than he, I am before, knows me. I know, you are my eldest brother: and in the gentle condition of blood, you should fo know me; the courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the first-born; but the fame tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us. I have as much of father in my me, as you; albeit, I confefs your coming before me is nearer to his revenue.

Oli. What, boy!

Orla. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

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