PERSONS REPRESENTED DUKE, living in banishment. FREDERICK, his brother, and usurper of his dominions. AMIENS, JAQUES, } Lords attending on the Banished Duke. LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick. OLIVER, JAQUES, Sons of Sir Rowland de Boys. ORLANDO, ADAM, Servant to Oliver. TOUCHSTONE, a Clown. SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar. CORIN, } Shepherds. SILVIUS, WILLIAM, a country fellow, in love with Audrey. ROSALIND, Daughter to the Banished Duke. CELIA, Daughter to Frederick. PHEBE, a Shepherdess. AUDREY, a country wench. Lords, Pages, Attendants, Huntsmen, Shepherds, etc. AS YOU LIKE IT ACT THE FIRST SCENE 1 Oliver's Orchard. Enter Orlando and Adam. Orl. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion he 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 5 |