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       Table of Contents

      By William Shakespeare

       Persons Represented

       DUKE, living in exile

       FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of his Dominions

       AMIENS, Lord attending on the Duke in his Banishment

       JAQUES, Lord attending on the Duke in his Banishment

       LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick

       CHARLES, his Wrestler

       OLIVER, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois

       JAQUES, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois

       ORLANDO, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois

       ADAM, Servant to Oliver

       DENNIS, Servant to Oliver

       TOUCHSTONE, a Clown

       SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar

       CORIN, Shepherd

       SILVIUS, Shepherd

       WILLIAM, a Country Fellow, in love with Audrey

       A person representing HYMEN

       ROSALIND, Daughter to the banished Duke

       CELIA, Daughter to Frederick

       PHEBE, a Shepherdess

       AUDREY, a Country Wench

       Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other Attendants.

       The SCENE lies first near OLIVER’S house;

       afterwards partly in the Usurper’s court

       and partly in the Forest of Arden.

       ACT I

      SCENE I. An Orchard near OLIVER’S house

       [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM.]

       ORLANDO

       As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion,—bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say’st, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept: for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth that differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better; for, besides 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. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me, his countenance seems 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 grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude; I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.

       ADAM

       Yonder comes my master, your brother.

       ORLANDO

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

       [ADAM retires]

       [Enter OLIVER.]

       OLIVER

       Now, sir! what make you here?

       ORLANDO

       Nothing: I am not taught to make anything.

       OLIVER What mar you then, sir?

       ORLANDO

       Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.

       OLIVER

       Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.

       ORLANDO

       Shall I keep your hogs, and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I spent that I should come to such penury?

       OLIVER

       Know you where you are, sir?

       ORLANDO

       O, sir, very well: here in your orchard.

       OLIVER

       Know you before whom, sir?

       ORLANDO

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

       OLIVER

       What, boy!

       ORLANDO

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

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