As You Like It
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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subject: rosalind
subject: orlando
subject: celia
subject: duke
subject: fashion
subject: bequeathed
subject: will
subject: poor
subject: thousand
subject: crowns
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: english
subject: literature
type: text
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full text: AS YOU LIKE IT DRAMATIS PERSONAE DUKE SENIOR living in banishment. DUKE FREDERICK his brother, an usurper of his dominions. AMIENS | | lords attending on the banished duke. JAQUES | LE BEAU a courtier attending upon Frederick. CHARLES wrestler to Frederick. OLIVER | | JAQUES (JAQUES DE BOYS:) | sons of Sir Rowland de Boys. | ORLANDO | ADAM | | servants to Oliver. DENNIS | TOUCHSTONE a clown. SIR OLIVER MARTEXT a vicar. CORIN | | shepherds. SILVIUS | WILLIAM a country fellow in love with Audrey. A person representing HYMEN. (HYMEN:) ROSALIND daughter to the banished duke. CELIA daughter to Frederick. PHEBE a shepherdess. AUDREY a country wench. Lords, pages, and attendants, &c. (Forester:) (A Lord:) (First Lord:) (Second Lord:) (First Page:) (Second Page:) SCENE Oliver's house; Duke Frederick's court; and the Forest of Arden. AS YOU LIKE IT ACT I SCENE I Orchard of 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 sayest, 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 …